omelette

• omelet (US)
• omlet (obsolete or misspelling)

First attested in 1611; borrowed from French omelette, see which for further etymology.

• (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, 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

Inherited from Old French amelette, derived by metathesis from older alemette, itself an alteration of alemelle (“blade”), probably rebracketed from la (definite article, "the") lemelle (“blade”), diminutive of lame or directly derived from Latin lamella.

• 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)
• → German: Omelett
• → Danish: omelet
• → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta, omelette (unadapted spelling)
• → Romanian: omletă
• → 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

Unadapted borrowing from French omelette.

• IPA^(key): /omeˈlet/ [o.meˈlet̪]
• Rhymes: -et
• Syllabification: o‧me‧lette

omelette m or f (plural omelettes)

1. alternative form of omelet

• According to Royal Spanish Academy (RAE) prescriptions, unadapted foreign words should be written in italics in a text printed in roman type, and vice versa, and in quotation marks in a manuscript text or when italics are not available. In practice, this RAE prescription is not always followed.

• RAE on X: "@AlvaroMurcia19 #RAEconsultas La voz francesa «omelette» se traduce por «tortilla (de huevos/francesa)». En varios países americanos se emplea comúnmente el galicismo, que a veces se adapta como «omelet»; con esa grafía se registra, como variante, en algunos diccionarios." / X
• RAE on X: "@macalparra @NoeQuicehuatl #RAEconsultas El galicismo «omelette», también con la grafía adaptada «omelet», se usa en español en ambos géneros, con preferencia por el masculino. (2/2)" / X