The nucleotide sequence "UAG" is named "amber" for the first person to isolate the amber mutation, California Institute of Technology graduate student Harris Bernstein, whose last name ("Bernstein") is the German word for the resin "amber".[1][2]
Ambre is hote and drye[…] Some say that it is the sparme of a whale.
1579,The Booke of Simples, fol. 56 (contained inBulleins Bulwarke of Defence against all Sicknesse, Soarnesse, and Woundes):
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 calledAzelum, which feedeth upon Amber Grece, and dyeth, which is taken by cunnyng fishers and the belly opened, and this preciousAmber found in hym.
1600, John Pory (translator),A Geographical Historie of Africa (original by Leo Africanus), page 344:
The head of this fish is as hard as stone. The inhabitants of the Ocean sea coast affirme that this fish casteth foorthAmber; but whether the saidAmber be the sperma or the excrement thereof, they cannot well determine.
Slaves[…] with silver Censors[…] perfum'd the air withAmber, Aloes wood, and other Scents.
Formerly thought to be the product of a plant.
1769,Firishta, translated byAlexander Dow,Tales translated from the Persian of Inatulla of Delhi, volume I, Dublin: P. and W. Wilson et al., page iv:
The leaves of the foreſt were loaded with manna, pureamber dropped from every bough, honey diſtilled from the rifted rock, and the humming bee, drunk with joy, ſtrayed from flower to flower, forgetful of his burſting cells.
A hard, generallyyellow tobrowntranslucent or transparentfossilresin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used forjewellery, decoration and later dissolved as abinder invarnishes. One variety,blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.[from 15th c.]
Slanders, sir: for the satirical rogue says here that old men have grey beards, that their faces are wrinkled, their eyes purging thickamber and plum-tree gum and that they have a plentiful lack of wit.
1637,Monro, his expedition with the Worthy Scots Regiment (called Mac-Keys Regiment), republished in1999→ISBN, page 102:
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, likeAmber, which Nero esteemed much of,[…].
2012 March, Lee A. Groat, “Gemstones”, inAmerican Scientist[2], volume100, number 2, archived fromthe original on14 June 2012, page128:
Although there are dozens of different types of gems, among the best known and most important are[…]. (Common gem materials not addressed in this article includeamber, amethyst, chalcedony, garnet, lazurite, malachite, opals, peridot, rhodonite, spinel, tourmaline, turquoise and zircon.)
And I looked, and, behold, a whirlwind came out of the north, a great cloud, and a fire infolding itself, and a brightness was about it, and out of the midst thereof as the colour ofamber, out of the midst of the fire.
(British,Australia) The intermediate light in a set of threetraffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See alsoyellow light.
1974,Traffic Planning and Engineering, page366:
While earlier controllers provided concurrentambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
Also flashingambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
2004 January 14, AZGuy, “Turn Signal Research shows amber no more effective then red”, inrec.autos.driving (Usenet):
>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 toambers.
an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor
2007,Molecular Genetics of Bacteria, edition 3, page 333:
For example, to cross a temperature-sensitive mutation with anamber mutation,amber suppressor cells are infected at the low (permissive) temperature.
2007, Jonathan C. Kuhn, “Detection of Salmonella by Bacteriophage Felix 01”, inSalmonella: Methods and Protocols,pages27–28:
Doubleambers revert at 10−8−10−9, and therefore, reversion is negligible. Double-amber mutants are made by crossing single-amber mutants with each other.
The translations below need to be checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables. See instructions atWiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
2006, Jeffrey Archer,False Impression, page270:
They all moved safely through the first green and then the second, but when the third light turnedamber Jack's taxi was the last to cross the intersection.
2008, Elizabeth Amber,Raine: The Lords of Satyr, page211:
Ahead, a cool breeze swept the pale morning sun across a grassy meadow turnedamber by morning's frost.
For purple mountains majesty; foramber waves of grain.
2007, Phil Rickman,Fabric of Sin: A Merrily Watkins Mystery:
Home to the mosaic of coloured-lit windows in the black and white houses, the fake gas lampsambering the cobbles, sometimes the scent of applewood smoke.
2008, Jeri Westerson,Veil of Lies: A Medieval Noir:
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 ofambering maples and dusty, bark-peeled sycamores—
2011, Tim Powers,On Stranger Tides:
[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;
