TEASPOON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does teaspoon mean? 

• TEASPOON (noun)
  The noun TEASPOON has 2 senses:

1. as much as a teaspoon will hold

2. a small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram

  Familiarity information: TEASPOON used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• TEASPOON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

As much as a teaspoon will hold

Classified under:

Nouns denoting quantities and units of measure

Synonyms:

teaspoon; teaspoonful

Hypernyms ("teaspoon" is a kind of...):

containerful (the quantity that a container will hold)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A small spoon used for stirring tea or coffee; holds about one fluid dram

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("teaspoon" is a kind of...):

spoon (a piece of cutlery with a shallow bowl-shaped container and a handle; used to stir or serve or take up food)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "teaspoon"):

iced-tea spoon (a teaspoon with a long handle)

 Context examples 

If the label says two teaspoons and you're using a dosing cup with ounces only, don't guess.

(Medicines and Children, Food and Drug Administration)

That equals about 1 teaspoon of table salt a day.

(Dietary Sodium, NIH: National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute)

The 186 people randomly assigned to the placebo group received 5 grams daily of olive oil (about 1 teaspoon) in identical capsules.

(Omega-3s from fish oil supplements no better than placebo for dry eye, National Institutes of Health)

They also examined local microbial diversity by reading the blueprints of more than 6,000 individual cells in a single teaspoon of water from the Sargasso Sea.

(Study analyzing cells' blueprints reveals new patterns in the global distribution and diversity of ocean microbes, National Science Foundation)

The World Health Organization (WHO) guideline recommends that sodium consumption be lower than 2 g/day (equivalent to 5 g/day of salt, or 1 teaspoon), though the American Heart Association goes further and recommends an upper threshold of 1.5 g/day.

(Study Shows Average Consumption of Salt Good for Heart Health, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)