(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.
Blackboard
Definition:
(n.) A broad board painted black, or any black surface on which writing, drawing, or the working of mathematical problems can be done with chalk or crayons. It is much used in schools.
Example Sentences:
(1) URL: Kenyan police again disputed this explanation, with the deputy inspector general, Grace Kaindi, claiming that writing on a blackboard found at a junction near Hindi with could implicate the Mombasa Republic Movement (MRC) , a group that campaigns for independence of the coastal region.
(2) In 1954 the BBFC banned the Marlon Brando biker flick The Wild One outright (it was eventually released here in 1968), while the following year Clare Booth Luce, as US ambassador to Italy, intervened to prevent The Blackboard Jungle being shown in competition at Venice.
(3) Le Petit Commerce (+33 5 56 79 76 58, no 22) has an exhaustive choice of seafood on its daily blackboard.
(4) The dominant theories of visual search assume that these modules form a "blackboard" architecture: a set of independent representations that communicate only through a central processor.
(5) Each group must record on the blackboard its answers to key questions before the problems are discussed.
(6) Maybe said: "Hello sir, is that a blackboard rubber or are you just pleased to see me?"
(7) Blackboard and task control modules allow specific knowledge-based modules to act on information available to the blackboard.
(8) Last week in the House of Commons a young Conservative backbencher, who until now would have been listed in the "thoroughly loyal" column on the Tory whips' office blackboard, was asked about talk of Boris Johnson being installed again as an MP so that, at the right moment, he could mount a coup and replace Cameron as leader and prime minister.
(9) The specificity and the use of diapositives, synchronized slide audiotype series, fragmental films, survey films, folding foils, natural models, drawings on the blackboard, and closed-circuit television are dealt with.
(10) We’ve brought large crates of stationery, whiteboards, blackboards, paper, exercise books, pens, pencils and calculators.
(11) A cartoon in South Africa's The Star newspaper showed Malema at a school desk, watching admiringly as Mugabe, in mortar board and gown, pointed to a blackboard and the chalked words: "How to destroy a country."
(12) In order to make students pay attention to content you have to suddenly bang on the desk with your fist or get up and write on the blackboard, and if you're lucky the chalk will squeak, and the people will wake up and pay attention.
(13) The techniques which scored best were giving the questionnaire before the lectures, giving handouts and using the blackboard.
(14) Eight environmental sounds, i.e., playing the harp, cuckoo's song, sound of the waves, cock's crow, noise of the subway, alarm of a clock, sound of a dentist's drill, scratching of the blackboard, and their temporally reverse sounds were presented for 20 sec to 16 college students in a sound-attenuated chamber.
(15) These events became performances in the same way that Joseph Beuys’ blackboard lectures would a century later.
(16) Double denim creates an effect that is the optical equivalent of nails scraping down a blackboard.
(17) The present system makes use of a blackboard architecture and multiple knowledge sources within an integrated model-based system.
(18) Thus this nucleus plays the role of an 'active blackboard' on which the current best reconstruction of some aspect of the world is always displayed.
(19) With the derestriction of broadcasting hours, those Zen-like moments of stillness on British TV – filled with Test Card F , the little girl with an Alice band playing noughts and crosses on a blackboard, or IBA engineering announcements "for the radio and television trade" – began to disappear, to be replaced eventually by an endless flow of programmes, stretching from dawn till daybreak.
(20) What American leaders and their intellectual lackeys seem incapable of understanding is that history cannot be swept clean like a blackboard, so that "we" might inscribe our own future there and impose our own forms of life for these lesser people to follow.