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Egg vs Dalek - What's the difference?

egg | dalek |

As nouns the difference between egg and dalek

is that egg is (zoology|countable) an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development while dalek is (nonstandard) (dalek).

As a verb egg

is to throw eggs at or egg can be to encourage, incite.

egg

English

(wikipedia egg)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
  • (countable) The egg of a domestic fowl as an item of food.
  • (uncountable) The contents of one or more (hen's usually) eggs as a culinary ingredient, etc.
  • (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author= Katrina G. Claw
    • , title= Rapid Evolution in Eggs and Sperm , volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Many genes with reproductive roles also have antibacterial and immune functions, which indicate that the threat of microbial attack on the sperm or egg may be a major influence on rapid evolution during reproduction.}}
  • Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
  • A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
  • (mildly, pejorative, slang, ethnic slur), (potentially offensive) A person of Caucasian (Western) ancestry, who has a strong desire to learn about and immerse him- or herself in East Asian culture, and/or such a person who is perceived as behaving as if he or she were Asian (from the "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
  • (NZ, pejorative) A foolish or obnoxious person.
  • In terms such as good egg'', ''bad egg'', ''tough egg etc., a person, fellow.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To throw eggs at.
  • To dip in or coat with beaten egg (cooking).
  • To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.
    • After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

    Derived terms

    * * * * * * * * * * * egg-nog, eggnog * egg-shell, eggshell * * * * * * * * * * * * * scrambled egg, scrambled eggs *

    See also

    * caviar * roe

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) .

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To encourage, incite.
    • Derived terms
    * 1000 English basic words ----

    dalek

    English

    (wikipedia Dalek) .

    Noun

    (s)
  • (science fiction) A member of a race of extraterrestrial mutants who appear in the television programme and are known for travelling in metallic shells, having monotone, mechanically distorted voices, repeating a limited number of phrases, and being bent on exterminating other beings mercilessly.
  • * 1964 , , Doctor Who and the Daleks , chapter 6 (based on the tele-script by Terry Nation):
    • 'But Alydon,' I persisted, 'the Daleks aren't human beings. They're just evil, half creatures, half machines, determined to destroy you.'
  • * 1987 , Barry Norman, The Movie Greats? , page 144:
    • what kind of courage it must have taken for Hawkins, an actor renowned for the quality of his voice, to go back onto the set to deliver lines in that oesophageal monotone, what he called his "Dalek voice".
  • * , Together with English Core , fourteenth edition (Rachna Sagar Pvt. Ltd., ISBN 81-87414-92-8), page 234:
    • This synthesizer is by far the best I have heard, because it varies the intonation, and does not speak like a Dalek .
  • * 2000 , Rosie Parnell (Rosie White), The Crit: An Architecture Student's Handbook (co-written with Charles Doidge, Rachel Sara), page xii:
    • My voice still insisted on disappearing into my shoes every time it happened so that I sounded like a Dalek , but with a bit of experience behind me I felt marginally more confident.
  • * 2003 , Siân Preece, Country Cooking Countdown'', in ''Scottish Girls About Town (2004), page 19:
    • One man was skiting around on a big, wheeled camera like a Dalek , dodging the scurrying assistants and clipboard-wielders,
  • * 2006 , , I Am a Dalek , chapter 9:
    • Then the Dalek turned and picked off the other passengers one by one. It screamed... 'Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!'
  • * Peter Bazalgette, quoted in the Funniest Thing You Never Said: 2 , page 333:
    • Gordon Brown sounds like a Dalek' with about three stock phrases... Remember, ' Daleks always want world domination but they always lose.
  • * 2011 , Colin Neill, Turas: A Story of Strangers in a Strange Land , page 166:
    • And Peter was so focused too: like a Dalek in a track suit.
    (The Daleks)

    Derived terms

    * Dalek voice

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