(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.
Inglorious
Definition:
(a.) Not glorious; not bringing honor or glory; not accompanied with fame, honor, or celebrity; obscure; humble; as, an inglorious life of ease.
(a.) Shameful; disgraceful; ignominious; as, inglorious flight, defeat, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) But coming, as they do, from someone who had such an inglorious start to his academic career, they represent an extraordinary change in circumstances.
(2) He served fleetingly as a Confederate soldier before deserting ("his career as a soldier was brief and inglorious," said the New York Times obituary; in the autobiography Twain includes a sympathetic account of deserting soldiers being shot, without revealing the reason for his sense of identification).
(3) When the Dutchman arrived he may have instigated a glorious revolution in government, but he created an inglorious revolution in drinking.
(4) But yesterday, more than a year after Tillman's death, it emerged that the US military hid the inglorious truth that he was killed by friendly fire in order not to detract from an image-burnishing nationally televised memorial service.
(5) Its reward for exposing the detail of this inglorious episode in its history, which included raising £3m from hard-pressed local councils, is to be held up for criticism for inappropriate spending.
(6) The pensions industry has a long and inglorious record here, reaching back to the great mis-selling scandals of a generation ago.
(7) Banking customers and the staff of Northern Rock can only hope that Mr Branson's latest venture does not go down the same inglorious route as Virgin Cola, Virgin Cars and Virgin Brides .
(8) QT : I actually think the best scenes I ever wrote are the Hans Landa and the French farmer scene in Inglorious Basterds, and in the first script I ever wrote, True Romance, the whole "Sicilian" scene between Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken.
(9) • Inglorious Empire by Shashi Tharoor is published by Hurst & Company at £20.
(10) Australia has an inglorious history of turning a blind eye to profitable bad behaviour.
(11) When I wrote the scene in Inglorious Basterds, I thought "I finally matched it".
(12) 1.16pm BST Violence on the pitch Leaving aside the fact that a spiteful match can be entertaining in an inglorious, primitive way, it is interesting to look at why some teams or players seem more inclined to kick off.
(13) But he made clear that this year's withdrawal from Afghanistan – like the inglorious exit from Iraq, now rapidly regressing into virtual civil war – will go ahead whatever predictably bloody chaos awaits the Afghan people.
(14) The place in the history of empire of these recent interventions may as yet be debatable, even as the inglorious age of “liberal hegemony” draws to a close.
(15) In one of its most inglorious moments the department published the names of almost 10,000 asylum seekers on its public website, in a file that was downloaded in Russia, China and Malaysia.
(16) Alonso had a suspected electrical problem on the first lap of the second session and stuttered to an inglorious halt.
(17) Some might say the senate that sits in Rome today suffers by comparison with its ancient equivalent: Italy's contemporary political debate is often drowned in invective and inglorious spats, a fact Piano experienced firsthand when he arrived to vote for the first time – on the day of Silvio Berlusconi 's dramatic expulsion from the senate in November.
(18) Even when judged against the inglorious and grubby scandals of the past 25 years this will go down as a dark day for athletics.
(19) The venue, a prefab, was certainly inglorious and the audience was very small: it seemed Bishop's gamble was not paying off.
(20) The toxic oil syndrome represents the most inglorious example of the recent time.