Cup and Plate

Cup

Cup noun - A round vessel equipped with a handle and designed for drinking.

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Plate and cup are semantically related in bowlful topic. In some cases you can use "Plate" instead a noun "Cup".

Nearby Words: cupping, cupful

Plate noun - A small thin piece of material that resembles an animal scale.

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Cup and plate are semantically related in bowlful topic. Sometimes you can use "Cup" instead a noun "Plate".

Nearby Words: plat, plateful, plated, platter, plating

old	old cup	old plate
full	full cup	full plate
nice	nice cup	nice plate
fine	fine cup	fine plate
Other adjectives: similar, regular, standard, single, simple, empty, small, entire, real, massive, large, big, huge, tiny, hot, final, broken, dropped, last, golden, giant.

If they're served in a bowl/plate/cup/container?

Source: Video Game / Tomodachi Life
If that's not complicated enough for you, in Tibet your cup/bowl/plate will be refilled as soon as you're done eating.

Source: Tastes Like Friendship
On the other hand, people were more critical of someone who took money from a homeless person's plate to pay for a cup of coffee when they were dressed in nice suits and got out of a limo.

Source: Series / What Would You Do?

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