Meaning of egg | Babel Free

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1. 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.
   countable, uncountable
2. Initialism of electroglottography.
   abbreviation, alt-of, initialism, uncountable
3. A surname.
4. Embarrassment; humiliation: If you do that, you'll end up with egg on your face.
5. 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.
   countable, specifically
6. A Koenigsegg car.
   informal
7. To fail, especially in a public performance.
8. A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg.
   broadly, countable
9. The character Solas from the Dragon Age franchise (referring to his baldness).
   humorous
10. To risk everything on a single venture.
11. Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell.
    also, countable, uncountable
12. A market town in Bregenz district, Vorarlberg, Austria.
13. To encourage or incite to action. Used with on: The racing fans egged their favorites on.
    on:
14. A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1).
    countable
15. A municipality in Uster district, Zürich canton, Switzerland.
16. to incite or urge; encourage (usu. fol. by on).
    on
17. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, resulting from an injury.
    countable, uncountable
18. a small cup-shaped container for holding a boiled egg while it is being eaten. eierkoppie فِنْجان البَيْضَه المَسْلوقَه чашка за варено яйце taça para ovo kalíšek der Eierbecher æggebæger αβγοθήκηhuevera munatops جا تخم مرغی munakuppi coquetier גָבִיע לְבֵיצָה अण्डा रखने का कटोरा čašica za jaje tojástartó tempat telur eggjabikar portauovo ゆで卵立て 반숙 달걀을 얹어 놓고 먹는 컵 taurelė kiaušiniui olu biķerītis cawan telur eierdopjeeggeglass kieliszek do jaj ځای د چرګه هګی tacinha păhăruţ pentru ou рюмка для ...
19. Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
    countable, uncountable
20. a dark purple fruit used as a vegetable. eiervrug باذِنْجان патладжан berinjela lilek, baklažán die Aubergine aubergine μελιτζάναberenjena baklaþaan بادنجان munakoiso aubergineחציל बैंगन plavi patlidžan padlizsán terong eggaldin melanzana なす 가지 baklažanas baklažāns terung aubergineaubergine, eggplantebakłażan باټينګن، بانجن (تور berinjela (pătlăgea) vânătă баклажан baklažán jajčevec plavi patlidžan äggplanta, aubergine มะเขือยาวสีม่วง patlıcan 茄子 баклажан بینگن quả cà 茄子
21. A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
    countable, uncountable
22. the fragile covering of an egg. eierdop قِشْر البَيْض черупка от яйце casca de ovo skořápka (vaječná) die Eierschale æggeskal κέλυφος cáscara de huevo munakoor پوسته تخم مرغ munankuori coquille d'oeuf קְלִיפַת בֵּיצָה अंडे का छिलका ljuska jajeta tojáshéj kulit telur eggjaskurn guscio d'uovo 卵の殻 달걀 껍질 lukštas olas čaumala kulit telur eierschaaleggeskallskorupka د هگی پوستکی casca de ovo coajă de ou яичная скорлупа škrupina (vajcová) jajčna lupina ljuska od jajeta äggskal เปลือกไข่ yumurta kabu...
23. A bomb or mine.
    countable, dated, uncountable
24. to depend entirely on the success of one scheme, plan etc. You should apply for more than one job – don't put all your eggs in one basket. lal jou eiers in een mandjie يَضَعُ كل بَيَضِهِ في سَلَّةٍ واحِدَه: يَعْتَمِد على خِطَّةٍ واحِدَه залагам на едно нещо arriscar tudo sázet na jednu kartu alles auf eine Karte setzen sætte alt på ét bræt εναποθέτω όλες μου τις ελπίδες σε ένα πράγμα jugárselo todo a una carta kõike ühele kaardile panema همه دارایی خود را در یک کار استفاده کردن laittaa kaikki...
    etc
25. A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
    countable, uncountable
26. to try to show someone more experienced than oneself how to do something. die eier wil slimmer/wyser wees as die hen يُعَلِّم من هو أكثرُ منه خِبْرَةً! опитвам се науча някой, по-опитен да прави нещо ensinar o pai-nosso ao vigário učit tahat starého valacha das Ei will klüger als die Henne sein ægget lærer hønen at lægge æg έλα, παππού, να σου δείξω τ' αμπελοχώραφά σου a perro viejo no hay tus tus muna õpetab kana تلاش برای یاد دادن کاری به کسی که خودش خبره است neuvoa kokeneempaansa ce n'est ...
27. Senses relating to people.
    countable, dated, figuratively, informal, uncountable
28. A person; a fellow.
    countable, dated, figuratively, informal, uncountable
29. A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
    countable, derogatory, ethnic, figuratively, rare, slur, uncountable
30. 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.
    Internet, countable, dated, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
31. 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.
    countable, figuratively, uncountable
32. One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
    broadly, countable, figuratively, uncountable
33. A foolish or obnoxious person.
    New-Zealand, countable, derogatory, figuratively, uncountable
34. A young person.
    countable, derogatory, figuratively, obsolete, uncountable
35. Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage.
    archaic, countable, figuratively, uncountable
36. One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
    countable, figuratively, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“The Eſtrich (whoſe fethers are fayrer thẽ yᵉ wynges of the ſparow hauke) whẽ he hath layd his egges vpon the grounde, he bredeth them in the duſt, and forgetteth them: ſo that they might be troden with feete, or broken with ſomme wilde beaſt.”

“[T]hinke him as a Serpents egge, / VVhich hatch'd, vvould as his kinde grovv mischieuous; / And kill him in the ſhell.”

“An egg properly is that, out of a part vvhereof a living creature is produced, and the reſidue is meat for it, improperly that is an egg out of the vvhole vvhereof, a living creature is bred, as the eggs of Spiders, Ants, Flies.”

“[T]here is one claſs of quadrupeds that ſeems entirely left to chance, […] Theſe are the quadrupeds that are brought forth from the egg, ſuch as the lizard, the tortoiſe, and the crocodile. […] [T]he numerous brood of eggs are, vvithout farther ſolicitude, buried in the vvarm ſands of the ſhore, and the heat of the ſun alone is left to bring them to perfection.”

“The egg is, as we have said, a kind of exposed uterus, and place in which the embryo is fashioned: for it performs the office of the uterus and enfolds the chick until the due time of its exclusion arrive, when the creature is born perfect.”

“We made a big omelette with three eggs for breakfast.”

“I should determine the minimal amount of egg required to make good mayonnaise.”

“The farmer offered me some fresh eggs, but I told him I was allergic to egg.”

“There after the images and reliques were orderly disposed, the great Priest compassed about with divers pictures according to the fashion of the Ægyptians, did dedicate and consecrate with certaine prayers a fair ship made very cunningly, and purified the same with a torch, an egge, and sulphur; […]”

“[T]hey are vp already, and cal for Egges and butter, they vvil avvay preſently.”

“I was 5 moneth in France before I saw a boyled or roasted egge.”

“Eggs are perhaps the higheſt, moſt nouriſhing and exalted of all animal Food, and moſt indigeſtible, becauſe no body can take and digeſt the ſame Quantity of them as of other Food.”

“A round, black, shining face is hers, so glossy as to suggest the idea that she might have washed over with white of eggs, like one of her own tea rusks.”

“In the Fall into the division of labor, [Claude] Lévi-Strauss sees the great hunters trading women to create the exogamous bonds of one hunting band with another. The egg is, but the sperm does. The tiny sperm may be furious in its activity, but its highway to the egg is paved by the alkaline trail set down by the Great Mother.”

“Although they serve the same function across the plant, animal and fungal kingdoms, sperm and eggs vary wildly in their structure and biochemistry, even among closely related species. […] Many genes that determine sperm and egg structure and biochemistry are rapidly evolving, constantly changing the chemical environment necessary for the sperm to bind to the egg.”

“His ſtomacke vvas queaſie (for comming there Coacht) / The jogging had caus’d ſome crudities riſe; / To help it he call’d for a Puritan poacht, / That uſed to turne up the egg’s of his eyes.”

“There vvas taken a great Glaſs-bubble, vvith a long neck; (ſuch as Chymiſts are vvont to call a Philoſophical Egg) vvhich being fill'd vvith common VVater till the Liquor reach'd about a ſpan above the bubble, and a piece of Paper being there paſted on, vvas put unſtop'd into the Receiver, […]”

“a bad egg    a good egg    a tough egg    Cheerio, old egg!”

“'Good egg!' quoth Moorshed, and brought his hand down on the wide shoulders with the smack of a beaver's tail.”

“Walter. The woman we passed as we came in just now. Is it his wife? / Cokeson. No, no relation. [Restraining what in jollier circumstances would have been a wink] A married person, though. […] James. A real bad egg.”

“"She isn't going to sue me for breach of promise?" / "She never had any intention of doing so." / The Honorable Freddie sank back on the pillows. / "Good egg!" he said with fervor. He beamed happily. "This," he observed, "is a bit of all right."”

“They tell me at Timothy's […] that Dartie has gone off at last. That'll be a relief to your father. He was a rotten egg.”

“Some big, hard-boiled egg meets up with a pretty face, and bingo! He cracks up and melts.”

“"She's a tough egg." / "She must be, if she slung your brother Joe out."”

“Up close he looked like a pretty tough egg. His hair was bristling up in the back in spite of what smelled like a whole bottle of Wildroot Creme Oil and he had the flat, oddly shiny eyes that some deep-sea fish have.”

“That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.”

“So I remember being told, in the very early part of my transition, that I had been, until now, an egg, and—as powerfully rooted in a belief in latency as I found myself[.]”

“to crack someone's egg”

“Shut up, you egg!”

“VVhat you Egge? / Yong fry of Treachery?”

“[S]oe Power of Warre / From the firſt Egge of Libertie, out-Creepes / A fatall Serpent; […]”

“In ſhort, the Rebellion had been Cruſh'd in the Egg; and One Seaſonable Act of Rigour, had Sav'd the King, the Monarchy, the Church, and the Three Kingdoms.”

“This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.”

“Heh, i don't think she was that cunning to begin with, but romancing the Egg has rubbed off on her ;D.”

“I'm a big fan of the Egg because he's so complex and intriguing.”

“Either BioWare got a new voice actor for The Egg (derogatory) or Dragon Age: Dreadwolf will feature another villain to contest against — and knowing Dragon Age like I do, it’s likely the latter.”

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