ALL meanings of amber
am·ber
A a - uncountable noun amber Amber is a hard yellowish-brown substance used for making jewellery. 3
- colour amber Amber is used to describe things that are yellowish-brown in colour. 3
- colour amber An amber traffic light is orange. 3
- noun amber a yellow or yellowish-brown hard translucent fossil resin derived from extinct coniferous trees that occurs in Tertiary deposits and often contains trapped insects. It is used for jewellery, ornaments, etc 3
- noun amber (as modifier) 3
- noun amber a medium to dark brownish-yellow colour, often somewhat orange, similar to that of the resin 3
- noun amber (as adjective) 3
- noun amber an amber traffic light used as a warning between red and green 3
- noun amber a yellow or brownish-yellow translucent fossil resin found as along seacoasts and used in jewelry, pipestems, etc.: it is hard, easily polished, and quickly charged with static electricity when rubbed 3
- noun amber the color of amber 3
- adjective amber like or made of amber 3
- adjective amber having the color of amber 3
- noun amber a female given name. 1
- adjective amber of the color of amber; yellowish-brown: amber fields of grain. 1
- adjective amber made of amber: amber earrings. 1
- noun amber Hard translucent fossilized resin produced by extinct coniferous trees of the Tertiary period, typically yellowish in color. 1
- noun Technical meaning of amber (language) 1. A functional programming language which adds CSP-like concurrency, multiple inheritance and persistence to ML and generalises its type system. It is similar to Galileo. Programs must be written in two type faces, roman and italics! It has both static types and dynamic types. There is an implementation for Macintosh. 2. An object-oriented distributed language based on a subset of C++, developed at Washington University in the late 1980s. 1
- noun amber resin 1
- noun amber color 1
- noun amber orange traffic light 1
- noun amber made of resin 1
- adjective amber yellow in colour 1
- adjective amber traffic light: orange 1
- noun amber (Obsolete (No longer in use)) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. 0
- noun amber A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. 0
- noun amber A brownish yellow colour. 0
- noun amber (Britain) 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. 0
- noun amber (biology, genetics, biochemistry) The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence. 0
- verb amber (Transitive Verb) (rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris. 0
- verb amber (Transitive Verb) (rare) To preserve in amber. 0
- verb amber (Transitive Verb) (rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber. 0
- verb amber (Intransitive Verb) (rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber. 0
- adjective amber Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber. 0