egg
IPA: ˈɛg
noun
- (countable, zoology)
- An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development.
- (specifically, countable) The edible egg (sense 1.1) of a domestic fowl such as a duck, goose, or, especially, a chicken; (uncountable) the contents of such an egg or eggs used as food.
- (by extension, countable) A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
- (also cytology) Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
- (countable) A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
- A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (military, dated) A bomb or mine.
- (countable, figuratively)
- Senses relating to people.
- (informal, dated) A person; a fellow.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
- (Internet slang, derogatory, dated) A user of the microblogging service Twitter identified by the default avatar (historically an image of an egg (sense 1.1.1)) rather than a custom image; hence, a newbie or noob.
- (transgender slang) A person regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, who has not yet come out as transgender, or who is in the early stages of transitioning; also, one's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (derogatory, obsolete) A young person.
- (archaic) Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- A surname.
- (automotive, informal) A Koenigsegg car.
- Initialism of electroglottography. [The use of the electroglottograph.]
verb
- (transitive)
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (cooking) To coat (a food ingredient) with or dip (a food ingredient) in beaten egg (noun sense 1.1.1) during the process of preparing a dish.
- (intransitive) To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
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Examples of "egg" in Sentences
- The cook fried the eggs.
- The female bird lay eggs.
- The egg is slowly putrescent.
- The eggs are spherical and buoyant.
- The eggs were about the size of ostrich eggs.
- The larva hatches from the egg and consumes the food supply.
- They subsist mostly by scavenging the eggs of birds and reptiles.
- The egg is the largest of all birds in proportion to the size of the bird.
- Instead, she provided me with an e-mail address that contained the word egg.
- Chickens incubate the eggs and that helps the eggs to hatch faster and safer.
- * chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg* calf (bovine) serum* betapropiolactone
- Dip cutlets in egg, roll in bread crumbs and parmesan cheese and brown in olive oil.
- It's such a shame that a lot of home cooks seem to relegate eggs to breakfast only food.
- For instance, a word finga, a uniquely proto-Ruvu term for "egg," is attested in Matumbi, Ndengeleko, and Ruihi.
- Around the egg is a membrane, and evenly spaced on the membrane are points where columns of calcite (a form of calcium carbonate) form.
- Each egg is stamped with a different Disney character and if you get the additional egg mold, you can make the eggs into little mickey mouse Disney icons.
- In biology, the term egg is biologically ambiguous and the theory of punctuated equilibrium, for example, does not support a clear division between a chicken and the closest ancestors of that chicken.
- Not just because I'm about to share them with the café's proprietor, Australian chef Bill Granger, but because I've read all about these eggs - the dish that gave Granger his title "egg master of Sydney" - and they're supposed to be damn good.
- She can remind the little one of how the flower seed is treasured in the ovary until it is able to go out into the big world, and can then tell him that the wonderful seed of the bird, which we call the egg, is treasured in the same way; this to be followed by the story of the care needed by the bird's egg after it is born, -- how it cannot be left to shift for itself, but must be watched over and kept warm by its loving little parents until it is fit to leave the shell, how it then breaks its prison and comes forth so weak and helpless to be yet further loved and cared for and taught by its faithful parents.