(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.
Smuggled
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Smuggle
Example Sentences:
(1) Admirable, but will destroying ivory get that message through to poachers, ivory traffickers and the workshops in east Asia and elsewhere that buy smuggled raw ivory?
(2) There were members of the smuggling gang on the ship with walkie-talkies.
(3) Last week, Cohen estimated the militants were still earning “several million dollars per week from the sale of stolen and smuggled energy resources” – down on what they pulled in before the coalition air strikes, but still a substantial amount.
(4) She also won four Logies for Most Outstanding Public Affairs Report in 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013, the Melbourne Press Club Gold Quill in 2013, the George Munster award and the Queensland Premier’s Literary Award – for stories on people smuggling and the culture of rugby league.
(5) He gave a recipe for a bomb he used to make as a kid, the ingredients of which could be smuggled in.
(6) Philip Morris is similarly paying an ex-Met police officer, Will O'Reilly , to front a media campaign linking plain packaging to tobacco smuggling.
(7) But the commission called on Spain to streamline border crossings by expanding the infrastructure, and demanded both countries work together more to combat cigarette smuggling, with the UK asked to share more intelligence on the issue with Spain .
(8) Yang Feng Glan is accused of smuggling 706 elephant tusks worth £1.62m from Tanzania to the far east.
(9) Photograph: Mark Anderson “Farmers call me and they tell me that smuggling is happening,” says Emmanuel Arthur, managing director of Kuapa Kokoo , a cocoa farmers’ union.
(10) Arturo was the eldest of five brothers running the trafficking ring which is thought to control a significant part of the cocaine and heroin smuggled into the US.
(11) In one of the world’s poorest countries, and in a town that has no other substantial industries, smuggling is a vital financial lifeline for many local people.
(12) He told his court hearing in Rostov-on-Don: “I don’t know what your beliefs can possibly be worth if you are not ready to suffer or die for them.” Sentsov’s cousin, Natalia Kaplan, received the smuggled letter last month.
(13) Cole did leave the door open to a change in approach, saying federal authorities should still step in if those involved in the regulated marijuana trade failed to support eight “enforcement priorities” set by the department, which include ensuring the drug is not smuggled across state borders, accessed by minors, or used to fund criminal cartels or violence.
(14) Ed Miliband has insisted that the people smuggling migrants across the Mediterranean are to blame for the mass drownings in recent weeks – but refused to back down from his claim that inadequate postwar planning in Libya contributed to the crisis.
(15) The former senior KGB archivist Vasili Mitrokhin, who has died from pneumonia aged 81, will be best remembered for his extraordinary achievement in noting down the contents of top-secret Soviet foreign intelligence files and, at great personal risk, smuggling them out of the secret police headquarters on almost every working day for 12 years.
(16) Abbott said Chan and Sukumaran – who were part of the Bali Nine group that sought to smuggle heroin from Indonesia to Australia – deserved a long time in jail but they did not deserve to die.
(17) On the return journey, the tired passengers exchange smuggling anecdotes and safety tips.
(18) In this life,” he said, smiling, “you have to make some money.” He then spelled out the cartel’s proposition: it would pay Sirleaf handsomely in exchange for his help in using Liberia as a transit hub for smuggling cocaine from Colombia into Europe.
(19) They claim the demand for smuggling trips will continue despite the cancellation of Mare Nostrum, since refugees have little chance of legal resettlement in countries such as Britain, which has settled only 90 Syrian refugees .
(20) The commission sent a team to investigate after a row broke out in the summer when Spanish authorities tightened frontier controls, allegedly to crack down on tobacco smuggling, forcing people trying to enter Gibraltar to suffer lengthy queues.