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Meaning of "spoonbait" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF SPOONBAIT

spoonbait  [ˈspuːnˌbeɪt] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF SPOONBAIT

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Spoonbait is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH SPOONBAIT


acerbate
ˈæsəˌbeɪt
approbate
ˈæprəˌbeɪt
bilobate
baɪˈləʊˌbeɪt
cohobate
ˈkəʊhəʊˌbeɪt
conglobate
ˈkɒŋɡləʊˌbeɪt
exacerbate
ɪɡˈzæsəˌbeɪt
extubate
ˈɛkstjuːˌbeɪt
groundbait
ˈɡraʊndˌbeɪt
incubate
ˈɪnkjʊˌbeɪt
intubate
ˈɪntjʊˌbeɪt
jailbait
ˈdʒeɪlˌbeɪt
masturbate
ˈmæstəˌbeɪt
niobate
ˈnaɪəʊˌbeɪt
perturbate
pəˈtɜːˌbeɪt
plumbate
ˈplʌmˌbeɪt
reprobate
ˈrɛprəʊˌbeɪt
sorbate
ˈsɔːˌbeɪt
stylobate
ˈstaɪləˌbeɪt
titubate
ˈtɪtjʊˌbeɪt
whitebait
ˈwaɪtˌbeɪt

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE SPOONBAIT

spookiness
spookish
spooky
spool
spooler
spoom
spoon
spoon-fed
spoon-feed
spoonbill
spoondrift
spoonerism
spooney
spoonful
spoonier
spoonies
spooniest
spoonily
spoonways
spoony

WORDS THAT END LIKE SPOONBAIT

ait
au fait
au lait
await
bait
Bering Strait
extrait
gait
krait
Kuwait
lie in wait
parfait
plait
portrait
rebait
redbait
self-portrait
strait
trait
wait

Synonyms and antonyms of spoonbait in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «spoonbait» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF SPOONBAIT

Find out the translation of spoonbait to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of spoonbait from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «spoonbait» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

spoonbait
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

spoonbait
570 millions of speakers

English

spoonbait
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

spoonbait
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

spoonbait
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

spoonbait
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

spoonbait
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

spoonbait
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

spoonbait
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Spoonbait
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

spoonbait
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

spoonbait
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

spoonbait
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Spoonbait
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

spoonbait
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

spoonbait
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

चमचमीत
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

spoonbait
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

spoonbait
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

spoonbait
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

spoonbait
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

spoonbait
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

spoonbait
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

spoonbait
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

spoonbait
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

spoonbait
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of spoonbait

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOONBAIT»

The term «spoonbait» is used very little and occupies the 181.934 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «SPOONBAIT» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about spoonbait

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SPOONBAIT»

Discover the use of spoonbait in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to spoonbait and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Seamus Heaney: The Crisis of Identity
The glittering spoonbait becomes a shooting star, then turns into the elusive drop that Dives implored from the depths of Hell in Luke 16:24: "It flees him and it burns him all at once // Like the single drop that Dives implored / Falling and falling ...
Floyd Collins, 2003
2
Faith, Hope and Poetry: Theology and the Poetic Imagination
So, for example, in 'The Spoonbait',“"', he constructs a formal emblem of the invisible soul by means of the known visibility of a spoonbait in a child's pencil case. The poem begins with an almost awkward formality: So a new similitude is given ...
Malcolm Guite, 2012
3
The Haw Lantern: Poems
So a new similitude is given us And we say: The soul may be compared Unto a spoonbait that a child discovers Beneath the sliding lidofapencil case, Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime Risen and free and spooling out of nowhere – A  ...
Seamus Heaney, 2014
4
Opened Ground
So a new similitude is given us And we say: The soul may be compared Unto a spoonbait that a child discovers Beneath the sliding lid of a pencil case, Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime Risen and free and spooling out of nowhere ...
Seamus Heaney, 2010
5
Green Voices: Understanding Contemporary Nature Poetry
In the same issue of The Yearbook of English Studies Neil Corcoran anticipates The Haw Lantern by quoting a line from the already published poem, "The Spoonbait": "I look forward to a poetry which may seem 'Risen and free and spooling ...
Terry Gifford, 1995
6
Selected Poems, 1966-1987
So a new similitude is given us And we say: The soul may be compared Unto a spoonbait that a child discovers Beneath the sliding lid of a pencil case, Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime Risen and free and spooling out of nowhere— ...
Seamus Heaney, 2014
7
New and Selected Poems
So a new similitude is given us And we say: The soul may be compared Unto a spoonbait that a child discovers Beneath the sliding lid of a pencil case, Glimpsed once and imagined for a lifetime Risen and free and spooling out ofnowhere – A ...
Seamus Heaney, 2009
8
Pike and Perch: With Notes on Record Pike and a Chapter on ...
F. N. S." The foregoing list was supplemented by the following captures : — □ 1884, November 20, 2\\ lbs., caught with spoonbait in Sowley Pond, near Lymington, Hampshire, by Mr. C. Butler, junior. 1884, November 20, 28 lbs., caught with ...
Alfred Jardine, 1898
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Report of the Commissioner - United States Commission of ...
253308. M filler, Karl, Horn berg, Baden, Germany; patented February 7, 1882; bait-hook 23 No. 250843. Lowe, William T. J., Buffalo, N. Y. ; patented April 25, 1882 ; spoonbait for fishing; patented in Canada, January 28, 1882 24 No. 201194.
United States. Bureau of Fisheries, 1887
10
Report of the Commissioner for ...
253308. MUller, Karl, Hornberg, Baden, Germany; patented February 7, 1882; bait-hook 23 No. 256843. Lowe. William T. J., Buffalo, N. Y. ; patented April 25, 1882 ; spoonbait for fishing; patented in Canada, Jauuary 28, 1882 24 No. 261194.
United States Fish Commission, 1887

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