Ember vs. Umber

Embernoun

A glowing piece of coal or wood.

Embernoun

Smoldering ash.

Emberadjective

Making a circuit of the year or the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year, as certain religious days set apart for fasting and prayer.

Embernoun

A lighted coal, smoldering amid ashes; - used chiefly in the plural, to signify mingled coals and ashes; the smoldering remains of a fire.

Emberadjective

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

Embernoun

a hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

Embernoun

a small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire

Ember

An ember is a glowing, hot coal made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them.

Umbernoun

A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

Umbernoun

A grayling.

Umbernoun

A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Umberadjective

Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.

Umberverb

(transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.

Umbernoun

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

Umbernoun

An umbrere.

Umbernoun

See Grayling, 1.

Umbernoun

An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.

Umberadjective

Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

Umberverb

To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

Umbernoun

an earth pigment

Umbernoun

a medium to dark brown color

Umberadjective

of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments

Umber

Umber is a natural brown or reddish-brown earth pigment that contains iron oxide and manganese oxide. Umber is darker than the other similar earth pigments, ochre and sienna.In its natural form, it is called raw umber.