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noun : BLACK
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) ;
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2. (
) total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" ;
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3. (
) British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) ;
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4. (
) popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) ;
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5. (
) a person with African ancestry, "Negro" and "Negroid" are archaic and pejorative today ;
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6. (
) (board games) the darker pieces ;
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7. (
) black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black" ;
verb : BLACK
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" ;
Adjective : BLACK
Source:WordNet 3.1
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1. (
) 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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2. (
) of or belonging to a racial group especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people;
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3. (
) marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words" ;
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5. (
) 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 ;
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6. (
) (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" ;
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8. (
) extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar" ;
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10. (
) (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" ;
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11. (
) distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes" ;
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12. (
) (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" ;
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13. (
) (of coffee) without cream or sugar ;
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