What does EGG mean?

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. eggnoun

    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

  2. egg, eggsnoun

    oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

  3. testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, eggverb

    one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens

    "she kicked him in the balls and got away"

  4. eggverb

    throw eggs at

  5. eggverb

    coat with beaten egg

    "egg a schnitzel"

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Eggnoun

    Etymology: œg, Saxon; ough, Erse.

    An egg was found, having lain many years at the bottom of a moat, where the earth had somewhat overgrown it; and this egg was come to the hardness of a stone, and the colours of the white and yolk perfect. Francis Bacon, Natural Hist.

    Eggs are perhaps the highest, most nourishing, and exalted of all animal food, and most indigestible. John Arbuthnot, on Diet.

    Therefore think him as the serpent’s egg,
    Which, hatch’d, would, as his kind, grow mischievous. Sh.

    Ev’ry insect of each different kind,
    In its own egg, chear’d by the solar rays,
    Organs involv’d and latent life displays. Richard Blackmore, Creation.

    There was taken a great glass-bubble with a long neck, such as chemists are wont to call a philosophical egg. Boyle.

  2. To Eggverb

    To incite; to instigate; to provoke to action.

    Etymology: eggia, to incite, Islandick; eggian, Saxon.

    Study becomes pleasant to him who is pursuing his genius, and whose ardour of inclination eggs him forward, and carrieth him through every obstacle. William Derham, Physico-Theology.

Wikipedia

  1. Egg

    An egg is an organic vessel grown by an animal to carry a possibly fertilized egg cell (a zygote) and to incubate from it an embryo within the egg until the embryo has become an animal fetus that can survive on its own, at which point the animal hatches. Most arthropods such as insects, vertebrates (excluding live-bearing mammals), and mollusks lay eggs, although some, such as scorpions, do not. Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs are laid out of water and are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible. Eggs laid on land or in nests are usually kept within a warm and favorable temperature range while the embryo grows. When the embryo is adequately developed it hatches, i.e., breaks out of the egg's shell. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth they use to crack, pip, or break the eggshell or covering. The largest recorded egg is from a whale shark and was 30 cm × 14 cm × 9 cm (11.8 in × 5.5 in × 3.5 in) in size. Whale shark eggs typically hatch within the mother. At 1.5 kg (3.3 lb) and up to 17.8 cm × 14 cm (7.0 in × 5.5 in), the ostrich egg is the largest egg of any living bird,: 130  though the extinct elephant bird and some non-avian dinosaurs laid larger eggs. The bee hummingbird produces the smallest known bird egg, which measures between 6.35–11.4 millimetres (0.250–0.449 in) long and weighs half of a gram (around 0.02 oz).: 132  Some eggs laid by reptiles and most fish, amphibians, insects, and other invertebrates can be even smaller. Reproductive structures similar to the egg in other kingdoms are termed "spores," or in spermatophytes "seeds," or in gametophytes "egg cells".

ChatGPT

  1. egg

    An egg is a spherical or oval reproductive body typically produced by female species in various animals and certain plants. It contains the zygote from which a new individual will develop once fertilized by a male sperm, protected by a hard or semi-hard shell or membrane. In another context, specifically poultry or bird's eggs are widely used in human culinary purposes.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Eggnoun

    the oval or roundish body laid by domestic poultry and other birds, tortoises, etc. It consists of a yolk, usually surrounded by the "white" or albumen, and inclosed in a shell or strong membrane

  2. Eggnoun

    a simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell

  3. Eggnoun

    anything resembling an egg in form

  4. Eggverb

    to urge on; to instigate; to incite/

  5. Etymology: [OE., fr. Icel. egg; akin to AS. g (whence OE. ey), Sw. gg, Dan. g, G. & D. ei, and prob. to OSlav. aje, jaje, L. ovum, Gr. 'w,o`n, Ir. ugh, Gael. ubh, and perh. to L. avis bird. Cf. Oval.]

Wikidata

  1. Egg

    In zoology, an egg is an organic vessel in which an embryo first begins to develop. In most birds, reptiles, insects, molluscs, fish, and monotremes, an egg is the zygote, resulting from fertilization of the ovum, which is expelled from the body and permitted to develop outside the body until the developing embryo can survive on its own. The term "egg" is used differently outside the animal kingdom, for an egg cell. Reproductive structures similar to the egg in other kingdoms are termed spores, or seeds. Oviparous animals are animals that lay eggs, with little or no other development within the mother. The study or collecting of eggs, particularly bird eggs, is called oology. Reptile eggs, bird eggs, and monotreme eggs, which are laid out of water, are surrounded by a protective shell, either flexible or inflexible. The special membranes that support these eggs are traits of all amniotes, including mammals. Eggs laid on land or in nests are usually kept within a favourable temperature range while the embryo grows. When the embryo is adequately developed it breaks out of the egg's shell. This breaking out is known as hatching. Baby animals which have just hatched are hatchlings, though standard names for babies of particular species continue to apply, such as chick for a baby chicken. Some embryos have a temporary egg tooth with which to crack, pip, or break the eggshell or covering.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Egg

    eg, n. an oval body laid by birds and certain other animals, from which their young are produced: anything shaped like an egg.—ns. Egg′-app′le, or plant, the brinjal or aubergine, an East Indian annual with egg-shaped fruit; Egg′-bird, a sooty tern; Egg′-cō′sy, a covering put over boiled eggs to keep in the heat after being taken from the pot: Egg′-cup, a cup for holding an egg at table; Egg′er, Egg′ler, one who collects eggs; Egg′ery, a place where eggs are laid; Egg′-flip, a hot drink made of ale, with eggs, sugar, spice, &c.; Egg′-glass, a small sand-glass for regulating the boiling of eggs; Egg′-nog, a drink compounded of eggs and hot beer, spirits, &c.; Egg′-shell, the shell or calcareous substance which covers the eggs of birds; Egg′-slice, a kitchen utensil for lifting fried eggs out of a pan; Egg′-spoon, a small spoon used in eating eggs from the shell.—A bad egg (coll.), a worthless person; Put all one's eggs into one basket, to risk all on one enterprise; Take eggs for money, to be put off with mere promises of payment; Teach your grandmother to suck eggs, spoken contemptuously to one who would teach those older and wiser than himself; Tread upon eggs, to walk warily, to steer one's way carefully in a delicate situation. [A.S. æg; cf. Ice. egg, Ger. ei, perh. L. ovum, Gr. ōon.]

  2. Egg

    eg, v.t. to instigate. [Ice. eggjaegg, an edge; cog. with A.S. ecg. See Edge.]

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. egg

    The binary code that is the payload for buffer overflow and format string attacks. Typically, an egg written in assembly and designed to enable remote access or escalate privileges from an ordinary user account to administrator level when it hatches. Also known as shellcode. The name comes from a particular buffer-overflow exploit that was co-written by a cracker named eggplant. The variable name ‘egg’ was used to store the payload. The usage spread from people who saw and analyzed the code.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. EGG

    A wholesome, yet fowl, product, of no use until broken. Sometimes a cure for indigestion or bad acting.

Editors Contribution

  1. egg

    A type of organism created in a female.

    She knew to the date the time her egg would start to ovulate.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  


  2. egg

    A type of product.

    The fried egg on toast was so beautiful.


    Submitted by MaryC on March 5, 2020  


  3. eggverb

    To crack an egg on (someone), especially for a prank.

    I egged my brother and he got really mad.


    Submitted by zakaria1409 on July 15, 2022  

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Entomology

  1. Egg

    a simple cell, capable of fertilization, containing the germ, the food-yolk necessary for its nutriment, and a covering membrane: a single ovum or cell from an ovary: the first stage of the insect.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. EGG

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Egg is ranked #105079 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Egg surname appeared 170 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Egg.

    98.2% or 167 total occurrences were White.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EGG' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4095

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EGG' in Written Corpus Frequency: #1952

  3. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'EGG' in Nouns Frequency: #753

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EGG in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EGG in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of EGG in a Sentence

  1. David Coman-Hidy:

    United Egg Producer’s decision to end United Egg Producer support of culling baby male chicks is historic, as it will virtually eliminate this practice in the American egg industry.

  2. Teresa Woodruff:

    We discovered the zinc spark just five years ago in the mouse, and to see the zinc radiate out in a burst from each human egg was breathtaking.

  3. Gene Sperling:

    Wealth inequality in our nation is a national scandal. This type of wealth tax that( Sen. Warren) is proposing is essential, it frees up dramatic amounts of resources that make it more likely the vast number Americans can have economic security a shot at their own small nest egg.

  4. Lisa Steele:

    You can freeze egg whites or put them in the refrigerator if you're going to use them in a day or so.

  5. Paul Turner:

    On the basis of this data, we do think the intranasal flu vaccine (LAIV) is safe in children with egg allergy, we still need to analyze our data with regards to safety in children who also have asthma, but the preliminary data indicates that children with well-controlled asthma who are well at the time of vaccination do not experience any significant respiratory problems following LAIV.

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