Easter egg

n.1. A dyed or decorated egg, traditionally associated with Easter.2. A hidden message or feature, as in a video game or DVD.

Easter egg

n 1. an egg given to children at Easter, usually a chocolate egg or a hen's egg with its shell painted 2. (Computer Science) a bonus or extra feature hidden inside a website, computer game, or DVD, that is only revealed after repeated or lengthy viewing or playing

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n. 1. a dyed or painted hen's egg used as an Easter gift or decoration. 2. an imitation of this, as an egg-shaped candy.

easter egg

A hidden element in a program or website that gives the user extra content when it is found.

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	Easter egg - an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Eastercandy, confect - a rich sweet made of flavored sugar and often combined with fruit or nutschocolate egg - egg-shaped chocolate candycandy egg - egg-shaped candy
	2.	Easter egg - a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easterhard-boiled egg, hard-cooked egg - an egg boiled gently until both the white and the yolk solidify

Translations

复活节彩蛋

Easter

(ˈiːstə) noun a Christian festival held in the spring, to celebrate Christ's coming back to life after the Crucifixion. 复活节Easter egg a decorated egg, especially one made of chocolate, eaten at Easter. （作礼物用的）复活节彩蛋

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Easter egg

a bonus or extra feature hidden inside a website, computer game, or DVD, that is only revealed after repeated or lengthy viewing or playing

Easter Egg

a decorated egg. Easter eggs derive from the decorated eggs found in burial mounds belonging to pagan times. The eggs subsequently became a ritual in the celebration of the Christian holiday Easter. Egg decoration, consisting mainly of geometric or foliage designs strictly subordinated to the shape of the egg, is a popular form of decorative art among many peoples, including Slavs.

REFERENCES

Sumtsov, N. F. “Pisanki.” Kievskaia Starina, 1891, May-June.
Lubenskii muzei E. N. Skarzhinskoi. Kiev, 1890.

easter egg

(jargon)(From the custom of the Easter Egg hunt observed inthe US and many parts of Europe)

1. A message hidden in the object code of a program as ajoke, intended to be found by persons disassembling orbrowsing the code.

2. A message, graphic, sound effect, or other behaviouremitted by a program (or, on an IBM PC, the BIOS ROM) inresponse to some undocumented set of commands or keystrokes,intended as a joke or to display program credits.

One well-known early Easter egg found in a couple ofoperating systems caused them to respond to the command"make love" with "not war?". Many personal computers, andeven satellite control computers, have much more elaborateeggs hidden in ROM, including lists of the developers' names(e.g. Microsoft Windows 3.1x), political exhortations andsnatches of music. The Tandy Color Computer 3 (CoCo) hadimages of the entire development team. Microsoft Excel 97includes a flight simulator!

http://eeggs.com/.

Easter Egg

An undocumented function hidden in software that may or may not be sanctioned by management. Easter Eggs are secret "goodies" found by word of mouth or accident. They are also used in video games, movies, TV commercials, DVDs, CDs, CD-ROMs and every so often in hardware.

In Applications
Very often, pressing some key combination when the About box is open (Help/About) displays the names of the developers who worked on the software. A video game might display the game designer's name when a certain maneuver is completed.

The Media
A movie or TV Easter Egg could be a date on a calendar of a famous event that provides a clue to the movie's ending. The headline in a newspaper casually lying on the table might offer a clue or perhaps some tongue-in-cheek comment.

The right menu sequence on a DVD might produce extra trailers, and extra bonus tracks (extra goodies) may also be called Easter Eggs.

In Hardware
A hardware Easter Egg might play a song if a certain key combination is pressed. For more information, visit www.eeggs.com. See back door, cheat code and cuckoo egg.

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noun an egg-shaped candy used to celebrate Easter

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noun a colored hard-boiled egg used to celebrate Easter

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