What's the difference between spoon and swoon?

Spoon


Definition:

  • (v. i.) See Spoom.
  • (n.) An implement consisting of a small bowl (usually a shallow oval) with a handle, used especially in preparing or eating food.
  • (n.) Anything which resembles a spoon in shape; esp. (Fishing), a spoon bait.
  • (n.) Fig.: A simpleton; a spooney.
  • (v. t.) To take up in, or as in, a spoon.
  • (v. i.) To act with demonstrative or foolish fondness, as one in love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Sift the cocoa powder over the top and lightly but thoroughly fold it in with the metal spoon.
  • (2) Spoon over the dressing and eat immediately, while the tomatoes are still hot and the bread is crisp.
  • (3) Two years after its introduction, the Morley spoon was still the most commonly used method of preparing oral rehydration solution (ORS).
  • (4) I arrange my coins into ascending size in my pockets, for example, and nothing gives me more comfort than the knowledge that my forks, knives and spoons are all in the correct place, tessellating magnificently in their drawer.
  • (5) 2 Crumble the blue cheese into the porridge and then cook on a medium heat, stirring continuously with a wooden spoon until it thickens to your liking.
  • (6) Pour on to a large platter or individual plates, spoon the cauliflower and chickpeas on top, followed by the egg, tomatoes and chilli sauce.
  • (7) Rafa then spoons a volley long with an gaping court in front of him to bring up set point for Dimitrov.
  • (8) Possible causes of the error are salt type, spoon size, and leveling technique.
  • (9) a) synovial bursa ( schleimbeutel ) b) sneeze guard ( Spukschutz ) c) snotty-nosed brat – literally snot spoon ( rotzloeffel ) d) grumpy bastard – literally lump of vomit ( kotzbrocken ) 4,000 Jet-setters complain of a) Jetleg b) Jetleck c) Jetlag d) Jetlack 8,000 Who, if a contestant on Who Wants To Be A Millionaire, would definitely not call the Joker?
  • (10) Spoon into the warm mushrooms, top with the tomatoes, sprinkle with pine nuts and serve.
  • (11) But the best moment came when I first heard Julie Andrews singing A Spoonful of Sugar .
  • (12) It was concluded that silver cone retrieval in more than half the cases could be performed easily with hand instruments, particularly spoon excavators.
  • (13) He might have been born with a silver spoon and declared bankruptcy four or five times but he is not dumb.
  • (14) 5 Pour the polenta on to two plates, arrange the grilled radicchio on top, then spoon the anchovy and rosemary sauce on top.
  • (15) Recipe supplied by Patrick Hanna, L'Entrepot, lentrepot.co.uk Clams with leek, fennel and parsley Though you could add a twirl of al dente spaghetti or linguine to this dish, it is the fragrant, briny broth that delights – better with a crusty loaf and a spoon.
  • (16) Pour spoonfuls of the batter into the hot oil and cook until bubbles form and the edges begin to harden.
  • (17) Open Mon-Sat 11am-midnight; Sun 12.30pm-11pm Spoon Cafe Bistro Spoon Cafe Bistro This place used to be known as Nicolson's Cafe or "one of the places where a single mum called Joanne sat in a corner to write some book about a boy wizard".
  • (18) In layer eight, the retinal axons were often large, spoon-shaped boutons that ended in apposition with the somata of the layer.
  • (19) However, when delivering the 2011 Reith Lecture , she added: “There are questions to be answered about the various relationships that developed afterwards and whether the UK supped with a sufficiently long spoon.” The archive clearly shows that Gaddafi hoped that this intelligence co-operation would result in British assistance in his attempts to round up and imprison Libyans who were living in exile in the UK, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and Mali.
  • (20) Mixing the condensation silicones under the conditions of daily practice--one spoon of body plus a distinct amount of catalyst-resulted in hardness differences compared to using the exact dose.

Swoon


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To sink into a fainting fit, in which there is an apparent suspension of the vital functions and mental powers; to faint; -- often with away.
  • (n.) A fainting fit; syncope.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Give me those singing blues and oranges, those swooning creams and cerises.
  • (2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (3) Imagine the dizzy swoon of indignation deprivation: what's upsetting is there's nothing to get upset about.
  • (4) I don’t know if it has to do with his stoic demeanor as he sat behind President Obama during a State of the Union, or those baby-blue eyes all over the news on Tuesday, as he announced that he wasn’t running for president this year, citing his faith in the political process ( swoon ).
  • (5) Some critics have sneered that Theodore, who writes letters for a living, can't actually construct a sentence, but that, surely is the point: there is no true emotion in this modern world, and it seems unlikely that Jonze would expect anyone to swoon at Theodore's attempt at a love letter which includes the sentence, "The world is on my shitlist."
  • (6) China’s public will be encouraged to swoon over the silver-gilt candelabra adorning the royal banquet table, the flower arrangements inspected personally by the Queen, the priceless gold vessels displayed as a sign of respect for the guest of honour’s exalted rank.
  • (7) Where F Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 source novel gave us the world in a soap bubble, weightless and gorgeous, Luhrmann's Gatsby is more akin to a mirrorball, a spinning, fractured dazzle of wild revels and swooning courtships.
  • (8) Before Swoon, he'd already made a name for himself as the director of They Are Lost to Vision Altogether, a superior piece of Aids agit-prop shaped by his experiences as an activist.
  • (9) But instead of swooning at these facts, Okoye is modest, stating only that he cares for the event and is determined to raise its profile.
  • (10) We were still swooning at her brio when rioting broke out across Britain and she made headlines again, calling for Facebook and Twitter to be closed down during civil unrest .
  • (11) As Essence magazine recently swooned: “Mr Ali has some serious swag … from his cool demeanour and radiant smile to his deep laugh and dope style”.
  • (12) It's why John Wesley was able to garner great crowds in his open-air meetings in late 18th-century England: vast, ecstatic audiences which even frightened him with their swooning, groaning, swaying paroxysm, a "contrary vision" and a counter-revolution, as EP Thompson wrote, against the shackles of industrialisation and enclosed lands.
  • (13) Since then, the Red Sox have gone through a lot of turmoil (the injury-plagued 2010 season, the disastrous September swoon in 2011, everything that Bobby Valentine did in 2012).
  • (14) So, as others are doing in this, the year of the bush, I decided it was time to stop swooning, and wake up.
  • (15) Because we swooned over the idea of the United States of Europe, hoping that people would forget that we're Germans … We felt liberated at the idea of being able to be Europeans.
  • (16) Frazier deservedly won the decision – but the fact that Ali somehow gathered himself to his feet and attempted to fight back not only had the fans round the world swooning at the heroism, but it gave notice of the added, and unconsidered, ingredient that would embrace Ali for the rest of his life.
  • (17) Equally bold was Kalin's Swoon, which retold the true story of Leopold and Loeb, the notorious gay child-killers whose murder of a young boy had already inspired Alfred Hitchcock's Rope and Richard Fleischer's Compulsion.
  • (18) It’s a glorious, swooning concoction, but forces you to confront one of singing’s great perils – the risk of ridicule.
  • (19) Sally Butcher's Swooning Imam 'Swooning Imam' stuffed aubergines.
  • (20) Before the internet, when the shroud of celebrity mystique was easier to maintain and nobody could tweet about Bill Cosby, fans felt less complicit in continuing to swoon over and patronize icons who were rumored to have done heinous things.