The difference between Amber and Red

When used as nouns, amber means ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale, whereas red means any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670&nbsp.

When used as adjectives, amber means of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber, whereas red means having red as its color.


Amber is also verb with the meaning: to perfume or flavour with ambergris.

check bellow for the other definitions of Amber and Red

  1. Amber as a noun (obsolete):

    Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.

  2. Amber as a noun:

    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. Amber as a noun:

    A yellow-orange colour.

    Examples:

    "color paneFFBF00"

  4. Amber as a noun (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. Amber as a noun (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.

    Examples:

    "an amber codon'', ''an amber mutation'', ''an amber suppressor"

  1. Amber as an adjective:

    Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.

  1. Amber as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To perfume or flavour with ambergris.

    Examples:

    "ambered wine'', ''an ambered room"

  2. Amber as a verb (transitive, rare):

    To preserve in amber.

    Examples:

    "an ambered fly"

  3. Amber as a verb (transitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary):

    To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.

  4. Amber as a verb (intransitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary):

    To take on the yellow colour of amber.

  1. Red as an adjective:

    Having red as its color.

    Examples:

    "The girl wore a red skirt."

  2. Red as an adjective (of hair):

    Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.

    Examples:

    "Her hair had red highlights."

  3. Red as an adjective (card games, of a card):

    Of the hearts or diamonds suits. Compare

    Examples:

    "I got two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."

  4. Red as an adjective (often, capitalized):

    Supportive of, related to, or dominated by a political party or movement represented by the color red: the U.S. Republican party Left-wing parties and movements, chiefly socialist or communist, including the U.K. Labour party and the Social Democratic Party of Germany.

    Examples:

    "a red state"

    "a red Congress"

    "the red-black grand coalition in Germany"

  5. Red as an adjective (chiefly, derogatory, offensive):

    Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations

  6. Red as an adjective (astronomy):

    Of the lower-frequency region of the (typically visible) part of the electromagnetic spectrum which is relevant in the specific observation.

  7. Red as an adjective (particle physics):

    Having a color charge of red.

  1. Red as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    Any of a range of colours having the longest wavelengths, 670 nm, of the visible spectrum; a primary additive colour for transmitted light: the colour obtained by subtracting green and blue from white light using magenta and yellow filters; the colour of blood, ripe strawberries, etc.

    Examples:

    "color paneF00000"

  2. Red as a noun (countable):

    A revolutionary socialist or (most commonly) a Communist; a Bolshevik, a supporter of the Bolsheviks in the Russian Civil War.

  3. Red as a noun (countable, snooker):

    One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.

  4. Red as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    Red wine.

  5. Red as a noun (countable, informal, birdwatching):

    A redshank.

  6. Red as a noun (derogatory, offensive):

    An Amerind.

  7. Red as a noun (slang):

    The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.

  8. Red as a noun (informal):

    A red light

  9. Red as a noun (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal):

    red lemonade

  10. Red as a noun (particle physics):

    One of the three color charges for quarks.

  11. Red as a noun (US, colloquial, uncountable):

    chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")

  1. Red as a verb (archaic):

  1. Red as a verb: