Crossword clues for ambient
ambient
- Completely enveloping
- Of the surrounding environment
- Like Brian Eno's music
- From the surrounding environment
- Brian Eno's genre
- One genre of The Orb
- Natural, as lighting
- Music genre that "must be as ignorable as it is interesting," per Brian Eno
- Like some noise
- Like Eno's music
- Like atmospheric music
- Like Aphex Twin's music
- Atmospheric music genre
- Atmospheric kind of music
- Encompassing
- Completely surrounding
- Of one's surroundings
- All around
- See 25-Across
- Surrounding, as sound
- Creating a relaxing atmosphere
- One in the morning put out of joint regarding the environment
- Surrounding compass points brought in
- Shaking tambourine, not our sort of music
- A hospital department obstructing Doctor Hoskins going round
- Doctor involved in first class hospital department, creating a relaxing atmosphere
- Disposition to include one after morning in the environment
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, a. [L. ambiens, p. pr. of ambire to go
around; amb- + ire to go.]
Encompassing on all sides; circumfused; investing. ``Ambient
air.''
--Milton. ``Ambient clouds.''
--Pope.
Ambient \Am"bi*ent\, n.
Something that surrounds or invests; as, air . . . being a
perpetual ambient.
--Sir H. Wotton.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 encompassing on all sides; surrounding; encircling; enveloping. 2 (context music English) Evoking or creating an atmosphere: atmospheric. 3 Relating to, or suitable for, storage at room temperature. 4 (context mathematics English) contain objects or describe a setting that one is interested in. n. 1 Something that surrounds. 2 (context uncountable music English) A type of modern music which incorporates elements of various musical styles, and creates a relaxing and peaceful atmosphere. 3 (context astrology English) The atmosphere; the surrounding air or sky; atmospheric components collectively such as air, clouds, water vapour, hail, etc.
WordNet
adj. completely enveloping; "the ambient air"; "ambient sound"; "the ambient temperature"
Wikipedia
Ambient or Ambiance may refer to:
Ambient is a MUI-based desktop environment for MorphOS. Its development was started in 2001 by David Gerber. Its main goals were that it should be fully asynchronous, simple and fast. Ambient remotely resembles Workbench and Directory Opus Magellan trying to mix the best of both worlds.
Ambient is the second studio album by American electronica musician Moby, released in August 1993 by record label Instinct.
It received a mediocre critical reception. Ambient, unlike most other Moby studio albums, has never been re-released in a special-edition or a remastered issue.
Ambient is the dystopian debut novel of cyberpunk writer Jack Womack, the first in his Dryco series. Published in 1987, it was translated into Slovak by Michal Hvorecký, and has a significant cult following. Actor Bruce Willis optioned the novel, and renewed the option in 1995 (thus enabling Womack to quit his "day job").
Usage examples of "ambient".
Ridley knew it in the ambient before he was entirely awake, and came out of bed in a hurry.
The shadow that was Cloud was pulling ahead of them again, nothing but a grayness in the ambient and a grayness in the softly felling snow.
Danny gathered in the ambient, information coming to him freely and abundantly now that he entered the close vicinity of other horses.
And in that closeness and the quiet of the ambient Danny took the chance.
The ambient was quiet, the horses were snug in their den, the dark-eyed little girl with the lively curiosity was safely in her room.
Tara right beside him, trying to call the lost horses out there, naming their names in the ambient, names not all of which he knew.
Cloud snorted and the other horses acted bothered, but the ambient was otherwise quiet, and Cloud settled to being brushed again, rocking gently to the strong strokes Danny put into it.
He felt keenly the lack of the ambient that would have made him aware what Carlo was thinking.
He kept quiet in the ambient and was aware of Ridley leaving it, the other side of the wall.
But Callie was holding the ambient very quiet, and he gave her all the help he could in that.
Brionne could, and Danny started toward the village gate to know whether the ambient was as threatening there as here.
So he excused himself to his bed and lay there listening to an ambient as new and full of foolishness as could be.
He tried to keep his thoughts out of the ambient and had no luck at all.
Carlo was out cold, in the ambient just barely, in that very faint way you could pick up someone sound asleep, at very close range.
The only encouragement was the lack of specific alarm from the horses, who carried an ambient void of native presence around the village.