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Definition amber

Etymology

From Middle English aumbre, in turn from Middle French ambre, from Arabic ???????‎ (?anbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ?mbl (ambar, “ambergris”). Compare lamber, ambergris. Displaced Old English eolhsand (“elksand”).

Noun

amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers)

1. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. [14th-18th c.]
2. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. [from 15th c.]
3. A yellow-orange colour.
4. (Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.
5. (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

Adjective

amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber)

1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

Verb

amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)

1. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
2. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
3. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
4. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

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