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Teaspoon

Definitions: Teaspoon

Teaspoon

Noun

1. A small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram.

2. As much as a teaspoon will hold.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "teaspoon" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1838. (references)



Specialty Definitions: Teaspoon

DomainDefinitions

Personal Care & Hotels

A small spoon used for stirring tea, eating certain desserts. Source: European Union. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Specialty Definition: Teaspoon

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

When used as a quantity, such as in a recipe, a teaspoon is the name of several units of measuring volume used primarily in cooking.

1 U.S. customary teaspoon = 1/6 U.S. fl. oz (4.93 ml)

1 Imperial teaspoon = 1/8 Imperial fl. oz (3.55 ml)

1 metric teaspoon = 5 ml (used in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and U.K.)

In a more general sense, a teaspoon is any small spoon, usually used to stir the contents of a cup of tea or coffee.

Note that a teaspoon used for stirring hot drinks is unlikely to contain the standard amount of material. For measuring precisely, special measuring spoons are available and should be used.

Other spoon measures include Tablespoon and Desertspoon. In all cases a spoon measure may be heaped or levelled.

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Teaspoon."

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Synonym: Teaspoon

Synonym: teaspoonful (n). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Teaspoon

English words defined with "teaspoon": Dessert spooniced-tea spoonteaspoonful. (references)

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Modern Usage: Teaspoon

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Nah, my name's Teaspoon, and I'm Cybertron's chief dishwasher. (Transformers; writing credit: George Arthur Bloom; Doug Booth)

I use half a level teaspoon of bicarbonated soda. (The Killing of Sister George; writing credit: Lukas Heller; Frank Marcus)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Teaspoon

DomainTitle

Books

  • A teaspoon of honey (reference)

  • American souvenir teaspoon handbook (reference)

  • I Never Measure My Life Out by the Teaspoon (reference)

  • Teaspoon of Murder (Harlequin Intrigue, No 125) (reference)

  • You Cant Measure My Love With a Teaspoon (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Image Slideshow: Teaspoon

Illustrations:
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Familiar Quotations: Teaspoon

AuthorQuotation

President Abraham Lincoln

I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Teaspoon

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Use 1/2 teaspoon of salt and 1/2 teaspoon of baking soda in a large glass of warm water. (references)

Children whose treatment has not included radiation to the head and neck should also use a mouth rinse frequently during the day. One suggested mouth rinse is a mixture of salt and baking soda (1/4 teaspoon of each in a cup of water). (references)

This is the equivalent of an additional 8 ounce glass of 2milk and one-half of a sandwich (1 slice of bread, approximately 1 ounce of meat, and I teaspoon of margarine, mayonnaise, etc.) per day. The need for protein also increases during pregnancy. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Usage Frequency: Teaspoon

"Teaspoon" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Teaspoon" is used about 179 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)
Parts of SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)100%17923,133

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Teaspoon

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

teaspoon

34

in many tablespoon teaspoon

24

tablespoon teaspoon

19

oakley teaspoon

13

conversion teaspoon

13

in tablespoon teaspoon

11

measurement teaspoon

11

conversion tablespoon teaspoon

11

gram teaspoon

11

ounce teaspoon

10
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Modern Translations: Teaspoon

Language Translations for "teaspoon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

lugë çaji. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏ملعقة صغيرة, ‏ملعقة شاي. (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чаена лъжичка (teaspoonful). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

茶匙 . (various references)

   

Czech

  

kávová lžièka (tea-spoon), èajová lžièka. (various references)

   

Danish

  

teske (coffee spoon, tea spoon). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

theelepeltje. (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

tekulero. (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

قاشق چای خوری . (various references)

   

Finnish

  

teelusikka. (various references)

   

French

  

petite cuiller (teaspoonful), petit cuillère, cuillère thé. (various references)

   

German

  

Teeloeffel, Teelöffel, der, teelöffel (coffee spoon, tea spoon, teaspoonful), kleiner Loeffel. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

κουταλάκι του γλυκού (dessert spoon), κουταλάκι (fish tag, spoon, spoon bait, spoon lure), μικρό κουτάλι. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

כפית (spoon). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

teáskanál, kiskanál. (various references)

   

Italian

  

cucchiaino (spoon, spoon bait, spoon lure, teaspoonful). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

茶匙 , 茶さじ , 小匙 , 小さじ . (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

"さじ, ちゃさじ. (various references)

   

Korean 

  

찻숱가락. (various references)

   

Manx

  

spein tey. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

easpoontay.(various references)

   

Portuguese

  

colher pequena, colher de chá (caddy). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чайная ложка (tea-spoon). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

lehwana. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

kafena kašičica. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cucharilla (scraper, spoon, spoon bait, spoon hook, spoon lure, teaspoonful, wedge). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

tesked (teaspoonful). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

çay kaşığı (caddy spoon, saltspoon). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Teaspoon

Derivations

Words beginning with "teaspoon": teaspoonful, teaspoonfuls, teaspoons, teaspoonsful. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Teaspoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teason, teasponn. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Teaspoon"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "teaspoon" (pronounced tē"spuw'n)
4-s p uw' ntablespoon.

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Anagrams: Teaspoon

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-s-t"

-1 letter: teopans.

-2 letters: atones, netops, paeons, pantos, patens, pontes, sapote, teopan.

-3 letters: aeons, antes, aspen, atone, estop, etnas, napes, nates, neaps, neats, netop, noose, notes, oaten, onset, opens, paeon, panes, panto, pants, paseo, paste, paten, pates, peans, peats, peons, pesto, poets, pones, poons, psoae, santo, septa, seton, sneap, snoop, snoot, spate, spean, spent, spoon, stane, steno, stoae, stone, stoop, stope, tapes, tepas, toeas, tones, toons, topes, topos.

-4 letters: aeon, anes, ante, ants, apes, apse, ates, atop, east, eats, eons, epos, etas, etna, naos, nape, naps, neap, neat, nest, nets, noes, nope, nose, nota, note, oast, oats, ones, onto, oops, oots, open, opes, opts, pane, pans, pant, pase, past, pate, pats, pean, peas, peat, pens, pent, peon, peso, pest, pets, poet, pone, pons, poon, pose, post, pots, sane, sate, seat, sent, sept, seta, snap, snot, soap, sone, soon, soot, spae, span, spat, spot, step, stoa, stop, tans, taos, tape, taps, teas, tens, tepa, toea, toes, tone, tons, toon, tope, tops.

-5 letters: ane, ant, ape, apt, asp, ate, eat, ens, eon, eta, nae, nap, net, noo, nos, not, oat, oes, one, ons, oot, ope, ops, opt, ose, pan, pas, pat, pea, pen, pes, pet, pot, sae, sap, sat, sea, sen, set, son, sop, sot, spa, tae, tan, tao, tap, tas, tea, ten, toe, ton, too, top.

 Words containing the letters "a-e-n-o-o-p-s-t"
 

+1 letter: soapstone, teaspoons.

 

+2 letters: operations, personator, postseason, pronatores, protonates, soapstones, tablespoon.

 

+3 letters: compensator, fortepianos, homopterans, parenthoods, perorations, personation, personators, pianofortes, portamentos, postponable, postseasons, propionates, pteranodons, snapshooter, spontaneous, synaptosome, tablespoons, taphonomies, teaspoonful, trypanosome.

 

+4 letters: anisotropies, autohypnoses, coleopterans, compensation, compensators, compensatory, cooperations, ctenophorans, deportations, depositional, despoliation, epoxidations, evaporations, explorations, exportations, expositional, impersonator, incorporates, nonphosphate, nontemporals, operationism, operationist, orthopterans, percolations, perforations, personations, postneonatal, potentiators, probationers, proconsulate, procreations, protestation, protoplanets, reapportions, reoperations, reprobations, snapshooters, spermatozoan, spermatozoon, synaptosomes, teaspoonfuls, teaspoonsful, trypanosomes, zooplankters.

 

+5 letters: anisometropia, anisometropic, apotheosizing, compassionate, compellations, compensations, complexations, contemplators, cotransported, depopulations, despoliations, dodecaphonist, enantiomorphs, entomophagous, exploitations, expostulation, flavoproteins, impersonation, impersonators, interpolators, metallophones, metropolitans, nonabsorptive, nonphosphates, onomatopoeias, operationisms, operationists, optionalities, paleobotanies, paleobotanist, parathormones, photoengraves, photomontages, photosynthate, planetologies, planetologist, plastoquinone, postembryonal, postsecondary, potentiations, preformations, prepositional, proconsulates, prognosticate, proteinaceous, proteoglycans, protestations, protonotaries, reoccupations, repopulations, sexploitation, spermatogonia, spermatozoans, spontaneously, tablespoonful, technophobias.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Teaspoon


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 65 61 73 70 6F 6F 6E

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101111 01101110

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#101 &#97 &#115 &#112 &#111 &#111 &#110

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 0065 0061 0073 0070 006F 006F 006E

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5471678582818180

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Quotations: Familiar
8. Quotations: Non-fiction
9. Usage Frequency
10. Expressions: Internet
11. Translations: Modern
12. Derivations
13. Rhymes
14. Anagrams
15. Orthography
16. Bibliography


  

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