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Definition: Meringue |
MeringueNoun1. Sweet topping especially for pies made of beaten egg whites and sugar. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
| Domain | Definition |
Food & Agriculture | Made of white of egg and sugar. Source: European Union. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
Meringue is a type of dessert made from whipped egg whites and castor sugar. Meringues are often flavoured with a small amount of essence, eg almond or coconut. They are very light and airy and extremely sweet.Meringues are baked at a very low heat for a long time - they are not supposed to be browned at all, but they need to be very crisp and dry. Cooked meringue cannot be refrigerated or it will become soggy.
Meringue can be used as the basis for various other desserts including Pavlova, Baked Alaska and Lemon meringue pie.
A Dominican or Haitian folk dance, and the music it is performed to, is spelled merengue, and has three syllables.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Meringue."
Crosswords: Meringue |
| English words defined with "meringue": baked Alaska ♦ lemon meringue pie. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "meringue": baker, cake, baker, pastry, baker, pie ♦ cake maker, cook, pastry, cook, pie ♦ pie chef, PIE MAKER. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "Meringue" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. French (meringue). |
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Movie/TV Titles | Lemon Meringue (1931) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | (2) color slides show different types of pie. (1) slice of lemon meringue, (1) slice of coconut cream with a dollop of whipped cream. Credit: Renee Comet (photographer). |
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| "Meringue" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 95.74% of the time. "Meringue" is used about 47 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 95.74% | 45 | 50,900 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 2.13% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 47 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "meringue": lemon meringue pie ♦ meringue kiss. Additional references. | |
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Beginning with "meringue": meringue-like. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "meringue"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | merengë, vezë e rrahur. (various references) | |
Arabic | كعكة صغيرة معدة, مرنغ, غطى بالمرنغ, المرنغ وجه الكعكة, رغوة فوق الكعكة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | целувка (kiss, salute, seal of love). (various references) | |
Chinese | 蛋白"饼. (various references) | |
Czech | snìhová pusinka. (various references) | |
Danish | marengs. (various references) | |
Dutch | schuimpje. (various references) | |
French | meringue. (various references) | |
German | Baiser. (various references) | |
Greek | μαρέγκα. (various references) | |
Hebrew | מקצפת. (various references) | |
Hungarian | habcsók (kiss). (various references) | |
Italian | meringa. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | メル友 (a friend with whom one corresponds by e-mail, a motion, being falling down drunk, maintenance, Mauser, melodious, melodrama, melody, melon, member, member name, members, member's card, membership, Memphis, Mendel, mendelevium, menses, mensheviki, menswear, mental, mental health, mental test, mentalistic, mentality, menthol, mince, mince cutlet, mortgage, soap opera). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | メレンゲ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eringuemay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | merengue. (various references) | |
Romanian | bezea (kiss). (various references) | |
Russian | меренга. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | kolač od belanaca. (various references) | |
Spanish | merengue. (various references) | |
Swedish | maräng (maringue). (various references) | |
Turkish | beze (gland). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | меренга. (various references) | |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "meringue": meringues. (additional references) | |
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"Meringue" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berlinguer, Berlinguet, Mainguet, Marongiu, Meiringen, meningeal, merangue, mereangue, merengue, Merignac, Meringer, meringo, merinque, merringue, Peringuey. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-r-u" | |
-1 letter: regimen. | |
-2 letters: emigre, ermine, germen, murein, murine, muring, regime, regnum. | |
-3 letters: enure, genie, genre, green, grime, grume, inure, merge, miner, neume, reign, renig, ruing, rumen, unrig, urine. | |
-4 letters: eger, emeu, emir, erne, gene, genu, germ, geum, gien, girn, gree, grim, grin, grue, grum, menu, mere, mien, mine, mire, muni, mure, neem, neum, rein, rime. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-g-i-m-n-r-u" | |
+1 letter: meringues. | |
+3 letters: argumentive, encumbering, enumerating, interregnum, maneuvering, monseigneur, mutineering, remeasuring, renumbering. | |
+4 letters: counterimage, grumpinesses, interregnums, messeigneurs, numerologies, premeasuring, prenumbering, remunerating, ungerminated. | |
+5 letters: argumentative, counterimages, disfigurement, integumentary, prefigurement, primogeniture, tumorigeneses, tumorigenesis, underwhelming. | |
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