What's the difference between african and black?

African


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Africa.
  • (n.) A native of Africa; also one ethnologically belonging to an African race.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (2) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (3) The organisation initially focused on education, funding the Indian company BYJU’s, which helps students learn maths and science, and the Nigerian company Andela, which trains African software developers.
  • (4) Using a simple precipitation technique we observed that the serum concentrations of low density lipoproteins in healthy Africans were less than half the serum concentrations in healthy Europeans.
  • (5) G6PD Tacoma-like may be common in some African tribes.
  • (6) Asian macaques are susceptible to fatal simian AIDS from a type D retrovirus, indigenous in macaques, and from a lentivirus, simian immunodeficiency virus (SIV), which is indigenous to healthy African monkeys.
  • (7) There is also young voter "Mike" in New York and "Alice," an African-American from Michigan, who underline the need to re-awaken Obama's most loyal supporters from 2008.
  • (8) Will African film-makers tell those kind of films differently?
  • (9) The genetic management of the African green monkey breeding colony was discussed in relation to the difference in distribution of phenotypes of M and ABO blood groups between the parental (wild-originated) and the first filial (colony-born) populations.
  • (10) Recommendations have been made regarding the development of this specialisation in the South African health care setting.
  • (11) It is the combination of his company's pan-African and industrialist vision – reminiscent of the aspirations of African independence pioneers like Ghana's Kwame Nkrumah – and its relentless financial growth that has set Dangote apart.
  • (12) The Mexican-Americans of Starr County, Texas, classified by sex and birthplace, were studied to determine the extent of genetic variation and contributions from ancestral populations such as Spanish, Amerindian and West African.
  • (13) Values obtained by combining Mini-ESR with indices of the African Neonates were 100%, 85% and 94%.
  • (14) As someone who worked in Washington DC in media activities, I often suspect that different standards in reporting are applied to African governments.
  • (15) Using what is known about AIDS and what is know about the population structure in African countries, it is possible to model the impact of AIDS on a typical developing country with a population of 10 million.
  • (16) The writer Palesa Morudu told me that she sees, in the South African pride that "we did it", a troubling anxiety that we can't: "Why are we celebrating that we built stadiums on time?
  • (17) Blunt homicide predominated amongst White females, who were substantially older than the Coloured and African subjects.
  • (18) The case of a Black African patient with an annular subvalvular left ventricular aneurysm of unknown origin is described, and the pathological findings in this condition together with a review of the literature is presented.
  • (19) In African trypanosomes, calmodulin is encoded by a small family of tandemly repeated genes consisting of three to four units.
  • (20) (S)-1-[3-Hydroxy-2-(phosphonylmethoxy)propyl]cytosine (S-HPMPC) was able to prevent simian varicella infection in African green monkeys inoculated intratracheally with virus.

Black


Definition:

  • (a.) Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes.
  • (a.) In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.
  • (a.) Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.
  • (a.) Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.
  • (adv.) Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.
  • (n.) That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black.
  • (n.) A black pigment or dye.
  • (n.) A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.
  • (n.) A black garment or dress; as, she wears black
  • (n.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
  • (n.) The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
  • (n.) A stain; a spot; a smooch.
  • (a.) To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.
  • (a.) To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) To quantify the size of the lesion in mice, the area of the infarct on the brain surface was assessed planimetrically 48 h after MCA occlusion by transcardial perfusion of carbon black.
  • (2) For male schizophrenics, all symptom differences disappeared except one; blacks were more frequently asocial.
  • (3) The most successful dyes were phenocyanin TC, gallein, fluorone black, alizarin cyanin BB and alizarin blue S. Celestin blue B with an iron mordant is quite successful if properly handled to prevent gelling of solutions.
  • (4) The correlates of three characteristics of familial networks (i.e., residential proximity, family affection, and family contact) were examined among a national sample of older Black Americans.
  • (5) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (6) The high frequency of increased PCV number in San, S.A. Negroes and American Negroes is in keeping with the view that the Khoisan peoples (here represented by the San), the Southern African Negroes and the African ancestors of American Blacks sprang from a common proto-negriform stock.
  • (7) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (8) It is 30 years since Paul Canoville became the first black footballer to play for Chelsea.
  • (9) If black people could only sort out these self-inflicted problems themselves, everything would be OK. After all, doesn't every business say it welcomes job applicants from all backgrounds?
  • (10) A case-control study of breast cancer among Black American women was conducted in seven hospitals in New York City from 1969 to 1975.
  • (11) Mike Enzi of Wyoming A senior senator from Wyoming, Enzi worked for the Department of Interior and the private Black Hills Corporation before being elected to Congress.
  • (12) The Black pregnant teen is a microcosm of the impact of society on the most vulnerable.
  • (13) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (14) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (15) Instead, he handed over the opening to reporter Molly Line, who said, “Racial profiling is in the eye of the beholder,” before citing differing perceptions of the phenomenon between white and black people, which is like reading the headline “Rapist, Victim Differ on Consent”.
  • (16) These findings indicate an association between HLA-B7 and ankylosing spondylitis in American blacks and suggest that these patients who lack B27 but possess B7 represent a subgroup of patients with this disease.
  • (17) This is an edited extract from Across the Seas – Australia’s Response to Refugees: A History by Klaus Neumann, published by Black Inc. Books and on-sale now .
  • (18) Of particular note is the difference between Black American and Nigerian figures.
  • (19) They were like some great show, the gas squeezing up from the depths of the oil well to be consumed in flame against the intense black horizon, like some great dragon.
  • (20) Its abuse has become concentrated among post-high school age, black males in a limited number of cities, especially Washington, DC.