AMBER | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary

Meaning of amber in English

(Definition of amber from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

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The overall chemical and structural composition is used to divide ambers into five classes.
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Report on human cloning through embryo splitting: an amber light.
Amber's method of working is based on building long-term relationships within communities.
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Amber's arrival has a profound effect on all the family members.
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They also note that there is considerable terminological confusion in the terms amber and resinite, not to mention a whole host of specific mineral names.
All plant-bearing layers have also yielded small amounts of fossil amber.
All procedures were performed under dim light in a cold room, using chilled solvents and amber vials.
Amber's world returned to normal.
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There are several intriguing problems concerning amber.
On the surface she refers to her amber beads but, metonymically, it speaks also of her skin tone: amber, a deep, often quite dark, golden color.
To start with, it is not even clear exactly what sort of tree produced the fluid resins that subsequently hardened about their entombed captives to form the amber.
In addition to these stages in the amber, a lemon-shaped body in the abdomen of the fly (best seen with transmitted light) was interpreted to represent the parasitic female nematode.
Taphonomy of insects in carbonates and amber.
At the end of the designated amber period, the file is coded "red".
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The amber light has been showing for some time and now the red is firmly on.
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Translations of amber

in Chinese (Traditional)
琥珀, (交通信號)黃燈…
in Chinese (Simplified)
琥珀, (交通信号)黄灯…
in Spanish
ámbar…
in Portuguese
âmbar, amarelo, cor de âmbar…
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kehribar kırmızısı, sarı ile portakal rengi arası bir renk, mücevherat yapımında kullanılan katı sarımsı kahverengi bir madde…
ambre…
barnsteen…
jantar, jantarový…
rav, rav-…
ambar…
อำพัน…
hổ phách…
(kolor) żółty lub bursztynowy, bursztyn, bursztyn(owy)…
bärnsten, bärnstensfärgad…
ambar…
der Bernstein…
rav…
янтар, бурштин…
янтарный цвет, янтарь…
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