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Definition: Omelet |
OmeletNoun1. Beaten eggs or an egg mixture cooked until just set; may be folded around e.g. ham or cheese or jelly. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "omelet" was first used: 1611. (references) |
Etymology: Omelet \Om"e*let\, noun. [French expression omelette, Old French amelette, alumete, alumelle, perhaps from Latin lamella. Compare to Lamella.]. (references) |
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Dream Interpretation | To see omelet being served in your dream, warns you of flattery and deceit, which is about to be used against you. To eat it, shows that you will be imposed upon by some one seemingly worthy of your confidence. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Omelette or omelet is a preparation of beaten egg cooked with butter or oil in a frying pan, often folded around a filling. Many variations exist.
- Spanish tortilla de patatas (European Spanish for "omelette and potatoes") is a characteristic thick omelette stuffed with fried potatoes and fine cut onion, and fried using olive oil.
- Western omelet is an omelette filled with diced ham, onions, and green bell peppers.
- Spanish omelet is an omelette served with an often spicy sauce of tomatoes, onions, and peppers.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Omelette."
Synonym: OmeletSynonym: omelette (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Food | Beef, bisquit, bun; cornstarch; cookie, cooky; cracker, doughnut; fatling; hardtack, hoecake, hominy; mutton, pilot bread; pork; roti, rusk, ship biscuit; veal; joint, piece de resistance, roast and boiled; remove, entremet; releve, hash, rechauffe, stew, ragout, fricassee, mince; pottage, potage, broth, soup, consomme, puree, spoonmeat; pie, pasty, volauvent; pudding, omelet; pastry; sweets; kickshaws; condiment. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Omelet |
| English words defined with "omelet": egg foo yong, egg fu yung ♦ fluffy omelet, French omelet, frittata ♦ western, western omelet, western sandwich. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "omelet": lamella. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Omelet" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Danish (omelette), Dutch (omelet, omelette). |
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Screenplays | I'd like an omelet, plain, and a chicken salad sandwich on wheat toast, no mayonnaise, no butter, no lettuce (Five Easy Pieces; writing credit: Carole Eastman; Bob Rafelson) I'll have the cholesterol-free omelet with horse-beaters (Futurama; writing credit: Lance Smith; Carl Colpaert) You can't make an omelet (NeverWhere; writing credit: Neil Gaiman; Lenny Henry) | |
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| "Eat me" by Zoltan Szalay Commentary: "Omelet in a plate." |
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Expressions using "omelet": firm omelet ♦ fluffy omelet ♦ french omelet ♦ omelet pan ♦ western omelet. Additional references. | |
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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 |
omelet | 49 | egg omelet recipe white | 3 |
omelet recipe | 43 | omelet picture | 3 |
omelet pan | 27 | cheese omelet recipe | 2 |
make omelet | 14 | egg omelet | 2 |
perfect omelet | 9 | ham and cheese omelet | 2 |
omelet maker | 6 | egg omelet pan | 2 |
omelet western | 6 | egg omelet recipe | 2 |
egg omelet white | 5 | microwave omelet | 2 |
omelet spanish | 5 | microwave omelet maker | 2 |
house omelet | 3 | omelet shrimp | 2 |
cheese omelet | 3 | cook omelet | 2 |
cheese ham omelet recipe | 3 | omelet recipe western | 2 |
denver omelet | 3 | chin omelet | 2 |
omelet recipe spanish | 3 | spinach omelet | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "omelet"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | omëletë (omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | омлет (omelette). (various references) | |
Chinese | 煎蛋卷 (omelette). (various references) | |
Czech | omeleta (omelette), svítek (omelette), palaèinka (omelette, pancake). (various references) | |
Dutch | omelet (omelette), struif (omelette). (various references) | |
Esperanto | omleto (omelette). (various references) | |
Farsi | کوکوی گوجه فرنگی (Omelette), خاگینه (Omelette). (various references) | |
Finnish | munakas. (various references) | |
French | omelette (omelette). (various references) | |
German | Omelette (omelette), omelett (omelette). (various references) | |
Greek | αυγά ομελέττα, ομελέτα (omelette). (various references) | |
Hungarian | omlett (omelette), tojáslepény (omelette), rántotta (fried eggs, omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Italian | frittata (fritters, griddlecake, griddlecakes, omelette, omlet, pancake). (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 卵焼き (fried eggs), 卵焼 (fried eggs). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | たまごやき (fried eggs). (various references) | |
Manx | oohagan (omelette). (various references) | |
Norwegian | omelett (omelette). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | omeletay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | omelete, omeleta. (various references) | |
Romanian | omletã (omelette, scrambled eggs), scrob (omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Romansch | omletta. (various references) | |
Russian | омлет (omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | omlet (omelette), kajgana (omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Spanish | tortilla (omelette, tortilla). (various references) | |
Swedish | omelett (omelette). (various references) | |
Thai | ไข่เจียว (omelette). (various references) | |
Turkish | omlet (omelette, scrambled eggs). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | яєчня (omelette), омлет (omelette). (various references) | |
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| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | lamella. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "omelet": omelets, omelette, omelettes. (additional references) | |
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"Omelet" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Donzelot, Emmelle, Homelux, Iommelli, Jommelli, Komaleh, melet, ocelet, oele, oemlet, omel, omelete, omelett, omlet, omlete, ommlet, omulet, onleeee, Ormslee, Osmerley, Ouelett, owelet. (additional references) | |
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| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "omelet" (pronounced Ä"mlut) |
| 4 | -m l u t | boomlet, hamlet. |
| 3 | -l u t | amulet, anklet, appellate, articulate, autopilot, ballot, billet, booklet, bracelet, branchlet, bullet, Charlotte, chocolate, collet, consulate, copilot, immaculate, inarticulate, desolate, droplet, emasculate, eyelet, Gantlet, gauntlet, giblet, goblet, gullet, harlot, helot, inviolate, lancelet, leaflet, mallet, Merlot, Millet, mullet, palate, palette, pallet, pamphlet, particulate, pellet, piglet, pilot, platelet, prelate, quintuplet, scarlet, sextuplet, skillet, starlet, tablet, template, templet, toilet, triplet, ultraviolet, Violet, wallet, zealot. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: telome. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-m-o-t" | |
-1 letter: emote, motel. | |
-2 letters: leet, meet, melt, mete, mole, molt, mote, teel, teem, tele, tole, tome. | |
-3 letters: eel, elm, eme, lee, let, lot, mel, met, mol, mot, ole, tee, tel, toe, tom. | |
-4 letters: el, em, et, lo, me, mo, oe, om, to. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-m-o-t" | |
+1 letter: omelets, telomes. | |
+2 letters: complete, hotelmen, matelote, molested, molester, motleyer, omelette, overmelt, remotely, telomere, twelvemo. | |
+3 letters: bolometer, coelomate, comeliest, completed, completer, completes, elastomer, elopement, emollient, emolument, emotively, enrolment, extolment, flowmeter, homeliest, kilometer, latecomer, leptosome, limestone, lithesome, lodgement, matelotes, meliorate, mellowest, metroplex, milestone, mistletoe, molesters, monostele, motleyest, myelocyte, omelettes, overmelts, petroleum, salometer, solemnest, telamones, teleonomy, telomeres, temblores, tremolite, twelvemos, voltmeter, volumeter. | |
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