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| amber | |
| 1. n. Ambre, ambre jaune. | |
| 2. n. Couleur d'ambre. | |
| 3. n. (GB) Feu orange. | |
| 4. adj. Ambré. | |
| anglais > anglais | |
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| amber | |
| 1. n. (obsolete) Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale. |  |
| 2. n. A hard, generally yellow to brown translucent fossil resin, used for jewellery. One variety, blue amber, appears blue rather than yellow under direct sunlight. | |
| 3. n. A yellow-orange colour. | |
| (color panel, FFBF00) | |
| 4. n. (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. | |
| 5. n. (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. | |
| an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor | |
| 6. adj. Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber. | |
| 7. v. (transitive, rare) To perfume or flavour with ambergris. | |
| ambered wine, an ambered room | |
| 8. v. (transitive, rare) To preserve in amber. | |
| an ambered fly | |
| 9. v. (transitive, rare, chiefly poetic, or literary) To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber. | |
| 10. v. (intransitive, rare, chiefly poetic, or literary) To take on the yellow colour of amber. | |
| français > anglais | |
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| ambre | |
| 1. n-m. amber (fossil resin) | |
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