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| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Amber.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb amber.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (amber) |
1. To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.[Websters]. 2. To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: ambering, ambered, ambers, amberer, amberers, amberingly and amberedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), compiled from various sources, under license. |
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"Ambered" is a common misspelling or typo for: cambered. |
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Date "Ambered" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Of Amber.[Websters]. | |
| Verb Past Tense | 1. Past tense conjugation of the verb amber.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (amber) | 1. To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.[Websters]. 2. To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.[Websters]. 3. Base verb from the following inflections: ambering, ambered, ambers, amberer, amberers, amberingly and amberedly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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"AMBERED" is a common misspelling or typo for: cambered. |
Date "AMBERED" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1888. (references) |
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Computing | Amber | ||
| Aerospace | New name for Acrobat. See entry above. (references) | ||
| Antiquities | Amber. See Electrum. (references) | ||
| Bible | 1: (Heb. chasmal) occurs only in (Ezekiel 1:4,27; 8:2) It is usually supposed that the Hebrew word chasmal (denotes a metal) and not the fossil resin called amber. (references) | 2: Amber (Ezek. 1:4, 27; 8:2. Heb., hashmal, rendered by the LXX. elektron, and by the Vulgate electrum), a metal compounded of silver and gold. Some translate the word by "polished brass," others "fine brass," as in Rev. 1:15; 2:18. It was probably the mixture now called electrum. The word has no connection, however, with what is now called amber, which is a gummy substance, reckoned as belonging to the mineral kingdom though of vegetable origin, a fossil resin. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary. | |
| Chemistry | 1: A fossilized resin which generally ranges in color from yellow to deep orange. Source: European Union. (references) | 2: A fossilised resin which generally ranges in colour from yellow to deep orange. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Food & Agriculture | Color of a wine resembling that of amber. Source: European Union. (references) | ||
| Geology | Fossilization where the organism is entrapped in resin and preserved whole. (references) | ||
| Health | A yellowish fossil resin, the gum of several species of coniferous trees, found in the alluvial deposits of northeastern Germany. It is used in molecular biology in the analysis of organic matter fossilized in amber. (references) | ||
| Literature | 1: Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms, 2: T. Moore: Fire Worshippers. 3: But wonder how the devil they got there." 4: "Pretty! in amber, to observe the forms 5: That ever the sorrowing sea-bird hath wept." 6: Amber, a repository. So called because insects and small leaves are preserved in amber. 7: Amber This fossilised vegetable resin is, according to legend, a concretion of birds' tears. The birds were the sisters of Meleager, who never ceased weeping for the death of their brother. - Ovid: Metamorphoses, viii. line 270, etc. 8: "Around thee shall glisten the loveliest amber 9: "You may be disposed to preserve it in your amber." - Notes and Querries. - W. Dowe. 10: The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare, 11: Pope: Ep. to Arbuthnot, 169--72. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. | ||
| Mining | A. A mineraloid; amorphous hydrocarbons from resins secreted by trees or shrubs upon injury, derived by oxidation and polymerization of nonvolatile terpenoids; in sedimentary rocks and on beaches, e.g., Baltic Sea. See also: chemawinite b. A hard, brittle fossil resin, yellow to brown, that takes a fine polish; may contain fossil insects and plant matter. Syn: succinite; bernstein; electrum. See also: resin c. A group of fossil resins containing considerable succinic acid and having highly variable C: H: O ratios; e.g., almashite, simetite, delatynite, and ambrosine. See also: copal e.g., Baltic Sea. See also: chemawinite b. A hard, brittle fossil resin, yellow to brown, that takes a fine polish; may contain fossil insects and plant matter. Syn: succinite; bernstein; electrum. See also: resin c. A group of fossil resins containing considerable succinic acid and having highly variable C: H: O ratios; e.g., almashite, simetite, delatynite, and ambrosine. See also: copal. (references) | ||
| Wikipedic | AMBER (an acronym for Assisted Model Building and Energy Refinement) is a force field for molecular dynamics originally developed by Peter Kollman's group in the University of California, San Francisco. AMBER is also the name for the molecular dynamics simulation package associated with this force field, now coordinated by David A. Case at Scripps Research Institute. A notable use of AMBER is in the distributed computing project Folding@home where it was recently (as of October 15, 2004) in the simulation of protein folding. (references) | ||
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| Amber (color) | Amber is an orange-yellow color that got its name for the material known as an amber. It is famous for being a color used in traffic lights. VT220 terminals were also available in amber. (references) | ||
| Amber Air | Amber Air is a charter airline based in Kaunas, Lithuania. It will operate in the executive and leisure charter flight area. It was established in December 2004 and started operations on 23 December 2004. It hopes to commence scheduled services in the near future. Its main base is Kaunas International Airport (KUN). (references) | ||
| Amber Airways | Amber Airways was an airline based in the United Kingdom. (references) | ||
| Amber ale | North American amber ales are beers which range from light copper to light brown in color (with some termed red ales if the color warrants). They are characterized by American-variety hops used to produce high hop bitterness, flavor, and medium-to-high aroma. Amber ales have medium-high to high maltiness with medium to low caramel character. They usually have medium to medium-high body. The style may have a slight fruity (estery) flavor and aroma. The butter-like influences of diacetyl may be barely perceived. A little haze from yeast is acceptable for bottle-conditioned products. (references) | ||
| AMBER Alert | In the USA and Canada, an AMBER Alert is a notification to the general public, by various media outlets, that a confirmed abduction of a child has happened. AMBER is an backronym for "America's Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response," and was named for 9-year-old Amber Hagerman, who was abducted and murdered in Arlington, Texas in 1996. (references) | ||
| Amber Brkich | Amber Brkich (born August 11, 1978 near Pittsburgh) is the winner of Survivor: All-Stars, and was a contestant on Survivor: The Australian Outback. On May 9, 2004, she accepted fellow All-Stars competitor Rob Mariano's proposal of marriage on live television. (references) | ||
| Amber Campisi | Amber Lynn Campisi (b. June 21, 1981 in Dallas, Texas) is an American model. She was Playboy's Miss February 2005. (references) | ||
| Amber Ellan | Amber Ellan is a bondage model. (references) | ||
| Amber Evans | Amber Evans (born January 7, 1979) is a model. She was born in Texas and raised in the Phoenix, Arizona area. (references) | ||
| Amber fish | A fish of the southern Atlantic coast (Seriola Carolinensis.). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. | ||
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| Expressions | Domain | Definition | |
| Agglomerated amber | Chemistry | An opaque mineral substance formed by agglomerating amber waste. Source: European Union. (references) | |
| Amber codon | Geology | The nonsense codon UAG, one of three codons which, instead of coding for an amino acid, signals that the translation of mRNA into a chain of amino acids should stop. (references) | |
| Amber mica | Mining | See:phlogopite. (references) | |
| Amber mutation | Geology | A mutation from a codon which codes for an amino acid into the amber codon UAG, which normally signals that the translation of mRNA into an amino acid chain should stop. The mutation causes the amino acid chain to stop forming before it is actually completed. (references) | |
| Amber opal | Mining | A brownish-yellow variety of opal stained by iron oxide. (references) | |
| Amber suppressor | Geology | A tRNA molecule which suppresses amber mutations because it has mutated to recognize the amber codon UAG (which normally signals that the translation of mRNA into an amino acid chain should stop) as a signal for inserting whatever amino acid it carries into the chain. As a result, it can prevent the amino acid chain from ending before it is completed. (references) | |
| Black amber | Mining | A name given to jet that is found with amber. It becomes faintly electric when rubbed. See also: jet; stantienite. (references) | |
| Earth amber | Mining | A. Amber that is mined rather than from the sea. Also called earth stone.b. Amber with its surface deteriorated in luster, transparency, and color. (references) | |
| Fatty amber | Mining | A yellowish amber resembling goose fat; not as opaque as cloudy amber.Syn:flohmig amber. (references) | |
| Flohmig amber | Mining | See: fatty amber. (references) | |
| Foamy amber | Mining | Frothy amber. Almost opaque chalky white amber. Will not take a polish. (references) | |
| Friable amber | Mining | See: gedanite. (references) | |
| Frothy amber | Mining | See: foamy amber. (references) | |
| Mellow amber | Mining | See:gedanite. (references) | |
| Pressed amber | Mining | Synthetic amber produced by consolidating amber fragments under pressure with an oil binder. Syn: reconstructed amber; amberoid. (references) | |
| Reconstructed amber | Mining | See: pressed amber. (references) | |
| Sicilian amber | Mining | Simetite, a variety of amber. (references) | |
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