2syllables
amber
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Definitions ofamber
1noun
- Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
- A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
- A yellow-orange colour.
- 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.
- The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.
Example: "an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor"
1verb
- To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
Example: "ambered wine, an ambered room"
- To preserve in amber.
Example: "an ambered fly"
- To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
- To take on the yellow colour of amber.
1adjective
- Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
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