Ember vs. Umber — What's the Difference?

An ember is a glowing, hot coal made of greatly heated wood, coal, or other carbon-based material that remain after, or sometimes precede, a fire. Embers can glow very hot, sometimes as hot as the fire which created them.

Umber is a natural brown or reddish-brown earth pigment that contains iron oxide and manganese oxide. Umber is darker than the other similar earth pigments, ochre and sienna.In its natural form, it is called raw umber.

A small piece of burning or glowing coal or wood in a dying fire

A natural brown earth containing ferric oxide and manganese oxides, used as pigment.

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

Any of the shades of brown produced by umber in its various states.

Embers The smoldering coal or ash of a dying fire.

Of or related to umber.

A glowing piece of coal or wood; a hot coal.

Having a brownish color.

Smoldering ash.

To darken with or as if with umber.

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.

A brown clay, somewhat darker than ochre, which contains iron and manganese oxides.

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

Alternative form of umbrere

Making a circuit of the year of the seasons; recurring in each quarter of the year; as, ember fasts.

A grayling.

A hot glowing or smouldering fragment of wood or coal left from a fire

A dusky brown African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the shoebill and herons; a hamerkop.

Of a reddish brown colour, like that of the pigment.

(transitive) To give a reddish-brown colour to.

A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.

An umbrere.

See Grayling, 1.

An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.

Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.

To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.

An earth pigment

A medium to dark brown color

Of the color of any of various natural brown earth pigments