Word Meanings - TABLESPOON - Book Publishers vocabulary database
A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc.
Related words: (words related to TABLESPOON)
- TABLER
1. One who boards. 2. One who boards others for hire. B. Jonson. - TEASPOONFUL
As much as teaspoon will hold; enough to fill a teaspoon; -- usually reckoned at a fluid dram or one quarter of a tablespoonful. - TABLEAU VIVANT
See 2 - TEASPOON
A small spoon used in stirring and sipping tea, coffee, etc., and for other purposes. - TABLEMAN
A man at draughts; a piece used in playing games at tables. See Table, n., 10. Bacon. - COMMONLY
1. Usually; generally; ordinarily; frequently; for the most part; as, confirmed habits commonly continue trough life. 2. In common; familiary. Spenser. - TABLESPOON
A spoon of the largest size commonly used at the table; -- distinguished from teaspoon, dessert spoon, etc. - SPOONFLOWER
The yautia. - DISTINGUISH
di- = dis- + stinguere to quench, extinguish; prob. orig., to prick, and so akin to G. stechen, E. stick, and perh. sting. Cf. 1. Not set apart from others by visible marks; to make distinctive or discernible by exhibiting differences; to mark - DISTINGUISHABLE
1. Capable of being distinguished; separable; divisible; discernible; capable of recognition; as, a tree at a distance is distinguishable from a shrub. A simple idea being in itself uncompounded . . . is not distinguishable into different ideas. - DISTINGUISHMENT
Observation of difference; distinction. Graunt. - SPOONFUL
1. The quantity which a spoon contains, or is able to contain; as, a teaspoonful; a tablespoonful. 2. Hence, a small quantity. Arbuthnot. - TABLEAU
1. A striking and vivid representation; a picture. 2. A representation of some scene by means of persons grouped in the proper manner, placed in appropriate postures, and remaining silent and motionless. - SPOONILY
In a spoony manner. - DISTINGUISHABLY
So as to be distinguished. - DISTINGUISHING
Constituting difference, or distinction from everything else; distinctive; peculiar; characteristic. The distinguishing doctrines of our holy religion. Locke. Distinguishing pennant , a special pennant by which any particular vessel in a fleet - SPOON
See PEPYS - DISTINGUISHABLENESS
The quality of being distinguishable. - TABLET
A kind of pocket memorandum book. 5. A flattish cake or piece; as, tablets of arsenic were formerly worn as a preservative against the plague. (more info) 1. A small table or flat surface. 2. A flat piece of any material on which to write, paint, - MOUNTABLE
Such as can be mounted. - IMPALATABLE
Unpalatable. - MISINTERPRETABLE
Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood. - CONTRADISTINGUISH
To distinguish by a contrast of opposite qualities. These are our complex ideas of soul and body, as contradistinguished. Locke. - UNWARRANTABLE
Not warrantable; indefensible; not vindicable; not justifiable; illegal; unjust; improper. -- Un*war"rant*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*war"rant*a*bly, adv. - POSTABLE
Capable of being carried by, or as by, post. W. Montagu. - IMPREVENTABLE
Not preventable; invitable. - ACCEPTABLE
Capable, worthy, or sure of being accepted or received with pleasure; pleasing to a receiver; gratifying; agreeable; welcome; as, an acceptable present, one acceptable to us. - SUPPORTABLE
Capable of being supported, maintained, or endured; endurable. -- Sup*port"a*ble*ness, n. -- Sup*port"a*bly, adv. - INDISTINGUISHABLE
Not distinguishable; not capable of being perceived, known, or discriminated as separate and distinct; hence, not capable of being perceived or known; as, in the distance the flagship was indisguishable; the two copies were indisguishable in form - INTESTABLE
Not capable of making a will; not legally qualified or competent to make a testament. Blackstone. - MARKETABLENESS
Quality of being marketable. - COUNTABLE
Capable of being numbered. - CONTRADICTABLE
Capable of being contradicting. - INEXPECTABLE
Not to be expected or anticipated. Bp. Hall. - IMPERSCRUTABLE
Not capable of being searched out; inscrutable. -- Im`per*scru"ta*ble*ness, n. - DISCREDITABLE
Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.