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{
"term": "spoon",
"partOfSpeech": "noun",
"ox3000": true,
"cefr": "a2",
"image": "data/images/cu/cutlery.png",
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "a tool that has a handle with a shallow bowl at the end, used for mixing, serving and eating food",
"cefr": "a2",
"ox3000": true,
"examples": [
{
"text": "a plastic/metal spoon"
},
{
"text": "a soup spoon"
},
{
"text": "Wait until the chocolate melts completely, stirring with a spoon."
},
{
"text": "Press the top down gently with the back of a spoon."
},
{
"text": "Thai food is eaten with a spoon."
},
{
"text": "I stirred my coffee with the sugar spoon."
},
{
"text": "The children argued over who should lick the spoon."
},
{
"text": "a 5 ml measuring spoon"
}
],
"topics": ["Cooking and eating"],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["slotted", "serving", "soup"],
"verb + spoon": ["pick up", "put down", "hold"],
"preposition": ["spoon of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "the amount that a spoon can hold",
"examples": [
{
"text": "two spoons of sugar"
}
],
"collocations": {
"adjective": ["slotted", "serving", "soup"],
"verb + spoon": ["pick up", "put down", "hold"],
"preposition": ["spoon of"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": null,
"definition": "having rich parents",
"labels": "(saying)",
"examples": []
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spuːn/",
"audio": "sp/spoon/spoon__gb_2.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/spuːn/",
"audio": "sp/spoon/spoon__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": "Old English spōn ‘chip of wood’, of Germanic origin; related to German Span ‘shaving’. The current noun sense is of Scandinavian origin. The verb dates from the early 18th cent."
}