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(blăk) 
adj., black·er, black·est.
v., blacked, black·ing, blacks. v.tr.
To become black.
phrasal verb:
blackly black'ly adv.
blackness black'ness n.
adj., black·er, black·est.
- Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
- Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.
- often Black
- Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.
- Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
- Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.
- Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.
- Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.
- Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.
- Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.
- Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.
- Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
- Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: "Man ... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands" (Rachel Carson).
- Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.
- Served without milk or cream: black coffee.
- Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
- Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.
- Chiefly British. Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
- The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
- A pigment or dye having this color value.
- Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
- Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
- often Black
- A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
- An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
- Something that is colored black.
- Games.
- The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
- The player using these pieces.
v., blacked, black·ing, blacks. v.tr.
- To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal.
- To apply blacking to: blacked the stove.
- Chiefly British. To boycott as part of a labor union action.
To become black.
phrasal verb:
black out
- To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.
- To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition: blacked out many of my wartime experiences.
- To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.
- To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.
- To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).
- To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.
- To withhold (a televised event or program) from a broadcast area: blacked out the football game on local stations.
- To withhold a televised event or program from: blacked out the entire state to increase ticket sales.
in the black
- On the credit side of a ledger; prosperous.
[Middle English blak, from Old English blæc.]
blackish black'ish adj.blackly black'ly adv.
blackness black'ness n.
USAGE NOTE The Oxford English Dictionary contains evidence of the use of black with reference to African peoples as early as 1400, and certainly the word has been in wide use in racial and ethnic contexts ever since. However, it was not until the late 1960s that black (or Black) gained its present status as a self-chosen ethnonym with strong connotations of racial pride, replacing the then-current Negro among Blacks and non-Blacks alike with remarkable speed. Equally significant is the degree to which Negro became discredited in the process, reflecting the profound changes taking place in the Black community during the tumultuous years of the civil rights and Black Power movements. The recent success of African American offers an interesting contrast in this regard. Though by no means a modern coinage, African American achieved sudden prominence at the end of the 1980s when several Black leaders, including Jesse Jackson, championed it as an alternative ethnonym for Americans of African descent. The appeal of this term is obvious, alluding as it does not to skin color but to an ethnicity constructed of geography, history, and culture, and it won rapid acceptance in the media alongside similar forms such as Asian American, Hispanic American, and Italian American. But unlike what happened a generation earlier, African American has shown little sign of displacing or discrediting black, which remains both popular and positive. The difference may well lie in the fact that the campaign for African American came at a time of relative social and political stability, when Americans in general and Black Americans in particular were less caught up in issues involving radical change than they were in the 1960s. • Black is sometimes capitalized in its racial sense, especially in the African-American press, though the lowercase form is still widely used by authors of all races. The capitalization of Black does raise ancillary problems for the treatment of the term white. Orthographic evenhandedness would seem to require the use of uppercase White, but this form might be taken to imply that whites constitute a single ethnic group, an issue that is certainly debatable. Uppercase White is also sometimes associated with the writings of white supremacist groups, a sufficient reason of itself for many to dismiss it. On the other hand, the use of lowercase white in the same context as uppercase Black will obviously raise questions as to how and why the writer has distinguished between the two groups. There is no entirely happy solution to this problem. In all likelihood, uncertainty as to the mode of styling of white has dissuaded many publications from adopting the capitalized form Black.
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black
also black out
adjective
- Of the darkest achromatic visual value: ebon, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty. See colors/colorless.
- Having little or no light: dark, pitch-dark. See light/darkness.
- Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities: dirty, filthy, grimy, grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See clean/dirty.
- Morally objectionable: bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful, vicious, wicked, wrong. See right/wrong.
- Dark and depressing: bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary, gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy/unhappy, light/darkness.
- Characterized by intense ill will or spite: despiteful, evil, hateful, malevolent, malicious, malign, malignant, mean, nasty, poisonous, spiteful, venomous, vicious, wicked. Slang bitchy. See attitude/good attitude/bad attitude/neutral attitude.
verb
- To make dirty: befoul, begrime, besmirch, besoil, blacken, defile, dirty, smudge, smutch, soil, sully,, clean/dirty.
phrasal verb - black out
- To suffer temporary lack of consciousness: faint, keel over, pass out, swoon. See awareness/unawareness.
- To keep from being published or transmitted: ban, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keepputa lid on. See show/hide.
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Idioms beginning with black:
black and blue
black as night
black eye
black mark
See also dirty (black) look; in the red (black); look black; paint black; pot calling the kettle black.
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black
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Definition: angry
Antonyms: happy
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Definition: dark, inky
Antonyms: white
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Definition: dirty
Antonyms: clean
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Definition: evil
Antonyms: good
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Definition: hopeless
Antonyms: hopeful, optimistic
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adj. & adv. in intelligence, a term used to indicate reliance on illegal concealment rather than on cover.
See the Introduction, Abbreviations and Pronunciation for further details.
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Many traditional meanings of black are gloomy: night, death, evil, or the Devil. Yet chimney-sweeps are lucky, as is coal, a black cat, and (according to some sources) a single black lamb in a flock (Latham, 1878: 8, 10; Opie and Tatem, 1989: 29). The same is sometimes true of Negroes; one account of the Second World War mentions ‘an African air-raid warden nicknamed Uncle Sam’ who found people believed that because of his colour he was a lucky omen; ‘He once calmed a panic in a shelter of 120 people, in the dark, by shining a torch on his face’ (Norman Longmate, How We Lived Then (1971), 132).
In some seasonal customs, the performers blacken their faces with soot, ashes, or burnt cork (e.g. the Bacup Coconut Dancers, various mummers); this is of course a convenient disguise, but since other easily available substances (flour, chalk) were rarely used, it is likely that black was deliberately chosen. The underlying reason may be the idea that dirt is lucky (see excrement), or it may be because social norms are inverted at festive seasons.
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As in much of European tradition, black is the colour of evil, fear, and death among the Celts. The crow-goddess of the battlefield, Badb, is much associated with blackness in Irish narrative. The killer of Cumhall was the villainous Arca Dubh [Irish, Black Arky], and a one-eyed giant called the Black Oppressor does battle with the Welsh hero Owain. But black may have other associations. We see splendid Danish knights on parade, clothed in black, in Breuddwyd Rhonabwy [The Dream of Rhonabwy]. More mysteriously, black is seen in juxtaposition with red and white (folk motif: Z65.1), as in the stories of the Welsh Peredur, the Irish Deirdre, or the modern folktale ‘The King of Ireland's Son’. The storytellers explain that black is the blackness of the raven and of a lover's black hair; white the colour of snow and the skin of the lover; red the colour of blood and either the lips or a spot on the cheek of the lover. A later and rather unlikely Christian exegesis is that the three colours evoke the Trinity; further, black is symbolic of the condemnation of God, red is for the Crucifixion, and white for the purification of the spirit.
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A description of a positive balance on a company's financial statements.
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The phrase "in the black" is widely used to refer to the condition of companies that have been profitable in their last accounting period. This term is derived from the color of ink used by accountants to enter a positive figure on a company's financial statements.
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(DOD) In intelligence handling, a term used in certain phrases (e.g., living black, black border crossing) to indicate reliance on illegal concealment rather than on cover.
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noun, orig services'
1: to put the black on to blackmail. (1924 —) .
J. B. Priestley Got a lovely pub...and yet wants to start putting the black on people! (1951).
2: A serious mistake or blunder; esp. in phr. to put up a black, to make a blunder. (1939 —) .
N. Shute Probably I should have to...leave Government service altogether, having put up such a black as that (1948).verb trans .
3: To blackmail. (1928 —) .
G. Sims He...took naughty photos of them and then blacked them (1964).
noun, orig services'
1: to put the black on to blackmail. (1924 —) .
J. B. Priestley Got a lovely pub...and yet wants to start putting the black on people! (1951).
2: A serious mistake or blunder; esp. in phr. to put up a black, to make a blunder. (1939 —) .
N. Shute Probably I should have to...leave Government service altogether, having put up such a black as that (1948).
3: To blackmail. (1928 —) .
G. Sims He...took naughty photos of them and then blacked them (1964).
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1. without color, at the opposite end of the spectrum to white; the color of soot.
2. a universally accepted coat color. In horses, solid black with no pattern in it, the muzzle is black, and there may be white markings on the lower limbs and the head.
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Black is the color of objects that do not emit or reflect light in any part of the visible spectrum; they absorb all such frequencies of light. Although black is sometimes described as an "achromatic", or hueless, color, in practice it can be considered a color, as in expressions like "black cat" or "black paint".
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Etymology
The word black comes from Old English blæc ("black, dark", also, "ink"), from Proto-Germanic *blakkaz ("burned"), from Proto-Indo-European *bhleg- ("to burn, gleam, shine, flash"), from base *bhel- ("to shine"), related to Old Saxon blak ("ink"), Old High German blah ("black"), Old Norse blakkr ("dark"), Dutch blaken ("to burn"), and Swedish bläck ("ink"). More distant cognates include Latin flagrare ("to blaze, glow, burn"), and Ancient Greek phlegein ("to burn, scorch"). Black supplanted the wonted Old English word sweart ("black, dark"), which survives as swart, swarth, and swarthy (compare German schwarz and Dutch zwart, "black").
Color or light in science
Black can be defined as the visual impression experienced when no visible light reaches the eye. (This makes a contrast with whiteness, the impression of any combination of colors of light that equally stimulates all three types of color-sensitive visual receptors.)
Pigments or dyes that absorb light rather than reflect it back to the eye "look black". A black pigment can, however, result from a combination of several pigments that collectively absorb all colors. If appropriate proportions of three primary pigments are mixed, the result reflects so little light as to be called "black".
This provides two superficially opposite but actually complementary descriptions of black. Black is the lack of all colors of light, or an exhaustive combination of multiple colors of pigment. See also primary colors.
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| 100% | 100% | 100% | 0% | (ideal inks, theoretical only) |
| 100% | 100% | 100% | 100% | (registration black) |
In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but, by a thermodynamic rule, it is also the best emitter. Thus, the best radiative cooling, out of sunlight, is by using black paint, though it is important that it be black (a nearly perfect absorber) in the infrared as well.
In elementary science, far Ultraviolet light is called "black light" because, while itself unseen, it causes many minerals and other substances to fluoresce.
On January 16, 2008, researchers from Troy, New York’s Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute announced the creation of the darkest material on the planet. The material, which reflects only .045 percent of light, was created from carbon nanotubes stood on end. This is 1/30 of the light reflected by the current standard for blackness, and one third the light reflected by the previous record holder for darkest substance.[1]
Absorption of light
Main article: Absorption (electromagnetic radiation)
A material is said to be black if most incoming light is absorbed equally in the material. Light (electromagnetic radiation in the visible spectrum) interacts with the atoms and molecules, which causes the energy of the light to be converted in to other forms of energy, usually heat. This means that black surfaces can act as thermal collectors, absorbing light and generating heat(see Solar thermal collector).
Absorption of light is contrasted by transmission, reflection and diffusion, where the light is only redirected, causing objects to appear transparent, reflective or white respectively.
Usage, symbolism, colloquial expressions
Authority and seriousness
Black can be seen as the color of authority and seriousness.
- Black Watch is the senior Highland Regiment of the British Army.
- In Japanese culture, kuro (black) is a symbol of nobility, age, and experience, as opposed to shiro (white), which symbolizes serfdom, youth, and naiveté. Thus the black belt is a mark of achievement and seniority in many martial arts, whereas in, for example, Shotokan karate, a white belt is a rank-less belt that comes before all other belts. These ranks are called dan.
- Black was the color of the Arab dynasty of Abbasid caliphs, which is the reason black is frequently used in flags of Arab countries.[dubious ]
- The riot control units of the Basque Autonomous Police in Spain are known as beltzak ("blacks") after their uniform.
- Traditionally, British police vehicles (panda cars) were in black and white.
Clothing
- Academic dress includes black robes for graduates.
- Black tuxedos are worn at formal occasions known as black tie functions.
- Black is worn by religious figures within Christianity, e.g. priests (especially of the older religious denominations), monks and nuns.
- Black is worn by Hassidic Jews.
- Black is worn by some Muslim women; see List of types of sartorial hijab for photographs of examples such as the abaya.
- Lawyers and judges often wear black robes.
- Many performers of European classical music or other serious art music dress in black for a concert or recital.
- Members of the modern goth, heavy metal and some punk subcultures dress predominantly in black (see also goth fashion).
Demography
- The term "black" is often used in the West to denote the ethnicity of people whose actual skin color ranges from light to darker shades of brown such as sepia. For a discussion of usage, see the main entry at Black people and color terminology for race.
Philosophy
- In arguments, things can be black-and-white, meaning that the issue at hand is dichotomized (having two clear, opposing sides with no middle ground).
- In ancient China, black was the symbol of North and Water, one of the main five colors.
Politics
- The List of black flags, although not exclusively political, gives many political meanings.
- The Lützow Free Corps, composed of volunteer German students and academics fighting against Napoleon in 1813, could not afford to make special uniforms and therefore adopted black, as the only color that could be used to dye their civilian clothing without the original color showing. As these volunteers were greatly praised and glorified by later revolutionaries, their choice of the black color might have influenced its later connotations.
- Black is used for anarchist symbolism, sometimes split in diagonal with other colors to show alignment with another political philosophy. The plain black flag is explained in various ways, sometimes as an anti-flag or a non-flag. Wearing black clothing is also sometimes an anarchist tactic during demonstrations, with a practical benefit of not attracting attention and making later identification of a subject difficult. This strategy is referred to as a black bloc.
- In Portuguese politics, black (and red) is the party color of the Left Bloc.
- The blackshirts were Italian Fascist militias.
- In Nazi Germany, the blackshirts was a nickname for the SS, as opposed to the brownshirts, the SA.
- The black triangle was used by the Nazis to designate "asocial" people (homeless and Roma, for example); later the symbol was adopted by lesbian culture.
Science
- Black sky refers to the appearance of space as one emerges from the Earth's atmosphere.
- A black dwarf is the designation used in astronomy for a star that has burned out.
- The term "black hole" is applied to collapsed stars.
- Black body radiation refers to the radiation coming from a body at a given temperature where all incoming energy (light) is converted to heat.
Sexuality
- In the bandana code of the gay leather subculture, wearing a black bandana means that one is into the Sexual fetish of Sadomasochism, sadists wearing the bandana in the left rear pocket, masochists on the right.[2]
Sport
- The national rugby union team of New Zealand is called the All Blacks, in reference to their black outfits, and the color is also shared by other New Zealand national teams such as the Black Caps (cricket) and the Kiwis (rugby league).
- Association football (soccer) referees traditionally wear all-black uniforms, however nowadays other uniform colors may also be worn.
- A large number of teams have uniforms designed with black colors—many feeling the color sometimes imparts a psychological advantage in its wearers. Among the more famous (or infamous) include Oakland Raiders and Pittsburgh Steelers of the NFL, the San Antonio Spurs and Miami Heat of the NBA, and Inter Milan of the Serie A of the Italian soccer leagues.
- In auto racing, a black flag signals a driver to go into the pits.
- In baseball, "the black" refers to the batter's eye, a blacked out area around the center-field bleachers, painted black to give hitters a decent background for pitched balls.
Ambiguity and secrecy
- A black box is any device whose internal workings are unknown or inexplicable. In theatre, the black box is a smaller, undecorated theater whose auditorium and stage relationship can be configured in various way.
- A black project is a secretive project, like Enigma Decryption, other classified military programs or operations, Narcotics, or police sting operations.
- Some organizations are called "black" when they keep a low profile, like Sociétés Anonymes and secret societies.
- A polished black mirror is used for scrying, and is thought to help see into the paranormal world without interference or distraction.
- Black frequently symbolizes ambiguity, secrecy, and the unknown.
Beliefs, religions and superstitions
- Black is a symbol of mourning and bereavement in Western societies, especially at funerals and memorial services. In some traditional societies, within for example Greece and Italy, widows wear black for the rest of their lives. In contrast, across much of Africa and parts of Asia, white is a color of mourning and is worn during funerals.
- In English heraldry, black means darkness, doubt, ignorance, and uncertainty.[3]
- The Black Sun is an occult symbol that is said to be related to Nazism and occultism.
- In the Maasai tribes of Kenya and Tanzania, the color black is associated with rain clouds, a symbol of life and prosperity.
- Native Americans associated black with the life-giving soil.
- The Hindu deity Krishna means "the black one".
- The medieval Christian sect known as the Cathars viewed black as a color of perfection.
- The Rastafari movement sees black as beautiful.
- In the Japanese culture, Black is associated with honor, not death with the white color being associated with death.
- Black-dog bias is a veterinarian and animal shelter phenomenon in which black dogs are passed over for adoption in favor of lighter colored animals.
- Black cats may be thought of as either good luck or bad.
Economy
- To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is or "no longer in the red", or free of debt .
- Being "in the red" is to be in debt—in traditional bookkeeping, negative amounts, such as costs, were printed in red ink, and positive amounts, like revenues, were printed in black ink, so that if the "bottom line" is printed in black, the firm is profiting.
Fashion
- In Western fashion, black is considered stylish, sexy, elegant and powerful.
- The colloquialism "X is the new black" is a reference to the latest trend or fad that is considered a wardrobe basic for the duration of the trend, on the basis that black is always fashionable. The phrase has taken on a life of its own as a snowclone, and has been stretched and parodied as a rhetorical device and a cliché.
Symbolic dualism with white
Main article: Black-and-white dualism
- Black magic is a destructive or evil form of magic, often connected with death, as opposed to white magic. This was already apparent during Ancient Egypt when the Cush Tribe invaded Egyptian plantations along the Nile River.
- Evil witches are stereotypically dressed in black and good fairies in white.
- In computer security, a blackhat is an attacker with evil intentions, while a whitehat bears no such ill will. (This is derived from the Western movie convention.)
- In many Hollywood Westerns, bad cowboys wear black hats while the good ones wear white.
- Melodrama villains are dressed in black and heroines in white dresses.
Historical events
- A "black day" (or week or month) usually refers to a sad or tragic time. The Romans marked fasti days with white stones and nefasti days with black.
- E.g., the Wall Street Crash 1929, the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, which is the start of the Great Depression, is nicknamed Black Tuesday, and was preceded by Black Thursday, a downturn on October 24 the previous week.
- Black Monday, stock market crash on October 19, 1987.
- Black Wednesday caused Britain to pull out of the European Exchange Rate Mechanism.
- Black Friday, various tragic events.
- Black months include:
- the Black September in Jordan, in which thousands of people were killed.
- Black July killing of the Tamil population by the Sinhalese government in Sri Lanka.
- Black Spring 2001 (Printemps noir), in the Berber region of Kabylia (Algeria), when the police shot and killed more than 100 people.
- The Black Death, also known as the Black Plague, was a pandemic in Europe that killed tens of millions of people.
- The Black Hole of Calcutta was the overcrowding of an impromptu prison cell in which many died.
Expressions
- A black-hearted person is mean and unloving.
- A blacklist is a list of undesirable persons or entities (to be placed on the list is to be "blacklisted").
- Black comedy is a form of comedy dealing with morbid and serious topics.
- A black mark against a person relates to something bad they have done.
- A black mood is a bad one (cf Winston Churchill's clinical depression, which he called "my black dog").[4]
- Black market is used to denote the trade of illegal goods, or alternatively the illegal trade of otherwise legal items at considerably higher prices, e.g. to evade rationing.
- Black propaganda is the use of known falsehoods, partial truths, or masquerades in propaganda to confuse an opponent.
- Blackmail is the act of threatening someone to do something that would hurt them in some way, such as by revealing sensitive information about them, in order to force the threatened party to fulfill certain demands. Ordinarily, such a threat is illegal.
- If the black eight-ball, in billiards, is sunk before all others are out of play, the player loses.
- The black sheep of the family is the ne'er-do-well.
- To blackball someone is to block their entry into a club or some such institution. In the traditional English gentlemen's club, members vote on the admission of a candidate by secretly placing a white or black ball in a hat. If upon the completion of voting, there was even one black ball amongst the white, the candidate would be denied membership, and he would never know who had "blackballed" him.
- Black tea in the Western culture is known as "crimson tea" in Chinese and culturally influenced languages, (紅 茶, Mandarin Chinese hóngchá; Japanese kōcha; Korean hongcha), perhaps a more accurate description of the color of the liquid.
- "The black" is a wildfire suppression term referring to a burned area on a wildfire capable of acting as a safety zone.
- Black coffee refers to coffee without sugar or cream.
Pigments
Black pigments include carbon black, charcoal black, ebony, ivory black and onyx.
See also
- List of colors
- Rich black, which is different from using black ink alone, in printing.
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- ^ Card showing list of bandana colors and their meanings, available at Image Leather, 2199 Market St., San Francisco, CA 94114 and Gay City USA Hanky Codes:
- ^ (The American Girls Handy Book, p. 370)
- ^ Hal Haralson. "Dancing with the Black Dog". christianethicstoday.com. http://www.christianethicstoday.com/Issue/016/Dancing%20with%20the%20Black%20Dog%20By%20Hal%20Haralson_016_7_.htm. Retrieved November 10, 2006.
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Black
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - sort, mørk
n. - sort, farven sort
v. tr. - sværte, male sort
v. intr. - besvime
idioms:
- Black Africa Det sorte Afrika
- black and blue gul og blå
- black and white sort på hvidt, skriftligt
- black belt sort bælte
- black book sort bog
- black box sort kasse
- black economy sort økonomi, undergrundsøkonomi
- black eye blåt øje, sæbeøje
- black hole sort hul
- black horse sort hest
- black ice isslag
- Black Maria salatfad, politibil
- black mark plet, sort stempel, negativ anmærkning
- black market sort marked, undergrundsmarked, sortbørs
- black marketeer sortbørshandler
- black out sværte ud
- black pudding blodpølse
- black sheep sort får
- black spot sort plet
- black tie smoking
- black widow sort enke
- black woman afro-amerikansk kvinde
- in black and white sort på hvidt, på tryk, skriftligt
Nederlands (Dutch)
zwart, donker, somber, vuil, dreigend, slecht, geboycot (op de zwarte lijst), zwarte, zwart schaakstuk, zwarte kleding, zwart maken, besmeuren, besmet verklaren
Français (French)
adj. - noir, obscur, sans lumière, sale, (fig) noir, noir (des pensées), intense, violent, sombre (un désespoir), furieux, menaçant, noir (des cheveux, un café, etc)
n. - noir (la couleur), deuil, créditeur, ténèbres, obscurité, nuit noire
v. tr. - cirer (des chaussures)
v. intr. - (GB) briser la grève, tromper (qn, une cause), trahir, refuser de soutenir (une grève)
idioms:
- Black Africa Afrique noire
- black and blue (être) couvert de bleus
- black and white (Art) dessin en noir et blanc
- black belt (être) ceinture noire
- black book (ne pas être) dans les petits papiers de qn, (être) mal vu de qn
- black box (Aviat) boîte noire ou enregistreuse
- black economy économie parallèle
- black eye ¯il poché au beurre noir, pocher l'¯il à qn
- black hole trou noir
- black horse moreau
- black ice verglas
- Black Maria panier à salade, voiture cellulaire
- black mark zéro, (être) un zéro pour, (être) un mauvais point pour
- black market marché noir
- black marketeer profiteur (vendant au marché noir)
- black out s'évanouir, tomber dans les pommes, tourner de l'¯il
- black pudding boudin noir
- black sheep (fig) brebis galeuse (de la famille)
- black spot (GB) point noir
- black tie habillé, en smoking
- black widow (Zool) veuve noire
- black woman une Noire
- in black and white écrit noir sur blanc
- in the black (être) créditeur
Deutsch (German)
adj. - schwarz
n. - Schwarzer, Neger
v. - schwärzen, boykottieren
idioms:
- Black Africa Schwarzafrika
- black and blue grün und blau
- black and white schwarzweiß
- black belt (Judo) schwarzer Gürtel
- black book schwarze Liste
- black box Flugschreiber
- black economy Schwarzmarkt, Schattenwirtschaft
- black eye blaues Auge
- black hole (Astron.) schwarzes Loch, (mil.) Bunker
- black horse Rappe
- black ice Eisregen, Glatteis
- Black Maria grüne Minna
- black mark Makel
- black market Schwarzmarkt
- black marketeer Schwarzhändler, Schieber
- black out verdunkeln, abdunkeln
- black pudding Blutwurst
- black sheep schwarzes Schaf
- black spot schwarzer Fleck, Gefahrenstelle
- black tie schwarze Fliege, formale Abendkleidung
- black widow (zo.) Schwarze Witwe
- black woman Negerin, Schwarze
- in black and white schwarz auf weiß
- in the black in den schwarzen Zahlen [sein]
Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - μαύρο (χρώμα), νέγρος, μαύρος
adj. - μαύρος, σκοτεινός, κατασκότεινος, ζοφερός, αλαμπής, θαμπός, (για καφέ) χωρίς γάλα, άγριος, απειλητικός
v. - μαυρίζω, μελανώνω
idioms:
- Black Africa η Μαύρη Αφρική
- black and blue μαυρισμένος στο ξύλο, μπλε μαρέν
- black and white γραπτό ή τυπωμένο κείμενο
- black belt μαύρη ζώνη (του τζούντο ή καράτε)
- black book μαύρα κατάστιχα
- black box μαύρο κουτί αεροσκάφους, σφραγισμένη ηλεκτρονική συσκευή
- black economy παραοικονομία, παράλληλη οικονομία
- black eye μαυρισμένο ή μπλαβισμένο μάτι
- black hole μαύρη τρύπα (στο διάστημα ή τα οικονομικά)
- black horse κρυφό ταλέντο
- black ice διάφανος ολισθηρός πάγος (στο κατάστρωμα των δρόμων)
- Black Maria κλούβα της αστυνομίας
- black mark στίγμα, όνειδος
- black market μαύρη αγορά
- black marketeer μαυραγορίτης
- black out λιποθυμώ, παθαίνω σκοτοδίνη, συσκοτίζω, σκοτεινιάζω, μαυρίζω, απαγορεύω τη δημοσίευση (είδησης)
- black pudding λουκάνικο αίματος (από αίμα και λίπος χοίρου)
- black sheep μαύρο πρόβατο
- black spot επικίνδυνο σημείο διαδρομής αγωνιστικών αυτοκινήτων
- black tie σμόκιν
- black widow είδος δηλητηριώδους αράχνης
- black woman μαύρη, νέγρα
- in black and white γραπτώς
Italiano (Italian)
negro, nero
idioms:
- Black Africa Africa nera
- black and blue livido
- black and white per iscritto
- black belt zona abitata da neri
- black book lista nera
- black box scatola nera
- black economy economia parallela
- black eye occhio pesto
- black hole buco nero
- black horse morello
- black ice strada gelata
- Black Maria furgone cellulare
- black mark punto nero
- black market mercato nero
- black marketeer borsaro nero
- black out oscurare
- black pudding sanguinaccio
- black sheep pecora nera
- black spot macchia, punto nero
- black tie formale
- black widow vedova nera
- black woman negra
- in black and white nero su bianco
Português (Portuguese)
n. - preto (m), pigmento (m) preto, pessoa (f) da raça negra, as peças (f pl) pretas (no xadrez e damas)
adj. - preto, negro, escuro
v. - tornar preto
idioms:
- Black Africa África (f) Negra
- black and blue moer de pancadas
- black and white simples e direto, preto no branco (coloq.)
- black belt faixa (f) preta (judô ou caratê)
- black book lista (f) negra
- black box caixa (f) preta (Aer.)
- black economy economia (f) paralela
- black eye olho (m) roxo
- black hole buraco (m) negro (Astron.), cárcere (m) (fig.), não há dinheiro que chegue (coloq.) (fig.)
- black horse cavalo (m) negro
- black ice gelo (m) duro e escorregadio cobrindo estradas bem semelhante à sua superfície
- Black Maria camburão (m) (coloq.)
- black mark marca por mau comportamento
- black market mercado (m) paralelo ou negro (coloq.)
- black marketeer pessoa (f) que negocia no mercado paralelo
- black out escurecer, desmaiar
- black pudding morcela (f)
- black sheep ovelha (f) negra (coloq.) (fig.)
- black spot parte (f) de uma estrada onde muitos acidentes acontecem, lugar (m) de problemas ou dificuldades
- black tie ocasião (f) social onde usa-se trajes de cerimônia
- black widow viúva-negra (f) (Zool.)
- black woman mulher (f) da raça negra
- in black and white por escrito
Русский (Russian)
чернокожий, чернота, черный
idioms:
- Black Africa черная Африка
- black and blue до полусмерти
- black and white черно-белый
- black belt черный пояс (карате)
- black book черный список
- black box черный ящик, засекреченное устройство записывать полет
- black economy теневая экономика
- black eye синяк
- black hole черная дыра
- black horse темная лошадка
- black ice гололедица
- Black Maria воронок, черный ворон
- black mark порок, недостаток
- black market черный рынок
- black marketeer спекулянт, фарцовщик
- black out потерять сознание, вырубиться
- black pudding кровяная колбаса
- black sheep черная овца, отщепенец, негодяй (семьи)
- black spot порок, недостаток
- black tie галстук-бабочка, официальный прием
- black widow паук черная вдова
- black woman женщина в черном - символ траура
- in black and white черным по белому
Español (Spanish)
adj. - de color negro
n. - moreno, negro
v. tr. - ennegrecer, boicotear
v. intr. - ennegrecerse
idioms:
- Black Africa Africa Negra
- black and blue lleno de cardenales
- black and white blanco y negro
- black belt cinturón negro
- black book lista negra
- black box caja negra, registrador de vuelo
- black economy economía sumergida
- black eye ojo morado o en compota o a la funerala
- black hole calabozo
- black horse caballo negro, moro
- black ice hielo en el pavimento
- Black Maria coche celular
- black mark mala nota
- black market mercado negro
- black marketeer estraperlista
- black out apagar las luces, censurar
- black pudding morcilla
- black sheep oveja negra, garbanzo negro
- black spot mancha
- black tie corbata negra de lazo, traje de etiqueta
- black widow araña pollito
- black woman negra
- in black and white por escrito, en blanco y negro
- in the black con saldo a favor, solvente, sin deudas
Svenska (Swedish)
n. - neger, svart, svärta, sorg
adj. - svart, mörk
v. - svärta, blanka
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
黑色的, 黑暗的, 漆黑的, 黑人的, 黑色, 黑颜料, 黑漆, 黑墨水, 黑人, 变黑, 涂黑
idioms:
- Black Africa 黑非洲
- black and blue 遍体鳞伤的
- black and white 白纸黑字, 单色, 黑白片
- black belt 黑腰带的, 黑腰带级选手
- black book 黑名册, 可疑人物册
- black box 黑盒子
- black economy 漏税的现金交易经济
- black eye 眼圈发黑, 不名誉
- black hole 黑洞
- black horse 黑马
- black ice 硬的透明薄冰, 黑冰
- Black Maria 运囚犯的汽车, 黑烟弹, 大口径大炮
- black mark 不足之处, 黑点, 不良的评语
- black market 黑市交易, 黑市
- black marketeer 黑市商人
- black out 灯火管制, 停止, 熄灯
- black pudding 血肠
- black sheep 害群之马, 败家子
- black spot 黑点, 植物的黑斑病, 危机等的焦点, 不景气地区
- black tie 小礼服配带黑领结
- black widow 黑寡妇
- black woman 黑人妇女
- in black and white 用白纸黑字地写下来, 很清楚
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 黑色的, 黑暗的, 漆黑的, 黑人的
n. - 黑色, 黑顏料, 黑漆, 黑墨水, 黑人
v. tr. - 變黑, 塗黑
v. intr. - 變黑
idioms:
- Black Africa 黑非洲
- black and blue 遍體鱗傷的
- black and white 白紙黑字, 單色, 黑白片
- black belt 黑腰帶的, 黑腰帶級選手
- black book 黑名冊, 可疑人物冊
- black box 黑盒子
- black economy 漏稅的現金交易經濟
- black eye 眼圈發黑, 不名譽
- black hole 黑洞
- black horse 黑馬
- black ice 硬的透明薄冰, 黑冰
- Black Maria 運囚犯的汽車, 黑煙彈, 大口徑大炮
- black mark 不足之處, 黑點, 不良的評語
- black market 黑市交易, 黑市
- black marketeer 黑市商人
- black out 燈火管制, 停止, 熄燈
- black pudding 血腸
- black sheep 害群之馬, 敗家子
- black spot 黑點, 植物的黑斑病, 危機等的焦點, 不景氣地區
- black tie 小禮服配帶黑領結
- black widow 黑寡婦
- black woman 黑人婦女
- in black and white 用白紙黑字地寫下來, 很清楚
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 검은, 더러운, 어두운
n. - 검정, 흑인, 상복
v. tr. - ~을 검게 하다, 더럽히다, 구두약으로 구두를 닦다
v. intr. - 검어지다, 눈이 어지러워지다
idioms:
- black out 검은 잉크로 지우다, 캄캄하게 하다, 한동안 의식을 잃다
- in black and white 흑백의, 단색의
idioms:
- black Sea 흑해 (유럽과 아시아 사이에 있는 바다)
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - 黒い, まっ暗な, 黒ずんだ, 汚れた, ブラックの, 黒人の, 邪悪な, 凶悪な, 陰気な, 不吉な, 陰うつな, 不愉快な
n. - 黒, 黒いペンキ, 黒衣, 黒人
v. - 黒くする, 磨く
idioms:
- Black Africa ブラックアフリカ
- black and blue 青あざのできるほど
- black and white 書きもの, 白黒
- black belt 黒帯, 有段者, 黒土地帯, 黒人居住地域
- black book 要注意人物掲載帳, ブラックリスト
- black box ブラックボックス
- black economy 闇経済
- black eye 目の周りの青あざ
- black hole ブラックホール
- black horse 黒馬
- black ice 固い透明な薄氷, 泥のまじった氷
- Black Maria 囚人護送車
- black mark 罰点, 黒星
- black market 私設市場, 闇市
- black marketeer 闇商人
- black out 暗くする, 灯火管制する, 黒く塗りつぶす, 気を失う
- black pudding ブラッドソーセージ
- black sheep 黒羊, 悪漢
- black spot 危険箇所, 黒点病
- black tie 黒の蝶ネクタイ, 略式男子用夜会服
- black widow クロゴケグモ
- black woman 黒人女性
- in black and white 白黒の
العربيه (Arabic)
(الاسم) اللون الأسود, رجل أسود, سواد (صفه) أسود, شرير, أظلم, زنجي, قذر (فعل) سود, دهن الحذاء
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - שחור, כושי, קודר, מלוכלך, (מבט) מאיים, מגנה, מרושע, מבשר-רעות
n. - שחור, כושי, מלוכלך, הצד החיובי (של חשבון בנק)
v. tr. - החרים (סחורה או עסק)
v. intr. - השחיר
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