different between egg vs second

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: ?g, IPA^(key): /??/
• (also) enPR: ?g, IPA^(key): /e??/ (some Canadian and US accents)
• Rhymes: -??

Etymology 1

From Middle English egge, from Old Norse egg (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajj? (“egg”) (by Holtzmann's law), from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm (“egg”). Cognate with Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Norwegian egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).

The native English ey (plural eyren), akin to Dutch ei (plural eieren) and German Ei (plural Eier) are ultimately from the same Proto-Germanic root, survived into the 16th century before being fully displaced by egg. More at ey.

Alternative forms

• egge (obsolete)

Noun

egg (plural eggs)

1. (zoology, countable) An approximately spherical or ellipsoidal body produced by birds, reptiles, insects and other animals, housing the embryo during its development.
2. (countable, uncountable) The egg of a domestic fowl (especially a hen) or its contents, used as food.

3. (biology, countable) The female primary cell, the ovum.
4. Anything shaped like an egg, such as an Easter egg or a chocolate egg.
5. A swelling on one's head, usually large or noticeable, associated with an injury.
6. (slang, mildly derogatory, potentially offensive) A Caucasian who behaves as if they were (East) Asian (from being "white" outside and "yellow" inside).
7. (New Zealand, derogatory) A foolish or obnoxious person.

8. (archaic, derogatory) A young person.
   • 1599-1601, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark:

     What, you egg!

9. (informal) A person, fellow.
   • 1980, Stephen King, The Wedding Gig

     Up close he looked like a pretty tough egg. His hair was bristling up in the back in spite of what smelled like a whole bottle of Wildroot Creme Oil and he had the flat, oddly shiny eyes that some deep-sea fish have.

10. (LGBT, slang) A person who is regarded as having not yet realized they are transgender, has not yet come out, or is in the early stages of transitioning.
    • 2018, Casey Plett, Little Fish (?ISBN), page 24:

      That fits, though, she thought. Wear the same outfit day after day, your brain gets numb to how it looks or feels—Wendy shut the album. No. […] She hated analyzing the whys of [not-out] trans girls. She had always hated it, and she hated how easy it had become; the bottomless hole of egg mode.

11. (computing) One of the blocks of data injected into a program's address space for use by certain forms of shellcode, such as "omelettes".
    • 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.

12. (Internet slang, derogatory) A user of the microblogging service Twitter who has the default egg avatar rather than a custom picture.

Derived terms

Descendants

• Jamaican Creole: eg
• Sranan Tongo: eksi

Translations

See egg/translations § Noun.

Verb

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

1. To throw eggs at.
2. (cooking) To dip in or coat with beaten egg.
3. To distort a circular cross-section (as in a tube) to an elliptical or oval shape, either inadvertently or intentionally.

   After I cut the tubing, I found that I had slightly egged it in the vise.

Translations

See also

• caviar
• roe

Etymology 2

From Middle English eggen, from Old Norse eggja (“to incite”), from egg (“edge”).

Verb

egg (third-person singular simple present eggs, present participle egging, simple past and past participle egged)

2. (transitive, obsolete except in egg on) To encourage, incite.
   • 14th c., William Langland, Piers Plowman, Passus 1,^[1]

     Þerinne wonieth a wi?te · þat wronge is yhote

     Fader of falshed · and founded it hym-selue

     Adam and Eue · he egged to ille

     Conseilled caym · to kullen his brother

   • 1571, Arthur Golding, The Psalmes of David and others. With M. John Calvins Commentaries, “Epistle Dedicatorie,”^[2]

     […] yit have wee one thing in our selves and of our selves (even originall sinne, concupiscence or lust) which never ceaseth too egge us and allure us from God […]

Derived terms

• egg on
• over-egg

Translations

Further reading

• egg on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• (transgender): Morgan Lev Edward Holleb, The A-Z of Gender and Sexuality: From Ace to Ze (2019, ?ISBN), page 98

Anagrams

• GGE, Geg, geg

Faroese

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?k?]

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm.

Noun

egg n (genitive singular egs, plural egg)

1. egg

Declension

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From the Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Noun

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, plural eggjar)

1. blade, edge
2. border, edge of a cliff

Declension

German

Pronunciation

Verb

egg

1. singular imperative of eggen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of eggen

Icelandic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??k?/
• Rhymes: -?k?

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm. Cognate with Old English ?? (obsolete English ey); Swedish ägg; Old High German ei (German Ei).

Noun

egg n (genitive singular eggs, nominative plural egg)

1. (zoology) an egg
2. an oval shaped object
3. the ovum

Declension

Synonyms

• (ovum): eggfruma f

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Cognates include Old Frisian egg, Old Saxon eggia, Dutch egge; Old English ecg (English edge); Old High German egga (German Ecke); Swedish egg.

The Indo-European root is also the source of Latin aci?s (“edge, sharpness”), Ancient Greek ???? (akís, “point”).

Noun

egg f (genitive singular eggjar, nominative plural eggjar)

1. (weaponry) the sharp edge of a knife, sword, or similar
2. a sharp edge on a mountain

Declension

Synonyms

• (sharp edge): blað
• (mountain): fjallsegg

Derived terms

• fjallsegg
• með oddi og egg/með oddi og eggju

Middle English

Noun

egg

1. Alternative form of egge (“egg”)

Norwegian Bokmål

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??/
• Rhymes: -??
• Hyphenation: egg

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg n (“egg”), from Proto-Germanic *ajj? (“egg”), from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm (“egg”), likely from *h?éwis (“bird”), possibly from *h?ew- (“to enjoy, consume; to perceive, be aware of”).

Cognate with English egg (“egg”), Icelandic egg (“egg”), Faroese egg (“egg”), Swedish ägg (“egg”), Danish æg (“egg”).

Noun

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga or eggene)

1. an egg

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg f

Noun

egg f or m (definite singular egga or eggen, indefinite plural egger, definite plural eggene)

1. (cutting) edge (e.g. of a knife)

Derived terms

• tveegget

References

• “egg” in The Bokmål Dictionary.
• “egg_1” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).
• “egg_2” in Det Norske Akademis ordbok (NAOB).

Norwegian Nynorsk

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /e??/, /???/ (example of pronunciation)

Etymology 1

From Old Norse egg n, from Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm. Akin to English egg.

Noun

egg n (definite singular egget, indefinite plural egg, definite plural egga)

1. an egg

Inflection

Derived terms

Etymology 2

From Old Norse egg f, from Proto-Germanic *agj? f (“edge, corner”), and ultimately from the Proto-Indo-European root *h?e?-. Cognates include English edge and German Ecke.

Noun

egg f or m (definite singular eggen or egga, indefinite plural eggar or egger, definite plural eggane or eggene)

1. an edge (the thin cutting side of the blade of an instrument, such as an ax, knife, sword, or scythe)
2. (geology) an arête

Inflection

References

• “egg” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Norse

Etymology 1

From Proto-Germanic *ajj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h??wyóm.

Noun

egg n (genitive eggs, plural egg)

1. egg

Declension

Descendants

Etymology 2

From Proto-Germanic *agj?. Ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp”).

Noun

egg f (genitive eggjar, plural eggjar)

2. edge (of a blade)

Declension

Descendants

References

• Zoëga, Geir T. (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic?^[3], Oxford: Clarendon Press

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse egg, from Proto-Germanic *agj?, from Proto-Indo-European *h?e?- (“sharp, pointed”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???/
• Homophone: ägg

Noun

egg c

1. The sharp edge of a cutting tool.

Declension

Related terms

References

• egg in Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL)

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English secunde, second, secound, secund, borrowed from Old French second, seond, from Latin secundus (“following, next in order”), from root of sequor (“I follow”), from Proto-Indo-European *sek?- (“to follow”). Doublet of secundo. Displaced native twoth and partially displaced native other (from Old English ?þer (“other; next; second”)).

Alternative forms

• (number-two): 2nd, 2d, IInd; (in names of monarchs and popes) II, II.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?s?k?nd/
• (US) enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• (Canada) IPA^(key): /?s?k?nd/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Adjective

second (not comparable)

1. Number-two; following after the first one with nothing between them. The ordinal number corresponding to the cardinal number two.
2. Next to the first in value, power, excellence, dignity, or rank; secondary; subordinate; inferior.
3. Being of the same kind as one that has preceded; another.

Synonyms

• other

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

second (not comparable)

1. (with superlative) After the first; at the second rank.

2. After the first occurrence but before the third.

Translations

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. Something that is number two in a series.
2. Something that is next in rank, quality, precedence, position, status, or authority.
3. The place that is next below or after first in a race or contest.
4. (usually in the plural) A manufactured item that, though still usable, fails to meet quality control standards.

5. (usually in the plural) An additional helping of food.

6. A chance or attempt to achieve what should have been done the first time, usually indicating success this time around. (See second-guess.)
7. (music) The interval between two adjacent notes in a diatonic scale (either or both of them may be raised or lowered from the basic scale via any type of accidental).
8. The second gear of an engine.
9. (baseball) Second base.
10. The agent of a party to an honour dispute whose role was to try to resolve the dispute or to make the necessary arrangements for a duel.
11. A Cub Scout appointed to assist the sixer.
    • 1995, Boy Scouts of Canada. National Council, The Cub Book

      Many packs have a sixer's council where the sixers, and sometimes the seconds, meet with Akela and some of the other leaders.

    Synonym: seconder

12. (informal) A second-class honours degree.

Related terms

• (music): secundal (adj.)

Translations

Verb

second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)

1. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (See under #Etymology 3 for translations.)

2. To follow in the next place; to succeed.

   • In the method of nature, a low valley is immediately seconded with an ambitious hill.

   • Sin is usually seconded with sin.

3. (climbing) To climb after a lead climber.

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English secunde, seconde, borrowed from Old French seconde, from Medieval Latin secunda, short for secunda pars minuta (“second diminished part (of the hour)”).

Alternative forms

• (SI unit of time): (abbreviations) s, sec; (symbols) s (SI and non-scientific usage), sec (in non-scientific usage only)
• (unit of angle): (abbreviations) arcsec, "

Pronunciation

• enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. One-sixtieth of a minute; the SI unit of time, defined as the duration of 9,192,631,770 periods of radiation corresponding to the transition between two hyperfine levels of caesium-133 in a ground state at a temperature of absolute zero and at rest.
2. A unit of angle equal to one-sixtieth of a minute of arc or one part in 3600 of a degree.
3. (informal) A short, indeterminate amount of time.

Synonyms

• (unit of angle): second of arc, arcsecond
• (short, indeterminate amount of time): (colloquial) sec
• Appendix:Words used as placeholders to count seconds

Derived terms

• leap second
• millisecond
• nanosecond

Translations

Etymology 3

From Middle French seconder, from Latin secund? (“assist, make favorable”).

Pronunciation

Transfer temporarily

• enPR: s?k?nd', IPA^(key): /s??k?nd/
• Rhymes: -?nd
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Assist, Agree

• enPR: s??k?nd, IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?s?k.(?)nd/, /?s?k.(?)nt/
• Hyphenation: sec?ond

Verb

second (third-person singular simple present seconds, present participle seconding, simple past and past participle seconded)

1. (transitive, Britain) To transfer temporarily to alternative employment.
2. (transitive) To assist or support; to back.
3. (transitive) To agree as a second person to (a proposal), usually to reach a necessary quorum of two. (This may come from the English adjective above.)

4. (transitive, music) To accompany by singing as the second performer.

Derived terms

• secondment
• secondee

Translations

Noun

second (plural seconds)

1. One who supports another in a contest or combat, such as a dueller's assistant.
2. One who supports or seconds a motion, or the act itself, as required in certain meetings to pass judgement etc.

3. (obsolete) Aid; assistance; help.

Translations

Further reading

second on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• arcsecond on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• second on Wikipedia.Wikipedia (time)
• second (parliamentary procedure) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• second-hand goods on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Second in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

References

Anagrams

• CODENs, coends, condes, consed, decons, sconed

French

Alternative forms

• (abbreviation) 2^d, 2^e

Etymology

From Old French secunt, second, segont, borrowed as a semi-learned term from Latin secundus (“second”); related to sequi (“follow”). Doublet of son (“bran”), which was inherited.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s?.???/

Adjective

second (feminine singular seconde, masculine plural seconds, feminine plural secondes)

1. second

Derived terms

• dans un second temps
• de seconde main
• état second
• second degré
• second souffle
• second violon
• Seconde Guerre Mondiale
• seconde nature

Related terms

• secondaire
• seconde

Synonyms

• (ordinal): deuxième

Usage notes

For added "precision and elegance", the French Academy recommends using second when only two items are being considered, reserving deuxième for other situations, i.e. when more than two items are being considered; although this rule is not mandatory. The Academy however advises against ever replacing second with deuxième in fixed idioms such as de seconde main or seconde nature.

Noun

second m (plural seconds)

1. assistant, first mate

Synonyms

• adjoint, aide, assistant

Derived terms

• seconder

References

• “second” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• cédons, condés

Middle English

Adjective

second

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Noun

second

1. Alternative form of secunde (“after the first”)

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin secundus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /s??kunt/

Adjective

second m (oblique and nominative feminine singular seconde)

1. second

Declension

Descendants

• Middle English: secunde
  • English: second
  • Scots: seicont
• French: second