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black 

adj., black·er, black·est. 1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and

having no predominant hue. 2. Having little or no light: a black, moonless night. 3. often Black

a. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the Black population of South Africa.

b. Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.

4. Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair. 5. Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors. 6. Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds. 7. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts. 8. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy. 9. Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look. 10. Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black

Friday. 11. 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).

12. Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight. 13. Served without milk or cream: black coffee. 14. Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used

chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions. 15. 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.

16. Chiefly British. Boycotted as part of a labor union action.

n. 1.

a. 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.

b. A pigment or dye having this color value.2. Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness. 3. Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning. 4. often Black

a. A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.

b. An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.

5. Something that is colored black. 6. Games.

a. The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers. b. The player using these pieces.

v., blacked, black·ing, blacks. v.tr.

1. To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal. 2. To apply blacking to: blacked the stove. 3. Chiefly British. To boycott as part of a labor union action.

v.intr.

To become black.

phrasal verb:

black out

1.a. To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium. b. To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition:

blacked out many of my wartime experiences.2. To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news

issuing from the rebel provinces. 3. To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target

during an air raid. 4. To extinguish all the lights on (a stage). 5. To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the

region. 6.

a. To withhold (a televised event or program) from a broadcast area: blacked out the football game on local stations.

b. To withhold a televised event or program from: blacked out the entire state to increase ticket sales.

idiom:

in the black

1. 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.

Investment Dictionary: Black

A description of a positive balance on a company's financial statements.

Investopedia Says: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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Thesaurus : Black also black out

adjective

1. Of the darkest achromatic visual value: ebon, ebony, inky, jet, jetty, onyx, pitch-black, pitchy, sable, sooty. See colors/colorless.

2. Having little or no light: dark, pitch-dark. See light/darkness. 3. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities: dirty, filthy, grimy,

grubby, smutty, soiled, unclean, uncleanly. See clean/dirty. 4. Morally objectionable: bad, evil, immoral, iniquitous, peccant, reprobate, sinful,

vicious, wicked, wrong. See right/wrong. 5. Dark and depressing: bleak, blue, cheerless, dark, desolate, dismal, dreary,

gloomy, glum, joyless, somber, tenebrific. See happy/unhappy, light/darkness. 6. 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

1. To suffer temporary lack of consciousness: faint, keel over, pass out, swoon. See awareness/unawareness.

2. To keep from being published or transmitted: ban, censor, hush (up), stifle, suppress. Idioms: keepputa lid on. See show/hide.

Idioms:

Idioms beginning with black:black and blueblack as nightblack eyeblack mark

See also dirty (black) look; in the red (black); look black; paint black; pot calling the kettle black.

Antonyms: black

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Definition: angryAntonyms: happy

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Definition: dark, inkyAntonyms: white

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Definition: dirtyAntonyms: clean

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Definition: evilAntonyms: good

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Definition: hopelessAntonyms: hopeful, optimistic

 US Military Dictionary: black Top Home > Library > History, Politics & Society > US Military Dictionary

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

English Folklore: black Top Home > Library > Literature & Language > English Folklore

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.

Celtic Mythology: black Top Home > Library > Religion & Spirituality > Celtic Mythology

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.

Veterinary Dictionary: black Top Home > Library > Animal Life > Veterinary Dictionary

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

Military Dictionary: black Top Home > Library > History, Politics & Society > Military Dictionary

(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 cove

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IN BRIEF: The characteristic color of soot or coal; the absence of light.

It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. — Deng Xiaoping, Chinese premier.

Wikipedia: Black Top Home > Library > Miscellaneous > WikipediaThis article is about the color. For other uses, see Black (disambiguation).— Common connotations —darkness, secrecy, and mystery; silence and concealment; death (including execution) and bereavement; (with orange) Halloween; end, chaos, and lack; evil, bad luck, and crime; conversely, elegance.— Color coordinates —

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".

Color or light in science

Nighttime

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 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

In physics, a black body is a perfect absorber of light, but by a rule derived by Einstein it is also, when heated, 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, 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. It absorbs nearly 30 times more light than the current standard for blackness[1], and is 3 times darker than the current record holder for darkest substance. Scientists claim that the new material has great potential in the manufacturing of solar panels.[2]

Absorption of lightMain 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

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A black cat

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 which 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.

The riot control units of the Basque Autonomous Police in Spain are known as beltzak ("blacks") after their uniform.

Traditionally, 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 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

skin color ranges from light to darker shades of brown. For a discussion of usage, see the main entry at Black people and color terminology for race.

Music "Black & White", a song by In Flames from their album Reroute To Remain

Fourteen Songs of Conscious Insanity. Paint It, Black is a 1966 hit song by the Rolling Stones. Metallica 's self titled album is known as "The Black Album." Amy Winehouse 's Grammy Award winning song and album Back to Black. Black metal is a style of music including bands such as Darkthrone and Mayhem.

Johnny Cash was commonly referred to as "The Man in Black" due to his preference for black clothing. His song "Man in Black" presents it as a show of solidarity with the outcasts of society.

The folk song "Black Is the Color (of My True Love's Hair)". The band AC/DC sang "Back in Black", a song about being successful and

ambitious once again. Black Flag was an American punk rock band formed in 1977 in Hermosa Beach,

California that broke up in 1986. Black or White , the first single off of Michael Jackson's Dangerous album.

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. 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. The blackshirts was a nickname for the SS. 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. The term "black hole" is applied to collapsed stars. This term is metaphorical

however, because few properties of black objects or black voids apply to black holes.

Black body radiation refers to the radiation coming from a body at a given temperature where all incoming energy (light) is converted to heat.

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] 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.

Economy To say one's accounts are "in the black" is used to mean that one is free of debt.

o 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.

Black Friday (shopping) occurs the day after Thanksgiving. The idea is that the shopping that begins on this day can put a company into the black (i.e., make a profit) for the year.

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 whiteMain 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. o 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.

o Black Monday , stock market crash on October 19, 1987. o Black Wednesday caused Britain to pull out of the European Exchange

Rate Mechanism. o Black Friday , various tragic events. (Exception: See Black Friday

(shopping).) Black months include:

o the Black September in Jordan, in which thousands of people were killed. o Black July killing of the Tamil population by the Sinhalese government in

Sri Lanka. o 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 which 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 you is a bad thing. 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 to reveal information about a person unless the threatened party fulfills certain demands. This information is usually of an embarrassing or socially damaging nature. Ordinarily, such a threat is illegal.

If you sink the black eight-ball in billiards before all others are out of play, you lose.

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, current 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.

PigmentsBlack pigments include carbon black, charcoal black, ebony, ivory black and onyx.

See also

List of colors

References1. ̂ 30 times darker: 2. ̂ Darkest ever material created: 3. ̂ (The American Girls Handy Book, p. 370) 4. ̂ Hal Haralson. "Dancing with the Black Dog". christianethicstoday.com.

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Dansk (Danish)adj. - sort, mørkn. - sort, farven sortv. tr. - sværte, male sortv. intr. - besvime

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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 noirev. tr. - cirer (des chaussures)v. intr. - (GB) briser la grève, tromper (qn, une cause), trahir, refuser de soutenir (une grève)

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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. - schwarzn. - Schwarzer, Negerv. - schwärzen, boykottieren

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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, μαύροςadj. - μαύρος, σκοτεινός, κατασκότεινος, ζοφερός, αλαμπής, θαμπός, (για καφέ) χωρίς γάλα, άγριος, απειλητικόςv. - 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, escurov. - 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 negron. - moreno, negrov. tr. - ennegrecer, boicotearv. 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, sorgadj. - svart, mörkv. - svärta, blanka

(Arabic) العربيه , , , , ( ) , , ( قذر( زنجي أظلم شرير أسود صفه سواد أسود رجل األسود اللون االسم

, ( الحذاء( دهن سود فعل

(Hebrew) עבריתadj. - שחור, כושי, קודר, מלוכלך, (מבט) מאיים, מגנה, מרושע, מבשר-רעותn. - (של חשבון בנק) שחור, כושי, מלוכלך, הצד החיוביv. tr. - (סחורה או עסק) החריםv. intr. - השחיר

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