sup

sup

1. (mathematics) supremum

• (in a lattice) ∨

• IPA^(key): /sʌp/

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• Rhymes: -ʌp
• Homophone: 'sup
• IPA^(key): (abbreviations of words beginning with super-) /sup/

From Middle English soupen, from Old English sūpan (“to sip, drink, taste”), from Proto-Germanic *sūpaną (compare Dutch zuipen (“to drink, tipple, booze”), German saufen (“to drink, booze”), Swedish supa (“to drink, swallow”)), from Proto-Indo-European *sub-, compare Sanskrit सूप (sū́pa, “soup, broth”), from *sewe (“to take liquid”). More at suck.

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To sip; to take a small amount of food or drink into the mouth, especially with a spoon.
   • 1646, Richard Crashaw, Steps to the Temple

     There I'll sup / Balm and nectar in my cup.

sup (plural sups)

1. A sip; a small amount of food or drink.
   • 1936, George Orwell, Keep the Aspidistra Flying, chapter 8

     A long, long sup of beer flowed gratefully down his gullet.

• soup

From Middle English soupen, suppen, Anglo-Norman super, from supe, soupe. More at soup.

sup (third-person singular simple present sups, present participle supping, simple past and past participle supped)

1. To take supper.
   • 1881–1882, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, London; Paris: Cassell & Company, published 14 November 1883, OCLC 702939134:

     ...I propose we should have up the cold pie, and let him sup.

   • 1897, Bram Stoker, Dracula, New York, N.Y.: Modern Library, OCLC 688657546:

     I pray you, be seated and sup how you please. You will, I trust, excuse me that I do not join you; but I have dined already, and I do not sup.

Procopic form of what's up (“how are you doing?”)

sup?

1. (slang) what's up (either as a greeting or actual question)

   — Sup?
   — Not much.

   Synonyms: wassup, wudup

From s- +‎ up.

sup (not comparable)

1. (physics) Being or relating to the squark that is the superpartner of an up quark.

First syllable of superintendent.

sup (plural sups)

1. (informal) Superintendent.
   • 1932, Edward Livermore Burlingame, & Robert Bridges, Alfred Dashiell, Scribner's Magazine - Volume 91, page 64:

     They had put in the stretch-out and they were laying people off and there was talk of a union. "Let's have a union." "Mr. Shaw won't stand for it. The sup won't stand for it."

   • 2011, M. Thomas, Not Today, →ISBN, page 212:

     Cpl. Perez, the radio sup said, "Everything checks out OK, Sarge. We're up and working."

   • 2012, Caroline Court, Rescuing Park Ranger Billie, →ISBN, page 55:

     But here comes the deputy vehicle, cruising right up to the shelter on the bike path. The sup is a retired county sheriff's deputy.

• supe

First syllable of superior.

sup (plural sups)

1. (mathematics) Supremum, upper limit.
   • 2001, Mr. Paul Cashin & Mr. C. John McDermott, The Long-Run Behavior of Commodity Prices, →ISBN:

     Values for the sup W statistic in excess of the 5 percent critical value (2.75 for booms and 2.77 for slumps) indicate rejection of the null hypothesis of no change in the dureation of booms and slumps in real commodity prices.

   • 2003 -, Serge Lang -, Complex Analysis, →ISBN, page 271:

     For a wide class of connected open sets U, not necessarily simply connected, one proves the existence of a harmonic function on U having given boundary value (satisfying suitable integrability conditions) by taking the sup of the subharmonic functions having this boundary value.

Clipping of supplement.

sup (plural sups)

1. (bodybuilding, colloquial) Supplement.

• → German: Sup

First syllable of supervision.

sup (plural sups)

1. (Cambridge University slang) A supervision.

• supe

• PSU, PUS, PUs, UPS, UPs, USP, psu, pus, ups

• cup (Gheg)

From Proto-Albanian *tsupa, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱupos (compare English hip, Ancient Greek κύβος (kúbos, “vertebra, hollow before the hip (in cattle)”)).

• IPA^(key): /sup/

sup m (indefinite plural supe, definite singular supi, definite plural supet)

1. (anatomy) shoulder

   Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

From Old Czech sup, from Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Lower Sorbian sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).

• IPA^(key): [ˈsup]
• Rhymes: -up

sup m anim

1. vulture

• orlosup

• sup in Příruční slovník jazyka českého, 1935–1957
• sup in Slovník spisovného jazyka českého, 1960–1971, 1989

From Dutch soep (“soup”), from French soupe, from Latin suppa, from Proto-Germanic *supô.

• IPA^(key): [ˈsʊp̚]
• Hyphenation: sup

sup (first-person possessive supku, second-person possessive supmu, third-person possessive supnya)

1. soup, any of various dishes commonly made by combining liquids, such as water or stock with other ingredients, such as meat and vegetables, that contribute flavor and texture.

   Satu di antaranya adalah soto dan sup.[1] ― One of them is soto and soup.

   Synonyms: kaldu, kuah

• “sup” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

sup m

1. stand up paddleboard

• pus

From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ (“vulture”). Cognate with Polish sęp, Czech sup, Serbo-Croatian sȕp, and Russian сип (sip).

• IPA^(key): /sup/

sup m

1. vulture (bird)

• Muka, Arnošt (1921, 1928), “sup”, in Słownik dolnoserbskeje rěcy a jeje narěcow (in German), St. Petersburg, Prague: ОРЯС РАН, ČAVU; Reprinted Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag, 2008
• Starosta, Manfred (1999), “sup”, in Dolnoserbsko-nimski słownik / Niedersorbisch-deutsches Wörterbuch (in German), Bautzen: Domowina-Verlag

sup

1. water

• transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66

From English soup.

sup

1. soup

From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

• IPA^(key): /sûp/

sȕp m (Cyrillic spelling су̏п)

1. vulture

   Synonyms: lèšinār, str̀vinār

• “sup” in Hrvatski jezični portal

From Proto-Slavic *sǫpъ.

• IPA^(key): /ˈsup/

sup m (genitive singular supa, nominative plural supy, genitive plural supov, declension pattern of dub)

1. vulture

The usage of the 2nd declension pattern is limited to fairy tales and children stories.

• supí

• sup in Slovak dictionaries at slovnik.juls.savba.sk

• Rhymes: -ʉːp

sup c

1. a small amount of strong liquor, typically aquavit or another clear liquor served in a small glass

   Synonyms: snaps, nubbe, hutt, rackabajsare, pilleknarkare, styrketår

   Jag ska ta mig en sup ― I'm gonna have myself a shot of liquor

2. (archaic) a gulp or small quantity of liquid

Small enough to be drunk in one gulp, and typically intended to be. Basically a shot, without the modern connotations. Often had with food.

• kallsup

• supa

• sup in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)
• sup in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)
• sup in Svensk ordbok (SO)

sup

1. imperative of supa.

From English soup.

sup

1. soup

sup (nominative plural sups)

1. soup