British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728 1799)
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color;
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black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
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(board games) the darker pieces
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the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
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a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
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popular child actress of the 1930''s (born 1927)
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British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
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total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"
Verb
make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"
Adjective S.
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.
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extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the celler"
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"
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(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
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soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
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dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
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(of coffee) without cream or sugar
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(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 fata
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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 sc
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(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
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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"
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distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"
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(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"
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harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"
a.
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the
color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the
opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth;
black hair or eyes.
a.
In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness;
very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
a.
Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness;
destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel;
mournful; calamitous; horrible.
a.
Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen;
foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
adv.
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce
blackness.
n.
That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest
color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good
black.
n.
A black pigment or dye.
n.
A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded
with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
n.
A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
n.
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
n.
The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by
being black.
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A stain; a spot; a smooch.
a.
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
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To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying
blacking and then polishing with a brush.
Black
O night, with hue so black!2.
I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud.3.
Black
Black
Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.2.
Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.
That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.5.
The black or sight of the eye.6.
Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust.
Black
They have their teeth blacked, both men and women, for they say a dog hath his teeth white, therefore they will black theirs.
Sins which black thy soul.2.
Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color;
Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color;
To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
Usage Examples
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
Because I'm a young black man driving a really nice, expensive car, I sometimes get harassed when I'm rolling through a ghetto neighbourhood.
As another has well said, to handicap a student by teaching him that his black face is a curse and that his struggle to change his condition is hopeless is the worst sort of lynching.
Any film I do is not going to change the way black women have been portrayed, or black people have been portrayed, in cinema since the days of D.W. Griffith.
As much as I transferred my mother to Elizabeth Shore of The Black Dahlia, as much as her dad mutated into an obsession with crime in general, well, I have thought about other things throughout the years.
'American Horror' goes for a very specific kind of Seventies suburban downer ambience - 'Flowers in the Attic' paperbacks, Black Sabbath album covers and late-night flicks like 'Let's Scare Jessica to Death.' It even has 'Go Ask Alice'-era urban legends.
A black agenda is jobs, jobs, jobs, quality education, investment in infrastructure and strong democratic regulation of corporations. The black agenda, at its best, looks at America from the vantage point of the least of these and asks what's best for all.
As a result of America's efforts to realize the ideals of equality and freedom, blacks in America are now the freest and richest black people anywhere on the face of the earth including all of the nations that are ruled by blacks.
A racially integrated community is a chronological term timed from the entrance of the first black family to the exit of the last white family.
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Other Usage ExamplesAmerica is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.
As a black man, my hope is that I can touch more and more people all over the world of different races and different colours.
'Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black men, those who are trying to find jobs. This film gives them a good look at that situation.
A lot of times black folks look for love in all the wrong places. You're always looking for somebody to love you, be accepted, and there's the insecurities that are even transmitted through rap. Everyone is trying to aim to please too much.
As far as I knew white women were never lonely, except in books. White men adored them, Black men desired them and Black women worked for them.
Any time you stop looking at evil as a black and white thing, it's helpful. So the fact that there won't be any obligatory Islamic terrorist stereotypes in movies any more, that'd be helpful.
As a black woman, my politics and political affiliation are bound up with and flow from participation in my people's struggle for liberation, and with the fight of oppressed people all over the world against American imperialism.
At ten I was playing against 18-year-old guys. At 15 I was playing professional ball with the Birmingham Black Barons, so I really came very quickly in all sports.
An organization which claims to be working for the needs of a community - as SNCC does - must work to provide that community with a position of strength from which to make its voice heard. This is the significance of black power beyond the slogan.
Another Black Label motto. That's what I think life is. It's just another bridge to cross. You ask no questions. Whatever work it is you gotta do, you gotta go over it, under it, through it, around it, to do it.
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