spoon
part of speech
noun (spoon, spoons); verb (spoon, spoons, spooned, spooning)
meaning for a pupil
1) A spoon is a small tool with a round, shallow end and a handle, used for eating, serving or stirring. tree →
2) A spoon (a spoonful) is the amount a spoon holds: a spoon of sugar. tree →
3) To spoon food is to move it with a spoon. tree →
sense in the lessons
a thing on the table that is not a fruit; in cooking teaspoons and tablespoons are measures; in everyday life setting the table with knives, forks and spoons; in science a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot (metal carries heat)
examples
- I put three spoons on the table. tree →
- There are 5 spoons in the drawer. tree →
- Lily washes 8 spoons and 4 forks. tree →
- Eat your soup with a spoon. tree →
- Add one spoon of honey to the tea. tree →
- Stir the paint with an old spoon. tree →
- A metal spoon gets hot in hot soup. tree →
- Mum spooned the beans onto my plate. tree →
- "At all events leave with us your silver spoon. tree →
note
The thing being counted; carries no operation clue. Trap: spoons are not fruit, so they are left out of «how many fruits». «a spoon of sugar» counts the sugar by spoonfuls, not spoons. Plural «spoons».
In the corpora
- Grandma's best silver spoons come out of the drawer dull and almost black, even though nobody has used them.
- Eggs, onions and some rubber give off sulphur gases, so silver egg spoons tarnish very quickly.
- Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.
- Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.
- Metal, including foil and metal spoons, must never go into a microwave.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «spoon» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.