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amber

A2 noun

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  1. hổ phách

    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.

    countable · uncountable

    With scarfs and fans and double change of bravery, With amber bracelets, beads, and all this knavery.

  2. màu hổ phách

    A yellow-orange colour.

    countable · uncountable

  3. đèn vàng

    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.

    australia · commonwealth · uk · countable · uncountable

    While earlier controllers provided concurrent ambers, present practice is to indicate a minimum intergreen period of 4 s.

  4. bộ ba kết thúc UAG

    The stop codon (nucleotide triplet) "UAG", or a mutant which has this stop codon at a premature place in its DNA sequence.

    countable · uncountable

    an amber codon, an amber mutation, an amber suppressor

  5. đèn vàng (nghĩa bóng)

    Hesitance to proceed, or limited approval to proceed; an amber light.

    uncountable

    […] in response to the actions I just described, business was given the green light, and now we seem to be on amber.

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