Meanings (ES + gloss)
ámbar
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.
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…
With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.
ámbar
A yellow-orange colour.
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…
ámbar
The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, which when illuminated indicates that drivers should stop when safe to do so. See also yellow light.
Also flashing ambers are not operational at this type of crossing.
While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.
Phrases
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