Amber vs Mocha - 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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(countable) A coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha.
A strong Arabian coffee
A coffee and chocolate mixed flavour
A dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
Of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.
As nouns the difference between amber and mocha
is that amber is bucket while mocha is (countable) a coffee drink with chocolate syrup added, or a serving thereof; a caffè mocha.As an adjective mocha is
of a dark brown colour, like that of mocha coffee.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;