Ember

Word EMBER
Character 5
Hyphenation em ber
Pronunciations /ˈɛm.bəː/

Definitions and meanings of "Ember"

What do we mean by ember?

A small, glowing piece of coal or wood, as in a dying fire. noun

The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire. noun

A small live coal, brand of wood, or the like; in the plural, live cinders or ashes; the smouldering remains of a fire. noun

Literally, a circuit; a course; specifically, a regular (annual, quarterly, etc.) course; the regular return of a given season: a word now used only in certain compounds, namely, ember-days, -eve, -fast, -tide, -week, and in the derivative embering. See the etymology. noun

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year. adjective

Days set apart for fasting and prayer in each of the four seasons of the year. The Council of Placentia A. D. 1095 appointed for ember days the Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday after the first Sunday in Lent, Whitsuntide, the 14th of September, and the 13th of December. The weeks in which these days fall are called ember weeks. adjective

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

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. adjective

A glowing piece of coal or wood. noun

Smoldering ash. noun

A hot fragment of wood or coal that is left from a fire and is glowing or smoldering noun

A glowing piece of coal or wood.

Smoldering ash.

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The word "ember" in example sentences

Repeat until the spindle tip glows red and an ember is formed. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The network searches for matches ranging from 'ember' to 'inferno' and lets you decide if you want to find an 'instant spark', 'eternal flame' or just someone you share common interests with. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Uploaded: 2009-11-04 zao - "ember" @ the chapel in ft. walton beach, fl - 1998 thanks to everyone who has been digging this footage. just wanted to let you guys know that there is more where this came from, i have an entire show from a few months after this one ... with songs in their entirety. when i find it, i will be sure to post it up here for you guys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Instead all we know is that it is in a month ending "ember". ❋ Unknown (2010)

Drag to Playlist zao - "ember" @ the chapel in ft. walton beach, fl - 1998 thanks to everyone who has been digging this footage. just wanted to let you guys know that there is more where this came from, i have an entire show from a few months after this one ... with songs in their entirety. when i find it, i will be sure to post it up here for you guys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Ember: nine months old today and walking zao - "ember" @ the chapel in ft. walton beach, fl - 1998 thanks to everyone who has been digging this footage. just wanted to let you guys know that there is more where this came from, i have an entire show from a few months after this one ... with songs in their entirety. when i find it, i will be sure to post it up here for you guys. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It burned so hot it sank into the ground like an ember. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Tychus took another drag, and the ember glowed like an orange eye. ❋ Christie Golden (2011)

Brazil, named for the brazilwood tree, which is named for Pt. brasa “ember” because the wood has a dark red color. ❋ Unknown (2010)

I searched the sand, looked for the ember but saw nothing. ❋ Shelagh Power-Chopra (2011)

His eyes remained dark and haunted, only the merest ember of gold shining. ❋ Allison Pang (2011)

The compassion aspect of interacting with a person with disability can be incorporated into religious education, but unfortunately, conventionally religious parents are often the ones who most often drop the ball on this, especially when a "there by the grace of God go I" strain of condescension characterizes their way of relating to a friend or family ember with disability. ❋ Michele Somerville (2011)

Her eyes snapped open, and she turned to see the glowing ember of the cigarette in the darkness. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Chris Claremont and John Byrne raised a rag-tag group of mutants from a burning ember to an all-out firestorm that topped the world of comics. ❋ Unknown (2009)

She stared intently at the lit end, and Cassie wondered what she saw in the ember. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Somehow, between the time she had gotten her diploma and the time she came back to New York from Vermont, they had become the kind of friends that wake up naked together in a large bed, among crisp linens and unfamiliar pillows, with a wedding band, glowing like an ember, in the dim morning light. ❋ Nathaniel Bellows (2011)

Photographs from space showed a glowing ember in the darkness that was the reactor melting down for days. ❋ Unknown (2011)

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