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black B0292200 (blăk)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. also Blacka. 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. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.6. Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.7. Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.8. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.9. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.10. Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.11. Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.12. 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).13. Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.14. Served without milk or cream: black coffee.15. Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.16. 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.17. 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. also Blacka. 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.7. The condition of making or operating at a profit: worked hard to get the business back into the black.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 out1. To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.2. To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition: blacked out many of my wartime experiences.3. To cover or make illegible with black marking: The names in the document had been blacked out.4. To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.5. To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.6. To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).7. To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.8. To suppress the broadcast of (an event or program) from an area: blacked out the football game on local TV stations.
[Middle English blak, from Old English blæc; see bhel- in Indo-European roots.]
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