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# spoon

«spoon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small tool with a round, shallow end and a handle, used…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#m1)

2) A spoon (a spoonful) is the amount a spoon holds: a spoon of sugar. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#m2)

3) To spoon food is to move it with a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#m3)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x1)
- There are 5 spoons in the drawer. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x2)
- Lily washes 8 spoons and 4 forks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x3)
- Eat your soup with a spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x4)
- Add one spoon of honey to the tea. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x5)
- Stir the paint with an old spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x6)
- A metal spoon gets hot in hot soup. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x7)
- Mum spooned the beans onto my plate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x8)
- "At all events leave with us your silver spoon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/#x9)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/0/)
- [Eggs, onions and some rubber give off sulphur gases, so silver egg spoons tarnish very quickly.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/14-tarnish-and-how-metals-change/9/)
- [Leave a metal spoon in hot soup and soon the handle is too hot to hold, while a wooden spoon stays cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/0/)
- [Metals conduct heat well, so a metal spoon in hot soup gets hot while a wooden one stays cool.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/31-metals-what-theyre-good-for/7/)
- [Metal, including foil and metal spoons, must never go into a microwave.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/everyday/38-simple-cooking-and-breakfast/13/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «spoon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/spoon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.