múc
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Definition
- Verb:
- To scoop, to ladle: To take out a liquid, semi-liquid, or a mixture of liquid and solid using a utensil like a ladle, dipper, or spoon.
- To bail: To remove water from a vessel or a flooded area, often using a container.
Usage
- Múc is a transitive verb. It describes the action of transferring a substance from one container to another using a scooping tool.
- It is commonly used with objects like soup, water, porridge, sauce, or rice.
- The action typically involves a ladle (), spoon (), dipper (), or bowl ().
Usage Examples
- Múc canh vào bát cho khách.
- Ladle soup into the bowl for the guest.
- Anh ấy dùng gáo để múc nước mưa trong thùng.
- He used a dipper to scoop rainwater out of the barrel.
- Chị múc cho em một bát cháo nóng nhé.
- Could you scoop me a bowl of hot porridge, please?
- Họ phải múc nước ra khỏi thuyền sau cơn bão.
- They had to bail water out of the boat after the storm.
Advanced Usage
- "Múc ra": To scoop out. Emphasizes the action of removing something from a container.
- Múc cơm ra đĩa. (Scoop the rice onto a plate.)
- "Múc lên": To scoop up. Emphasizes the lifting action.
- Dùng vợt để múc cá lên. (Use a net to scoop the fish up.)
Variants and Related Words
- Hốt (v): To scoop up quickly, often with hands or a shovel-like motion (e.g., - to scoop sand).
- Xúc (v): To shovel, to scoop with a shovel or similar broad tool (e.g., - to shovel coal). Often used for drier, granular materials.
- Vớt (v): To scoop out from a liquid, to salvage; often implies fishing or retrieving something submerged (e.g., - to retrieve a ball from water).
- Muôi (n): Ladle (the tool used for ).
Synonyms
- Ladle out: To serve using a ladle.
- Dish out: To serve food, often from a large container.
- Bail out: To remove water from a boat.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Múc đi múc lại: To scoop repeatedly. Can imply indecisiveness or doing something over and over.
- Đừng múc đi múc lại món ăn trong đĩa chung. (Don't keep scooping the food from the shared plate repeatedly.)
- Múc trộm: To secretly scoop/take some (often food).
- Đứa trẻ múc trộm một ít đường trong lọ. (The child secretly scooped some sugar from the jar.)
Related Idioms
- Múc nước bằng rổ: Literally "to scoop water with a basket". Means to do something futile, a wasted effort.
- Làm việc đó chẳng khác nào múc nước bằng rổ. (Doing that is like trying to scoop water with a basket.)
- Múc của người khác: Literally "to scoop from others". Means to take credit for someone else's work or ideas.
- Anh ta chỉ giỏi múc của người khác rồi nói là của mình. (He's only good at taking others' ideas and claiming them as his own.)
- Scoop, ladle soup out into bowls
- Múc nước trong thùng ra chậuTo scoop water out of a bucket into a basin