teaspoon

Thân thiện

She stirred her tea with a teaspoon.

Definition

1. Noun:
   • A small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee: A teaspoon is a small spoon, typically part of a set of cutlery, designed for adding sugar to and stirring hot drinks like tea or coffee.
   • A unit of volume in cooking: A teaspoon is also a standardized unit of measurement in recipes, equivalent to about 5 milliliters or one-third of a tablespoon.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Utensil):
  • She stirred her tea with a silver teaspoon.
  • Please pass me a teaspoon for my coffee.
• Noun (Measurement):
  • Add one teaspoon of vanilla extract to the batter.
  • The recipe calls for two teaspoons of salt.

Advanced Usage

• "A teaspoon of sugar": This phrase is commonly used literally in recipes and figuratively to suggest a small, sweetening amount of something.
  • The medicine is easier to take with a teaspoon of sugar.
  • He added a teaspoon of humor to his serious lecture.

Variants and Related Words

• Teaspoonful (n): The amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • He took a teaspoonful of cough syrup.

Synonyms

• Measuring spoon (for the unit of volume).
• Stirrer (for the utensil's function).

Related Phrases

• "Not my cup of tea": While this idiom contains the word "tea," it is unrelated to the utensil. It means something is not to one's liking.
  • Classical music is not my cup of tea.

Học thuật

Noun

1. a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram
2. as much as a teaspoon will hold

Từ đồng nghĩa

• teaspoonful