Amber vs Cocoa - What's the difference?
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(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
* 1526 , The Grete Herball :
* 1579 , The Booke of Simples'', fol. 56 (contained in ''Bulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes ):
* 1600 , John Pory (translator), A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:
* 1717 , (Lady Mary Wortley Montagu), letter, 18 Apr 1717:
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, , appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
* 1594 — Shakespeare,
* 1594 — Shakespeare,
* 1637', ''Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment)'', republished in ' 1999 (ISBN 0275962679), page 102:
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A brownish yellow colour.
(British) 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.
* 1974 , Traffic Planning and Engineering , page 366:
* 2000 , in the Journal of Traffic Engineering & Control , volume 41, page 201:
* 2004 January 14, "AZGuy" (username), "Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red", in rec.autos.driving, Usenet :
(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.
* 2007 , Molecular Genetics of Bacteria , edition 3, page 333:
* 2007 , Jonathan C. Kuhn, Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01'', in ''Salmonella: Methods and Protocols , pages 27–28:
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
* 2006 , Jeffrey Archer, False Impression , page 270:
* 2008 , Elizabeth Amber, Raine: The Lords of Satyr , page 211:
(rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
(rare) To preserve in amber.
(transitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
* 1885 , America the Beautiful ;
* 2007 , Phil Rickman, Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery ;
* 2008 , Jeri Westerson, Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir :
(intransitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.
* 2009 , Jack Wennerstrom, Black Coffee , page 19:
* 2011 , Tim Powers, On Stranger Tides :
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(label) the dried and partially fermented fatty seeds of the cacao tree from which chocolate is made
(label) an unsweetened brown powder made from roasted, ground cocoa beans, used in making chocolate, and in cooking.
(label) a hot drink made with milk, cocoa powder, and sugar
(label) a cup or mug of this drink
(label) a light to medium brown colour
of a light to medium brown colour, like that of cocoa powder
(label) Another spelling of .
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As a noun amber
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(computing) an object-oriented programming api for mac os x.amber
English
(wikipedia amber)Noun
- Ambre is hote and drye Some say that it is the sparme of a 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 perfum'd the air with Amber , Aloes wood, and other Scents.
The Taming of the Shrew, Act IV, Scene III :
- With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery,
- With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
Hamlet, Act II, Scene II :
- Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thick amber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.
- 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, .
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- While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers , present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
- Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
- >Problem: Red-red signals are too time consuming when traffic density is higher.
- I don't find them time consuming at all. I find them identical to ambers .
- an amber codon'', ''an amber mutation'', ''an amber suppressor
- For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with an amber' mutation, ' amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
- Double ambers revert at 10-8-10-9, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.
Synonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) yellow (US) * ambergrisAntonyms
* (intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights) red, greenDerived terms
* Amber * ambeer * ambered * amber fluid * amber gambler * ambering * amberjack * amber liquid * amber nectar * amberoidAdjective
(en adjective)- They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turned amber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.
- Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turned amber by morning's frost.
Verb
(en verb)- ambered''' wine'', ''an '''ambered room
- an ambered fly
- For purple mountains majesty; for amber waves of grain .
- Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lamps ambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.
- The firelight flickered on her rounded cheeks, ambering the pale skin.
- Westward along Lancaster Avenue, among the stone walls and broad driveways of imposing old houses—their lawns dappled with the shade of ambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—
- [T]hough many of the pirates protested against these energetic activities[,] he was only pleasantly tired when the lowering, ambering sun began to bounce needles of gold glare off the waves ahead;