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Definition: Yolk |
YolkNoun1. Nutritive material of an ovum stored for the nutrition of an embryo (especially the yellow mass of a bird or reptile egg). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "yolk" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1812. (references) |
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19th Century Satire | The legacy of the hen and the burden of its lay. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Mining | Nodule; occurs at Forest of Dean, U.K. (references) |
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Synonym: YolkSynonym: vitellus (n). (additional references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Practical Yolk (1966) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | C. botulinum is a strictly anaerobic bacterium that when grown on egg yolk agar, its colonies will exhibit a lipase reaction, described as the shiny area around each colony. Credit: CDC. |
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Chang Heng | Heaven is like an egg, and the earth is like the yolk of the egg. |
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| "Yolk" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Yolk" is used about 82 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) | 100% | 82 | 36,594 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "yolk": egg yolk ♦ Food yolk ♦ yolk bag ♦ yolk cord ♦ yolk gland ♦ yolk sac ♦ yolk sack. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "yolk": yolk-sac, yolk-yellow. | |
Ending with "yolk": birth-yolk, egg-yolk. | |
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| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
yolk | 38 | egg protein yolk | 4 |
egg yolk | 24 | sack yolk | 3 |
yolk sac | 24 | egg picture yolk | 3 |
magazine yolk | 18 | fetus no sac yolk | 3 |
egg recipe yolk | 10 | egg japanese sauce yolk | 3 |
double yolk | 7 | double eggs yolk | 3 |
pregnancy sac yolk | 6 | sac ultrasound yolk | 3 |
acne egg yolk | 5 | in pregnancy sac yolk | 3 |
sac tumor yolk | 4 | egg sauce yolk | 2 |
gestational sac sac yolk | 4 | hair rinse yolk | 2 |
broken yolk | 4 | blighted ovum sac yolk | 2 |
egg mask yolk | 4 | equally yolk | 2 |
cholesterol egg yolk | 2 | ||
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| Language | Translations for "yolk"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | e verdhë veze (yelk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مح صفار البيض, صفار البيض, شحم يستخرج من جلد الخروف. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | серей (grease), жълтък на яйце (yelk, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 卵黄质. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | žloutek (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | blomme (plum), æggeblomme (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | eigeel (egg yolk), dooier (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | محتویات نطفه(زیست شناسی) (Yoke). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | ruskuainen, munankeltuainen, keltuainen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | vitellus, jaune d'oeuf (egg yolk), jaune d'"ufs. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Dotter (yolks), Eidotter (egg yolk, yolks), Eigelb (egg yolk, yellow). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | κρόκοσ αβγού, κρόκοσ (crocus, saffron), κρόκος αυγού (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | חלמון. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | tojássárgája (egg-yolk, yelk, yellow), pete (egg, ovule, ovum). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | kuning telur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | tuorlo (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 黄身 (egg yolk), 卵黄嚢 (yolk sac), 卵黄 (egg yolk), 卵黄 (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | きみ (companion, daimyo, duke, egg yolk, feeling, lord, prince, public, sensation, subordinate, you), ら"おうのう (yolk sac), ら"おう (egg yolk). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | bwinnican (vitellus). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Norwegian | eggeplomme. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | yolkay gema de ovo (egg yolk). (various references) grãsime de la lâna oilor, gãlbenuş de ou (vitellus). (various references) желток (yelk). (various references) žumance. (various references) yema de huevo (egg yolk). (various references) gula, äggula (yellow). (various references) yumurta sarısı (egg yolk), yapağı yağı, embriyonun gelişimini sağlayan yumurta kısmı. (various references) жовток (yellow). (various references) lòng đỏ trứng. (various references) melyn wy. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "yolk": yolked, yolkier, yolkiest, yolks, yolky. (additional references) | |
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"Yolk" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: ilok, olk, volk, wyol, yalg, yaol, ycl, yelo, yil, Yl, yock, Yohko, yoik, yok, yol, Yold, yole, yoli, yolki, yolkl, yolp, yolt, yonk, yook. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "yolk" (pronounced yō"k) |
| 3 | y ō" k | yoke. |
| 2 | -ō" k | awoke, baroque, bloke, broke, choke, cloak, coke, croak, evoke, folk, hoke, invoke, joke, misspoke, oak, poke, provoke, revoke, Roque, smoke, soak, spoke, Stoke, stroke, woke. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "k-l-o-y" | |
-1 letter: yok. | |
-2 letters: lo, oy, yo. | |
| Words containing the letters "k-l-o-y" | |
+1 letter: folky, yokel, yolks, yolky. | |
+2 letters: alkoxy, blocky, flocky, folksy, hokily, jokily, knolly, pokily, yokels, yolked. | |
+3 letters: cockily, colicky, folkway, keyhole, killjoy, knobbly, kolacky, kolhozy, kolkozy, linkboy, pockily, shylock, smokily, soymilk, toylike, yolkier. | |
+4 letters: ankylose, blackboy, brokenly, bullocky, croakily, folksily, folkways, forkedly, frolicky, hillocky, jokingly, keyholes, killjoys, kilobyte, klystron, knottily, kolinsky, kolkhosy, kolkhozy, kryolite, kryolith, lekythoi, lekythos, linkboys, mullocky, playbook, rollicky, schlocky, shylocks, soymilks, spookily, stockily, tokology, yokeless, yokelish, yolkiest. | |
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