amber

IPA: ˈæmbɝ

(obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent or transparent fossil resin from extinct coniferous trees of the pine genus, used for jewellery, decoration and later dissolved as a binder in varnishes. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight.
A yellow-orange colour.
(Britain) The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection when safe to do so.
(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.
(uncountable) Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.
A female given name from English, popular in the 1980s and the 1990s.
A surname of uncertain origin.
A female given name from Hindi
A city in Rajasthan, India, also known as Amer.
A river in Derbyshire, England, which joins the River Derwent at Ambergate.

(transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
(transitive, rare) To preserve in amber.
(transitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
(intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber.

Examples of "amber" in Sentences

So glad to hear amber is safe, glad he did the right thing.
I would definitely go along with the crowd in saying that amber is best.
He frowned when he noticed that the word amber did not appear on the list of hair colors.
It oughta be preserved in amber cuz, after all, eveyrbody knows that prosperity causes poverty, and that prosperous nations where women were educated caused the Dark Ages.
Because, you know, writers and musicians and painters and dancers and what-the-hell-evers, we're all supposed to be bugs in amber, waiting patiently for someone to find us and identify with us, so that we may validate their existence.