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amber
English
Etymology
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English s?p (“amber, resin, pomade”).
- The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?am.b?/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æm.b?/
- Rhymes: -æmb?(?)
Noun
amber (countable and uncountable, plural ambers)
- (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. [14th-18th c.]
- 1526, The Grete Herball:
- Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
- 1579, The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained in Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes):
- 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.
- 1600, John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:
- 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.
- 1717, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, letter, 18 Apr 1717:
- Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.
- 1526, The Grete Herball:
- 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.]
- 1594 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene III:
- With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
- With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
- 1594, William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark. Act II, Scene II:
- 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.
- 1637, Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment), republished in 1999 ?ISBN, page 102:
- 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, […] .
- 1594 William Shakespeare, The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene III:
- A yellow-orange colour.
- (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.
- 1974, Traffic Planning and Engineering, page 366:
- While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
- 2000, in the Journal of Traffic Engineering & Control, volume 41, page 201:
- Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
- 2004 January 14, "AZGuy" (username), "Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red", in rec.autos.driving, Usenet:
- >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.
- 1974, Traffic Planning and Engineering, page 366:
- (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.
- an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
- 2007, Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, edition 3, page 333:
- For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber mutation, amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
- 2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01, in Salmonella: Methods and Protocols, pages 27–28:
- 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.
Synonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): yellow (US)
- (obsolete: the waxy product of the sperm whale): ambergris
Antonyms
- (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights): red, green
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
See also
- copal
Adjective
amber (comparative more amber, superlative most amber)
- Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
Translations
Verb
amber (third-person singular simple present ambers, present participle ambering, simple past and past participle ambered)
- (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
- ambered wine, an ambered room
- (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
- an ambered fly
- (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
- 1885, America the Beautiful;
- For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain.
- 2007, Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery;
- 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.
- 1885, America the Beautiful;
- (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
See also
- electrum
- succinic
- succinic acid
- traffic light
- Appendix:Colors
Further reading
- David Barthelmy (1997–2021) , “Amber”, in Webmineral Mineralogy Database
- “amber”, in Mindat.org?[3], Hudson Institute of Mineralogy, 2000–2021.
Anagrams
- Brame, Bream, bemar, brame, bream, embar
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m.b?r/
- Hyphenation: am?ber
Noun
amber n (plural ambers, diminutive ambertje n)
- amber (colour of fossil resin)
- Synonyms: barnsteengeel, barnsteenkleur
- (nonstandard) amber (fossil resin)
- Synonym: barnsteen
Related terms
- ambergrijs
Descendants
- ? Indonesian: amber (“amber”)
Indonesian
Etymology 1
From Dutch amber, from Middle French ambre, from Arabic ???????? (?anbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian ????????????????? (?nbl /ambar/). Doublet of ambar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?amber], [?amb?r]
- Hyphenation: am?bér
Noun
amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)
- amber: a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- Synonym: ambar
Etymology 2
From Dutch uitlander (“foreigner”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): [?amber]
- Hyphenation: am?bér
Noun
amber (plural amber-amber, first-person possessive amberku, second-person possessive ambermu, third-person possessive ambernya)
- (Papua) non-Papuan settlers in Papua.
Further reading
- “amber” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia (KBBI) Daring, Jakarta: Badan Pengembangan dan Pembinaan Bahasa, Kementerian Pendidikan dan Kebudayaan Republik Indonesia, 2016.
Old English
Alternative forms
- ambor, ?mber, ?mber
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??m.ber/
Noun
amber m
- bucket
Descendants
- Middle English: ambre, anbre, almer
Old High German
Alternative forms
- ampri, eimbar, einber, eimmer
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ambr?.
Noun
amber m
- bucket
Descendants
- Middle High German: amper, amber, eimber, eimer
- German: Eimer, Amper
- Luxembourgish: Eemer
Serbo-Croatian
Noun
amber m (Cyrillic spelling ?????)
- amber (fossil resin)
Synonyms
- ambra
- ambar
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from Arabic ???????? (?anbar).
Noun
amber (definite accusative amberi, plural amberler)
- Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
- A common noun for nice-smelling things.
- (biochemistry, genetics) The stop codon "UAG".
Declension
Derived terms
Anagrams
- barem
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ambler
English
Etymology
From Middle English amblere; equivalent to amble +? -er.
Pronunciation
- (General American) IPA(key): /?æm.bl?/
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?æm.bl?/
- Rhymes: -æmbl?(?)
Noun
ambler (plural amblers)
- A slow-moving, comfortable horse or mule.
- Someone who walks at a leisurely pace; one who ambles.
Anagrams
- Balmer, Blamer, Marble, blamer, lamber, marble, ramble
French
Etymology
From Old French ambler, borrowed from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambul?re, present active infinitive of ambul?. Doublet of ambuler, and partially of aller.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??.ble/
Verb
ambler
- (archaic) to amble
Conjugation
Further reading
- “ambler” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- blâmer
Old French
Alternative forms
- anbler
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan amblar, from Latin ambul?re, present active infinitive of ambul?. See also aler, which was inherited (in part) from the same Latin verb.
Verb
ambler
- (of a horse) to amble
Conjugation
This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. In the present tense an extra supporting e is needed in the first-person singular indicative and throughout the singular subjunctive, and the third-person singular subjunctive ending -t is lost. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.
Descendants
- English: amble
- French: ambler
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