What's the difference between amber and saffron?

Amber


Definition:

  • (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.

Saffron


Definition:

  • (n.) A bulbous iridaceous plant (Crocus sativus) having blue flowers with large yellow stigmas. See Crocus.
  • (n.) The aromatic, pungent, dried stigmas, usually with part of the stile, of the Crocus sativus. Saffron is used in cookery, and in coloring confectionery, liquors, varnishes, etc., and was formerly much used in medicine.
  • (n.) An orange or deep yellow color, like that of the stigmas of the Crocus sativus.
  • (a.) Having the color of the stigmas of saffron flowers; deep orange-yellow; as, a saffron face; a saffron streamer.
  • (v. t.) To give color and flavor to, as by means of saffron; to spice.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) He became an instructor in radar at RAF Debden, near Saffron Walden, Essex, and attained the rank of flying officer.
  • (2) "As I flew over in the helicopter, it was as if a sea of saffron was beneath me," Modi tells the crowd.
  • (3) Though he loved acting the host, as he loved all forms of acting, and though his adventurousness with saffron, butter and Calvados was undimmed, Carrier had to sell Hintlesham Hall in 1982.
  • (4) Is it Iranian tea served with saffron lollipops, brewed with cardamom , or served with kolucheh ?
  • (5) Midsagittal sections and parahilar sections were stained with hematoxylin-phloxine-saffron for microscopic examination of smooth muscle.
  • (6) After being turned down by one building society they ended up at Saffron.
  • (7) The porco bafassá (pork shank marinated for 12 hours in wine, saffron and coconut milk, £6.50) is a house favourite, as is the caldo de pé de galinha com amendoim (chicken foot and peanut soup, £2).
  • (8) 2 Add the mussels, coconut milk, kale, white wine, saffron water and tamarind.
  • (9) The crowds gather at 10am – a sea of saffron flags held by millions of marchers dressed in white cotton, the colour of mourning.
  • (10) Antitumor activity of saffron (Crocus sativus) extract a commonly used spice in India was studied against intraperitoneally transplanted sarcoma-180 (S-180), Ehrlich ascites Carcinoma (EAC) and Dalton's lymphoma ascites (DLA) tumours in mice.
  • (11) The saffron-robed 45-year-old regularly shares his hate-filled rants through DVD and social media, in which he warns against Muslims who "target innocent young Burmese girls and rape them", and "indulge in cronyism".
  • (12) And while the saffron cod, which likes warmer seas, would survive this temperature change, seals would have to eat saffron cod at 2.7 times the rate they eat the Arctic cod to get the same amount of fat for the winter – a tough challenge, to say the least.
  • (13) Saffron, the brand consultants who prepared the report, put the question like this: "How well do cities use their assets – climate, GDP, attractions, safety, infrastructure – to generate buzz?"
  • (14) The report’s author and director of policy at the health thinktank, Candace Imison, said: “Our research shows that reshaping the NHS workforce can offer huge opportunities … But we stress in our report that this is not simply a ‘nice to do’ – it is urgent and essential if the health service is to find a sustainable balance between available funding, patient needs and staff needs, and delivering services fit for the 21st century.” Saffron Cordery, director of policy and strategy for NHS Providers, welcomed the idea of retraining existing staff.
  • (15) In the middle of the fracas, unperturbed, a self-proclaimed holy man in a bright saffron woolly hat waved a legal petition.
  • (16) Every evening, outside the Vrindavan headquarters of the RSS, around 30 boys sing, pray and drill in front of a saffron flag.
  • (17) In November 2010, three years after a new wave of bloodily repressed protests dubbed the saffron revolution and to the surprise of virtually all observers, Aung San Suu Kyi was released .
  • (18) Dressed in his customary wine and saffron coloured robes, the Dalai Lama will – if he sticks to form – start by telling the audience: “I am a human being, just one among the 7 billion alive today.” His message of compassion, humanity, love, harmony, forgiveness, tolerance and peace – delivered amid beaming smiles – is guaranteed a rapturous reception.
  • (19) Simply loading up providers with savings targets and exhorting them to try harder won’t work,” said Saffron Cordery, the head of policy at NHS Providers, which represents hospitals.
  • (20) A time when you couldn't bulk-buy cheap meat, produce crap food with it, and sell it every few yards along every high street, and outside every school, until loads of us are waddling about, obese and poorly, or malnourished, while others are swanning into Heston Blumenthal restaurants to eat "meat fruit" (c 1500) which is mandarin, chicken liver & foie gras parfait or "rice & flesh" (c 1390) which is made with saffron, calf tail & red wine.