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noun
noun
adj
verb
- To put into egg crates.
- (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
- To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
- To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
- To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
- To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
noun
noun
- (countable) A crate used for transporting eggs.
- (countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
- (countable) A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
- (countable, uncountable) A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
- (countable, lighting) A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
- (countable) A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
- (countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
verb
noun
adj
noun
- The egg of a louse.
- A young louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
verb
adj
noun
verb
noun
- a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
- an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
- A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
- A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
- (computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- (by extension) Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
noun
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
- An egg in a hole.
- (architecture) An oculus.
- The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.
- (glassblowing) The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
- A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.
- (military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.
- A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.
- (military, by extension) A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something.
- (UK, slang) A £50 banknote.
- A shot which hits the centre of a target.
- A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.
- (philately, informal) Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.
intj
verb
- lay eggs
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
noun
- The laying of eggs.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
adj
adj
noun
- A protective layer on the shell of a bird's egg.
- Dead or cornified epidermis.
- (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
- The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
- The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
- the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
verb
- coat with beaten egg
- throw eggs at
- (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.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
noun
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- (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.
- (by extension, countable) 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.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (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.
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (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.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
adj
- rounded like an egg
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
noun
adj
noun
adj
noun
- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.
noun
noun
adj
noun
- (countable) A crate used for transporting eggs.
- (countable) An egg carton; A specialized container for eggs which has multiple indentations for holding individual eggs.
- (countable) A surface or insert that has regularly spaced holes or indentations.
- (countable, uncountable) A foam pad with multiple indentations giving it a texture similar to that of an egg carton.
- (countable, lighting) A device for restricting the spread of light that fits into the softbox of a diffuser panel.
- A grid-like support structure or scaffolding.
- (countable) A style of open roof that consists of horizontal supports in a grid pattern.
- (countable, education) A self-contained class that has no collaboration or interaction with any other class, and which is the sole responsibility of a single teacher.
verb
noun
verb
- To put into egg crates.
- (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
- To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
- To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
- To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
- To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
noun
noun
- The egg of a louse.
- A young louse.
- (UK, slang) A fool, a nitwit.
- A minor shortcoming; the object of a nitpick.
- Synonym of nat (“logarithmic unit of information”).
- A candela per square metre.
- A nitpicker.
- (UK, Ireland, loosely) A head louse regardless of its age.
- (poker) A player with an overly cautious and reactive playing style.
- egg or young of an insect parasitic on mammals especially a sucking louse; often attached to a hair or item of clothing
- a luminance unit equal to 1 candle per square meter measured perpendicular to the rays from the source
verb
noun
- a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter
- an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter
- A chocolate confection in the shape of an egg, sometimes with chocolates or sweets inside.
- A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter and, in the Western European tradition, sometimes hidden for children to find.
- (computing, video games) An undocumented function hidden in a program or video game, typically triggered by a particular input sequence or combination of keystrokes.
- (by extension) Any image, feature, or other content that is hidden on a video disc or in a movie, trailer, or poster.
noun
- the exterior covering of a bird's egg
- a rigid covering that envelops an object
- the hard largely calcareous covering of a mollusc or a brachiopod
- a metal sheathing of uniform thickness (such as the shield attached to an artillery piece to protect the gunners)
- the hard usually fibrous outer layer of some fruits especially nuts
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the housing or outer covering of something
- a very light narrow racing boat
- ammunition consisting of a cylindrical metal casing containing an explosive charge and a projectile; fired from a large gun
- the material that forms the hard outer covering of many animals
- The covering, or outside part, of a nut.
- (architecture) Any slight hollow structure; a framework, or exterior structure, regarded as not complete or filled in, as the shell of a house.
- The hard calcareous covering of a bird egg.
- A garment, usually worn by women, such as a shirt, blouse, or top, with short sleeves or no sleeves, that often fastens in the rear.
- (nautical, rigging) The outer frame or case of a block within which the sheaves revolve.
- (nautical) The watertight outer covering of the hull of a vessel, often made with planking or metal plating.
- A concave rough cast-iron tool in which a convex lens is ground to shape.
- (figuratively) The empty outward form of someone or something.
- (music) A string instrument, as a lyre, whose acoustical chamber is formed like a shell.
- In formal debating, a set of proposed rules to be followed, with set penalties for violating them.
- A psychological barrier to social interaction.
- (figuratively) The outward form independent of what is inside.
- (British, education) One or more school grades within secondary education, at certain public schools.
- The thin coating of copper on an electrotype.
- (chemistry) A set of atomic orbitals that have the same principal quantum number.
- (music) The body of a drum; the often wooden, often cylindrical acoustic chamber, with or without rims added for tuning and for attaching the drum head.
- One of the outer layers of skin of an onion.
- An engraved copper roller used in print works.
- The calcareous or chitinous external covering of mollusks, crustaceans, and some other invertebrates.
- The conjoined scutes that constitute the "shell" (carapace) of a tortoise or turtle.
- (UK, slang) A person's ear.
- (geology) The accreted mineral formed around a hollow geode.
- An emaciated person.
- (nautical) A light boat whose frame is covered with thin wood, impermeable fabric, or water-proofed paper; a racing shell or dragon boat.
- (computing) An operating system software user interface, whose primary purpose is to launch other programs and control their interactions; the user's command interpreter. Shell is a way to separate the internal complexity of the implementation of the command from the user. The internals can change while the user experience/interface remains the same.
- (weaponry) A hollow, usually spherical or cylindrical projectile fired from a siege mortar or a smoothbore cannon. It contains an explosive substance designed to be ignited by a fuse or by percussion at the target site so that it will burst and scatter at high velocity its contents and fragments. Formerly called a bomb.
- (business) A legal entity that has no operations.
- (in the plural) Husks of cacao seeds, a decoction of which is sometimes used as a substitute or adulterant for cocoa and its products such as chocolate.
- (by extension) Any mollusk having such a covering.
- (figuratively) A person otherwise diminished.
- The overlapping hard plates comprising the armor covering the armadillo's body.
- (weaponry) The casing of a self-contained single-unit artillery projectile.
- (weaponry) The cartridge of a breechloading firearm; a load; a bullet; a round.
- (phonology) The onset and coda of a syllable.
- A coarse or flimsy coffin; a thin interior coffin enclosed within a more substantial one.
- A pod containing the seeds of certain plants, such as the legume Phaseolus vulgaris.
- An unmarked vehicle for carrying corpses from a crime scene.
- (entomology) The exoskeleton or wing covers of certain insects.
- (engineering) A gouge bit or shell bit.
verb
- remove from its shell or outer covering
- use explosives on
- create by using explosives
- fall out of the pod or husk
- come out better in a competition, race, or conflict
- look for and collect shells by the seashore
- remove the husks from
- hit the pitches of hard and regularly
- (topology) To form a shelling.
- To form shallow, irregular cracks (in a coating).
- (computing, intransitive) To switch to a shell or command line.
- (cricket, slang, transitive) To drop (the ball).
- (intransitive) To cast the shell, or exterior covering; to fall out of the pod or husk.
- (intransitive) To fall off, as a shell, crust, etc.
- (informal) To disburse or give up money, to pay. (Often used with out).
- To bombard, to fire projectiles at, especially with artillery.
- To remove the outer covering or shell of something.
noun
- An egg in a hole.
- (architecture) An oculus.
- The central part of a crown glass disk, with concentric ripple effect.
- (glassblowing) The mark left on a glass piece from its attachment to a punty.
- A hand-cancelled postmark issued by a counter clerk at a post office, typically done on a receipt for proof of mailing.
- (military, firearms) The centre of a target, inside the inner and magpie.
- (darts) The two central rings on a dartboard.
- A convex glass lens which is placed in front of a lamp to concentrate the light so as to make it more conspicuous as a signal; also the lantern itself.
- (military, by extension) A commonly-known reference point used when indicating the location or direction of something.
- (UK, slang) A £50 banknote.
- A shot which hits the centre of a target.
- A hard striped peppermint-flavoured boiled sweet.
- (philately, informal) Any of the first postage stamps produced in Brazil from 1843.
intj
noun
- A protective layer on the shell of a bird's egg.
- Dead or cornified epidermis.
- (zoology, botany) A noncellular protective covering outside the epidermis of many invertebrates and plants.
- The strip of hardened skin at the base and sides of a fingernail or toenail.
- A thin skin formed on the surface of a liquid.
- The outermost layer of the skin of vertebrates; the epidermis.
- hard outer covering or case of certain organisms such as arthropods and turtles
- the dead skin at the base of a fingernail or toenail
- the outer layer of the skin covering the exterior body surface of vertebrates
verb
- lay eggs
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
noun
- The laying of eggs.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
adj
verb
- To put into egg crates.
- (lighting) To equip with an egg crate.
- To compartmentalize; to separate into isolated or self-contained groups, containers, or modules.
- To display multiple images on a single screen separated by sharp edges.
- To provide with a texture that is typical of an egg carton: either a lattice or having a pattern of regular depressions.
- To attach two surfaces together using multiple points of attachment in a lattice pattern, often in order to provide strength while minimizing weight.
noun
verb
- lay eggs
- put in a horizontal position
- put into a certain place or abstract location
- prepare or position for action or operation
- impose as a duty, burden, or punishment
- (law) To state; to allege.
- (military) To point; to aim.
- To present or offer.
- simple past of lie (“to be oriented in a horizontal position, situated”)
- (printing) To place (new type) properly in the cases.
- (nautical) To take a position; to come or go.
- To place down in a position of rest, or in a horizontal position.
- To deposit (a stake) as a wager; to stake; to risk.
- To produce and deposit an egg or eggs.
- To impose (a burden, punishment, command, tax, etc.).
- (of e.g. wind) To subside or abate.
- To bet (that something is or is not the case).
- To prepare (a plan, project etc.); to set out, establish (a law, principle).
- (proscribed, see usage notes) To lie: to rest in a horizontal position on a surface.
- To impute; to charge; to allege.
- To produce and deposit (an egg or eggs).
- (slang) To have sex with.
- (Judaism, transitive) To don or put on (tefillin (phylacteries)).
- To install certain building materials, laying one thing on top of another.
- To apply; to put.
- (ropemaking) To put the strands of (a rope, a cable, etc.) in their proper places and twist or unite them.
- (printing) To place and arrange (pages) for a form upon the imposing stone.
noun
- The laying of eggs.
- a narrative song with a recurrent refrain
- a narrative poem of popular origin
- A share of the profits in a business.
- A ballad or sung poem; a short poem or narrative, usually intended to be sung.
- Arrangement or relationship; layout.
- (colloquial) A casual sexual partner.
- A lyrical, narrative poem written in octosyllabic couplets that often deals with tales of adventure and romance.
- (colloquial) An act of sexual intercourse.
- A lake.
- The direction a rope is twisted.
adj
verb
- coat with beaten egg
- throw eggs at
- (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.
- To throw (especially rotten) eggs (noun sense 1.1.1) at (someone or something).
- To collect the eggs (noun sense 1.1) of wild birds.
- To inadvertently or intentionally distort (the circular cross-section of something, such as tube) to an elliptical or oval shape.
- (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite, or urge (someone).
- (England, vulgar, dialectal) To conceive a child, especially recklessly.
noun
- animal reproductive body consisting of an ovum or embryo together with nutritive and protective envelopes; especially the thin-shelled reproductive body laid by e.g. female birds
- one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
- oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food
- (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.
- (by extension, countable) 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.
- (architecture) Chiefly in egg and dart: an ornamental oval moulding alternating in a row with dart or triangular shapes.
- (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.
- (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
- (chiefly sports) A score of zero; specifically (cricket), a batter's failure to score; a duck egg or duck's egg.
- (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.
- (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.
- (cellular automata) A would-be spark, especially one created by an overweight spaceship and that leads to a pattern's destruction.
- (transgender slang, by extension) One's lack of awareness that one is transgender.
- (derogatory, ethnic slur, rare) A white person considered to be overly infatuated with East Asia.
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- rounded like an egg
- (of a leaf shape) in the form of an ellipse
- characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements
- (mathematics) Of or pertaining to a broad field of mathematics that originates from the problem of calculating arc lengths of an ellipse.
- (botany, of leaves) Oval, with a short or no point.
- (linguistics) Of, or showing ellipsis; having a word or words omitted; elliptical.
- (geometry) Of or pertaining to an ellipse.
- (mathematics, in combination, of certain functions, equations and operators) That has coefficients satisfying a condition analogous to the condition for the general equation for a conic section to be of an ellipse.
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- a closed plane curve resulting from the intersection of a circular cone and a plane cutting completely through it
- A thing having such a shape, such as an arena.
- An elongated round shape resembling an egg or ellipse.
- (Australia) A sports field, typically but not exclusively oval in shape.
- (mathematics) In a projective plane, a set of points such that no three are collinear and there is a unique tangent line at each point.