[
UK
/ˈʌmbɐ/
]
NOUN
- an earth pigment
- a medium brown to dark-brown color
ADJECTIVE
- of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments
How To Use umber In A Sentence
- When the new foods that came from the Americas - peppers, summer squash and especially tomatoes - took hold in the region, a number of closely related dishes were born, including what we call ratatouille - and a man from La Mancha calls pisto, an Ikarian Greek calls soufiko and a Turk calls turlu. NYT > Home Page
- The resettlement fee shall be calculated according to the number of agricultural population to be resettled.
- Their dried dung is found everywhere, and is in many places the only fuel afforded by the plains; their skulls, which last longer than any other part of the animal, are among the most familiar of objects to the plainsman; their bones are in many districts so plentiful that it has become a regular industry, followed by hundreds of men (christened "bone hunters" by the frontiersmen), to go out with wagons and collect them in great numbers for the sake of the phosphates they yield; and Bad Lands, plateaus, and prairies alike, are cut up in all directions by the deep ruts which were formerly buffalo trails. VIII. The Lordly Buffalo
- Equally badly behaved, but a little calmer and better informed, were the massive numbers from the labor unions.
- Among our number, there must be some who can bring home to the viewers the value and fascination of history as an art and science.
- Email and Net abuse at work have become the number one reason why UK employees face the sack, according to a survey out today.
- Not only by the immense number of adherents that were won to his views during his lifetime, but also by the literary productions he left behind him, Tsong K'aba's influence has been great during the last five centuries of Tibetan history. With the Tibetans in Tent and Temple: Narrative of Four Years' Residence on the Tibetan Borders, and of a Journey into the Far Interior
- Although alcoholism remains the number one dependency problem among judges and lawyers, the face of addiction continues to change.
- It checks bank account numbers before accepting them and will detect many common transcription errors, including incorrectly entered and transposed characters. Times, Sunday Times
- You can bank by phone in the USA, punching in account numbers on the phone.