teaspoonful
IPA: tˈispunfʌɫ
noun
- A unit of capacity equal to the amount a teaspoon can hold which is taken approximately as 5 ml.
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Examples of "teaspoonful" in Sentences
- I suppose there is a teaspoonful of truth in this analysis.
- _ -- Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine in a dessert spoonful of water.
- Soak a teaspoonful of gelatine one or two hours in three table - spoonfuls of water.
- Trying to swallow them by the teaspoonful is another -- and, let me say from the get-go, not an advisable -- thing altogether.
- The way to test was to get a bowl of cold water and drop half a teaspoonful of mixture into it, leaving it to cool for a minute.
- Also 1 English cooking apple, 4 to 6 eggs (Home laid), 1 teaspoonful pudding spice (Indian), 1 wineglass Jamaica rum, sufficient milk to mix, grated rind and juice of one lemon.
- And he added: "I would also love it if this valued alchemist could teach me the secret of producing a pared-down version of political economy; this is a remedy that our sick society is very much in need of, but it refuses to take even the smallest teaspoonful, so repulsive does it find the stuff."
- Meanwhile questions of taste (Cypriot brandy?) andsensitivities arising fromdisproportionate representation, such as for example only a teaspoonful of allspice sought from the Indian Empire, were thankfully offset by sectarian considerations and the tropical climate: Christmas puddings were at this date not high on the agenda of Gandhi, Nehru, or Congress.
- Exactly the same amount of water, to the ounce, or even the teaspoonful, that is poured into the boiler of an engine, is given off through its funnel and escape-pipes in the form of steam; and precisely the same amount of water which we pour into our stomachs will reappear on the surface of the body again in the form of the vapor from the lungs, the perspiration from the skin, and the water from the kidneys.
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