egg-shell /'egjel/
noun 1 [c, U] the hard thin
outside of an egg If A — picture o egg 2 [U] {BrE) a type of paint that
is smooth but not shiny when it dries if ( A
)
'egg timer noun a device that you use
to measure the time needed to boil an egg
eg lan tine /'eglantam/ noun [u] a type of wild rose
ego /'i:gau;
'egau; NAmE 'iigou/ noun {pi. -os) 1 your sense of your own
value and importance § He has
the biggest ego of anyone
I’ve ever met.
1
ft fill Ac o Winning the prize
really boosted her ego.
S'dX'o
2 {psychology >6) the part of the mind
that is responsible for your sense of who you are (= your identity) || — see also alter
ego — compare superego, id ego-cen-tric /.egau'sentrik; ,i:g-;
NAmE ,i:gou-/ adj. thinking only about
yourself and not about what other people need or want VJ, g A A
4> UK); i % i f ij (ft SELFISH
ego-ism /'egauizam;
'i:g-; NAmE -gou-/ (also egot-ism /'egatizam; ’iig-/) noun [U] {disapproving) the fact of thinking
that you are better or more important than anyone else fiJBAX; ii^SA; ►ego-
is-tic
l,egau'istik; ,i:g-; NAmE -gou-/ (also egot-is-tic-al /.ega'tistikl; (i:ga-/egot-is-tic/,ega'tistik;
,i:ge-f) adj. egot- is-tic-al-ly /-kli/ adv.
ego-ist
/’egauist;
'i:g-; NAmE 'iigou-/ (also egot-ist /'egatist; 'i:ga-/) noun {disapproving) a person who thinks
that he or she is better than other people and who thinks and talks too much
about himself or herself f ij
B±X#;
ego-mania
/.egau'meinia;
,i:gau-; NAmE ,iigou-/ noun [U] a mental condition
in which sb is interested in themselves or concerned about themselves in a way
that is not normal B; ft AX ► ego-maniac
/.egau'memiaek;
.iigau-; NAmE ,iigou-/ noun ego-ma-ni- acal /,egauma'naiakl;,iigau-;
NAmE .iigou-/ adj. ‘ego-surfing noun [U] (often humorous) the activity of
searching the Internet to find places where your own
name has been mentioned ft (A gfJc®# ( it5
'ego trip noun (usually disapproving) an activity that sb
does because it makes them feel good and important
egre gious /i'griid3ias/
adj. {formal) extremely bad Mff
W; m'M
e-gress /'iigres/
noun [U] {formal) the act of leaving
a place — compare access n.{ 1), ingress
egret /'iigrat/
noun a bird of the heron family, with long legs and long
white tail feathers £3 3|
Egypt
ology /,iid3ip'tDlad3i; NAmE -'tail-/ noun [u] the study of the
language, history and culture of ancient
►
2
the sound that people make when they want
sb to
agree or reply ( ) JM, 1?^, IS:
So what do you think, eh? , RS? 3 the
sound people make when they
are surprised (
) W: Another new dress, eh! Upf, X—!
Eid (also Id) /iid/ noun one of the two main
Muslim festivals, either Eid ul-Fitr /,i:d
ul 'fitr0/ at the end of
Ramadan, or Eid
ul-Adha /,i:d
ul 'a:da/ which celebrates the end of the pilgrimage
to
ei der down /‘aidadaun; NAmE -dard-/ noun {BrE) a thick, warm cover
for a bed, filled with feathers or other soft material, and usually placed on
top of a
sheet and blankets m tl )
«
eider duck /'aida dAk; NAmE 'aidar/ noun a large duck with soft feathers, that lives in
northern countries 4$
m, *$& ()
eight frw
/eit
/
3
number 8 A ISIdHJ There are examples of
how to use numbers at the entry for five. f!ti^],ft]ft7K$]JE five
4
noun a team of eight people who row a long
narrow boat in races; the boat they row AAjciJIa A; i AA#J Eft If — see also figure of eight
eighteen
0-w /.ei'tiin/
number 18 f A ► eight-eenth /.ei'tiinO/ ordinal number, noun l!T3n There are examples of
how to use ordinal numbers at the entry for fifth.
Jl5
is] fB ft A JE fifth
eighth O-w /eit0/ ordinal number, noun a ordinal number 8th A ki=HJ There are examples of how
to use ordinal numbers at the entry for fifth,
jf
Ti^ft/T^JJE
fifth %0
m noun each of eight equal
parts of sth AjfZ.—'
'eighth note noun {NAmE, music #) = quaver /?.(1) eight-some /'eitsam/ (also .eightsome 'reel) noun a lively Scottish
dance for eight people AASlKf? (
eighty /'eiti/
number
1 80 A A 2 noun the
eight-ies [pi.]
numbers, years or temperatures from 80 to 89 AA/l; A+Aft ► eightieth /'eitiaG/ ordinal number, noun IIHIJ There are examples of
how to use ordinal numbers at the entry for fifth. ft A m JE
fifth & 0 B in your
eighties between
the ages of 80 and 89 * 80 eina /‘einai/ exclamation {SAfrE) used to express sudden
pain ( ) PStnff, W: Eina! That
was sore!
ein stein ium /ain’stainiam/ noun [u] {symb Es) a chemical element.
Einsteinium is a radioactive element
produced artificially from plutonium and
other elements. )
ei stedd fod /ai'stedvDd; NAmE -void/ noun (from Welsh) a type of festival,
held in
ei ther o-w /'akte(r); 'iida(r)/ det., pron.,
adv. m det., pron. 1 one or the other of
two; it does not matter which ( You
can park on either
side of the street. <> You can keep
one of the photos. Either of them—whichever you like.
hm&S-MAo IMtKlo
0
There are two types of qualification—either is
acceptable.
o note at
neither 2 each of two ( A (ft ) &A: The
offices on either side were
empty.
o O There’s a
door at either end of the corridor. ^ jijf
a adv. 1 used after negative
phrases to state that a feeling or situation is similar to one already
mentioned ( Mf ) til: Pete
can’t go and I can’t either.
, HclWtgo 0 {NAmE, informal) ‘I don’t like it.’‘Me
either.’{= Neither do I.) to ” “3%
A If A o ” 2 used to add extra
information to a statement ( j/E Rti ) ffif-S : I know a good Italian
restaurant. It’s not far from here, either.
3 either
... or
used to show a choice of
two things ( &
PfiJi-SfcJi, Well,
I think she’s either Russian or Polish. # M A /!
Sir Ao 0 I’m
going to buy either a camera
or a DVD player with the
money. o' ik# DVD flh 0 Either he could not
come or
he did not want to.
—
compare or(1) o note at neither ejacu-late /i'd3aekjuleit/ verb 1 [V, VN] when a man or
a male animal ejaculates, semen comes
out through the penis It ft 2 [V
speech] {old-fashioned) to say or shout sth
suddenly tb; exclaim