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ember

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English 5++朗文当代英语 5++LDOCE 5++朗文 5++em·ber /ˈembə $ -ər/ noun [countable usually plural]  FIREa piece of wood or coal that stays red and very hot after a fire has stopped burning 〔木块或煤块的〕余烬 glowing embers 发光的余烬
Examples from the Corpus
emberThe twins stood over it, stirring the last embers with their feet.A big bed of embers still gleamed in the kitchen chimney, under an iron pot hung from an ancient crane.Ruptured gas lines resulted in fires that gutted entire communities of wooden houses, leaving behind smoldering embers resembling a bomb site.Some one stood carelessly among the embers, as if having his flesh charred was the least of his worries.He poked at the embers beneath it with a stick.To his horror he realised his hand was lying in the embers.Bethany inhaled deeply and made the embers glow.
Origin ember (1300-1400) Old Norse eimyrja
em·ber nounChineseSyllable
that a and stays of Corpus or wood piece red coal


ember
ember /ˈembə $ -ər/ noun [countable usually plural]
 Date: 1300-1400
 Language: Old Norse
 Origin: eimyrja
a piece of wood or coal that stays red and very hot after a fire has stopped burning:
    glowing embers


emberBrE /ˈembə(r)/ 🔊NAmE /ˈembər/ 🔊 noun [usually plural] a piece of wood or coal that is not burning but is still red and hot after a fire has died 余火未尽的木块(或煤块)