Black
Black is the color of coal, ebony, and the night sky. It is the very darkest color, the result of the absence of or complete absorption of light. It is the opposite of white.
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Burzum
... Tolkien's doubly artificial language the Black Speech ... The project quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene ... Burzum is considered one of the most influential acts in black metal in Metal A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as "the most notorious metal musician of all ...
... Tolkien's doubly artificial language the Black Speech ... The project quickly became prominent within the early Norwegian black metal scene ... Burzum is considered one of the most influential acts in black metal in Metal A Headbanger's Journey, director Sam Dunn described Vikernes as "the most notorious metal musician of all ...
Black Hole - Properties and Structure
... The no-hair theorem states that, once it achieves a stable condition after formation, a black hole has only three independent physical properties mass, charge, and angular momentum ... Any two black holes that share the same values for these properties, or parameters, are indistinguishable according to classical (i.e ... special because they are visible from outside a black hole ...
... The no-hair theorem states that, once it achieves a stable condition after formation, a black hole has only three independent physical properties mass, charge, and angular momentum ... Any two black holes that share the same values for these properties, or parameters, are indistinguishable according to classical (i.e ... special because they are visible from outside a black hole ...
Garnet Group Endmember Species - Ugrandite Group – Calcium in X Site - Andradite
... is of variable composition and may be red, yellow, brown, green or black ... green), demantoid (green) and melanite (black) ... Topazolite is a golden-yellow variety and melanite is a black variety ...
... is of variable composition and may be red, yellow, brown, green or black ... green), demantoid (green) and melanite (black) ... Topazolite is a golden-yellow variety and melanite is a black variety ...
Black - Idioms and Expressions
... In the United States, "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November) is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year ... Later an alternative explanation began to be offered that "Black Friday" indicates the point in the year that retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black", because of the ... "In the black" means profitable ...
... In the United States, "Black Friday" (the day after Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday in November) is traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year ... Later an alternative explanation began to be offered that "Black Friday" indicates the point in the year that retailers begin to turn a profit, or are "in the black", because of the ... "In the black" means profitable ...
Nothing But A Man
... The story is about a black railroad worker, who falls in love with a black school teacher, who is the town’s preacher’s daughter ... Washington Post, "Nothing But a Man is one of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country” ...
... The story is about a black railroad worker, who falls in love with a black school teacher, who is the town’s preacher’s daughter ... Washington Post, "Nothing But a Man is one of the most sensitive films about black life ever made in this country” ...
More definitions of "black":
- (noun): Total absence of light.
Example: "In the black of night"
Synonyms: total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness
- (noun): Popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927).
Synonyms: Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple
- (adj): Of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin.
Example: "A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
- (noun): British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799).
Synonyms: Joseph Black
- (adj): Marked by anger or resentment or hostility.
Example: "Black looks"; "black words"
- (adj): (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading.
Example: "Black propaganda"
- (adj): Stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable.
Example: "Black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"
Synonyms: dark, sinister
- (adj): Soiled with dirt or soot.
Example: "With feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
- (noun): Black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning).
Example: "The widow wore black"
- (adj): (of coffee) without cream or sugar.
- (noun): A person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa).
Synonyms: Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid
- (adj): (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame.
Synonyms: disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful
- (adj): Distributed or sold illicitly.
Example: "The black economy pays no taxes"
Synonyms: bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled
- (adj): Dressed in black.
Example: "A black knight"; "black friars"
- (noun): (board games) the darker pieces.
- (adj): (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin.
Example: "The stock market crashed on Black Friday"
Synonyms: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful
- (adj): Being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light.
Example: "Black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
Synonyms: achromatic
- (adj): Extremely dark.
Example: "A black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"
Synonyms: pitch-black, pitch-dark
- (noun): The quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white).
Synonyms: blackness
Famous quotes containing the word black:
“I’m afraid to look in the mirror. I’m afraid I’m going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. A little bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.”
—Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981)
“... the black woman can never forget—however lukewarm the party may to-day appear—that it was a Republican president who struck the manacles from her own wrists and gave the possibilities of manhood to her helpless little ones; and to her mind the Democratic Negro is a traitor and a time-server.”
—Anna Julia Cooper (1859–1964)
“The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences.... It is a pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention. But I have found no substantial reasons for concluding that there are any quite black threads in it, or any white ones.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)