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Spoon vs Oak - What's the difference?

spoon | oak |

As a noun spoon

is an implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.

As a verb spoon

is to serve using a spoon or spoon can be .

As an adjective oak is

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spoon

English

(wikipedia spoon)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • An implement for eating or serving; a scooped utensil whose long handle is straight, in contrast to a ladle.
  • * Shakespeare
  • He must have a long spoon that must eat with the devil.
  • An implement for stirring food while being prepared; a wooden spoon.
  • A measure that will fit into a spoon; a spoonful.
  • (sports, archaic) A wooden-headed golf club with moderate loft, similar to the modern three wood.
  • (fishing) A type of metal lure resembling the concave head of a table spoon.
  • (dentistry, informal) A spoon excavator.
  • (figuratively, slang, archaic) A simpleton, a spooney.
  • (Hood)
  • A safety handle on a hand grenade, a trigger.
  • Derived terms
    * spoonbill * spooner * spoon bread * spoon-feed, spoon-fed * dessert spoon, dessertspoon * gag me with a spoon * measuring spoon * runcible spoon * silver spoon * soup spoon, soupspoon * tablespoon * teaspoon * wooden spoon

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To serve using a spoon.
  • Sarah spooned some apple sauce onto her plate.
  • (dated) To flirt; to make advances; to court, to interact romantically or amorously.
  • * 1913 ,
  • Do you think we spoon and do? We only talk.
  • (transitive, or, intransitive, slang, of persons) To lie nestled front-to-back, following the contours of the bodies, in a manner reminiscent of stacked spoons.
  • (tennis) To hit weakly
  • * {{quote-news
  • , year=2012 , date=June 28 , author=Jamie Jackson , title=Wimbledon 2012: Lukas Rosol shocked by miracle win over Rafael Nadal , work=the Guardian citation , page= , passage=Rosol spurned the chance to finish off a shallow second serve by spooning into the net, and a wild forehand took the set to 5-4, with the native of Prerov required to hold his serve for victory.}}
    Derived terms
    * spooner * big spoon, little spoon

    See also

    * cutlery * ladle * silverware

    Etymology 2

    Origin uncertain. Compare spoom.

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * Samuel Pepys
  • We might have spooned before the wind as well as they.
    Derived terms
    * spoon-drift

    oak

    English

    Noun

  • (senseid)(lb) A tree of the genus Quercus .
  • *
  • *:It was not far from the house; but the ground sank into a depression there, and the ridge of it behind shut out everything except just the roof of the tallest hayrick. As one sat on the sward behind the elm, with the back turned on the rick and nothing in front but the tall elms and the oaks in the other hedge, it was quite easy to fancy it the verge of the prairie with the backwoods close by.
  • *
  • *:Instead there were the white of aspens, streaks of branch and slender trunk glistening from the green of leaves, and the darker green of oaks , and through the middle of this forest, from wall to wall, ran a winding line of brilliant green which marked the course of cottonwoods and willows.
  • (lb) The wood of the oak.
  • A rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
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  • Derived terms

    * *

    Hypernyms

    * (oak tree) tree

    Meronyms

    * (oak tree) acorn

    Adjective

    (-)
  • (colour) of a rich brown colour, like that of oak wood.
  • made of oak wood or timber
  • an oak' table, ' oak beam, etc
  • consisting of oak trees
  • an oak' wood, ' oak forest, etc

    Derived terms

    * acute oak decline * blackjack oak * chestnut oak * (chinquapin oak) * (coast live oak) * cork oak * durmast oak * fumed oak * holly oak * holm oak * Jerusalem oak * kermes oak * live oak * oak apple * oak fern * Oak Forest * oak gall * oak leaf cluster * Oak Park * oak pruner * oak wilt * oaken * Oakland * oakmoss * oak processionary moth * Oakville * pin oak * poison oak * red oak * scarlet oak * sessile oak * silky oak * scrub oak * (tan oak) * (valley oak) * water oak * white oak * willow oak

    See also

    * acorn * cork * ellagic acid * encina * nutgall * quercetin * quercitron * roble * shillelagh * tanbark * valonia * wainscot * (topicsee)

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l)