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Definitions: Teaspoon |
TeaspoonNoun1. 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) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Personal Care & Hotels | A small spoon used for stirring tea, eating certain desserts. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
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."
Synonym: TeaspoonSynonym: teaspoonful (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Teaspoon |
| English words defined with "teaspoon": Dessert spoon ♦ iced-tea spoon ♦ teaspoonful. (references) |
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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) | |
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President Abraham Lincoln | I could as easily bail out the Potomac River with a teaspoon as attend to all the details of the army. |
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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) | ||
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| "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 Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 179 | 23,133 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency 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 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "teaspoon": teaspoonful, teaspoonfuls, teaspoons, teaspoonsful. (additional references) | |
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"Teaspoon" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: teason, teasponn. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "teaspoon" (pronounced tē"spuw'n) |
| 4 | -s p uw' n | tablespoon. |
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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. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)54 65 61 73 70 6F 6F 6E |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)- . .- ... .--. --- --- -. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010100 01100101 01100001 01110011 01110000 01101111 01101111 01101110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)T e a s p o o n |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0054 0065 0061 0073 0070 006F 006F 006E |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5471678582818180 |
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