Egg vs Library - What's the difference?
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(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.
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, title= 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.
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.
An institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.
A collection of books or other forms of stored information.
An equivalent collection of analogous information in a non-printed form, e.g. record library
(computer science) A collection of software subprograms that provides functionality, to be incorporated into or used by a computer program.
(card games) The deck or draw pile
A collection of DNA material from a single organism or relative to a single disease
As nouns the difference between egg and library
is that egg is an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development while library is an institution which holds books and/or other forms of stored information for use by the public or qualified people. It is usual, but not a defining feature of a library, for it to be housed in rooms of a building, to lend items of its collection to members either with or without payment, and to provide various other services for its community of users.As a verb egg
is to throw eggs at.egg
English
(wikipedia egg)Etymology 1
From (etyl) egge, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)Katrina G. Claw
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.}}
Verb
(en verb)- After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.