Definition of "amber" in İngilizce

noun

1. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • Slaves […] with silver Censors […] perfum'd the air with Amber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.

2. 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.

   • 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, […] .

3. A yellow-orange colour.

4. (British, Australia) 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.

5. (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.

   • an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor

6. (uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

adjective

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

verb

1. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

   • ambered wine, an ambered room

2. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.

   • an ambered fly

3. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

4. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.