egg
US: /ˈɛɡ/
UK: /ˈɛɡ/
English - Vietnamese dictionary
egg /eg/- danh từ
- trứng
- an addle egg: trứng ung
- (quân sự), lóng bom; mìn; ngư lôi
- to lay eggs: đặt mìn
- as full as an egg
- chật ních, chật như nêm
- as sure as eggs is eggs
- (xem) sure
- bad egg
- người không làm được trò trống gì; kế hoạch không đi đến đâu
- good egg
- (từ lóng) người rất tốt, vật rất tốt
- to have (put) all one's eggs in pne basket
- (tục ngữ) một mất một còn, được ăn cả ngã về không
- to the egg
- khi còn trưng nước, trong giai đoạn phôi thai
- to crash in the egg: bóp chết ngay khi còn trong trứng nước
- to lay an egg: (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (từ lóng) thất bại hoàn toàn (cuộc biểu diễn...)
- teach your grandmother to suck eggs
- trứng lại đòi khôn hơn vịt
- trứng
- ngoại động từ
- trộn trứng vào, đánh trứng vào
- (từ Mỹ,nghĩa Mỹ), (thông tục) ném trứng vào
- (+ on) thúc giục
Advanced English dictionary
noun, verb+ noun
1 [C] a small OVAL object with a thin hard shell produced by a female bird and containing a young bird; a similar object produced by a female fish, insect, etc: The female sits on the eggs until they hatch. + The fish lay thousands of eggs at one time. + crocodile eggs
2 [C, U] a bird's egg, especially one from a chicken, that is eaten as food: a boiled egg + bacon and eggs + fried / poached / scrambled eggs + Bind the mixture together with a little beaten egg. + You've got some egg on your shirt. + egg yolks / whites + egg noodles / pasta + ducks' / quails' eggs + a chocolate egg (= made from chocolate in the shape of an egg)
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3 [C] (in women and female animals) a cell that combines with a SPERM to create a baby or young animal: The male sperm fertilizes the female egg. + an egg donor
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Idioms: have egg on / all over your face (informal) to be made to look stupid: They were left with egg on their faces when only ten people showed up.
put all your eggs in one basket to rely on one particular course of action for success rather than giving yourself several different possibilities: I've applied for several jobs. I don't want to put all my eggs in one basket.
more at CHICKEN n., CURATE, KILL v., OMELETTE, SURE adv., TEACH
verb
Phrasal Verbs: egg sb<->on to encourage sb to do sth, especially sth that they should not do: He hit the other boy again and again as his friends egged him on.
Collocation
1 of birds/as food
ADJ.
fresh | addled, bad, rotten | free-range, organic | chicken, duck, hen's, quail's, etc. | chocolate, Easter | boiled, fried, hard-boiled, poached, scrambled, soft-boiled | Scotch
QUANT.
clutch
She lays a clutch of four eggs on average.
| box
VERB + EGG
lay, produce | hatch | incubate | emerge from, hatch from | boil, cook, fry, poach, scramble | break, crack
Crack two eggs into the mixture.
| separate
Separate the eggs, putting the whites to one side.
| beat, whisk | brush sth with, glaze sth with
Brush the pastry with a little beaten egg.
EGG + VERB
hatch | break, crack
EGG + NOUN
shell
(also
eggshell
)
| white, yolk | box | mayonnaise, noodles, pasta, sandwich
PHRASES
the white/yolk of an egg
> Special page at FOOD
2 cell from which a new young creature is formed
ADJ.
fertilized | unfertilized
VERB + EGG
fertilize
Only one sperm fertilizes an egg.
EGG + NOUN
donor
PHRASES
the nucleus of an egg
Concise dictionary
eggs|egged|eggingegnoun
+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
+one of the two male reproductive glands that produce spermatozoa and secrete androgens
verb
+throw eggs at
+coat with beaten egg
