amber

名词 n. 动词 v. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /ˈæm.bəː/|[ˈæm.bəː]   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — Ambre is hote and drye […] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
  2. Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.; Formerly thought to be the product of a plant. countable,obsolete,uncountable
    — 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.
  3. 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. countable,uncountable
    — With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
  4. A yellow-orange colour. countable,uncountable
    — And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour of amber, out of the midst of the fire.
  5. 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. Australia,Commonwealth,UK,countable,uncountable
    — While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
  6. The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence. countable,uncountable
    — an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
  7. Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light. uncountable
    — […] in response to the actions I just described, business was given the green light, and now we seem to be on amber.
动词 v.
  1. To perfume or flavour with ambergris. rare,transitive
    — ambered wine, an ambered room
  2. To preserve in amber. rare,transitive
    — an ambered fly
  3. To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber. literary,poetic,rare,transitive
    — For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain.
  4. To take on the yellow colour of amber. intransitive,literary,poetic,rare
    — 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—
形容词 adj.
  1. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
    — They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turned amber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.

词形变化

ambers plural more amber comparative most amber superlative ambers present,singular,third-person ambering participle,present ambered participle,past ambered past

词汇关系

近义词
ambergris
反义词
red green
衍生词
acid of amber ambeer Amber amber alert ambered amberfish amber fluid amber forest cockroach amber gambler amber-greace amber greace amber-grease amber grease amber-grece amber grece amber greece amber-greece amber-greese amber-grese amber grese amber grice amber-grice amber-griece amber griece amber-griese amber griese amber gris amber-gris amber grise amber-grise amberiferous ambering amberish amberjack amberlike amber liquid amber nectar amberoid amberous amber pudding amber seed ambersnail amber tree amberware amber wine amber wood cockroach ambery ambrite black amber gray amber grey amber preserved in amber salt of amber sweet-amber
相关词
ambergris ambrette liquidambar pomander yellowhammer copal electrum succinic succinic acid traffic light

词源

词源 1
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. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“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".
词源 2
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. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“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".
词源 3
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. Displaced Middle English smulting (from Old English smelting (“amber”)), Old English eolhsand (“amber”), Old English glær (“amber”), and Old English sāp (“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".
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