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umber::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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| Synonyms | burnt umber, chocolate, coffee, deep brown |
| Type of | brown, brownness |
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| Type of | earth color |
| Has types | burnt umber, raw umber |
umber::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of umber
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Umber Sleeping's Peter Tietjen sent me a couple of tunes from his band's new disc.
From the thenewstribune.com
The car reappeared at the L.A. show painted a heart-attack metallic umber.
From the latimes.com
At first it is no more than an umber smudge in the forest canopy of northern Cambodia.
From the couriermail.com.au
Umber Systems is proud to be a silver-level sponsor of this year's event.
From the forbes.com
Umber is led by world-class mobile experts and backed by leading venture capital firms.
From the forbes.com
Leiteite, a zinc arsenate, colored umber-red by inclusions of Ludlockite, a lead arsenate.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Three horizontal bands of russet, umber and pastel green echo the colors in a Moroccan area rug.
From the thestate.com
The color scheme is a warm mix of gray, green and umber.
From the courier-journal.com
Ahead, flat treeless moorland covered in tussocks of ochre and umber grasses stretched to the horizon.
From the guardian.co.uk
- Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments
- Chocolate: a medium brown to dark-brown color
- Umber is a natural brown clay pigment which contains iron and manganese oxides. The color becomes more intense when calcined (heated), and the resulting pigment is called burnt umber. ...
- A brown or reddish pigment used in painting, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese; a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment; of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment
- A brown powder made from clay. It was used to make colored ink.
- A mineral solid which exists in a range of brown hues. Chemically, umber is mostly a mixture of hydrous ferric oxide (Fe2O ^. xH2O) and manganese dioxide (MnO2). It was believed by many in the eighteenth century to be a fossil wood originally found in Umbria near Spoleto in Italy.
- A Hydrated ferric oxide, chestnut brown to liver brown in colour, used as a pigment. As found in nature, the oxide is called raw umber, and when heated, so as to produce a reddish brown, is known as burnt umber.
- Used exclusively as a brown pigment. It is a hydrated iron manganese ore running from olive shades in the raw condition and dark rich brown shades in the burnt stage.
- A brown variety of iron oxide pigment.
