Meaning of Amber | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
2. A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
3. A male given name from Hindi.
4. A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.
5. Synonym of Ambel (“language”).
6. Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
   countable, obsolete, uncountable
7. A surname of uncertain origin.
8. A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
9. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
   countable, uncountable
10. A yellow-orange colour.
    countable, uncountable
11. The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
    Australia, British, countable, uncountable
12. The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
    countable, uncountable
13. Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
    uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.”

“As for Amber Grice, or Amber Cane, which ist most sweet myngled with other sweete thynges: some say it commeth from the rocks of the Sea. […] Some say it is gotten by a fish called Azelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this precious Amber found in hym.”

“The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorth Amber; but whether the said Amber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.”

“Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.”

“The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pure amber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.”

“With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.”

“Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.”

“To shew this by example, we reade of Sabina Poppcea, to whom nothing was wanting, but shame and honestie, being extremely beloved of Nero, had the colour of her haire yellow, like Amber, which Nero esteemed much of, […] .”

“Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are […]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article include amber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)”

“And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.”

“While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.”

“Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.”

“>Problem: Red-red signals are too time consuming when traffic density is higher. I don't find them time consuming at all. I find them identical to ambers.”

“an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor”

“For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber mutation, amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.”

“Double ambers revert at 10⁻⁸−10⁻⁹, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.”

“[…] in response to the actions I just described, business was given the green light, and now we seem to be on amber.”

“The youngest daughter of the Marchioness of Summerdown had one of these quaint, pretty names - Amber! - and what a pretty creature she was!”

“And then she said softly, "Sarah - I think I'll name her Amber - for the colour of her father's eyes - "”

“A bit raddled, maybe thirty, maybe older, tanned like a hitchhiker, dressed like a road protester, one of those older women still determinedly being a girl; all those eighties feministy still-political women were terribly interested in what Eve did. Hippie name. Amber. Ridiculous name.”

“Amber, the half, generally waltzed round our forwards, and when he secured he passed the ball on to Aspinall.”

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