amber
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- noun
- /ˈæmbər/
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ámbar
- A small insect was trapped in the piece of amber that she found on the beach.
- Dominican amber
- ants preserved in amber
- amber (fossil resin)
Oh, actually, it's like the rocks, like citrine, amber, Tiger's eye, stuff like that.
- Oh, actually, it's like the rocks, like citrine, amber, Tiger's eye, stuff like that.
- So in some in for many people, he is he is like frozen in amber as Ziggy Stardust.
- It turns out that DNA is not well preserved, well preserved at all in amber.
- And then he also said it it referred to the characters embedded like insects in amber.
- It was just the easiest for me to to study as like a family locked in the amber.
Examples
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Rostagno turns and holds the amber up to the sunlight streaming through the mouth of the cave.
Fiction book (1993) -
The ancient Greeks rubbed amber, which they called electron, to get small shocks.
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Surely the lenses were of amber, though the amber was so clear and transparent.
Fiction book (1995) -
It's a chunk of amber, a shiny yellow rock about the size of a half dollar.
Fiction book (1993) -
It has notes of smoke, leather and amber and smells like collegiate bragging rights.
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The necklace was made of amber beads that glowed beautifully in the sunlight.
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He admired the amber ring, noting its warm color and smooth texture.
Compounds
- Informal
A person who makes risky, often dangerous choices like betting or driving through amber lights
- Specialized
A plant with long grasslike leaves and a tall leafless stalk of orange-yellow star-shaped flowers
How Yellow
Surface Forms
Etymology
Amber comes from an old Arabic word anbar, a name traders used for a precious, waxy material; later people applied this name to the golden fossil resin that is polished for jewellery. So amber now means the hard, yellowish-brown resin used in ornaments.