Amber

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A hard translucent yellow, orange, or brownish-yellow fossil resin, used for making jewelry and other ornamental objects.
  • n. A brownish yellow.
  • adj. Having the color of amber; brownish-yellow.
  • adj. Made of or resembling amber: an amber necklace.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A brownish yellow colour.
  • n. 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.
  • n. The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
  • adj. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
  • v. To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
  • v. To preserve in amber.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow.
  • n. Ambergris.
  • n. The balsam, liquidambar.
  • adj. Consisting of amber; made of amber.
  • adj. Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
  • v. To scent or flavor with ambergris.
  • v. To preserve in amber.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A vessel with one handle; a pail; a bucket; a pitcher.
  • n. An old English measure of 4 bushels.
  • n. Ambergris (which see).
  • n. 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.
  • n. 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.
  • n. Liquid-ambar.
  • Consisting of or resembling amber; of the color of amber.
  • Having the odor of ambergris.
  • To scent or flavor with amber or ambergris.
  • To make amber-colored.
  • To inclose in amber.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adj. of a medium to dark brownish yellow color
  • n. a hard yellowish to brownish translucent fossil resin; used for jewelry
  • n. a deep yellow color
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    chromatic   
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