egg

An oval object produced by a bird or other animal, often containing a growing baby and sometimes eaten.

• There is an egg in the nest.
• The turtle laid her eggs in the sand.
• Would you like an egg for breakfast?

Common phrases: lay an egg, bird egg, boiled egg, egg shell

An oval object laid by a chicken or similar bird, used as food.

• I fried an egg for lunch.
• This cake needs two eggs.
• Would you like your egg boiled?

Similar words: ey, huevo, oeuf

Common phrases: fried egg, boiled egg, egg yolk, egg sandwich

A female reproductive cell that can begin developing into a baby after joining with a male cell.

• An egg joins with a sperm cell.
• The doctor examined the fertilized eggs.
• She decided to become an egg donor.

Similar words: egg cell, ovum

Common phrases: fertilized egg, egg cell, egg donor, donor egg

A person's state of not yet realizing that they are transgender.

• My egg cracked when I recognized my feelings about gender.
• Discovering that community helped crack her egg.
• He described his egg as years of unexplained discomfort.

Common phrases: crack someone's egg, someone's egg cracks

To throw eggs at a person or thing, usually to upset someone or cause damage.

• Someone egged our car.
• The teenagers threatened to egg his house.
• Protesters egged the politician outside the hall.

Common phrases: egg someone's house, egg a car, egg someone

To change a round tube or similar object so that its opening becomes oval.

• Too much pressure can egg the tube.
• The clamp egged the thin metal pipe.
• Check whether the vise has egged the tubing.

Similar words: ovalize

Common phrases: egg the tube, egg a pipe, egg the tubing