amber

amber englannista suomeksi

1. meripihkanvärinen, kullanruskea

2. meripihkan värinen, keltainen

3. meripihka

0. Substantiivi

1. meripihka

2. meripihkan värinen">meripihkan värinen, meripihkanvärinen, ruskeankeltainen

3. keltainen

4. kullanruskea, meripihkanvärinen

4. Verbi

amber englanniksi

1. Ambergris, the waxy product of the whale. (defdate)

2. {{quote-text|en|year=1526|title=The Grete Herball

3. 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.

4. 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.

5. 1717, (w), letter, 18 Apr 1717:

Slaves (..) with silver Censors (..) perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.

6. (non-gloss definition)

7. (quote-book)|tlr=(w)|title=Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi|volume=I|publisher=P. and W. Wilson et al.|location=Dublin|page=iv|text=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.

8. 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, (w), appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. (defdate)

9. (RQ:Shakespeare Taming of the Shrew)

10. (RQ:Shakespeare Hamlet)

11. 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, (..).

12. {{quote-journal

13. A yellow-orange colour.

(color panel)

14. (RQ:KJV)

15. The intermediate light in a set of three lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also light.

16. {{quote-text|en|year=1974|title=Traffic Planning and Engineering|page=366

17. {{quote-journal|en|year=2000|journal=Traffic Engineering & Control|volume=41|page=201

18. {{quote-newsgroup|en|date=January 14 2004|author=AZGuy|title=Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red|newsgroup=rec.autos.driving

19. The codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

(coi)

20. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|title=Molecular Genetics of Bacteria|section=edition 3, page 333

21. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Jonathan C. Kuhn|chapter=Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01|title=Salmonella: Methods and Protocols|pages=27–28

22. Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an light.

23. {{quote-book|en|year=1973|author=United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Currency, and Housing|title=Hearings, Reports and Prints of the House Committee...|page=53

24. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

25. (quote-book)

26. To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

''ambered wine'', ''an ambered room''

27. To preserve in amber.

''an ambered fly''

28. To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

29. {{quote-text|en|year=1885|title=America the Beautiful

30. {{quote-text|en|year=2007|author=Phil Rickman|title=Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery

31. To take on the yellow colour of amber.

32. (l) (colour of fossil resin)

(syn)

33. (l) (fossil resin)

34. (l): a hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.

35. non-Papuan settlers in Papua.

36. bucket

37. A measure

38. (l) (gloss)

39. Ambergris, the waxy product of the whale.

40. A common noun for nice-smelling things.

41. The codon "UAG".