(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.
Blackfish
Definition:
(n.) A small kind of whale, of the genus Globicephalus, of several species. The most common is G. melas. Also sometimes applied to other whales of larger size.
(n.) The tautog of New England (Tautoga).
(n.) The black sea bass (Centropristis atrarius) of the Atlantic coast. It is excellent food fish; -- locally called also black Harry.
(n.) A fish of southern Europe (Centrolophus pompilus) of the Mackerel family.
(n.) The female salmon in the spawning season.
Example Sentences:
(1) D. ursi and D. klebanovskii predominantly occur in Pacific salmon, and D. dalliae in Alaskan blackfish.
(2) The Act of Killing and the Square were amongst a shortlist of documentary contenders that followed predictions (though there was no room for Blackfish), while The Great Beauty and The Hunt turned up in the best foreign language nominees.
(3) Blackfish by Gabriela Cowperthwaite deals not with animals in the wild, but in captivity, namely killer whales at the SeaWorld chain of resorts in the southern US.
(4) I was a killer whale trainer for 14 years and this is what I saw, the good and the bad.” Beneath the Surface: Killer Whales, SeaWorld, and the Truth Beyond Blackfish, by John Hargrove with Howard Chua-Eoan, is published by Palgrave Macmillan Trade.
(5) Company names go through the letters of the alphabet – Asherton Ltd, Binbrook Ltd, Coalburn Ltd, Docking Ltd. One of their companies – Blackfish Capital – bought a division of the collapsed Icelandic bank Kaupthing in June 2009, with the banking operations being restructured into the Luxembourg-based Banque Havilland, named after Rowland’s Jersey mansion.
(6) It had previously issued a steady stream of lower-key newspaper ads, trying to push back aggressively against the message presented by Blackfish and the pall that was cast over the company when, in late 2009 and early 2010, trainer Alexis Martineau was killed by a SeaWorld-owned orca on loan to a Spanish theme park, and another trainer, Dawn Brancheau, was killed by a giant male orca during a show at SeaWorld in Orlando.
(7) • Blackfish is available to watch on ABC’s iView until 23 November
(8) He now controls Banque Havilland – which used to be the crashed Icelandic Kaupthing bank business – in Luxembourg and the hedge fund Blackfish Capital Management.
(9) A killer whale performs at SeaWorld in a scene from Blackfish.
(10) Critically acclaimed documentary Blackfish first screened at the Sundance film festival in January and is due to open in US cinemas this weekend.
(11) Disparate campaigns for animal rights and protections have steadily gained momentum in recent years, spurred by works such as the 2013 documentary Blackfish , which examined treatment of killer whales at SeaWorld parks and prompted outrage and a sharp drop in profits .
(12) The public turned on SeaWorld after Blackfish’s release, especially after an estimated 20 million people saw the film when it was aired on news network CNN.
(13) Like the other nature docs, Blackfish is a gripping movie, with drama and characters and emotion, but unlike them, it's one that reminds us how much of a gap there is between humans and animals, and between movies and reality, which often amounts to the same thing.
(14) The Disney-owned animation studio Pixar has taken the rare step of changing the plot of its forthcoming sequel to the 2003 blockbuster Finding Nemo , according to a New York Times report, following claims about a US marine park in the critically acclaimed Sundance documentary Blackfish .
(15) Mosquitofish, Sacramento blackfish, or combinations of both species were stocked in experimental paddies.
(16) Last year, in response to the extremely negative response people had after watching Blackfish, SeaWorld chief executive Joel Manby announced that the controversial killer whale shows would come to an end at the end of 2016, to be replaced with “an all new orca experience focused on the natural environment.” Blackfish and our lingering obsession with animals as entertainment Read more In a column for the Guardian in 2015, Cowperthwaite wrote: “People have stopped going to SeaWorld not simply because of a movie but because, it seems, we’re recalibrating how we feel ethically about animal welfare.” “Faced with uncomfortable truths about animal welfare,” she continued, “we’re clarifying what it means to be humane.” This article was amended to clarify how many people were killed by Tilikum
(17) According to Louie Psihoyos, who directed dolphin documentary The Cove, Blackfish also impacted upon Finding Dory, the forthcoming sequel to Finding Nemo.
(18) It is here that the storyline has been changed following claims made in Blackfish, directed by Gabriela Cowperthwaite , that SeaWorld, which has parks in Orlando, Florida, San Diego, California and San Antonio, Texas, was responsible for the deaths of three people, owing to its policy of keeping killer whales in captivity.
(19) The activists cited the documentary “Blackfish,” which explores what may have caused the killer whale Tilikum to kill SeaWorld trainer Dawn Brancheau in 2010.
(20) Blackfish , which one American critic called the scariest film of last year, is already the subject of angry debate.