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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.
dwarf
Noun
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A very little person. A dwarf is a person whose size is much smaller than average.
She is a dwarf, only three feet (one meter) tall.
Some dwarfs used to be shown in circuses like strange animals.
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or A race of small people, sometime with long beards. This is a type of fictional character found in legends all over the world, whose main characteristic is being much shorter than normal.
In Scandinavian legends dwarves are considered as a true people, different from human beings.
Snow white was adopted by seven dwarves.
dwarf
Adjective
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If something is dwarf is it smaller than normal. Anything of a much smaller than average size can be called dwarf..
I kept a dwarf tree in my house.
Dwarf rabbits are quite popular pet rabbits.
dwarf
Verb
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If X dwarfs Y, X is much bigger than Y.
The elephant dwarfed the people with it.
The new building will dwarf the old one.
hornbill
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noun
bird of tropical Africa and Asia having a very large bill surmounted by a bony protuberance; related to kingfishers