Onion
noun
A round vegetable that has many layers and a strong smell and taste.
She chopped an onion for the salad.
Often appears as...
- chopped onion
- red onion
noun
Something with many layers or complex parts.
The scandal is like an onion, with more layers to peel away to uncover the truth.
Often appears as...
- peel back an onion
- layers of an onion
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Idiomatic
noun
A network protocol used for anonymous communication.
The Tor network, often referred to as the Onion Router, protects against surveillance by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays
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Technical
noun
A round vegetable that has many layers and a strong smell and taste.
She chopped an onion for the salad.
Often appears as...
- chopped onion
- red onion
noun
Something with many layers or complex parts.
The scandal is like an onion, with more layers to peel away to uncover the truth.
Often appears as...
- peel back an onion
- layers of an onion
Usage tips
Idiomatic
noun
A network protocol used for anonymous communication.
The Tor network, often referred to as the Onion Router, protects against surveillance by bouncing your communications around a distributed network of relays
Usage tips
Technical
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Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Onions are foundational in cooking, often starting many recipes.
First, sauté the onions until they're translucent.
Pro Tip 2/3Flavor Enhancement
Onions add depth to dishes and are used raw or cooked.
The soup tasted better after adding some onion.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Cutting onions can cause tears due to released chemicals.
She was crying while cutting the onion.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Onions are foundational in cooking, often starting many recipes.
First, sauté the onions until they're translucent.
Pro Tip 2/3Flavor Enhancement
Onions add depth to dishes and are used raw or cooked.
The soup tasted better after adding some onion.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Cutting onions can cause tears due to released chemicals.
She was crying while cutting the onion.
Pro Tip 1/3Culinary Staple
Onions are foundational in cooking, often starting many recipes.
First, sauté the onions until they're translucent.
Pro Tip 2/3Flavor Enhancement
Onions add depth to dishes and are used raw or cooked.
The soup tasted better after adding some onion.
Pro Tip 3/3Emotional Response
Cutting onions can cause tears due to released chemicals.
She was crying while cutting the onion.
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Eric Berlow: Simplifying...
doesn't always equal complicated. So for me, a well-crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated. I'm an ecologist, and I study complexity. I love complexity. And I study that in the natural world, the interconnectedness of species.
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6 ways mushrooms can...
You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty...
and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion. And we keep doing that, and build more powerful machines, accelerators for particles. We look deeper and deeper into the structure of particles,
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Stuart Firestein: The...
the way you unravel the peels of an onion. So peel by peel, you take away the layers of the onion to get at some fundamental kernel of truth. I don't think that's the way it works either. Another one, a kind of popular one, is the iceberg idea, that we only see the tip of the iceberg but underneath
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What does it take to...
cute and cuddly the new word for Ocelot is give Maya onion or something like that anyway once you had enough of these words you could put together sentences like this one means he lose poverty get media smiley on yani which means word
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He Tastes Water Like...
our most important beverage on this planet what a lot of people always say what are so many in no way it has to be from the onion or something like this this cannot be real fascinated you are a water sommelier correct and you believe
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Three ideas. Three...
not to share such a significant part of my life. But I also knew that I'd missed my opportunity, and as Grandma always used to say, "Ah, well, it's all part of the soup. Too late to take the onions out now."
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What causes body odor? -...
A pungent blend of onions, cheese, and cat urine with hints of is that…wet goat? Most of us don’t need more than one whiff to identify that generally unpleasant, characteristic smell we call body odor.
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The Last Cowboys of...
the horses in the castle you find that onion collage they are very adapted to this region into this weather and to this type of life or the Guardian the horse is the most important collect my
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
what everyone else in the world calls him and little bit of pattern and then it has to be in tomato a relish so so many quite a spicy tomato relish with onions and you put that on on the
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Eric Berlow: Simplifying...
doesn't always equal complicated. So for me, a well-crafted baguette, fresh out of the oven, is complex, but a curry onion green olive poppy cheese bread is complicated. I'm an ecologist, and I study complexity. I love complexity. And I study that in the natural world, the interconnectedness of species.
Video examples
6 ways mushrooms can...
You could take a cardboard box delivering shoes, you could add water -- I developed this for the refugee community -- corns, beans and squash and onions. I took several containers -- my wife said, if I could do this, anybody could -- and I ended up growing a seed garden. Then you harvest the seeds --
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Murray Gell-Mann: Beauty...
and then higher energies, or short distances, and then shorter distances, and then still shorter distances, and so on, is like peeling the skin of an onion. And we keep doing that, and build more powerful machines, accelerators for particles. We look deeper and deeper into the structure of particles,
Video examples
Stuart Firestein: The...
the way you unravel the peels of an onion. So peel by peel, you take away the layers of the onion to get at some fundamental kernel of truth. I don't think that's the way it works either. Another one, a kind of popular one, is the iceberg idea, that we only see the tip of the iceberg but underneath
Video examples
What does it take to...
cute and cuddly the new word for Ocelot is give Maya onion or something like that anyway once you had enough of these words you could put together sentences like this one means he lose poverty get media smiley on yani which means word
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He Tastes Water Like...
our most important beverage on this planet what a lot of people always say what are so many in no way it has to be from the onion or something like this this cannot be real fascinated you are a water sommelier correct and you believe
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Three ideas. Three...
not to share such a significant part of my life. But I also knew that I'd missed my opportunity, and as Grandma always used to say, "Ah, well, it's all part of the soup. Too late to take the onions out now."
Video examples
What causes body odor? -...
A pungent blend of onions, cheese, and cat urine with hints of is that…wet goat? Most of us don’t need more than one whiff to identify that generally unpleasant, characteristic smell we call body odor.
Video examples
The Last Cowboys of...
the horses in the castle you find that onion collage they are very adapted to this region into this weather and to this type of life or the Guardian the horse is the most important collect my
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Safari Live - Day 35 PIPE...
what everyone else in the world calls him and little bit of pattern and then it has to be in tomato a relish so so many quite a spicy tomato relish with onions and you put that on on the
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Mark Billingham
English Novelist
As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.
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Mara Brock Akil
American Writer
For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.
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Andy Grammer
American Musician
The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.
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Charles Dudley Warner
American Journalist
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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James Huneker
American Writer
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Mark Lawrenson
English Footballer
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
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Liam Cunningham
Irish Actor
I love onions. I cook with them all the time.
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Phil Taylor
British Athlete
I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.
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Mark Billingham
English Novelist
As I write each new Thorne novel, I'm determined that whatever is happening plot-wise, a new layer of the onion will be peeled away and reveal something about Thorne that is surprising to me as much as anyone else. If I can remain interested in the character, then hopefully the reader will stay interested, too.
Quote examples
Mara Brock Akil
American Writer
For me, I start at the place that my characters are human. I start at the place that they are onions that are layered and meant to be peeled, just as we as human beings are.
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Andy Grammer
American Musician
The Good Parts' is me telling as much as I can of the deeper sides of myself that I haven't shared before. It's like an onion that gets deeper every time you cut it.
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Charles Dudley Warner
American Journalist
Happy is said to be the family which can eat onions together. They are, for the time being, separate, from the world, and have a harmony of aspiration.
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James Huneker
American Writer
Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.
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Will Rogers
American Actor
An onion can make people cry but there's never been a vegetable that can make people laugh.
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Carl Sandburg
American Poet
Life is like an onion. You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.
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Mark Lawrenson
English Footballer
These managers all know their onions and cut their cloth accordingly.
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Liam Cunningham
Irish Actor
I love onions. I cook with them all the time.
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Phil Taylor
British Athlete
I love liver and onions or a roast dinner.
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