# omelette
## English
### Alternative forms

* omelet (chiefly US)
* omlette, omlet (obsolete or misspelling)

### Etymology

From French omelette, from alemette, from alemelle (“knife blade”), probably derived from la lemelle, from Latin lamella (“thin plate”).

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈɒm.lɪt/
* Audio (UK):(file)
* (General Australian) IPA: /ˈɔm.lət/
* (US, Canada) IPA: /ˈɑm.lət/, /ˈɑm.lɪt/, /ˈɑ.mə.lət/
* Audio (Canada):(file)

### Noun

omelette (countable and uncountable, plural omelettes)
* 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, w: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.
* (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.

#### Coordinate terms

* boiled egg
* fried egg
* frittata
* poached egg
* quiche
* scrambled egg
* scromlette

#### Derived terms

* chin omelette
* Denver omelette
* friar's omelette
* omelette Arnold Bennett
* omeletty
* oyster omelette
* scromlette
* Spanish omelette
* thick as a whale omelette
* tornado omelette
* you can't make an omelette without breaking eggs
* you've got to crack a few eggs to make an omelette

#### Translations
### Verb

omelette (third-person singular simple present omelettes, present participle omeletting, simple past and past participle omeletted)
* 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.'

### See also

* Category:Omelettes on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

## French

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ɔm.lɛt/

### Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)
* omelette

#### Derived terms

* on ne fait pas d’omelette sans casser des œufs

#### Descendants

* → English: omelette, omelet
* → Persian: املت (omlet)
* → Danish: omelet
* → Portuguese: omelete, omeleta, omelette
* → Russian: омле́т (omlét)

### Further reading

* “omelette”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

## Interlingua
### Noun

omelette (plural omelettes)
* omelette

## Italian
### Etymology

Borrowed from French omelette.

### Noun

omelette f (invariable)
* omelette

### Anagrams

* temetelo

## Portuguese
### Noun

omelette f (plural omelettes)
* Alternative form of omelete