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PRONUNCIATION OF FLY IN AMBER

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE FLY IN AMBER

fly a kite
fly agaric
fly ash
fly button
fly front
fly hack
fly half
fly high
fly in the face of
fly in the ointment
fly kick
fly killer
fly net
fly off the handle
fly on the wall
fly orchid
fly press
Fly River
fly rod
fly sheet

WORDS THAT END LIKE FLY IN AMBER

air chamber
amber
antechamber
camber
chamber
clamber
climber
cloud chamber
combustion chamber
council chamber
echo chamber
gas chamber
ionization chamber
jamber
lamber
lower chamber
magma chamber
reaction chamber
second chamber
torture chamber
upper chamber

Synonyms and antonyms of fly in amber in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «fly in amber» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF FLY IN AMBER

Find out the translation of fly in amber to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of fly in amber from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «fly in amber» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

琥珀飞
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

mosca en ámbar
570 millions of speakers

English

fly in amber
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

एम्बर में यात्रा
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

يطير في العنبر
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

летать в янтаре
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

voar em âmbar
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

অ্যাম্বার উড়ে আসা
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

voler dans l´ambre
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Terbang di ambar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Fliege im Bernstein
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

琥珀色で飛ぶ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

황색 비행
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Fly in amber
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

bay trong hổ phách
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

அம்பர் பறக்க
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

अंबर उडता
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Kehribar içinde uçmak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

volare in ambra
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

mucha w bursztynie
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

літати в бурштині
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

zbura în chihlimbar
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

πετάξει μέσα σε κεχριμπάρι
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

vlieg in amber
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

flyga i bärnsten
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

fly i rav
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of fly in amber

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «FLY IN AMBER»

The term «fly in amber» is normally little used and occupies the 124.642 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «FLY IN AMBER» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about fly in amber

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «FLY IN AMBER»

Discover the use of fly in amber in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to fly in amber and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Fly in Amber
Briony Eastwood is looking forward to a glamorous Christmas, catering for movie star Roz de Taffort and her family.
Vivien Armstrong, 2000
2
The Quest for Life in Amber
His interest in ancient DNA antedates that first letter he wrote to me regarding our Science paper on the ultrastructure of the fly in amber. Jack Tkach had already corresponded with quite a few people about his idea of extracting dinosaur DNA  ...
George O. Poinar, 1994
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Dragonfly in Amber
From the Trade Paperback edition.
Diana Gabaldon, 2010
4
In The Blink Of An Eye: How Vision Sparked The Big Bang Of ...
The specific, microscopic characters determine the optical properties of the complete reflector, which vary from species to species. And a pattern emerged from a study of this variation. The fly in amber evolved along two separate paths.
Andrew Parker, 2009
5
Not at All What One Is Used To: The Life and Times of ...
I speak of humanity.143 In one of the last poems she was to write, "Fly in Amber," she mixed her sorrow and anger about George's cold behavior with a forgiving farewell, but because she did not want to bare her wounds too openly, or wound  ...
Marian Janssen, 2010
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Alps and Sanctuaries of Piedmont and the Canton Ticino
A fossil does not touch us – while a fly in amber does. Why should a fly in amber interest us and give us a slightly solemn feeling for a moment, when the fossil of a megatherium bores us? I give it up; but few of us can see the lightest trifle ...
Samuel Butler, 2009
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Letters on the Subject of the Catholics, to My Brother ...
It is only the public situation which this gentleman holds which entitles me, or induces me to say so much about him. He is a fly in amber, nobody cares about the fly : the only question is, how the devil did he get there ? Nor do I attack him from ...
Sydney Smith, 1809
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Doubts and Certainties in the Practice of Psychotherapy
What psychoanalysts actually did, in the privacy of their consulting-rooms, was left relatively unaffected by these benign explosions, with the results that, until recently, psychoanalytic practice in the United States seemed like a fly in amber to ...
Josephine Klein, 1995
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Nature in American Philosophy (Studies in Philosophy and the ...
... are so professionalized that anybody, who has gained a teaching chair and written a book, however distorted and eccentric, has the legal right to figure forever in the history of the subject like a fly in amber."1 German philosophers too were ...
Jean De Groot, 2004
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The Politics of Law in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy: ...
OSVALDO CAVALLAR Nestled in the outer periphery of well-recognized Italian Renaissance city-states – Florence, Milan, and Venice – the small republic of Lucca has been aptly described as 'the most fly-in-amber little town of the world.
Lawrin David Armstrong, Julius Kirshner, 2011

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «FLY IN AMBER»

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Dominique Piñon Cast As Master Raymond in 'Outlander'
“Master Raymond” is introduced in the book Dragon Fly in Amber. He's the mystic/doctor Claire meets in Paris. She say's “he is both Claire's ... «Monsters and Critics.com, Jun 15»
2
Omar Khadr's Release Can Offer an Important Lesson to Us All
Like a fly in amber, we have a tendency to trap people in a moment from their past -- it's as if our mind is incapable of allowing the movie to play ... «Huffington Post Canada, May 15»
3
Philip Glass: The Études, Barbican, review: 'a well-oiled machine'
Occasionally hints of other composers could be heard, caught and held in Glass's repeating patterns like a fly in amber. Schubert, Janáĉek ... «Telegraph.co.uk, Apr 15»
4
Outlander Is Back After Its Seasoned Intermission
... season two of book two, Dragon fly in Amber, on Starz, April 4 at 9 p.m. EST. It is safe to say Outlander is back after its seasoned intermission. «Guardian Liberty Voice, Apr 15»
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Issue 7.17: Tinkler, mayor's race, education numbers
... in area ditches and streams. Take a look here how a piece of clover is suspended in ice like a modern-day fly in amber. Photo by Andy Brack. «Charleston Currents, Feb 15»
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Mental illness turned my ex-husband into someone I didn't …
They loved the person he was before, their memories of the “real Mike” trapped like a fly in amber. We were all grieving Mike in our own, ... «Washington Post, Jan 15»
7
Ferreting out the truth about a complicated King David
... were rivals in the same sense that the tribe of Judah and the Calebites were rivals, and the Bible preserves their rivalry like a fly in amber. «Jewish Journal, Nov 14»
8
Good Reads: Outlander obsession continues with 'Dragonfly in Amber'
web GOOD READS Dragon Fly in Amber Each individual “Outlander” book has so much going on that you really would be doing yourself a ... «Tullahoma News and Guardian, Aug 14»
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Director Eva Michon Joins Accomplice Media
Her first feature-length film, Death From Above 1979: A Fly in Amber¸ about the Canadian dance-punk duo, is currently in post production. «Adland, Jul 14»
10
The New York of the Middle Ages
... no modern activity had disfigured its ancient walls, its moment of brief medieval exuberance having been preserved like a fly in amber. «Huffington Post, Jun 14»

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