Black Definition–adjective | 1. | lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it. | | 2. | characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night. | | 3. | (sometimes initial capital letter ) | a. | pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations characterized by dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. | | | 4. | soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour. | | 5. | gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook. | | 6. | deliberately; harmful; inexcusable: a black lie. | | 7. | boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words; black looks. | | 8. | (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream. | | 9. | without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed. | | 10. | indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record. | | 11. | marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday. | | 12. | wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince. | | 13. | based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy; black humor. | | 14. | (of a check mark, flag, etc.) done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, sub-standard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports. | | 15. | illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes. | | 16. | showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years. | | 17. | deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda. | | 18. | British. boycotted, as certain goods or produ
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e form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished. | –noun | 20. | the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it. Compare white (def. 19). | | 21. | (sometimes initial capital letter) | a. | a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, esp. those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia. | | | 22. | black clothing, esp. as a sign of mourning: He wore black at the funeral. | | 23. | Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares. | | 24. | black pigment: lamp black. | | 26. | a horse or other animal that is entirely black. | –verb (used with object) | 27. | to make black; put black on; blacken. | | 28. | British. to boycott or ban. | | 29. | to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking. | –verb (used without object) | 30. | to become black; take on a black color; blacken. | –adverb | 31. | (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream. | —Verb phrase | 32. | black out, | a. | to lose consciousness: He blacked out at the sight of blood. | | b. | to erase, obliterate, or suppress: News reports were blacked out. | | c. | to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.: When it came to his war experiences he blacked out completely. | | d. | Theater. to extinguish all of the stage lights. | | e. | to make or become inoperable: to black out the radio broadcasts from the U.S.
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| | f. | Military. to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids. | | g. | Radio and Television. to impose a broadcast blackout on (an area). | | h. | to withdraw or cancel (a special fare, sale, discount, etc.) for a designated period: The special air fare discount will be blacked out by the airlines over the holiday weekend. | | —Idioms | 33. | black and white, | a. | print or writing: I want that agreement in black and white. | | b. | a monochromatic picture done with black and white only. | | c. | a chocolate soda containing vanilla ice cream. | | | 34. | black or white, completely either one way or another, without any intermediate state. | | 35. | in the black, operating at a profit or being out of debt (opposed to in the red ): New production methods put the company in the black. | From DictionaryAnd Definition–conjunction | 1. | (used to connect grammatically coordinate words, phrases, or clauses) along or together with; as well as; in addition to; besides; also; moreover: pens and pencils. | | 2. | added to; plus: 2 and 2 are 4. | | 3. | then: He read for an hour and went to bed. | | 4. | also, at the same time: to sleep and dream. | | 5. | then again; repeatedly: He coughed and coughed. | | 6. | (used to imply different qualities in things having the same name): There are bargains and bargains, so watch out. | | 7. | (used to introduce a sentence, implying continuation) also; then: And then it happened. | | 8. | Informal. to (used between two finite verbs): Try and do it. Call and see if she's home yet. | | 9. | (used to introduce a consequence or conditional result): He felt sick and decided to lie down
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for a while. Say one more word about it and I'll scream. | | 10. | but; on the contrary: He tried to run five miles and couldn't. They said they were about to leave and then stayed for two more hours. | | 11. | (used to connect alternatives): He felt that he was being forced to choose between his career and his family. | | 12. | (used to introduce a comment on the preceding clause): They don't like each other—and with good reason. | | 13. | Archaic. if: and you please. Compare an 2 . | –noun | 14. | an added condition, stipulation, detail, or particular: He accepted the job, no ands or buts about it. | —Idioms | 16. | and so forth, and the like; and others; et cetera: We discussed traveling, sightseeing, and so forth. | | 17. | and so on, and more things or others of a similar kind; and the like: It was a summer filled with parties, picnics, and so on. | |
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e | 1. | of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light. | | 2. | light or comparatively light in color. | | 3. | (of human beings) marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, as of many Caucasoids. | | 4. | for, limited to, or predominantly made up of persons whose racial heritage is Caucasian: a white club; a white neighborhood. | | 5. | pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage. | | 6. | silvery, gray, or hoary: white hair. | | 7. | snowy: a white Christmas. | | 8. | lacking color; transparent. | | 9. | (politically) ultraconservative. | | 10. | blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter: Fill in the white space below. | | 11. | Armor. composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite. | | 12. | wearing white clothing: a white monk. | | 13. | Slang. decent, honorable, or dependable: That's very white of you. | | 14. | auspicious or fortunate. | | 15. | morally pure; innocent. | | 16. | without malice; harmless: white magic. | | 17. | (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red. | | 18. | British. (of coffee) containing milk. | –noun
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| 19. | a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light. It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color. | | 20. | a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible. | | 21. | quality or state of being white. | | 22. | lightness of skin pigment. | | 23. | a person whose racial heritage is Caucasian. | | 24. | a white material or substance. | | 25. | the white part of something. | | 26. | Biology. a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen. | | 27. | the white part of the eyeball: He has a speck in the white of his eye. | | 28. | whites, | a. | white or nearly white clothing. | | b. | top-grade white flour. | | | 29. | white wine: Graves is a good white. | | 30. | a type or breed that is white in color. | | 31. | Usually, whites. a blank space in printing. | | 32. | (initial capital letter) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White. | | 33. | Entomology. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies. | | 35. | Archery. | a. | the outermost ring of the butt. | | b. | an arrow that hits this portion of the butt. | | c. | the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow. | | d. | Archaic. a target painted white. | | | 36. | Chess, Checkers. the men or pieces that are light-colored. | | 37. | (often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party. | –verb (used with object) | 38. | Printing. | a. | to make white by leaving blank spaces (often fol. by out). | | b. | to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to
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photoengraving (often fol. by out). | | | 39. | Archaic. to make white; whiten. | —Verb phrase | 40. | white out, | a. | to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. | | b. | to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink. | | —Idioms | 41. | bleed white, Informal. to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources: Dishonesty is bleeding the union white. | | 42. | in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished. | |
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