omelette

CEFRA2

/ˈɒm.lɪt/

noun

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In plain English

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noun
A dish made from beaten eggs cooked in a pan.
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noun
Extra detail
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.

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Sits at A2 on the CEFR scale

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Extra meanings

To make into an omelette
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.

In context

I want to eat an Italian omelette.
She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.
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.

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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.
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
She had never meant to confide in him — certainly not here, eating omelette and cheese sauce — but that look seemed to demand a confidence.
1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288
This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.
2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry
'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'
2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN
She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.
1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64

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First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.