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# omelet

«omelet» in Mova's school dictionary: **eggs beaten up and cooked flat in a pan, often with…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (omelet, omelets; British spelling «omelette», omelettes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An omelet is eggs beaten up and cooked flat in a pan, often with cheese or herbs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/#m1)

2) (in stories) An omelet is a dish a hungry character cooks, sometimes with magic. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in tales Pinocchio tries to cook an omelet from eggs he finds, which shows how hungry and clumsy he is

### examples

- Mum made a cheese omelet for lunch. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/#x1)
- Pinocchio wanted an omelet for his supper. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/#x2)
- Beat two eggs to make an omelet. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths, unless a recipe counts the eggs: then the count of eggs is the number the recipe gives

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «omelet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/O/omelet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.