measuring cup

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   graduated cup used to measure liquid or granular ingredients

   Broadermeasure

Questions about measuring cup

What does measuring cup mean?

measuring cup means "graduated cup used to measure liquid or granular ingredients".

Is measuring cup a common word?

measuring cup is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.