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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, 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.
Coordinate terms
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boiled egg
fried egg
frittata
poached egg
quiche
scrambled egg
scromlette
Derived terms
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chin omelette
Denver omelette
Florentine omelette
friar's omelette
omelette Arnold Bennett
omelette-y
omelettey
omeletty
oyster omelette
scromlette
Spanish omelette
special omelette
thick as a whale omelette
tornado omelette
you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette
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
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Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
French
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Etymology
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Inherited from Old Frenchamelette, derived by metathesis from older alemette, itself an alteration of alemelle(“blade”), probably rebracketed from la (definite article, "the") lemelle(“blade”), diminutive of lame or directly derived from Latinlamella.
Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons 