amber
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
Noun 4 meanings
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. 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 when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
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”
Adjective 1 meaning
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
Etymology
From Middle English ambre, aumbre, from Old French aumbre, ambre, from Arabic عَنْبَر (ʕanbar, “ambergris”), from Middle Persian 𐭠𐭭𐭡𐭫 (ʾnbl /ambar/, “ambergris”). Compare English lamber, ambergris.
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AMBER at a glance
AMBER has 5 letters and scores 9 points in Scrabble (A 1 + M 3 + B 3 + E 1 + R 1) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #7,299 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with amber
All rhymesOne letter away
- EMBER9
- AMEER7
- UMBER9
- OMBER9
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