(n.) A yellowish translucent resin resembling copal, found as a fossil in alluvial soils, with beds of lignite, or on the seashore in many places. It takes a fine polish, and is used for pipe mouthpieces, beads, etc., and as a basis for a fine varnish. By friction, it becomes strongly electric.
(n.) Amber color, or anything amber-colored; a clear light yellow; as, the amber of the sky.
(n.) Ambergris.
(n.) The balsam, liquidambar.
(a.) Consisting of amber; made of amber.
(a.) Resembling amber, especially in color; amber-colored.
(v. t.) To scent or flavor with ambergris; as, ambered wine.
(v. t.) To preserve in amber; as, an ambered fly.
Example Sentences:
(1) There will be no statutory inquiry or independent review into the notorious clash between police and miners at Orgreave on 18 June 1984 , the home secretary, Amber Rudd, has announced.
(2) These regions seem to be important in the activity of gpE, since amber mutations in these regions are suppressed on the average by less species of suppressors than those outside these regions.
(3) With plasmid pSB22 only amber suppressor strains of Escherichia coli lysed after heat inactivation of lambda cI857.
(4) After infection of a nonpermissive host with bacteriophage T7 amber mutant in any gene coding for a core protein, the resulting lysates contained more noncapsid assemblies of capsid envelope protein than did wild-type lysates; these assemblies had a mass two to at least 500 times greater than the mass of capsid I.
(5) In this work, a population of mutagenized G3:C70 alanine tRNA amber suppressors was subjected to a selection for mutations that compensate for the inactivating G3:C70 substitution.
(6) The complete transcriptional unit, incorporating the tac promoter and rrnB transcription terminators flanking the Pf1 coat protein gene, was excised from the expression plasmid and cloned into the intergenic space of bacteriophage R252, an fd bacteriophage that carries an amber mutation in its own major coat protein gene.
(7) This lustrous amber oil looks lovely and is commended for its "subtle", more neutral flavour.
(8) We recently demonstrated that the molecular lesion in a Chinese patient with nonfunctional beta-globin mRNA was due to the mutation of the normal lysine codon AAG at amino acid 17 to the amber terminator codon UAG, which prematurely terminates the beta-globin chain.
(9) Nina Pham , 26, was upgraded to “good” condition Tuesday, and Amber Vinson , 29, tested Ebola-free on Wednesday.
(10) Europe's first ruling on Brexit: it's masculine, unless you're Italian Read more EU diplomats speak, too, of genuine shock at proposals by the home secretary, Amber Rudd, to oblige British firms to disclose how many foreign workers they employ.
(11) Discontinuities of T4 DNA which are caused by excision of UV-damaged areas, by decay of (32)P atoms, or which are present in DNA from rII(-)lig(am) (-) phage produced in a host nonpermissive for amber mutants are all repaired by bacterial enzymes after infection in the presence of chloramphenicol.
(12) Amber Rudd, the energy secretary, has promised to reform the auction scheme but one of her ministers, Andrea Leadsom, welcomed this year’s awards, arguing they reduced costs for homeowners.
(13) Amber (UAG) and ochre (UAA) mutations are suppressed whereas UGA is not suppressed.
(14) Since April 1990, chest radiographs in the Mannheim clinic have been performed with a slit technique (Kodak AMBER System).
(15) Oligonucleotide-directed mutagenesis was used to generate amber, ochre and opal suppressors from cloned Arabidopsis and Nicotiana tRNA(Tyr) genes.
(16) The full mutase gene sequence codes for a protein of 300 amino acids, and it includes two amber (TAG) codons in the open reading frame.
(17) These mutants have changes in the anticodon sequence (CAU----CUA) that allow them to read the amber codon and changes in the acceptor stem that allow them to bind to the ribosomal aminoacyl (A) site.
(18) Instead hundreds of millions of pounds will be paid out to big energy companies to keep open old power stations that would have been open anyway, and to diesel farmers to use ultra-polluting generators, and it is families and businesses who will pick up the tab through their energy bills.” Dustin Benton, head of energy and resources at the Green Alliance thinktank, said: “Amber Rudd deserves praise for deciding to phase out coal, and it’s now clear that she needs to reform our outdated capacity market.
(19) However, an amber termination codon within the variable-region gene segment prematurely terminates translation into complete heavy chain.
(20) Mean platelet number, % discs and pH were comparable for units triggering red versus green or amber lights.
Rosin
Definition:
(n.) The hard, amber-colored resin left after distilling off the volatile oil of turpentine; colophony.
(v. t.) To rub with rosin, as musicians rub the bow of a violin.
Example Sentences:
(1) All the film lacks, quartet-wise, is a sweaty ménage à quatre among the bow rosin and scoresheets.
(2) The numerous products that rosin-sensitive persons must avoid will be discussed in a future article.
(3) Rosine is a small, slim girl of 10, large-eyed and shy.
(4) Hydrogenation of the conjugated double bonds of abietic acid decreases its susceptibility to air oxidation and would thus reduce the allergenicity of rosin.
(5) Pure compounds were also tested in patients with known allergy to gum rosin.
(6) The growth inhibiting capacity of zinc oxide combined with ordinary rosin (Portuguese rosin), abietic acid or dehydroabietic acid was studied using two different methods.
(7) Skin problems can also arise from contact with rosin flux.
(8) Colophony (rosin) is a widespread material which is obtained from species of the family Pinaceae.
(9) Rosin and rosin esters have excellent film-forming properties.
(10) Inspection of fractured surfaces indicated failure of adhesion to dentine (Tubli-Seal) and to gutta-percha (AH26, Diaket) as well as failure of cohesion (CRCS, Kloroperka N-O, ProcoSol, rosin chloroform, Sealapex).
(11) The results showed that rosin and rosin-glycerol intermediates with acid values of 122, 105 and 55 had excellent moisture protection properties.
(12) Patients with suspected allergy to colophony were patch-tested with colophony (rosin) of different kinds (gum rosin, tall oil rosin).
(13) Relatively fewer dermatitis patients reacted to the neutral fraction compared with reactions to the unfractionated gum rosin when patch tested.
(14) The cytotoxic effect of dehydroabietic acid (DHAA), a resin acid found in rosin, was studied on human polymorphonuclear leukocytes using leakage of 51Cr from prelabeled cells, supravital staining, and transmission electron microscopy.
(15) Burnett doesn't know his own strength - watch as he busts open the rosin bag for the second time in 2013...now that's entertainment.
(16) The analyzed types of rosins possess polytropic general toxicity with primary impact on the functional state of liver, kidneys and the nervous system.
(17) Another oxidation product of dehydroabietic acid, 15-hydroxy-7-oxodehydroabietic acid, was synthesized and identified as a component of Portuguese gum rosin.
(18) However, the patients might have come in contact with the allergens in technically modified rosins.
(19) In conclusion the old tradition of treating wounds with pitch, sap, rosin, or rosin containing tapes might therefore have some antibacterial relevance.
(20) The study, thus, indicates that rosin in combination with zinc oxide enhances the transport of zinc through intact human skin, and that hydrocolloids promote the zinc absorption through wounds.