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# yolk

«yolk» in Mova's school dictionary: **the round yellow or orange part in the middle of an egg** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a yolk, yolks; yolk, uncountable)

### meaning for a pupil

1) The yolk is the round yellow or orange part in the middle of an egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#m1)

2) In science, the yolk is the food store for a growing baby bird or other animal inside the egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In science lessons on life cycles, the yolk feeds the chick growing inside the egg, and the white (albumen) protects it. In cooking, yolks and whites are separated for cakes and custard; a runny yolk is soft-boiled. Safety: wash hands after touching raw eggs. Phrases: «egg yolk», «runny yolk», «separate the yolk from the white».

### examples

- I like my egg with a runny yolk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x1)
- The yolk feeds the chick inside the egg. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x2)
- Separate the yolks from the whites for the cake. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x3)
- Some eggs have two yolks! [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x4)
- The recipe needs 3 yolks, so we cracked 3 eggs. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x5)
- Egg yolk is bright yellow. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x6)
- But in place of the white and the yolk of the egg, a little yellow Chick, fluffy and gay and smiling, escaped from it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/Y/yolk/#x7)

### note

Countable: «a yolk, yolks». The l is silent: sounds like «yoke». Homophone trap: «yoke» is a wooden bar for pulling animals. The white of an egg is not called the yolk.

### In the corpora

- [Mustard or egg yolk helps oil droplets stay apart longer in a dressing.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/7-oil-and-water/7/)
- [An over-boiled egg can get a greenish ring around the yolk, where iron from the yolk joins sulphur from the white.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/10-cooking-is-chemistry/6/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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