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Discover LudwigThe word 'spoonful' is correct and commonly used in written English
It is a noun that refers to the amount of something that a spoon can hold. In other words, it is the quantity that fills a spoon. Example: I added a spoonful of sugar to my tea to make it sweeter.
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spoonful
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The amount that a spoon will hold, either level or heaped.
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Mix a large spoonful with olive oil and a splash of lemon juice or vinegar to thin out before combining with the pasta.
Heat a spoonful or two of oil in a solid cast-iron pot, and gently fry the joint on low heat for 15 minutes, turning it until golden all over.
Can you imagine that in a robotised production line in the car industry if you put a spoonful of sugar in some valve you stop the whole production line, it's so fragile although it's the height of modernity.
And critics of the company ask themselves what all this means for Microsoft's long antitrust trial.In this section Disconnected Dirty dealings Room for reservations The Malone shuffle Winternet A spoonful of sugar ReprintsAlthough Microsoft's make-over is not unrelated to the lawsuit, another battle is more immediately relevant.
Until he is more specific, the fear must remain that the Republicans will deliver the spoonful of sugar but not the medicine, as they did under George W. Bush.
But that law has more to do with avoiding risk to children than with helping positively to treat them.In this section The race is not always to the richest War's other victims When a spoonful of sugar won't do ReprintsCreating new drugs for children, especially babies, is not a straightforward business.
It will also give it a spoonful of dollars to help the medicine go down.Pakistan's border with Afghanistan is as porous as its balance of payments.
Checking out the chicks Political prisoners No rush for pews Down and perhaps in Marlboro Country no more Madame Secretary Reprints Related items Health-care reform: A spoonful of sugarJun 16th 2009Conservatives have seized upon the CBO reports as evidence that all the Democratic talk of fiscal responsibility and budget neutrality is mere guff to disguise an enormous expansion of government.
This begs the thought that some supra-literary device is at hand: Mr Murakami explains his passion for running, preferably while listening to a "Lovin' Spoonful" album, as a Zen-inspired effort to "acquire a void".
It is as if an evening of 20th-century composition, even by a famous name, still needs its spoonful of sugar".The Rest is Noise", a year-long festival that is due to start on January 19th at London's Southbank Centre, hopes to change all that.
From a shareholder's standpoint, it certainly looked as if the Federal Reserve had administered a miracle cure to stockmarkets with its spoonful of easy money on September 18th.
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