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Meaning egg meaning

What does egg mean?
Definitions in simple English

egg

An egg is a common food that is ball-shaped and can have a baby animal inside, such as a chicken, a fish, a snake, etc. I had a boiled egg for breakfast. An egg is a cell in the female's body that can become a baby when it is joined by a male cell.

egg

To throw eggs at something. On Halloween, naughty children egg houses.

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 oval reproductive body of a fowl (especially a hen) used as food throw eggs at coat with beaten egg egg a schnitzel (= ball) one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens she kicked him in the balls and got away

Synonyms egg synonyms

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Topics egg topics

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  • What words refer to the part from the father and the part from the mother that make a baby?

Conjugation egg conjugation

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egg · verb

Examples egg examples

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Simple sentences

Can you break an egg with one hand?
The egg is hard.
Tom found a dinosaur egg.
This hen lays an egg almost every day.
It takes over 40 minutes to boil an emu egg.
One emu egg is about the equivalent of nine chicken eggs.
It's so hot that you could cook an egg on the hood of a car.
It's about the size of an egg.
It looks like an egg.
It is about the size of an egg.
It was about the size of an egg.
The hen lays an egg almost every day.
This egg is fresh.
My daughter likes egg yolks.
I ate some bread and a boiled egg for lunch.
I have a boiled egg for breakfast every day.
I like the white of an egg.
I have an egg.
The rugby ball is shaped something like an egg.
The hen has laid an egg.
This egg has a bad smell.

Movie subtitles

It's kippers, but Sister Winifred has poached you an egg.
My best man just made me eat a fried egg sandwich.
Chicken stock, egg yolks, and lemon juice.
In its nose-cone is located the egg-shaped register-chamber with the automated imaging-instruments.
An egg!
A genuine hen's egg.
An egg, an authentic, genuine hen's egg!
An ostrich egg in a glass.
Well,He's In A Robin's Egg Blue Hospital Gown With White Piping.
Go lay an egg.
Rooming houses, dirty kimonos, fried-egg sandwiches.
LAST NIGHT TWO SNIPERS CREPT INTO OUR MACHINE-GUN NEST AND LAID AN EGG.
He's a tough egg.
It was all done with the white of an egg.
Where's the egg?
Then what do you think of an egg that would give me.
And he's a tough egg.
You guys don't know it, but you just scared a pretty tough egg out of this room.
Egg marks the spot.
Some big hard-boiled egg gets a look at a pretty face, bang he cracks up, gets sappy.
Egg. One egg. One donut, black coffee.
Chicken stock, egg yolks and lemon juice.
Will you lend me an egg and some wood, neighbour?
Don't egg him on like that.
One day you're stealing an egg, the next you're stealing a cow, and then you'll be killing your mother!
Now I'm going to scramble this egg.
Why, you egg.
Last one in the bus is a rotten egg.
Oh, you egg.
From the look of all that egg, that hen must have had a hard time laying it.
We were stranded and laid an egg in Troy, see?
So the wonder boy lays an egg.
You are a strange egg.
Perhaps about her father who surprised us, sir. - Yes, an irritable egg.

News and current affairs

He was eating a boiled egg, and clearly not enjoying it.
But of course the point of the original joke was that the curate was just being polite: an egg is either good or bad, and his was bad.
This week's European Summit at Nice (December 7-9) looks like being a curate's egg.
The nucleus from a human cell is inserted into an egg that had its nucleus removed.
They oppose projects such as that of Drs. Severino Antinori of Rome and Panayiotis Zavos of Kentucky in America, who plan to enable infertile men to become fathers by inserting their DNA into an egg from their partner.
On June 19, after a year's work, the Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards finally laid a large egg.
To its credit, the British egg industry accepted the situation, and developed new and less cruel methods of keeping hens.
In the United States, there are no federal laws about how egg producers house their hens.
For example, intracytoplasmic sperm injection is a technique in which a single viable sperm is injected into an egg, allowing fertilization to occur even in cases where few healthy sperm are available.
So, reform the international patent system to guarantee the poor access to essential medicines, but don't kill the goose that lays the golden egg by undermining the patent system.
This golden nest egg may have been part of the Kremlin's thinking about the station and its ownership all along.
The short-term issue concerns egg production, which in many fish is proportional to body size: large individuals contribute far more to future generations than small individuals.
Given that these genes are contained in the egg, and thus are inherited only from the mother, the new techniques aim to replace the mother's mutated mitochondria with that of a healthy female donor of eggs without the mutation.
This results in embryos that contain genetic material from three people - the child's father and mother, plus the egg donor.
So it is necessary to clarify what is at stake in how we regulate - or de-regulate - in vitro fertilization (IVF), egg sales, and surrogacy.
That is also one reason why the French restricted egg donation to women who had already had at least one baby (though this is being changed).
In such chicken-and-egg situations, in which the market alone fails to overcome externalities and essential investments go lacking, the government can play a vital facilitating role.
As a fertilized egg turns into an embryo, and then a fetus, those initial stem cells somehow show their daughter cells how to become skin, liver, eye, or bone.
Her husband's sperm appears to have been used, but news reports are unclear about the source of the egg.
In the egg industry, hens can barely move at all, because they are crammed into wire cages, which makes it possible to stack them in tiers, one above the other.