📖 E — The English dictionary · page 7

egg — Everyday, meaning 1: An egg is the round or oval thing a hen lays, which people eat.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An egg is what birds, fish, frogs, insects and reptiles lay; their babies grow inside.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: An egg is also a chocolate egg at Easter.↗ Example: 26 eggs are packed in boxes of 6.↗ · Mum buys 3 dozen eggs.↗ · Mia had 12 eggs and broke 2.↗ · The hen laid an egg this morning.↗ · Frogs lay hundreds of eggs in ponds.↗ · I like a boiled egg for breakfast.↗ · The chicks hatched from their eggs.↗ · Crack two eggs into the bowl.↗ · "A cock can lay an egg!↗ · For she leaveth her eggs on the earth, and warmeth them in dust, (Writings JOB.39.14, JPS 1917)↗ · They hatch basilisks' eggs, and weave the spider's web; he that eateth of their eggs dieth, and that which is crushed breaketh out into a viper.↗ (Prophets ISA.59.5, JPS 1917)↗

egghead — Everyday, meaning 1: (informal, often mocking) A very clever person who is interested in study and ideas, sometimes seen as out of touch with real life.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, friendly) A brainy person, a «brainbox».↗ Example: (informal) My brother is a real egghead who reads encyclopaedias for fun.↗ · (informal) The eggheads at the university solved the puzzle.↗ · The quiz show «Eggheads» has a team of very clever people.↗ · (informal) Don't call him an egghead just because he likes maths.↗ · (informal) The film's hero is a shy egghead who saves the day.↗ · (informal) «Ask the egghead in our class,» joked Sam, pointing at Priya.↗

eggshell — Everyday, meaning 1: An eggshell is the hard thin outside cover of an egg, which breaks easily.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Eggshell is a very pale off-white colour, like the inside of an egg's shell.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Eggshell paint is paint with a soft, slightly shiny finish.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: «Walking on eggshells» means being very careful not to upset someone who gets angry or hurt easily.↗ Example: She picked a bit of eggshell out of the pancake batter.↗ · We put the eggshells in the compost bin.↗ · The chick pecked its way out of the eggshell.↗ · We soaked an egg in vinegar until the eggshell disappeared.↗ · Mum painted the hall in eggshell white.↗ · Everyone was walking on eggshells after the big argument.↗ · An eggshell is mostly made of calcium.↗ · You can grow cress seeds in an empty eggshell.↗ · As soon as the water started to boil--tac!--he broke the eggshell.↗

ego — Everyday, meaning 1: Your ego is the sense of who you are and how important you feel yourself to be.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Ego can mean too much pride in yourself.↗ Example: His ego was hurt when he lost the race.↗ · She has a big ego.↗ · He felt his ego slipping away from him.↗

egress — Everyday, meaning 1: Egress is a way out of a place; an exit (formal).↗ Example: The room had only one egress.↗ · Smoke found an egress through a crack.↗ · The fire escape gave us egress from the building.↗

egyptian — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming from or to do with Egypt, a country in north-east Africa.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A person from Egypt.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To do with ancient Egypt: pharaohs, pyramids, mummies and hieroglyphs.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (Bible) In the Bible, the Egyptians were the people who kept the Israelites as slaves until Moses led them out.↗ Example: The ancient Egyptians built huge pyramids.↗ · We made Egyptian masks in art class.↗ · My friend's mum is Egyptian.↗ · Egyptian writing used pictures called hieroglyphs.↗ · The Egyptian army chased the Israelites to the Red Sea.↗ · Egyptian fractions are written as sums of fractions with 1 on top.↗ · You already look like an Egyptian doctor, at least in my eyes."↗ · And Sarah saw the son of Hagar the Egyptian, whom she had borne unto Abraham, making sport.↗ (Torah GEN.21.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Now these are the generations of Ishmael, Abraham's son, whom Hagar the Egyptian, Sarah's handmaid, bore unto Abraham.↗ (Torah GEN.25.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Now Sarai Abram's wife bore him no children; and she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar.↗ (Torah GEN.16.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Sheshan had a servant, an Egyptian, whose name was Jarha.↗ (Writings 1CH.2.34, JPS 1917)↗ · And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they gave him water to drink; (Prophets 1SA.30.11, JPS 1917)↗ · In that day shall there be a highway out of Egypt to Assyria, and the Assyrian shall come into Egypt, and the Egyptian into Assyria; and the Egyptians shall worship with the Assyrians.↗ (Prophets ISA.19.23, JPS 1917)↗

eider — Everyday, meaning 1: An eider is a large sea duck.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Eider-down is the very soft feathers of this duck, used to fill quilts.↗ Example: She slept under a warm eider-down quilt.↗ · The eider ducks swam in the bay.↗ · The bed had twenty eider-down quilts.↗

eight — Everyday, meaning 1: Eight is the number 8, one more than seven.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Eight is the count of legs on a spider and of arms on an octopus.↗ Example: She has eight pencils.↗ · Eight children came to the party.↗ · A spider has eight legs.↗ · Eight times three is twenty-four.↗ · School starts at eight o'clock.↗ · An octagon has eight sides.↗ · My brother is eight years old.↗ · Half of eight is four.↗ · And Bethuel begot Rebekah; these eight did Milcah bear to Nahor, Abraham's brother.↗ (Torah GEN.22.23, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jared lived after he begot Enoch eight hundred years, and begot sons and daughters.↗ (Torah GEN.5.19, JPS 1917)↗ · even those that were numbered of them, were eight thousand and five hundred and fourscore.↗ (Torah NUM.4.48, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Ater, of Hezekiah, ninety and eight.↗ (Writings EZR.2.16, JPS 1917)↗ · The men of Anathoth, a hundred twenty and eight.↗ (Writings EZR.2.23, JPS 1917)↗ · The children of Zattu, eight hundred forty and five.↗ (Writings NEH.7.13, JPS 1917)↗

eighteen — Everyday, meaning 1: Eighteen is the number 18, ten and eight.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: In many countries, at eighteen you count as a grown-up.↗ Example: There are eighteen students.↗ · He is eighteen years old.↗ · Eighteen apples were shared by 3.↗ · She paid eighteen dollars.↗ · A golf course has eighteen holes.↗ · Nine plus nine is eighteen.↗ · You can vote at eighteen in many countries.↗ · "Eighteen dollars a year," said the man.↗ · And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he led forth his trained men, born in his house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued as far as Dan.↗ (Torah GEN.14.14, JPS 1917)↗ · It was apparently originally invented to represent the Assyrian-Babylonian language, which consisted of seventeen or eighteen sounds.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · It shall be eighteen thousand reeds round about.↗ (Prophets EZK.48.35, JPS 1917)↗ · And Meshelemiah had sons and brethren, valiant men, eighteen.↗ (Writings 1CH.26.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.↗ (Prophets JDG.3.14, JPS 1917)↗

eighteenth — Everyday, meaning 1: Coming next after the seventeenth in order; number 18 in a line or list.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (fraction) One of eighteen equal parts of something: one eighteenth, written 1/18.↗ Example: She finished eighteenth in the cross-country race.↗ · Our house is the eighteenth on the left.↗ · My cousin is having a big party for her eighteenth.↗ · One eighteenth of 36 is 2.↗ · The golfer won on the eighteenth hole.↗ · We read the eighteenth chapter last night.↗ · In this way six years passed by, and his eighteenth birthday drew near.↗ · the seventeenth to Hezir, the eighteenth to Happizzez; (Writings 1CH.24.15, JPS 1917)↗ · For the eighteenth to Hanani, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.25, JPS 1917)↗ · In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam began Abijah to reign over Judah.↗ (Writings 2CH.13.1, JPS 1917)↗

eightfold — Everyday, meaning 1: Eight times as much or as many: «The price rose eightfold.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Having eight parts.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (Buddhism) The Noble Eightfold Path is the Buddha's teaching of eight ways to live well: right view, right intention, right speech, right action, right livelihood, right effort, right mindfulness and right concentration.↗ Example: Buddhists follow the Noble Eightfold Path.↗ · The Eightfold Path is drawn as a wheel with eight spokes.↗ · The number of visitors grew eightfold.↗ · If 3 grows eightfold, you get 24.↗ · The Buddha taught the Eightfold Path after his enlightenment.↗ · Our class made a poster of the eightfold path.↗

eighth — Everyday, meaning 1: Eighth means number 8 in order, after the seventh.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: An eighth is one of eight equal parts of something: 1/8.↗ Example: My sister is having her eighth birthday party.↗ · We live on the eighth floor.↗ · Cut the cake into eighths.↗ · One eighth of 40 is 5.↗ · Three eighths of the class walk to school.↗ · He finished eighth in the race.↗ · August is the eighth month of the year.↗ · Two eighths equal one quarter.↗ · So on the eighth day, at five minutes before noon, Nigel got ready.↗ · And in the eighth day the flesh of his foreskin shall be circumcised.↗ (Torah LEV.12.3, JPS 1917)↗ · On the eighth day Gamaliel the son of Pedahzur, prince of the children of Manasseh: (Torah NUM.7.54, JPS 1917)↗ · On the eighth day ye shall have a solemn assembly: ye shall do no manner of servile work; (Torah NUM.29.35, JPS 1917)↗ · Johanan the eighth, Elzabad the ninth; (Writings 1CH.12.13, JPS 1917)↗ · the seventh to Hakkoz, the eighth to Abijah; (Writings 1CH.24.10, JPS 1917)↗ · The eighth to Jeshaiah, his sons and his brethren, twelve; (Writings 1CH.25.15, JPS 1917)↗

eightieth — Everyday, meaning 1: The ordinal number for 80: coming after the seventy-ninth and before the eighty-first.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: One of 80 equal parts of something (1/80).↗ Example: Granny had a big party for her eightieth birthday.↗ · He finished in eightieth place out of 200 runners.↗ · This year is the eightieth anniversary of our school.↗ · One eightieth of 160 is 2.↗ · The eightieth page of my book has a map.↗ · Written in figures, eightieth is 80th.↗

eighty — Everyday, meaning 1: Eighty is the number 80, eight tens.↗ Example: The book has eighty pages.↗ · Eighty people came.↗ · He drove eighty miles.↗ · Eighty is ten times eight.↗ · My great-grandmother is eighty years old.↗ · Eighty minus twenty is sixty.↗ · She got eighty percent on the test.↗ · For the last eighty years I have dug up the ground here without discovering anything.↗ · And Methuselah lived a hundred eighty and seven years, and begot Lamech.↗ (Torah GEN.5.25, JPS 1917)↗ · And Lamech lived a hundred eighty and two years, and begot a son.↗ (Torah GEN.5.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And Methuselah lived after he begot Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begot sons and daughters.↗ (Torah GEN.5.26, JPS 1917)↗

einstein — Everyday, meaning 1: Albert Einstein was a famous German-born scientist who studied light, time, gravity and energy, and is known for the idea E = mc².↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal, often joking) An Einstein is a very clever person; said sarcastically, it means someone has done something silly.↗ Example: Einstein showed that time can pass at different speeds.↗ · His famous idea is written E = mc².↗ · You don't need to be an Einstein to solve this puzzle.↗ · «Nice one, Einstein,» said my brother when I locked us out.↗ · Einstein loved playing the violin.↗ · Our class made a poster about Einstein and light.↗

either — Everyday, meaning 1: Either means one or the other of two: you can have either an apple or a pear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Either also means each of two, both: there are trees on either side of the road.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: After «not», either means also.↗ e.g. I do not like it, and she does not either.↗ Example: You can pick either 2 red or 3 blue marbles.↗ · Either ticket costs $5.↗ · She did not like either book.↗ · Which costs less, either way?↗ · There are lamps on either side of the door.↗ · You can sit on either chair.↗ · I cannot swim, and my brother cannot either.↗ · Either we take the bus or we walk.↗ · And the angel of the LORD went further, and stood in a narrow place, where was no way to turn either to the right hand or to the left.↗ (Torah NUM.22.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And God came to Laban the Aramean in a dream of the night, and said unto him: 'Take heed to thyself that thou speak not to Jacob either good or bad.'↗ (Torah GEN.31.24, JPS 1917)↗ · Either a bullock or a lamb that hath any thing too long or too short, that mayest thou offer for a freewill-offering; but for a vow it shall not be accepted.↗ (Torah LEV.22.23, JPS 1917)↗ · 'Ask thee a sign of the LORD thy God: ask it either in the depth, or in the height above.'↗ (Prophets ISA.7.11, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall not regard the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall he look to that which his fingers have made, either the Asherim, or the sun-images.↗ (Prophets ISA.17.8, JPS 1917)↗ · that this shall be no stumbling-block unto thee, nor offence of heart unto my lord, either that thou hast shed blood without cause, or that my lord hath found redress for himself.↗ (Prophets 1SA.25.31, JPS 1917)↗

ejaculate — Everyday, meaning 1: To cry out something suddenly, in surprise or excitement.↗ Example: "What in the world?" ejaculated Hercules.↗ · "Wan!" he ejaculated, pointing his long ears.↗ · The farmer ejaculated when he saw the giant.↗

eject — Everyday, meaning 1: To push or throw something out with force.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make someone leave a place, often by force.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To take a disc, cartridge or memory stick out of a machine, or to tell a computer you are removing it.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (of a pilot) To escape from a plane by being shot out in a special seat.↗ Example: Press the button to eject the disc.↗ · Always eject the memory stick before pulling it out.↗ · The volcano ejected hot rocks and ash.↗ · The pilot ejected just before the plane crashed.↗ · Security ejected the rowdy fan from the stadium.↗ · The toaster ejected the bread with a pop.↗ · The referee ejected the player for fighting.↗