See also: Omelette

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An omelette.

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From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (knife blade), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (thin plate).

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omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)

  1. 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.
  2. (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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omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)

  1. 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.'

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omelette f (plural omelettes)

  1. omelette

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omelette (plural omelettes)

  1. omelette

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Borrowed from French omelette.

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omelette f (invariable)

  1. omelette

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omelette f (plural omelettes)

  1. Alternative form of omelete