omelette definition

English omelette definition

Alternative forms

• omelet (chiefly US)
• omlette, omlet (obsolete or misspelling)

Etymology

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈɒm.lɪt/

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• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈɔm.lət/
• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/

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Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. 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.
2. (computing) 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.
   • 2015, Herbert Bos, Fabian Monrose, Gregory Blanc, Research in Attacks, Intrusions, and Defenses: 18th International Symposium:

     This approach would be altered for an optimal omelette based exploit. One would spray the heap with the omelette code solely, then load a single copy of the additional shellcode eggs into memory outside the target region for the spray.

Coordinate terms

• fried egg, frittata, quiche, scrambled eggs, scromlette

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)

1. To make into an omelette
   • 2000, Rajnit Rai, Curry, Curry, Curry:

     This recipe may be adapted for scrambled eggs, i.e., instead of omeletting the eggs, simply scramble them.

   • 2001, David Mitchell, chapter 1, in number9dream, London: Hodder and Stoughton, →ISBN:

     'Your main concern should not be practical ethics, but to dissuade me from omeletting you.'

See also

• Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

French omelette definition

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɔm.lɛt/

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

Derived terms

• on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs

Descendants

• → English: omelette, omelet
• → Danish: omelet
• → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta; omelette
• → Russian: омле́т (omlét)

Further reading

• “omelette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Interlingua omelette definition

Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

Italian omelette definition

Etymology

Borrowed from French omelette.

Noun

omelette f (invariable)

1. omelette

Anagrams

• temetelo

Portuguese omelette definition

Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. Alternative form of omelete