omelette

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

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

• (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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omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)

2. 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.
   • 1912, w: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:

     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.

   • 1969, J[ohn] B[oynton] Priestley, “London End”, in The Image Men, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →LCCN, page 288:

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

   • 1985, Christine Pullein-Thompson, Wait for Me Phantom horse, London: Award Publications Limited, published 1997, →ISBN, page 64:

     She stayed to lunch that day, eating omelette and peas in the kitchen, followed by treacle tart.

3. (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.

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.'

• Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

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• IPA^(key): /ɔm.lɛt/

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

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

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

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

omelette (plural omelettes)

1. omelette

Borrowed from French omelette.

omelette f (invariable)

1. omelette

• temetelo

omelette f (plural omelettes)

1. Alternative form of omelete