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bible
Noun
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A bible is any book that is considered an authority in a particular subject.
The Blue Book is the bible for the value of used automobiles.
Bible
Proper noun
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The Bible is name of the holy text of Christians consisting of a collection of writings of both Jews, called the Old Testament, and Christians, called the New Testament. (This is always spelled with capital B).
The Bible tells stories of God, Jesus Christ, and good and bad people.
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The holy writings of the Jewish tradition, called the Old Testament, are called The Bible. (This is always spelled with capital B).
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A Bible or Bibles refer to copies of The Bible. This is always spelled with capital B).
The book store sells many Bibles.
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A book that is like the Bible but may be about another religion or is not religious. Often, this means a book that tells everything you need to know about something. Sometime this is used in a title to make a book sound very good.
The Koran is the Muslim Bible.
Anton LaVey wrote a book called "The Satanic Bible," for his new religion called Satanism.
We need a history Bible to help us pass our class.
black
Noun
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The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night.
He stood alone in the black of the night.
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Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin.
There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians.
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If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red)
It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black.
black
Adjective
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colored black
The black dog was the color of night.
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If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin.
It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager.
About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black.
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About a race with dark-coloured skin.
More and more universities are offering courses in black history.
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Black coffee or tea has no milk in it.
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If something is black, it is very bad.
The day the war started was a black day in history.
black
Verb
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If you black something, you color it black.
He blacked his boots before the party.
They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside.
A number of lines in the report were blacked out.
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If you black out, you stop seeing and hearing everything around you and you fall down.
After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up.