egg: translation
noun
1 of birds/as food
ADJECTIVE
▪ fresh
▪ bad, rotten
▪ free-range, organic
▪ chicken, duck, hen's, quail's, etc.
▪ unhatched
▪ boiled, devilled/deviled, fried, hard-boiled, poached, scrambled, soft-boiled
▪ raw
▪ beaten
▪ Scotch (BrE)
▪ chocolate, Easter
… OF EGGS
▪ clutch
▪ She lays a clutch of four eggs on average.
▪ box (BrE), carton (AmE)
VERB + EGG
▪ lay, produce
▪ deposit (of insects, reptiles, etc.)
▪ The beetles deposit their eggs in fields.
▪ hatch
▪ incubate
▪ emerge from, hatch from
▪ guard, protect
▪ The males stay and guard the eggs.
▪ bury
▪ Many reptiles bury their eggs.
▪ collect
▪ 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
▪ Brush the pastry with a little beaten egg.
EGG + VERB
▪ hatch
▪ break, crack
EGG + NOUN
▪ shell (usually eggshell)
▪ white, yolk
▪ box (BrE), carton (AmE)
▪ laying, production
▪ cup
▪ mayonnaise, noodles, pasta, roll (= a type of Chinese food consisting of a thin tube of pastry filled with vegetables and/or meat and fried) (AmE), salad, sandwich
▪ wash
▪ Brush the dough with egg wash.
▪ timer
▪ beater (esp.AmE) (whisk in BrE)
▪ hunt
▪ We're just decorating eggs for the egg hunt.
PHRASES
▪ the white of an egg, the yolk of an egg
▪ bacon and eggs, ham and eggs
▪ a breakfast of bacon and eggs
2 cell from which a new young creature is formed
ADJECTIVE
▪ fertilized
▪ unfertilized
▪ donor
▪ Many women conceive through the use of a donor egg.
VERB + EGG
▪ fertilize
▪ Only one sperm fertilizes an egg.
▪ produce, release
▪ donate
EGG + NOUN
▪ donor
▪ donation
▪ removal
▪ formation
▪ cell
▪ sac
PHRASES
▪ the nucleus of an egg