EGG

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egg¹ substantiv

1. (biol.) ou, germen;

in the egg în germen / faşă.

2. ou (de pasăre);

addle egg ou stricat;

darning egg ou sau ciupercă de cârpit (ciorapi etc.);

soft-boiled egg ou (fiert) moale;

hard-boiled egg ou (fiert) tare / răscopt;

buttered / scrambled eggs (ouă) jumări;

poached eggs ochiuri;

wind egg ou sterp;

to have / to put all one’s eggs in one basket a risca / a miza totul pe o (singură) carte;

to teach one’s grandmother to suck eggs a vinde castraveţi grădinarului;

(fam.) a bad egg a) pungaş, escroc; hahaleră, om de nimic; b) afacere proastă; afacere riscată;

(fam.) a good egg a) un om minunat, un băiat de zahăr; b) ceva extraordinar;

(fam. glumeţ) as sure as eggs is eggs cum mă vezi şi cum te văd, după cum doi şi cu doi fac patru;

as full as an egg is of meat ticsit / plin până la refuz; doldora;

egg-and-spoon race cursă / alergare tradiţională în unele oraşe din Anglia, la care participanţii ţin în mână o lingură cu un ou pe care nu trebuie să-l scape.

3. ou (de insectă); lindină.

4. (arhit.) ovă (de capitel doric etc.);

egg and anchor moulding ciubuce cu ove.

5. (mil. sl.) bombă (de avion); grenadă; mină;

to lay eggs a pune /a aşeza mine.

6. (amer. sl.) (om) necioplit, bădăran.

7. (amer. sl.) mucos, neisprăvit, lingău.

8. (fam.) nereuşită, eşec, fiasco.

9. (chim.) montejus.

egg² verb tranzitiv

(mai ales to egg on) a instiga, a aţâţa, a îndemna, a îmboldi;

to egg smb. on to do smth. a îndemna pe cineva să facă ceva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The calcium comes from the egg shell.

(Chorioallantoic membrane, NCI Dictionary)

An abnormal mass of tissue that forms in germ (egg) cells in the ovary (female reproductive gland in which the eggs are formed).

(Ovarian germ cell tumor, NCI Dictionary)

They produce a woman's eggs and female hormones.

(Ovarian Cancer, NIH: National Cancer Institute)

The ovaries produce a woman's eggs.

(Ovarian Disorders, NIH)

You get them when you swallow their eggs.

(Pinworms, NIH: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases)

So the cunning thief climbed up the tree, and brought away to his father the five eggs from under the bird; and it never saw or felt what he was doing, but kept sitting on at its ease.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

For each extra half-egg eaten per day — totaling just three to four more eggs per week — a person’s cardiovascular disease risk went up by 6%, and his or her risk of early death increased by 8%, the researchers found.

(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, Editura Global Info)

I soon fell asleep, and all I can conjecture is, while I slept, the page, thinking no danger could happen, went among the rocks to look for birds’ eggs, having before observed him from my window searching about, and picking up one or two in the clefts.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

A new research says that the dietary cholesterol in eggs is associated with a heightened risk of cardiovascular disease and early death — even though plenty of nutrition experts, consider eggs part of a healthy diet.

(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, Editura Global Info)

One study from last year found that people who ate an egg per day had lower rates of heart disease and bleeding stroke than people who did not eat them, and research from 2016 found that eggs didn’t have a strong effect on risk of coronary artery disease.

(Eggs No Longer Part of a Healthy Diet?, Editura Global Info)

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