spoonful

/'spu:nful/

Thân thiện

He carefully measured a spoonful of medicine for the child.

Definition

Noun: A spoonful is the amount that a spoon can hold when it is full. It is a unit of measurement used for both liquid and dry ingredients, especially in cooking and serving food.

Usage

A "spoonful" is used to quantify an amount of a substance, typically a powder, granule, or liquid. It is often specified further by the type of spoon (e.g., teaspoonful, tablespoonful). The word is commonly used in recipes, medical instructions, and informal descriptions of adding something to food or drink.

Examples

• He took a spoonful of medicine.
• She stirred two spoonfuls of honey into her tea.
• The recipe calls for a spoonful of vanilla extract.

Advanced Usage

• "A spoonful of sugar helps the medicine go down.": This is a famous line from a song, used metaphorically to suggest that something unpleasant can be made more acceptable if combined with something pleasant.

Variants and Related Words

• Teaspoonful (n): The amount a teaspoon holds.
  • Add one teaspoonful of salt.
• Tablespoonful (n): The amount a tablespoon holds.
  • The dressing requires two tablespoonfuls of oil.

Synonyms

• Spoon
• Scoop (when referring to a similar amount, though a scoop is not necessarily from a spoon)

Học thuật

Noun

1. as much as a spoon will hold
   • he added two spoons of sugar

Từ đồng nghĩa

• spoon