omelette
See also: Omelette
English edit
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Etymology edit
From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).
Pronunciation edit
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/
Audio (UK) (file) - (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
- (US, Canada) IPA(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/
Audio (CA) (file)
Noun edit
omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)
- A dish made with beaten eggs cooked in a frying pan without stirring, flipped over to cook on both sides, and sometimes filled or topped with other foodstuffs, for example cheese or chives.
- 1912, w:Marjorie Bowen [pseudonym; Margaret Gabrielle Vere Long], “The Heretic”, in The Quest of Glory, London: Methuen & Co. Ltd. […], part I (The Quest Joyful), pages 69–70:
- He crossed to the window, which looked on to a herb garden, and seated himself on the chintz-covered window-seat and delicately watched the two, who were engaged in eating omelette and salad at a round table near the fire-place.
- 1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288:
- She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.
- 1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64:
- She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.
- (computing) A form of shellcode that searches the address space for multiple small blocks of data ("eggs") and recombines them into a larger block to be executed.
- 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium:
- This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.
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Translations edit
dish made with beaten eggs
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Verb edit
omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)
- To make into an omelette
- 2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry:
- This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.
- 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:
- 'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'
See also edit
- Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
French edit
Pronunciation edit
Noun edit
omelette f (plural omelettes)
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Descendants edit
- → English: omelette, omelet
- → Danish: omelet
- → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta; omelette
- → Russian: омле́т (omlét)
Further reading edit
- “omelette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Interlingua edit
Noun edit
omelette (plural omelettes)
- omelette
Italian edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from French omelette.
Noun edit
omelette f (invariable)
Anagrams edit
Portuguese edit
Noun edit
omelette f (plural omelettes)
- Alternative form of omelete