(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.
Stroll
Definition:
(v. i.) To wander on foot; to ramble idly or leisurely; to rove.
(n.) A wandering on foot; an idle and leisurely walk; a ramble.
Example Sentences:
(1) George Clooney has strolled into one of the most bitter and longest-running controversies in the heritage world, saying it would be "very nice" if the British Museum sent the Parthenon Marbles back to Greece.
(2) For Manchester United this was a Saturday stroll that ended frantically, although the Premier League leaders' latest three points were made even sweeter by the return of their captain, Nemanja Vidic.
(3) Strolling around the perfectly formed FH training facility he laughs at the idea of one of these public spaces popping up in Britain.
(4) Just a short stroll from the start of this walk, the Norman Lockyer Observatory still holds two of his telescopes.
(5) I see a small group strolling along, a tall, handsome man at the centre.
(6) Around 100,000 Syrians live in Izmir, where until a few weeks ago when the EU-Turkey deal was put into effect, smugglers would stroll openly through the central square in the quarter of Basmane.
(7) The teams stroll out, Ivory Coast in their orange kit, Zambia wearing green tracksuit tops.
(8) Jason Puncheon is a lovely, careful passer of the ball and here he out-Cesc’ed Chelsea’s own midfield creator for long periods of the game, strolling about to great effect in his central playmaker role.
(9) Distance 1 mile (1.6km) Classification Gentle stroll Duration 1 hour 45 minutes Begins Salcombe Hill car park OS grid reference SY197889 Walk in a nutshell A mostly flat circuit around the summit of Salcombe Hill, which offers impressive views over the town of Sidmouth and, on a good day, as far as Portland Bill in Dorset.
(10) Not least when PSG aren’t just walking it in Ligue 1, they’re strolling, flaneur ing their way to another room-temperature domestic title, with seven league goals conceded away from home all season, territory and possession dominated each week.
(11) For a foodie reward, stroll to Rue Didot's row of boulangeries.
(12) I joined the Mayfair tour one Sunday afternoon, and for two and a half hours we strolled around looking at the offices of all the hedge funds and investment companies in the area.
(13) #rangers #kings #stanleycup June 12, 2014 2.56am BST Kings 1-2 Rangers, 4:22, 2nd period Williams sets up Stroll and he shoots wide of the net.
(14) Sometime after take-off, however, Pope Francis strolled to the back of the aircraft and gave them their answer.
(15) Those wanting to experience the concept of “shared space” and “naked streets” can stroll absentmindedly round any small town in Italy.
(16) Thankfully I only live a 10 minute stroll away from my office in central Bucharest.
(17) Brandon Belt stikes out, and then Gregor Blanco strolls to the plate.
(18) He strolls up, halts and strokes it into the bottom-right corner.
(19) Despite the lenses pressed against the glass, Yang Guang (his name means Sunshine) strolled around, his shoulders and hind quarters adopting the rolling gait of a prize fighter.
(20) A short stroll from Walker’s Point, where the ancestral estate of the Bush dynasty juts out commandingly into the Atlantic ocean, there is a political campaign slogan in urgent need of fresh clarification.