The difference between Amber and Yellow

When used as nouns, amber means ambergris, the waxy product of the sperm whale, whereas yellow means the colour of gold, butter, or a lemon.

When used as verbs, amber means to perfume or flavour with ambergris, whereas yellow means to become yellow or more yellow.

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

check bellow for the other definitions of Amber and Yellow

  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. Yellow as an adjective:

    Having yellow as its colour.

  2. Yellow as an adjective (informal):

    Lacking courage.

  3. Yellow as an adjective (publishing, journalism):

    Characterized by sensationalism, lurid content, and doubtful accuracy.

  4. Yellow as an adjective (chiefly, derogatory, offensive):

    Far East Asian .

  5. Yellow as an adjective (dated, Australia, offensive):

    Of mixed Aboriginal and Caucasian ancestry.

  6. Yellow as an adjective (dated, US):

    High yellow.

  7. Yellow as an adjective (UK, politics):

    Related to the Liberal Democrats.

    Examples:

    "yellow constituencies"

  8. Yellow as an adjective (politics):

    Related to the of Germany.

    Examples:

    "the black-yellow coalition"

  1. Yellow as a noun:

    The colour of gold, butter, or a lemon; the colour obtained by mixing green and red light, or by subtracting blue from white light.

  2. Yellow as a noun (US):

    The intermediate light in a set of three traffic lights, the illumination of which indicates that drivers should stop short of the intersection if it is safe to do so.

  3. Yellow as a noun (snooker):

    One of the colour balls used in snooker, with a value of 2 points.

  4. Yellow as a noun (pocket billiards):

    One of two groups of object balls, or a ball from that group, as used in the principally British version of pool that makes use of unnumbered balls (the (yellow(s) and red(s)); contrast stripes and solids in the originally American version with numbered balls).

  5. Yellow as a noun (sports):

    A yellow card.

  1. Yellow as a verb (intransitive):

    To become yellow or more yellow.

  2. Yellow as a verb (transitive):

    To make (something) yellow or more yellow.

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