Garage vs Egg - What's the difference?
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A building (or section of a building) used to store a car or cars, tools and other miscellaneous items.
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, chapter=2/2 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A place where cars are .
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 (chiefly, British, Canada, Australia, NZ) A petrol filling station.
An independent automobile repair shop.
(attributive) A type of guitar rock music, personified by amateur bands playing in the basement or garage.
(British) A type of electronic dance music related to house music, with warped and time-stretched sounds.
To store in a garage.
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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.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=May-June, author=
, 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.
As nouns the difference between garage and egg
is that garage is while egg is (zoology|countable) an approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, snakes, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.As a verb egg is
to throw eggs at or egg can be to encourage, incite.garage
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=A little further on, to the right, was a large garage , where the charabancs stood, half in and half out of the yard.}}
citation, passage=The highway to the East Coast which ran through the borough of Ebbfield had always been a main road and even now, despite the vast garages , the pylons and the gaily painted factory glasshouses which had sprung up beside it, there still remained an occasional trace of past cultures.}}
Usage notes
Historically a commercial garage would offer storage, refueling, servicing, and repair of vehicles. Since the mid-late 20th Century, storage has become uncommon at premises having the other functions. Now refueling, servicing, and repair are becoming increasingly separated from each other. Few repair garages still sell petrol; it is very uncommon for a new filling station to have a mechanic or any facilities for servicing beyond inflating tires; and a new kind of business exists to provide servicing: the oil/lube change shop.Synonyms
* (a petrol filling station) filling station, gas station (North America), petrol station (UK)Derived terms
* garage band * garage rock * garage sale * garage startup * parking garage * speed garage * UK garageVerb
(garag)- We garaged the convertible during the monsoon months.
References
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.