When Robinson first designed his anemometer, he asserted that the cups moved one-third of the speed of the wind, unaffected by the cup size or arm length.

Dice are thrown, singly or in groups, from the hand or from a container designed for this ( such as a dice cup ), onto a flat surface ; the face of the die that is uppermost when it comes to rest provides the value of the throw.

In jousting, the lance tips would usually be blunt, often spread out like a cup or furniture foot, to provide a wider impact surface designed to unseat the opposing rider without spearing him through.

The buzz-wah mute is shaped like a cup but is designed with vibrating membranes on the mute, as if several kazoos were attached to the instrument.

In 2001, the third trophy was revealed, a gold-plated cup designed and made in Italy.

A golf course comprises a series of holes, each consisting of a teeing ground, a fairway, the rough and other hazards, and a green with a flagstick (" pin ") and hole (" cup "), all designed for the game of golf.

The Football Association Women ’ s Challenge Cup Competition, commonly referred to as the FA Women's Cup, is the top cup competition for women's football clubs in England – designed as an exact equivalent to the FA Cup created 99 years earlier.

Coppa Florio was an Italian car race started in 1900, and renamed in 1905 when Vincenzo Florio offered the initial 50 000 Lira and a cup designed by Polak of Paris.

Putters are a special class of clubs with a loft not exceeding ten degrees, designed primarily to roll the ball along the grass, generally from a point on the putting green towards the cup.

The automobile cup-holder has also driven the development of " car cups " designed to fit within most cars ' cup holders ; these have a narrower base but flare outward after a short cylindrical distance.

Cars designed primarily for the North American market have tended to have larger cup holders, while those for which the primary market is outside of North America tend to have smaller ones.

A cupcake ( also British English: fairy cake ; Australian English: patty cake or cup cake ) is a small cake designed to serve one person, frequently baked in a small thin paper or aluminum cup.

Most nursing bras are designed with cup flaps that fasten at the apex of the bra, at the point where the shoulder straps attach, allowing the mother to simply pulled the top half of the cup down to facilitate access to the nipple.

Their product is designed to accommodate the needs of women whose breast size can fluctuate up to a single cup size hourly while nursing.

Israel Pilot designed an improved cup with a diagonal slash, shoulder strap attachment.

To fill this niche market, ashtrays which are designed to fit into an automobile's cup holders are now on the market.

It was originally a particular shape of drinking cup in Ancient Greece and Rome, but later used to refer to a large covered cup designed to hold hosts for, and after, the Eucharist, thus the equivalent for the bread of the chalice for the wine.

A Faraday cup is a metal ( conductive ) cup designed to catch charged particles in vacuum.

The Anthora paper coffee cup, first designed by Leslie Buck for coffee-to-go by the Sherri Cup Company in 1963 for the New York metropolitan market, has become so identified with New York City that its image has appeared on the cover of the Manhattan Yellow Pages, and is recognizable in numerous television shows and movies set in New York.

He became an inventor and product developer, and successfully manufactured the Tyne-Tot Weaning Cup, a plastic cup designed for babies.

In the same year, the antiquarian and mystic Johannes Bureus designed and engraved the seal of the university, which is today used as part of the logotype.

The French postal service issued a stamp in 2002 in his honour ; it was designed by Marc Taraskoff and engraved by Pierre Albuisson.

However a monument designed by the architect Sir Clough Williams-Ellis was subsequently erected around the grave, bearing an englyn ( strict-metre stanza ) engraved on slate in his memory composed by his nephew Dr William George.

* A treatise on civil architecture in which the principles of that art are laid down and illustrated by a great number of plates accurately designed and elegantly engraved by the best hands ( London ) 1759

A second memorial dedicated to Brooklands aircraft design and manufacturing heritage was specially designed and manufactured by British Aerospace in the late 1980s to mark the closing of its last factory there and takes the form of a large engraved acrylic panel displayed at the southern end of the old runway close to the entracne to the community park and a children's nursery.

He also designed and built a number of telescopes and simple microscopes ; several large lenses, engraved with his name, are still preserved in Florence.

* A Collection of Gems, designed by various artists, engraved by Bartolozzi.

Cipriani was a founder member ( 1768 ) of the Royal Academy, and designed its diploma, which was engraved by Francesco Bartolozzi.

The first among these was the Liberty Bell 150th Anniversary Issue of 1926, designed by Clair Aubrey Huston, and engraved by J. Eissler & E. M. Hall, two among America's most renowned master engravers.

Unflagged by his famous rivalry with Didot, in his life Bodoni designed and personally engraved 298 typefaces, and the various printing houses he managed produced roughly 1, 200 fine editions.

In December 1932 Constable and Company published an edition engraved and designed by John Farleigh with the title The Adventures of the Black Girl in her Search for God.

First appearing on 15 August 1879, they were the first stamps of the kingdom to be entirely designed, engraved, and printed by Italians.

This issue was designed and engraved on steel by John Archer and transferred to either copper plates or steel plates.

The portrait of Jefferson Davis was designed and line engraved by John Archer, and then transferred to a copper plate.

* Type II, also at first printed by Archer & Daly, is very similar to type I. Frederick Halpin designed and engraved the image of Davis.

Jade pendants were also found, designed with engraved representations of small birds, turtles and fish.

One of the first acts of the Cook Government Cook Ministry, sworn in on 14 June 1913, was to order a series of postage stamps designed with the profile of George V. On 8 December 1913 the first of these, an engraved 1d carmine-red, appeared.

The prize includes a $ 50, 000 award and an engraved commemorative sculpture designed by renowned artist Jim Dine in 1991.

Frontispiece to Volume I of original French Edition of de Rapin's Histoire d ' Angleterre of 1724, designed and engraved by F. M.

L ' Histoire d ' Angleterre was printed at the Hague in 1724, with illustrations and allegorical endpieces designed and engraved by F. M.

* May 25-The new Coventry Cathedral, designed by Basil Spence, is consecrated in England ; artworks incorporated include: the exterior sculpture St Michael's Victory over the Devil by Sir Jacob Epstein ; the tapestry Christ in Glory in the Tetramorph, designed by Graham Sutherland ; the Mater Dolorosa sculpture by John Bridgeman ; the Baptistry window by John Piper and Patrick Reyntiens ; and the engraved glass Screen of Saints and Angels by John Hutton.

The plate has been engraved with angled ' lenses ' at different angles so designed as to match the artwork and reflect light at different intensities depending on angle of view.

The Victorian fireplace is surmounted by three black marble panels, each engraved to illustrate aspects of Charles ' escape-two of them designed by a daughter of Walter Evans.