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Definition of 'egg'

Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) egg
the roundish reproductive body produced by the female of certain animals, as birds and most reptiles, consisting of an ovum and its envelope of albumen, jelly, membranes, egg case, or shell, according to species.

2.  egg
such a body produced by a domestic bird, esp. the hen.

3.  egg
the contents of an egg.

4.  egg
something resembling a hen's egg.

5.  egg
Also called egg cell. the female gamete; ovum.

6.  egg
Informal. a person:
He's a good egg.

7. (v.t.) egg
to prepare (food) by dipping in beaten egg.

8. (v.t.) egg
to incite or urge; encourage (usu. fol. by on).

Etymology: (1150–1200; ME < ON eggja to incite, der. of eggedge)

Definition of 'egg'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) egg
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. (noun) egg, eggs
oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food

3. (verb) testis, testicle, orchis, ball, ballock, bollock, nut, egg
one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
"she kicked him in the balls and got away"

4. (verb) egg
throw eggs at

5. (verb) egg
coat with beaten egg
"egg a schnitzel"

Definition of 'egg'

Kernerman English Learner’s Dictionary

1. (noun) egg
an oval food from a chicken
3 eggs and 1/2 cup of butter; a boiled/fried egg

2.  egg
an object produced by a female animal that contains her baby
to lay eggs

3.  egg
a cell produced by a female that can develop into a baby
***The sperm fertilizes the egg.

4.  egg
have egg on your face
to be embarrassed because sth you try to do fails

Definition of 'egg'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) egg
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. (noun) egg
a simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell

3. (noun) egg
anything resembling an egg in form

4. (verb) egg
to urge on; to instigate; to incite/

Definitions of 'egg'

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.

Translation of 'egg'

Kernerman English Multilingual Dictionary

Sense: an oval object usually covered with shell, laid by a bird, reptile etc, from which a young one is hatched The female bird is sitting on the eggs in the nest.
Afrikaans: eier	Arabic: بَيْضَه	Bulgarian: яйце
Brazilian: ovo	Czech: vejce	German: das Ei
Danish: æg	Greek: αβγό	Spanish: huevo
Estonian: muna	Farsi: تخم پرنده	Finnish: muna
French: oeuf	Hebrew: בֵּיצָה	Hindi: अण्डा
Croatian: jaje	Hungarian: tojás	Indonesian: telur
Icelandic: egg	Italian: uovo	Japanese: 卵
Korean: 알, 달걀	Lithuanian: kiaušinis	Latvian: ola
Malay: telur	Dutch: ei	Norwegian: egg
Polish: jajko	Persian: تخم پرنده	Pashto: هګی
Portuguese: ovo	Romanian: ou	Russian: яйцо
Slovak: vajce	Slovenian: jajce	Serbian: jaje
Swedish: ägg	Thai: ไข่	Turkish: yumurta
Taiwanese: 蛋，卵	Ukrainian: яйце	Urdu: بیضہ
Vietnamese: quả trứng	Chinese: 蛋，卵
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