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Wiktionary

  1. embersnoun

    the smoldering or glowing remains of a fire

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Embersnoun

    without a singular. Hot cinders; ashes not yet extinguished.

    Etymology: æmyria, Saxon, ashes; einmyria, Islandick, hot ashes or cinders.

    Take hot embers, and put them about a bottle filled with new beer, almost to the very neck: let the bottle be well stopped, lest it fly out; and continue it, renewing the embers every day for the space of ten days. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

    Or if the air will not permit,
    Some still removed place will fit,
    While glowing embers through the room
    Teach light to counterfeit a gloom. John Milton.

    While thus heav’n’s highest counsels, by the low
    Footsteps of their effects, he trac’d too well,
    He tost his troubled eyes, embers that glow
    Now with new rage, and wax too hot for hell. Richard Crashaw.

    He said, and rose, as holy zeal inspires;
    He rakes hot embers, and renews the fires. John Dryden, Virgil.

Wikipedia

  1. Embers

    Embers is a radio play by Samuel Beckett. It was written in English in 1957. First broadcast on the BBC Third Programme on 24 June 1959, the play won the RAI prize at the Prix Italia awards later that year. Donald McWhinnie directed Jack MacGowran – for whom the play was specially written – as "Henry", Kathleen Michael as "Ada" and Patrick Magee as "Riding Master" and "Music Master". The play was translated into French by Beckett himself and Robert Pinget as Cendres and was published in 1959 by Les Éditions de Minuit. The first stage production was by the French Graduate Circle of Edinburgh, Edinburgh Festival, 1977."The most recent version of Embers was broadcast in 2006 on BBC Radio 3 and directed by Stephen Rea. The cast included Michael Gambon as Henry, Sinéad Cusack as Ada, Rupert Graves, Alvaro Lucchesi and Carly Baker. This production was rebroadcast on BBC Radio 3 on 16 May 2010 as part of a double bill with a 2006 production of Krapp's Last Tape. Opinions vary as to whether the work succeeds. Hugh Kenner calls it "Beckett’s most difficult work" and yet maintains that the piece "coheres to perfection," John Pilling disagrees, remarking that Embers "is the first of Beckett’s dramatic works that seems to lack a real centre," whereas Richard N. Coe considers the play "not only minor, but one of [Beckett’s] very few failures." Anthony Cronin records in his biography of Beckett that "Embers met with a mixed reception [but tempers this comment by noting that] the general tone of English criticism was somewhat hostile to Beckett" at the time. The author's own view was that it was a "rather ragged" text. He said that it was "not very satisfactory, but I think just worth doing … I think it just gets by for radio."For all his personal reservations the play won the RAI prize in the 1959 Prix Italia contest, not, as has been often reported, "the actual Prix Italia … which went to John Reeve’s play, Beach of Strangers."

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  1. EMBERS

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Embers is ranked #94311 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Embers surname appeared 194 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Embers.

    54.1% or 105 total occurrences were Black.
    35% or 68 total occurrences were White.
    7.7% or 15 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    3% or 6 total occurrences were of two or more races.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of EMBERS in Chaldean Numerology is: 3

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of EMBERS in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of EMBERS in a Sentence

  1. Mark Tregellas:

    The fire just continued to grow and then the black started to descend. I couldn't see the hand in front in my face, and it then it started to glow red and we knew the fire was coming, ash started to fall from the air and then the embers started to come down. At that point, people started to bring their kids and families into the water. Thankfully, the wind changed and the fire moved away.

  2. Mark Tregellas:

    Ash started to fall from the air and then the embers started to come down. At that point, people started to bring their kids and families into the water.

  3. Lisa Lapin:

    Our buildings are stone, concrete and steel ; the rooftops are stone, to prevent embers from landing and igniting.

  4. James Baldwin:

    Fires can't be made with dead embers, nor can enthusiasm be stirred by spiritless men. Enthusiasm in our daily work lightens effort and turns even labor into pleasant tasks.

  5. Robert Delgado:

    There were flames and embers flying over those bushes at the back of our house and over our house.

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