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