Egg

[eg] or [ɛɡ]

解釋/意思:

(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.

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

(verb.) coat with beaten egg; 'egg a schnitzel'.

(verb.) throw eggs at.

編輯:塔比瑟--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(n.) 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.

(n.) A simple cell, from the development of which the young of animals are formed; ovum; germ cell.

(n.) Anything resembling an egg in form.

(v. t.) To urge on; to instigate; to incite/

安塞姆校對

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Ovum.

整理:莉莲

解釋/意思:

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.

v.t. to instigate.

編輯:特鲁迪