Patty

[pat-ee] /ˈpæt i/

noun, plural patties.
1.
any item of food covered with dough, batter, etc., and fried or baked:
oyster patties.
2.
a thin, round piece of ground or minced food, as of meat or the like:
a hamburger patty.
3.
a thin, round piece, as of candy:
peppermint patties.
4.
a little pie; pasty.
[pat-ee] /ˈpæt i/
noun
1.
a female given name, form of or .
[berg or, German berk for 1; burg for 2, 3] /bɛrg or, German bɛrk for 1; bɜrg for 2, 3/
noun
1.
Alban
[ahl-bahn,, ahl-bahn] /ɑlˈbɑn,, ˈɑl bɑn/ (Show IPA), 1885–1935, Austrian composer.
2.
Patricia Jane (“Patty”) 1918–2006, U.S. golfer.
3.
Paul, born 1926, U.S. biochemist: Nobel Prize 1980.
/ˈpætɪ/
noun (pl) -ties
1.
a small flattened cake of minced food
2.
a small pie
/bɜːɡ/
noun
1.
short for iceberg
/bɜːɡ/
noun
1.
a South African word for mountain
/bɜːɡ; German bɛrk/
noun
1.
Alban (Maria Johannes) (ˈalbaːn). 1885–1935, Austrian composer: a pupil of Schoenberg. His works include the operas Wozzeck (1921) and Lulu (1935), a violin concerto (1935), chamber works, and songs
2.
Paul. born 1926, US molecular biologist, the first to identify transfer RNA (1956). Nobel prize for chemistry 1980
n.

“small pie,” 1710, from patti-pan (1690s) “something baked in a small pan,” from French pâté, from Old French paste (see paste (n.)).
n.

short for iceberg, attested from 1823.

Berg (bûrg), Paul. Born 1926.

American chemist. He shared a 1980 Nobel Prize for developing recombinant methods of inserting genes from simple organisms into the genetic material of similar organisms.

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