egg

Phonetic

US /eɡ/UK /eɡ/

Translations

NOUNAn approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, insects, reptiles, and other animals, housing the embryo within a membrane or shell during its development. 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., 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. A food item shaped to resemble an egg (sense 1.1.1), such as a chocolate egg., 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., Synonym of ovum (“the female gamete of an animal”); an egg cell., 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., A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes., A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg., A thing which looks like or is shaped like an egg (sense 1.1). A bomb or mine., Senses relating to people. A person; a fellow., Senses relating to people. A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia., Senses relating to people. 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., Senses relating to people. 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., Senses relating to people. A foolish or obnoxious person., Senses relating to people. A young person., Something regarded as containing a (usually bad) thing at an early stage., One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes"., Initialism of electroglottography.
VERBTo 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., 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., To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds., To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
PROPNA surname., A Koenigsegg car.

Variants

  • eggs: Third Person Singular, Plural
  • egging: Present Participle
  • egged: Past Participle, Past Tense

Examples

  • The destruction came amid egg shortages linked to an avian influenza/ˌɪnfluˈenzə/ outbreak.

    Source:www.nytimes.com

  • On the Friday before Good Friday, she entered your apartment ass-first, bouncing the door open with her butt, holding a heaping armful of candy egg cookies, mint chocolate bark, and a refill of dish soap.

    Source:www.reddit.com

  • This is strikingly apparent in the development of a new organism—a human being, say—from a single fertilized egg, or zygote

    Source:www.scientificamerican.com

  • Black-and-yellow garden spiders, for instance, hatch their eggs in the fall, so that young spiders cluster in the egg sac all winter to emerge en masse in spring.

    Source:www.nationalgeographic.com

  • Instead of combining with a male germ cell to form a gamete with half of its DNA from each parent, an egg cell gives rise to the gamete and embryo stages on its own

    Source:cn.nytimes.com

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