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noun (English)
1. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.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."countableobsoleteuncountable
2. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.Examples: "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."countableobsoleteuncountable
3. (British, Australia) 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.Examples: "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."Synonyms: yellowAustraliaBritishcountableuncountable
4. (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.Examples: "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."countableuncountable
5. (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.Examples: "[…] in response to the actions I just described, business was given the green light, and now we seem to be on amber."uncountable
verb (English)
1. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.Examples: "ambered wine, an ambered room"raretransitive
2. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.Examples: "an ambered fly"raretransitive
3. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.Examples: "For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain."; "Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke."; "The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin."literarypoeticraretransitive
4. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.Examples: "Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—"; "[T]hough many of the pirates protested against these energetic activities[,] he was only pleasantly tired when the lowering, ambering sun began to bounce needles of gold glare off the waves ahead;"intransitiveliterarypoeticrare
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