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Definition: Eggshell |
EggshellNoun1. The exterior covering of a bird's egg. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "eggshell" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
Synonym: EggshellSynonym: shell (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Covering | Peel, crust, bark, rind, cortex, husk, shell, coat; eggshell, glume. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Eggshell |
| Specialty definitions using "eggshell": eggshell calcification ♦ Skin a Flint. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Devil's Eggshell (1966) | |
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| Play | Caption |
 | Cracking an egg on the side of the pan and crumpling the eggshell. |
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| "Eggshell" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 93.62% of the time. "Eggshell" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 93.62% | 44 | 51,500 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 4.26% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "eggshell": eggshell calcification ♦ eggshell china. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "eggshell": eggshell-blue. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
eggshell | 32 |
eggshell nautilus | 12 |
eggshell paint | 10 |
eggshell georgian homer laughlin | 6 |
eggshell georgian | 5 |
eggshell mosaic | 3 |
eggshell membrane | 3 |
dietary eggshell | 3 |
eggshell homer laughlin | 3 |
eggshell mattress | 3 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "eggshell"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Chinese | 蛋殼 , 蛋壳. (various references) | |
Danish | en særlig type hilusforkalkninger der ses ved pneumokoniose (egg shell calcification, eggshell calcification), æggeskalsforkalkning (eggshell calcification). (various references) | |
Dutch | silicose met perifere verkalking van de hilusklieren,met vorming van het eierenschaalbeeld (egg shell calcification, eggshell calcification). (various references) | |
Farsi | پوست تخم مرغ , نازک (Attenuate, Ethereal, Fine, Frail, Gossamer, Slim, Soft, Spare, Tenuous), ترد (Brittle, Crisp, Mealy, Plucky). (various references) | |
Finnish | munankuori (egg shell). (various references) | |
French | silicose avec calcification périphérique dite en coquille d'oeuf (egg shell calcification, eggshell calcification), calcification en coquille d'oeuf (eggshell calcification). (various references) | |
German | eierschale (egg shell). (various references) | |
Greek | τσόφλι (egg shell, pod). (various references) | |
Indonesian | kulit telur. (various references) | |
Italian | guscio d'uovo (egg shell). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 卵殻 , 卵の殻 . (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たま"のから, ら"かく (excessive fishing, overfishing). (various references) | |
Manx | bleayst ooh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eggshellay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | beringela (aubergine). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | ljuska od jajeta (egg shell). (various references) | |
Spanish | cáscara de huevo (egg shell). (various references) | |
Swedish | äggskal (egg shell). (various references) | |
Thai | เปลือกไข่, บอบบาง (ethereal, fragile, gossamer, lily, slimline, slimy). (various references) | |
Turkish | yumurta kabuğu (shell), nazik (affable, attentive, brittle, civil, civilized, civil-spoken, complaisant, considerate, courteous, dainty, debonair, debonaire, decent, delicate, distingue, Douce, exquisite, fair, genteel, gentle, gracious, kid glove, kind, mannerly, mild, obliging, parliamentary, polished, polite, suave, sweet-natured, tender, ticklish, tickly, touchy, trickish, tricky, urbane, well disposed), kırılgan (brittle, fragile), fildişi renkli. (various references) | |
Ukranian | я"чна шкаралупа. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "eggshell": eggshells. (additional references) | |
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"Eggshell" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Edghill, Egshel, Gzhel. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "eggshell" (pronounced e"gshe'l) |
| 3 | -sh e' l | bombshell, clamshell, seashell. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-g-h-l-l-s" | |
-3 letters: ghees, glees, heels, hells, leges, selle, shell. | |
-4 letters: eels, eggs, ells, else, gees, gels, ghee, glee, gleg, heel, hell, lees, legs, seel, sell. | |
-5 letters: eel, egg, ell, els, gee, gel, hes, lee, leg, see, seg, sel, she. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-g-h-l-l-s" | |
+1 letter: eggshells. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)45 67 67 73 68 65 6C 6C |
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Morse Code (1836) (references). --. --. ... .... . .-.. .-.. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000101 01100111 01100111 01110011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01101100 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)E g g s h e l l |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0045 0067 0067 0073 0068 0065 006C 006C |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3973738574717878 |
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