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black English

Meaning black meaning

What does black mean?
Definitions in simple English

black Noun

— The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night. He stood alone in the black of the night. — Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin. There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians. — 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

— colored black The black dog was the color of night. — 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. — About a race with dark-coloured skin. More and more universities are offering courses in black history. — Black coffee or tea has no milk in it. — If something is black, it is very bad. The day the war started was a black day in history.

black Verb

— 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. — 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.

black

— adjective being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light black leather jackets as black as coal rich black soil — adjective marked by anger or resentment or hostility black looks black words — adjective of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization — Martin Luther King Jr. — noun the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) — adjective (= bleak, dim) offering little or no hope the future looked black prospects were bleak Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult — J.M.Synge took a dim view of things — adjective (= dark, sinister) stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable black deeds a black lie his black heart has concocted yet another black deed Darth Vader of the dark side a dark purpose dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him — Thomas Hardy — adjective (= calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful) (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin the stock market crashed on Black Friday a calamitous defeat the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory — Charles Darwin it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it — Douglas MacArthur a fateful error — adjective (= pitch-black, pitch-dark) extremely dark a black moonless night through the pitch-black woods it was pitch-dark in the cellar — adjective (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood a face black with fury — adjective soiled with dirt or soot with feet black from playing outdoors his shirt was black within an hour — adjective (of coffee) without cream or sugar — adjective (= ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful) (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands — Rachel Carson an ignominious retreat inglorious defeat an opprobrious monument to human greed a shameful display of cowardice — adjective (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading black propaganda — adjective (= grim, mordant) harshly ironic or sinister black humor a grim joke grim laughter fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit — noun black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning) the widow wore black — noun (board games) the darker pieces — adjective distributed or sold illicitly the black economy pays no taxes — noun (= total darkness) total absence of light they fumbled around in total darkness in the black of night — verb (= blacken) make or become black The smoke blackened the ceiling The ceiling blackened

Black

— noun popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) — noun British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) — noun a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

Synonyms black synonyms

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black English » English

dark blackness pitch-black dirty dark-coloured Negro dark-blue blue swarthy gloomy blackened blacken sable plum pitch-dark nigrify negro murky melanize melanise dim darken blackish black person whip snake very black total darkness somber sinister lightlessness grimy grim evil dusky dismal deep blue dark colour contraband bootleg bleak black-market black color bad Negroid Black Afro-American wrong wicked unlawful terrible

Black English » English

blackamoor black Negroid Negro Shirley Temple Black Shirley Temple Joseph Black Black person sable nigger heavy dirty dark cormorant brother bloodwood black person Black River African-American

Topics black topics

What do people use black to talk about?
States Quality Light Color

Black
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation Game

Chess
Universe, creation

Sky
Person Body

Skin
Social behavior Relationships

Types of people
Social behavior Relationships Kinship

Race
Daily life Adornment Care for hair

Dye hair
Grammar Part of speech

Adjectives
Person Life Die

Mourn
Social behavior Religion Miracle, supernatural power

Sorcery
Universe, creation Animal Types of animals

Spider
Person Body

Hair
Person Healthy

Injure
Social behavior Behavior Good, moral

Bad, immoral
Daily life Food Types of food

Prepared food
States Quality Light

Color

Conjugation black conjugation

How do you conjugate black?

black · verb

Examples black examples

How do I use black in a sentence?

Simple sentences

A crow is as black as coal.
There was a black jacket on the book.
The dog knows black from white.
I'm the black sheep of the family.
She has two cats. One is white and one is black.
This car is black.
A woman's wardrobe isn't complete without a little black dress.
Tom has two cats. One is white and the other is black.
I have a black eye.
Mary's eyes are black.
You've got a black eye.
You see everything in black colours.
Tom drinks black coffee without sugar.
She was wearing a black hat.
My black shoes need heel repairs.
Did you buy it on the black market?
It was pitch black outside.
We often associate black with death.
We have two cats; one is white, and the other is black.
We have two dogs. One is black and the other is white.
Simply follow the instructions below, and in no time you will be printing full color documents just as easily and quickly as black and white.
Black smoke came out of the chimney.

Movie subtitles

What about the Black Knights?
This is an order to all Black Knights!
The ravages of the Black Death, the bubonic plague that had devastated Europe in the early 1 4th century, had reduced the city's population to around 40,000, less than a 20th the size of Nanjing's.
I know, she is such a hot shade of black, right?
And I believe that in 1978 God changed his mind about black people!
The black one with the 20 thou on the clock.
You see black orzo in a spicy seafood broth and a celeriac puree.
All right, this one goes out to all the fellas in the front row with the, uh, construction boots, the, uh, button-down shirt, the cropped black hair.
I'm a black man, okay? All I got to do is puff up my chest and act a little gangster.
What if they're black?
Black people hate crazy.
Um, I've got a black wig and some 60s clothes.
Man, if you was a black man driving around with a dead white guy in the back of your ice cream truck, you'd know the answer to that!
The rug there now also has three diamonds but a black border.
He's the guy on the black stallion.
Every herd has his black sheep.
In Mlle. Carolotta's correspondence there appeared another letter, edged in black!
A black lake, hidden from man and the sun, leading to the Phantom's rendezvous.
In my little black bag, in the right-hand corner.
This is Black Elk, an old friend of mine.
It's Black Elk and some of his braves.
I've never told Black Elk a lie yet.
Black Elk here says that you and your sister were so good to him, when he come in to visit that he wants to give you all them ponies.
Say, Black Elk was telling me that all the Injuns in the West was gathering to keep you all from passing' through.
Black Elk and the Cheyennes are going west to hold a powwow with the Shoshones.
Black and white looks all right.
Black. and white.
Narco-finance is a major revenue stream - for American black ops.
It's a black name.
I guess a black whiskered whale really has no sense.
By making everything either entirely black or white that makes them feel better.
Between white and black there is gray.
A black and white one too.
All right, this one goes out to all the fellas in the front row with the, uh, construction boots, the, uh, button-down shirt, the cropped black hair. - Okay, they got it, Kells.
Dude, that's not gonna happen. I'm a black man, okay?
What if they're black? - Then I just act crazy, man.
It was my mum who told me Carrie was going to marry a black man.

News and current affairs

The fact that the man was black might or might not have made the cop go for his handcuffs even sooner than he might normally have done.
The complexities of black anger, white guilt, and of black, and white fear, are so vexed that most Americans prefer not to talk about race at all.
The black, red, and gold German tricolor adorns the entire country as never before, but almost nowhere are there nationalist undertones.
Immediately after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Turkey proposed the Black Sea Economic Cooperation.
We do not yet know what combination of black-box computer programs and electronic trading algorithms, interacting across more than 50 market centers, caused this catastrophe.
After all, Ukraine managed to eliminate its nuclear weapons and reach accommodation over the Black Sea fleet without joining a private economic bloc with Russia.
Not all of this is black.
This summer, friends who live a few kilometers from us in rural Montana in the western US had to interrupt their dinner when a black bear suddenly came out of the trees.
This year will afford us ample opportunity to examine the black swans that are already among us, and to prepare for the arrival of even more.
While a distraught world is still trying to fathom the consequences of this global crash and to mitigate its impact, the call of the next black swan can already be heard: the global climate disaster.
So the black swan of the climate crisis is already preparing to land.
For now, it may only be black humor (e.g., the New Orleans waiter who asks diners whether they want their shrimp leaded or unleaded).
High employment costs and nominal tax rates promote small scale enterprises that only thrive on black market employment and tax evasion.
He saw one black male standing inside the house and asked him to come out.
He said something about black men in America being singled out, and asked the cop, who was white, for his name and identification.
One thing to be learned, if we didn't know this already, is how close racial sensitivities are to the surface of US life, despite the election of a black president.
The complexities of black anger, white guilt, and of black, and white fear, are so vexed that most Americans prefer not to talk about race at all. The field is too full of mines.
However, the world's black populations are the prime victims.
In the United States, one-eighth of all black males between the ages of 25 and 34 are in jail, and three out of five black American households with children are headed by a single mother.
The developed world's silence suggests that it takes the mistreatment of black and brown women by black and brown men for granted, rather than holding all people to one standard of justice.
While ideas about this abound, new theoretical breakthroughs most likely will be needed to develop the machinery required to solve such electron-electron theories, perhaps even involving black holes.
Is Bangladesh headed into the black hole that consumed Afghanistan under the Taliban?
After all, what kind of faith allows putting instruments of mass murder on sale in the black market.

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