Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A hard, translucent, usually brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.
- noun A brownish yellow.
- adjective Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.
- adjective Made of or resembling amber.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A vessel with one handle; a pail; a bucket; a pitcher.
- noun An old English measure of 4 bushels.
- To scent or flavor with amber or ambergris.
- To make amber-colored.
- To inclose in amber.
- noun Ambergris (which see).
- noun A mineralized pale-yellow, sometimes reddish or brownish, resin of extinct pine-trees, occurring in beds of lignite and in alluvial soils, but found in greatest abundance on the shores of the Baltic, between Königsberg and Memel, where it is thrown up by the sea.
- noun In the English versions of the Old Testament (Ezek. i. 4, 27; viii. 2) used to translate the Hebrew word chashmal, a shining metal, rendered in the Septuagint ēlektron, and in the Vulgate electrum. See
electrum . - noun Liquid-ambar.
- Consisting of or resembling amber; of the color of amber.
- Having the odor of ambergris.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Consisting of amber; made of amber.
- adjective Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
- transitive verb To scent or flavor with ambergris.
- transitive verb To preserve in amber.
- noun (Min.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
- noun Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow.
- noun obsolete Ambergris.
- noun The balsam, liquidambar.
- noun and old and popular name for
jet .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A brownish yellow colour.
- noun UK The intermediate light in a set of three
traffic lights , the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so. - noun biology, genetics, biochemistry The
stop codon (nucleotide triplet ) "UAG", or amutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence. - adjective Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
- verb transitive To perfume or flavour with
ambergris . - verb transitive To
preserve in amber.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
- noun a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
- noun a deep yellow color
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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He frowned when he noticed that the word amber did not appear on the list of hair colors.
Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996
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He frowned when he noticed that the word amber did not appear on the list of hair colors.
Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996
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He frowned when he noticed that the word amber did not appear on the list of hair colors.
Amaryllis Jayne Castle 1996
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I would definitely go along with the crowd in saying that amber is best.
What is the best pair of polarised sun glasses that you can recommend? 2010
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I would definitely go along with the crowd in saying that amber is best.
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It oughta be preserved in amber cuz, after all, eveyrbody knows that prosperity causes poverty, and that prosperous nations where women were educated caused the Dark Ages.
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It oughta be preserved in amber cuz, after all, eveyrbody knows that prosperity causes poverty, and that prosperous nations where women were educated caused the Dark Ages.
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Because, you know, writers and musicians and painters and dancers and what-the-hell-evers, we're all supposed to be bugs in amber, waiting patiently for someone to find us and identify with us, so that we may validate their existence.
I never used subject lines at Blogger, so why do I need them here? greygirlbeast 2009
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So glad to hear amber is safe, glad he did the right thing.
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So glad to hear amber is safe, glad he did the right thing.
reesetee commented on the word amber
An old English unit of volume used for liquids and dry goods, equal to about 4 bushels or about 140 liters.
November 6, 2007
josephine commented on the word amber
amber is resin from trees usually found in countries such as Poland. Many years ago in certain countries it was a capital offence to have amber, except royalty
May 12, 2010
josephine commented on the word amber
(creat a link to the word.)
May 12, 2010
chained_bear commented on the word amber
Usage/historical note in comment on ambergris.
October 9, 2017