sup

sup

1. (mathematics) supremum

• (in a lattice) ∨

• IPA^(key): /sʌp/
• Rhymes: -ʌp
• Homophone: 'sup

From Middle English suppen, 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.
   • Crashaw

     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.
   • 1883, Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island

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

   • 1879, Bram Stoker, Dracula

     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.

Aphetic 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.

First syllable of superior

sup (plural sups)

1. (mathematics) 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.

• PSU, PUS, PUs, 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)”)).

sup m (indefinite plural supe, definite singular supi)

1. (anatomy) shoulder

   Synonyms: mushk, shpatull

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

• IPA^(key): [ˈsup]

sup m anim

1. vulture

• orlosup

From Dutch.

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

1. soup

sup

1. soup

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)

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 korpus.sk

• Rhymes: -ʉːp

sup c

1. a mouthful of liquor (spirits)

   Synonyms: snaps, nubbe, hutt, rackabajsare, pilleknarkare

• supa

sup

1. imperative of supa.

From English soup.

sup

1. soup

sup (plural sups)

1. soup