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 .
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
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Amber as a noun (obsolete):
Ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale.
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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.
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Amber as a noun:
A yellow-orange colour.
Examples:
"color paneFFBF00"
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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.
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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"
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Amber as an adjective:
Of a brownish yellow colour, like that of most amber.
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Amber as a verb (transitive, rare):
To perfume or flavour with ambergris.
Examples:
"ambered wine'', ''an ambered room"
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Amber as a verb (transitive, rare):
To preserve in amber.
Examples:
"an ambered fly"
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Amber as a verb (transitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary):
To cause to take on the yellow colour of amber.
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Amber as a verb (intransitive, rare, chiefly, poetic, or, literary):
To take on the yellow colour of amber.
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Red as an adjective:
Having red as its color.
Examples:
"The girl wore a red skirt."
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Red as an adjective (of hair):
Having an orange-brown or orange-blond colour; ginger.
Examples:
"Her hair had red highlights."
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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."
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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"
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Red as an adjective (chiefly, derogatory, offensive):
Amerind; relating to Amerindians or First Nations
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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.
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Red as an adjective (particle physics):
Having a color charge of red.
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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"
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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.
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Red as a noun (countable, snooker):
One of the 15 red balls used in snooker, distinguished from the colours.
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Red as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):
Red wine.
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Red as a noun (countable, informal, birdwatching):
A redshank.
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Red as a noun (derogatory, offensive):
An Amerind.
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Red as a noun (slang):
The drug secobarbital; a capsule of this drug.
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Red as a noun (informal):
A red light
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Red as a noun (Ireland, UK, beverages, informal):
red lemonade
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Red as a noun (particle physics):
One of the three color charges for quarks.
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Red as a noun (US, colloquial, uncountable):
chili con carne (usually in the phrase "bowl of red")
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Red as a verb (archaic):
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Red as a verb: