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black
(blăk)adj. black·er, black·est
1. Being of the color black, producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue.
2. Having little or no light: a black, moonless night.
3. also Black
a. Of or belonging to a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin: the black population of South Africa.
b. Of or belonging to an American ethnic group descended from African peoples having dark skin; African-American.
4. Very dark in color: rich black soil; black, wavy hair.
5. Being a trail, as for skiing, marked with a sign having a black diamond, indicating a high level of difficulty.
6. Soiled, as from soot; dirty: feet black from playing outdoors.
7. Evil; wicked: the pirates' black deeds.
8. Cheerless and depressing; gloomy: black thoughts.
9. Being or characterized by morbid or grimly satiric humor: a black comedy.
10. Marked by anger or sullenness: gave me a black look.
11. Attended with disaster; calamitous: a black day; the stock market crash on Black Friday.
12. Deserving of, indicating, or incurring censure or dishonor: "Man ... has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands" (Rachel Carson).
13. Wearing clothing of the darkest visual hue: the black knight.
14. Served without milk or cream: black coffee.
15. Appearing to emanate from a source other than the actual point of origin. Used chiefly of intelligence operations: black propaganda; black radio transmissions.
16. Disclosed, for reasons of security, only to an extremely limited number of authorized persons; very highly classified: black programs in the Defense Department; the Pentagon's black budget.
17. Chiefly British Boycotted as part of a labor union action.
n.
1.
a. The achromatic color value of minimum lightness or maximum darkness; the color of objects that absorb nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; one extreme of the neutral gray series, the opposite being white. Although strictly a response to zero stimulation of the retina, the perception of black appears to depend on contrast with surrounding color stimuli.
b. A pigment or dye having this color value.
2. Complete or almost complete absence of light; darkness.
3. Clothing of the darkest hue, especially such clothing worn for mourning.
4. also Black
a. A member of a racial group having brown to black skin, especially one of African origin.
b. An American descended from peoples of African origin having brown to black skin; an African American.
5. Something that is colored black.
6. Games
a. The black-colored pieces, as in chess or checkers.
b. The player using these pieces.
7. The condition of making or operating at a profit: worked hard to get the business back into the black.
v. blacked, black·ing, blacks
v.tr.
1. To make black: blacked their faces with charcoal.
2. To apply blacking to: blacked the stove.
3. Chiefly British To boycott as part of a labor union action.
v.intr.
Phrasal Verb: To become black.
black out
1. To lose consciousness or memory temporarily: blacked out at the podium.
2. To suppress (a fact or memory, for example) from conscious recognition: blacked out many of my wartime experiences.
3. To cover or make illegible with black marking: The names in the document had been blacked out.
4. To prohibit the dissemination of, especially by censorship: blacked out the news issuing from the rebel provinces.
5. To extinguish or conceal all lights that might help enemy aircraft find a target during an air raid.
6. To extinguish all the lights on (a stage).
7. To cause a failure of electrical power in: Storm damage blacked out much of the region.
8. To suppress the broadcast of (an event or program) from an area: blacked out the football game on local TV stations.
black′ish adj.
black′ly adv.
black′ness n.
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black
(blæk)adj
1. (Colours) of the colour of jet or carbon black, having no hue due to the absorption of all or nearly all incident light. Compare white1
2. without light; completely dark
3. without hope or alleviation; gloomy: the future looked black.
4. very dirty or soiled: black factory chimneys.
5. angry or resentful: she gave him black looks.
6. (Theatre) (of a play or other work) dealing with the unpleasant realities of life, esp in a pessimistic or macabre manner: black comedy.
7. (of coffee or tea) without milk or cream
8. causing, resulting from, or showing great misfortune: black areas of unemployment.
9.
a. wicked or harmful: a black lie.
b. (in combination): black-hearted.
10. causing or deserving dishonour or censure: a black crime.
11. (of the face) purple, as from suffocation
12. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) Brit (of goods, jobs, works, etc) being subject to boycott by trade unionists, esp in support of industrial action elsewhere
n
13. (Colours) a black colour
14. (Dyeing) a dye or pigment of or producing this colour
15. black clothing, worn esp as a sign of mourning
16. (Chess & Draughts) chess draughts
a. a black or dark-coloured piece or square
b. (usually capital) the player playing with such pieces
17. complete darkness: the black of the night.
18. (Billiards & Snooker) a black ball in snooker, etc
19. (Gambling, except Cards) (in roulette and other gambling games) one of two colours on which players may place even bets, the other being red
20. in the black in credit or without debt
21. (Archery) archery a black ring on a target, between the outer and the blue, scoring three points
vb
22. another word for blacken
23. (tr) to polish (shoes, etc) with blacking
24. (tr) to bruise so as to make black: he blacked her eye.
25. (Industrial Relations & HR Terms) (tr) Brit and Austral and NZ (of trade unionists) to organize a boycott of (specified goods, jobs, work, etc), esp in support of industrial action elsewhere
[Old English blæc; related to Old Saxon blak ink, Old High German blakra to blink]
ˈblackish adj
ˈblackishly adv
ˈblackly adv
ˈblackness n
Black
(blæk)n
(Peoples) a member of a human population having dark pigmentation of the skin
adj
(Peoples) of or relating to a Black person or Black people: a Black neighbourhood.
Usage: Talking about a Black or Blacks is considered offensive and it is better to talk about a Black person, Black people
Black
(blæk)n
1. (Biography) Sir James (Whyte). 1924–2010, British biochemist. He discovered beta-blockers and drugs for peptic ulcers: Nobel prize for physiology or medicine 1988
2. (Biography) Joseph. 1728–99, Scottish physician and chemist, noted for his pioneering work on carbon dioxide and heat
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black
(blæk)adj. black•er, black•est, adj.
1. lacking hue and brightness; absorbing light without reflecting any of the rays composing it.
2. characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
3. (sometimes cap.)
a. pertaining or belonging to any of the various populations having dark skin pigmentation, specifically the dark-skinned peoples of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
4. soiled or stained with dirt.
5. gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black future.
6. sullen or hostile: black words.
7. (of coffee or tea) served without milk or cream.
8. harmful, evil, or wicked: a black heart.
9. indicating censure, disgrace, etc.: a black mark on one's record.
10. marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought.
11. wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince.
12. morbidly or grimly satirical: black comedy.
13. secret; covert: a black program to rebuild air defenses.
n. 14. the color at one end of the gray scale, opposite to white, absorbing all wavelengths of light.
15. (sometimes cap.)
a. a member of any of various dark-skinned peoples, esp. those of Africa, Oceania, and Australia.
16. black clothing, esp. as a sign of mourning.
17. the dark-colored pieces or squares in checkers or chess.
18. black pigment: lamp black.
19. a type or breed that is black in color.
v.t. 20. to make black; put black on; blacken.
21. to polish (shoes, boots, etc.) with blacking.
v.i. 22. to become black; take on a black color; blacken.
23. black out,
Idioms: a. to lose consciousness or memory temporarily.
b. to obliterate or suppress.
c. to extinguish (all the stage lights).
d. to make or become inoperable.
e. to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids.
f. to impose a broadcast blackout on (an area).
1. in black and white, in print or writing: I want that agreement in black and white.
2. in the black, operating at a profit.
[before 900; Middle English; Old English blæc, c. Old High German blah-; akin to Old Norse blakkr black, blek ink]
black′ish, adj.
usage: Black, colored, and Negro have all been used to describe or name the dark-skinned African peoples or their descendants. Colored, now somewhat old-fashioned, is usu. offensive. It is still used, however, in the title of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. The term colored is also used among blacks to refer to another black who acts as if he or she were superior. In the late 1950s black began to replace Negro and is still widely used and accepted, whereas Negro is not. Common as both adjective and noun, black is usu. not capitalized except in proper names or titles (Black Muslim; Black English). However, members of the African-American community have expressed a strong preference for use of capital “B” for both the noun and the adjective, to parallel the names of other ethnic groups. African-American, urged by leaders in the American black community, is now widely used in both print and speech, esp. as a term of self-reference. Afro-American is accepted but less widely used, mostly as an adjective.
Black
(blæk)n.
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black
In intelligence handling, a term used in certain phrases (e.g., living black, black border crossing) to indicate reliance on illegal concealment rather than on cover.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
Black
See Also: COLORS; DEJECTION; FACIAL EXPRESSIONS, SERIOUS; GLOOM
- (Hair) black and gleaming as a new galosh —Loren D. Estleman
- (The newel post) black and shiny as a skull —W. P. Kinsella
- Black as a black poodle’s nose —Babette Deutsch
- Black as a baker’s shovel —Isaac Bashevis Singer
- [A hall] black as a billy goat’s belly —Ruth Chatterton
- Black as a bull-moose in December —Henry Van Dyke
- Black as a child’s midnight waking —Marge Piercy
- Black as a crow —Petronius
An ancient simile that’s still going strong, with “Black as a raven” from The Holy Bible the most frequently used variant.
- Black as a funeral procession —Diane Ackerman
- [Darkening sky] black as a giant tortoise —Stefan Zweig
- Black as a heavy smoker’s lungs —Elyse Sommer
- Black as a manic depressive’s thoughts —Elyse Sommer
- (The room was) black as an honest politician’s prospects —Dashiell Hammett
- Black as an undertaker’s hat —Donald Seaman
- Black as a pine at night —Stephen Vincent Benét
- (Locks) black as a raven —The Holy Bible/Song of Solomon
- Black as a stack of black cats in the dark —H. W. Thompson
- Black as a tar-barrel —Lewis Carroll
- Black as black —W. B. Yeats
- (Eyes … ) black as bottomless water —Ellen du Pois Taylor
- (Eyes) black as caverns —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- (Black coats were) black as coffins —Rebecca West
- Black as despair —John Phillips
- Black as dusk —William Styron
- Black as ebony —Oscar Wilde
- Black like an oven (our kin was … ) —The Holy Bible/Lamentations
- Black as fate —Dame Edith Sitwell
- Black as hell —William Shakespeare
Shakespeare, the master of so many similes, can be credited for a fair share of the best-known “Black as” comparisons. Besides this one from Hamlet, they include “Black as ink,” “Black as ebony,” and “Black as jet.”
- Black as midnight without a moon —Anon
- Black as murder —Thomas Dekker
- Black as perjury —Anon
- (Our hands were) black as potatoes dug from the ground —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Black as some charred rafter —W. D. Snodgrass
- Black as sorrow —Sir Philip Sidney
- Black as the ace of spades —Anon
- Black as the devil’s hind foot —T. C. Haliburton
- Black as the devil’s heart —Ariel Dorfman
- Black as the head of a hanged man —F. D. Reeve
- (Black holes,) black as the moments before birth and after death —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- Black as thunder —William Makepeace Thackeray
- (Their visages) blacker than coal —The Holy Bible/Lamentation
- (Deep and) black like an abyss —Aharon Megged
- Black … like a subway tunnel —William Faulkner
- It [a room] was black as the inside of a cat —Davis Grubb
- The sky was as black as a monsoon —Dominique Lapierre
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black
Past participle: blacked
Gerund: blacking
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| Noun | 1. |  black - the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black |
| 2. |  black - total absence of light; "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night" | |
| 3. | Black - British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799) | |
| 4. |  Black - popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928) | |
| 5. |  Black - a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" Africa - the second largest continent; located to the south of Europe and bordered to the west by the South Atlantic and to the east by the Indian Ocean person of color, person of colour - (formal) any non-European non-white person Negress - a Black woman or girl Black man - a man who is Black Black woman - a woman who is Black colored person - a United States term for Blacks that is now considered offensive | |
| 6. |  black - (board games) the darker pieces checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces chess game, chess - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king man, piece - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" white - (board games) the lighter pieces | |
| 7. |  black - black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"article of clothing, clothing, habiliment, wearable, vesture, wear - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body | |
| Verb | 1. |  black - make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
| Adj. | 1. |  black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"dark - (used of color) having a dark hue; "dark green"; "dark glasses"; "dark colors like wine red or navy blue" white - being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" |
| 2. |  black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.white - of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" | |
| 3. |  black - marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"angry - feeling or showing anger; "angry at the weather"; "angry customers"; "an angry silence"; "sending angry letters to the papers" | |
| 4. |  black - offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"hopeless - without hope because there seems to be no possibility of comfort or success; "in an agony of hopeless grief"; "with a hopeless sigh he sat down" | |
| 5. |  black - stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardyevil - morally bad or wrong; "evil purposes"; "an evil influence"; "evil deeds" | |
| 6. |  black - (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"unfortunate - not favored by fortune; marked or accompanied by or resulting in ill fortune; "an unfortunate turn of events"; "an unfortunate decision"; "unfortunate investments"; "an unfortunate night for all concerned" | |
| 7. |  black - (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury" | |
| 8. |  black - extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"dark - devoid of or deficient in light or brightness; shadowed or black; "sitting in a dark corner"; "a dark day"; "dark shadows"; "dark as the inside of a black cat" | |
| 9. | black - harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit" sarcastic - expressing or expressive of ridicule that wounds | |
| 10. | black - (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda" covert - secret or hidden; not openly practiced or engaged in or shown or avowed; "covert actions by the CIA"; "covert funding for the rebels" | |
| 11. |  black - distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"illegal - prohibited by law or by official or accepted rules; "an illegal chess move" | |
| 12. |  black - (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"dishonorable, dishonourable - lacking honor or integrity; deserving dishonor; "dishonorable in thought and deed" | |
| 13. |  black - (of coffee) without cream or sugar undiluted - not diluted; "undiluted milk"; "an undiluted racial strain" | |
| 14. |  black - soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"dirty, soiled, unclean - soiled or likely to soil with dirt or grime; "dirty unswept sidewalks"; "a child in dirty overalls"; "dirty slums"; "piles of dirty dishes"; "put his dirty feet on the clean sheet"; "wore an unclean shirt"; "mining is a dirty job"; "Cinderella did the dirty work while her sisters preened themselves" |
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black
adjective
1. dark, raven, ebony, sable, jet, dusky, pitch-black, inky, swarthy, stygian, coal-black, pitchy, murky He had thick black hair.
dark light, bright
dark light, bright
2. gloomy, sad, depressing, distressing, horrible, grim, bleak, hopeless, dismal, ominous, sombre, morbid, mournful, morose, lugubrious, joyless, funereal, doleful, cheerless She fell into a black depression.
gloomy happy, warm, cheerful
gloomy happy, warm, cheerful
3. terrible, bad, devastating, tragic, fatal, unfortunate, dreadful, destructive, unlucky, harmful, adverse, dire, catastrophic, hapless, detrimental, untoward, ruinous, calamitous, cataclysmic, ill-starred, unpropitious, ill-fated, cataclysmal one of the blackest days of his political career
4. wicked, bad, evil, corrupt, vicious, immoral, depraved, debased, amoral, villainous, unprincipled, nefarious, dissolute, iniquitous, irreligious, impious, unrighteous the blackest laws in the country's history
wicked good, moral, pure, honourable
wicked good, moral, pure, honourable
5. cynical, weird, ironic, pessimistic, morbid, misanthropic, mordacious a black comedy
verb
black out pass out, drop, collapse, faint, swoon, lose consciousness, keel over (informal), flake out (informal), become unconscious He felt so ill that he blacked out.
black something out
1. darken, cover, shade, conceal, obscure, eclipse, dim, blacken, obfuscate, make dark, make darker, make dim The whole city is blacked out at night.
2. suppress, conceal, obscure, cover up, censor, whitewash, hush up, blue-pencil, cut, expurgate, bowdlerize Some activists started blacking out English-language road signs.
in the black in credit, solid, solvent, in funds, debt-free, financially sound, without debt, unindebted Until he's in the black I don't want to get married.
Shades from black to white
ash, black, charcoal, cream, ebony, eggshell, grey, gunmetal, iron, ivory, jet, off-white, oyster white, pearl, pewter, pitch-black, platinum, putty, raven, sable, silver, slate, steel grey, stone, whiteCollins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002
black
adjective1. Of the darkest achromatic visual value:
2. Having little or no light:
3. Covered or stained with or as if with dirt or other impurities:
4. Morally objectionable:
5. Dark and depressing:
phrasal verb
black out
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Translations
أسودأَسْوَدأسْوَدالدِّهانُ الأسْوَداللوْن الأسْوَد
черен
černýčerňčerná barvačernitčernoch
sortnegerfarve sortfarvetmørklægge
malhelanigranigrulo
mustneegerpime
mustapimeä
שחורשחורה
crncrna
feketefeketítnégersötéta
hitam
svartursvartur; dimmursvertasvertingi
黒い
검은
aternigernigranigrum
apjuodintibalta varnaelektros srovės nutrūkimasinkštirasįslaptinimas
melnamelnsmelnumsnetīrsnomelnot
czarnyczerń
negru
černieťčernošskýčierna farbačiernytemný
črnčrnačrnec
црна
svartsvärtamörk
ดำ
đentốitối tăm
black
[blæk]A. ADJ (blacker (compar) (blackest (superl)))
1. (in colour) → negro
(accident) black spot (Aut) → punto m negro
black and white photo → foto f en blanco y negro
black and white TV → TV f monocromo
his face was black and blue → tenía la cara amoratada
with a face as black as thunder → con cara de pocos amigos
to swear black and blue → jurar por todo lo más santo (that que)
(accident) black spot (Aut) → punto m negro
black and white photo → foto f en blanco y negro
black and white TV → TV f monocromo
his face was black and blue → tenía la cara amoratada
with a face as black as thunder → con cara de pocos amigos
to swear black and blue → jurar por todo lo más santo (that que)
4. (= dirty) → sucio; (with smoke) → negro, ennegrecido
6. (fig) [day, event] → negro, funesto, aciago; [outlook] → negro; [forecast] → pesimista; [thought] → malévolo; [rage] → negro; [look] → ceñudo, de desaprobación
a black day on the roads → una jornada negra en las carreteras
he is not as black as he is painted → no es tan malo como lo pintan
things look pretty black → la situación es desconsoladora
things were looking black for him → la situación se le presentaba muy difícil
a black day on the roads → una jornada negra en las carreteras
he is not as black as he is painted → no es tan malo como lo pintan
things look pretty black → la situación es desconsoladora
things were looking black for him → la situación se le presentaba muy difícil
B. N
1. (= colour) → negro m, color m negro
a film in black and white → un film en blanco y negro
in black and white I should like it in black and white → quisiera tenerlo por escrito
there it is in black and white! → ¡ahí lo tiene en letras de molde!
a film in black and white → un film en blanco y negro
in black and white I should like it in black and white → quisiera tenerlo por escrito
there it is in black and white! → ¡ahí lo tiene en letras de molde!
2. (= person) → negro/a m/f
C. VT
1. → ennegrecer; [+ shoes] → limpiar, lustrar
to black sb's eye → poner a algn el ojo amoratado, poner a algn el ojo a la funerala (Sp)
to black sb's eye → poner a algn el ojo amoratado, poner a algn el ojo a la funerala (Sp)
2. (Brit) (trade union parlance) → boicotear
D. CPD Black Africa N → el África negra
black arts NPL → magia f negra
black bass N → perca f negra, perca f truchada
black belt N (Sport) → cinturón m negro
black box N (Aer) → caja f negra
black coffee N → café m solo, tinto m (Col); (large) → café m americano
black college N (US) universidad para gente de color
black comedy N → comedia f negra
Black Country N región industrial al noroeste de Birmingham (Inglaterra)
Black Death N → peste f negra
black economy N → economía f negra
Black English N (US) inglés hablado por los negros americanos
black eye N → ojo m amoratado, ojo m a la funerala (Sp)
Black Forest N → Selva f Negra
Black Forest gâteau N pastel de chocolate, nata y guindas
black goods NPL → géneros mpl sujetos a boicoteo
black grouse N → gallo m lira
black hole N (Astron) → agujero m negro
black humour N → humor m negro
black ice N hielo invisible en la carretera
black line N → raya f en negro
black magic N → magia f negra
Black Maria N (Brit) → coche m or furgón m celular
black mark N → señal f roja (fig) → nota f adversa, punto m negativo
black market N → mercado m negro, estraperlo m (Sp)
black marketeer N → estraperlista mf (Sp)
Black Moslem N → musulmán m negro
Black Nationalism N → nacionalismo m negro
Black Panthers NPL → Panteras fpl negras
black pepper N → pimienta f negra
Black Power N → poder m negro
black pudding N (Brit) → morcilla f, moronga f (Mex)
Black Rod N (Brit) (Parl) dignatario de la Cámara de los Lores encargado de reunir a los Comunes en la apertura del Parlamento
Black Sea N → Mar m Negro
black sheep (of the family) N → oveja f negra
Black Studies N (US) estudios de la cultura negra americana
black tie N → corbata f de lazo, corbata f de smoking
"black tie" (on invitation) → "de etiqueta"
black tie dinner N → cena f de etiqueta
Black Watch N (Brit) (Mil) regimiento escocés
black widow (spider) N → viuda f negra
black arts NPL → magia f negra
black bass N → perca f negra, perca f truchada
black belt N (Sport) → cinturón m negro
black box N (Aer) → caja f negra
black coffee N → café m solo, tinto m (Col); (large) → café m americano
black college N (US) universidad para gente de color
black comedy N → comedia f negra
Black Country N región industrial al noroeste de Birmingham (Inglaterra)
Black Death N → peste f negra
black economy N → economía f negra
Black English N (US) inglés hablado por los negros americanos
black eye N → ojo m amoratado, ojo m a la funerala (Sp)
Black Forest N → Selva f Negra
Black Forest gâteau N pastel de chocolate, nata y guindas
black goods NPL → géneros mpl sujetos a boicoteo
black grouse N → gallo m lira
black hole N (Astron) → agujero m negro
black humour N → humor m negro
black ice N hielo invisible en la carretera
black line N → raya f en negro
black magic N → magia f negra
Black Maria N (Brit) → coche m or furgón m celular
black mark N → señal f roja (fig) → nota f adversa, punto m negativo
black market N → mercado m negro, estraperlo m (Sp)
black marketeer N → estraperlista mf (Sp)
Black Moslem N → musulmán m negro
Black Nationalism N → nacionalismo m negro
Black Panthers NPL → Panteras fpl negras
black pepper N → pimienta f negra
Black Power N → poder m negro
black pudding N (Brit) → morcilla f, moronga f (Mex)
Black Rod N (Brit) (Parl) dignatario de la Cámara de los Lores encargado de reunir a los Comunes en la apertura del Parlamento
Black Sea N → Mar m Negro
black sheep (of the family) N → oveja f negra
Black Studies N (US) estudios de la cultura negra americana
black tie N → corbata f de lazo, corbata f de smoking
"black tie" (on invitation) → "de etiqueta"
black tie dinner N → cena f de etiqueta
Black Watch N (Brit) (Mil) regimiento escocés
black widow (spider) N → viuda f negra
black out
A. VT + ADV (= obliterate with ink etc) → suprimir
to black out a house → apagar las luces de una casa, hacer que no sean visibles por fuera las luces de una casa
the screen was blacked out by the strike (TV) → debido a la huelga no había programas en la pantalla
the storm blacked out the city → la tormenta causó un apagón en la ciudad
to black out a house → apagar las luces de una casa, hacer que no sean visibles por fuera las luces de una casa
the screen was blacked out by the strike (TV) → debido a la huelga no había programas en la pantalla
the storm blacked out the city → la tormenta causó un apagón en la ciudad
B. VI + ADV (= faint) → desmayarse, perder el conocimiento
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black
[ˈblæk] adj
[dress, trousers, shoes, hair] → noir(e)
a black jacket → une veste noire
to paint sth black → peindre qch en noir
a black look → un regard noir
a black jacket → une veste noire
to paint sth black → peindre qch en noir
a black look → un regard noir
black and blue (= bruised) [person, face, body] → couvert(e) de bleus
to beat sb black and blue → rosser qn, couvrir qn de bleus
to beat sb black and blue → rosser qn, couvrir qn de bleus
n
(= person) → noir(e) m/f
vt
[+ shoes] → cirer
(British) (= boycott) [+ goods] → boycotter
black out
vi (= faint) → s'évanouirBlack Africa n → Afrique f noireblack and white black-and-white adj
(= clear-cut) [affair, issue, situation] → absolument clair(e)
n
(PHOTOGRAPHY) to be in black and white [photo, film, picture] → être en noir et blanc
in black and white (= in print) → en noir sur blanc
There it is in black and white
BUT C'est écrit noir sur blanc.
There it is in black and white
BUT C'est écrit noir sur blanc.
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black
adj (+er)
(colour) → schwarz; black man/woman → Schwarze(r) mf; black and blue → grün und blau; black and white photography/film → Schwarzweißfotografie f → /-film m; the situation isn’t so black and white as that → die Situation ist nicht so eindeutig schwarz-weiß or schwarzweiß
(= dirty) → schwarz
(= wicked) thought, plan, deed → schwarz; he’s not so black as he’s painted (prov) → er ist nicht so schlecht wie sein Ruf
future, prospects, mood → düster, finster; he painted the future in the blackest colours → er malte die Zukunft in den schwärzesten Farben; things are looking black for our project → es sieht für unser Vorhaben ziemlich schwarz or düster aus; maybe things aren’t as black as they seem → vielleicht ist alles gar nicht so schlimm, wie es aussieht; in black despair → in tiefster Verzweiflung; this was a black day for … → das war ein schwarzer Tag für …
(fig: = angry) looks → böse; he looked as black as thunder → er machte ein bitterböses Gesicht; his face went black → er wurde rot vor Zorn; to be in a black mood → schlechte Laune haben
(Brit: during strike) to declare a cargo etc black → eine Ladung etc für bestreikt erklären; black goods → bestreikte Waren
n
(= colour) → Schwarz nt; he’s dressed in black → er trägt Schwarz; to wear black (in mourning) → Trauer or Schwarz tragen; it’s written down in black and white → es steht schwarz auf weiß geschrieben; a black and white (Art) → eine Schwarzweißzeichnung; (= film) → ein Schwarzweißfilm m; a film which oversimplifies and presents everything in black and white → ein Film, der durch seine Schwarzweißmalerei alles vereinfacht darstellt; to swear that black is white → schwören, dass zwei mal zwei fünf ist
(= black person) → Schwarze(r) mf
(of night) → Schwärze f
vt
(= blacken) → schwärzen; to black one’s face → sich (dat) → das Gesicht schwarz machen; to black somebody’s eye → jdm ein blaues Auge schlagen or verpassen (inf)
shoes → wichsen
(Brit: trade union) → bestreiken; goods → boykottieren
black
:blackball
black beetle
n → Küchenschabe f
blackberry
blackbird
n → Amsel f
black book
n to be in somebody’s blacks → bei jdm schlecht angeschrieben sein (inf); little black → Notizbuch nt (mit Adressen der Mädchenbekanntschaften)
black box
black bread
n → Schwarzbrot nt
black cab
n (Brit) britisches Taxi
blackcap
Black Country
n Industriegebiet in den englischen Midlands
blackcurrant
black economy
n → Schattenwirtschaft f
black
:black eye
black-eyed
adj → schwarzäugig
Black Forest
n → Schwarzwald m
Black Forest gateau
n (esp Brit) → Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte f
black frost
n strenge, aber trockene Kälte
black grouse
n → Birkhuhn nt
black
:blackhead
n → Mitesser m
black-headed gull
n → Schwarzkopfmöwe f
black-hearted
adj → böse
Black Hole of Calcutta
n (cramped) → Affenstall m; (dirty, dark) → scheußliches Verlies
black ice
n → Glatteis nt
black
:blackjack
n
(Cards: = pontoon) → Siebzehnundvier nt
(US: = weapon) → Totschläger m
(Hist, = drinking vessel) → (lederner) Becher
vt (US: = hit) → prügeln
black-lead
vt stove → schwärzen
blackleg (Brit Ind)
n → Streikbrecher(in) m(f)
vi → Streikbrecher(in) sein, sich als Streikbrecher(in) betätigen
vt one’s fellow workers → sich unsolidarisch verhalten gegen
black lung
n → Staublunge f
black
:blackmail
n → Erpressung f; to use emotional black on somebody → jds Gefühle brutal ausnutzen; that’s emotional black! → das ist die reinste Erpressung!
blackmailer
n → Erpresser(in) m(f)
black mark
n → Tadel m; (in school register also) → Eintrag m; that’s a black for or against him → das ist ein Minuspunkt für ihn
black market
n → Schwarzmarkt m
adj attr → Schwarzmarkt-
black marketeer
n → Schwarzhändler(in) m(f)
Black Nationalism
n (US) → schwarzer Nationalismus
black
:blackout
n
(Med) → Ohnmacht (→ sanfall m) f no pl; I must have had a black → ich muss wohl in Ohnmacht gefallen sein; he had a black → ihm wurde schwarz vor Augen
(= light failure) → Stromausfall m; (Theat) → Blackout nt; (during war) → Verdunkelung f; (TV) → Ausfall m
(= news blackout) → (Nachrichten)sperre f
Black Power
n → Black Power f
black pudding
n → ˜ Blutwurst f
Black Rod
n Zeremonienmeister des britischen Oberhauses
Blackshirt
n → Schwarzhemd nt
black spot
n (also accident black spot) → Gefahrenstelle f
blackthorn
n (Bot) → Schwarzdorn m
black tie
n (on invitation) → Abendanzug m
adj dinner, function → mit Smokingzwang; is it black? → ist da Smokingzwang?
blacktop
n (US: = substance) → schwarzer Straßenbelag; (= road) → geteerte Straße; (paved with asphalt) → Asphaltstraße f
black velvet
n Sekt mit Starkbier
black-water rafting
n → Höhlenrafting nt
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black
[blæk]1. adj
a. → nero/a; (in darkness) → buio/a (fig) (gloomy, prospects) → poco allegro/a; (despair) → nero/a, cupo/a; (future) → poco promettente; (wicked, thought, deed) → malvagio/a
things look pretty black (fig) → c'è poco da star allegri
she looked as black as thunder (fig) → aveva un'aria furiosa
black coffee → caffè m inv nero
things look pretty black (fig) → c'è poco da star allegri
she looked as black as thunder (fig) → aveva un'aria furiosa
black coffee → caffè m inv nero
b. (person) → nero/a
2. n
a. (colour) → nero
dressed in black → vestito/a di or in nero
in the black (Fin) → in attivo
to swear that black is white (obstinate person) → negare l'evidenza (liar) → mentire spudoratamente
dressed in black → vestito/a di or in nero
in the black (Fin) → in attivo
to swear that black is white (obstinate person) → negare l'evidenza (liar) → mentire spudoratamente
b. (person) → nero/a
3. vt (Brit) (Industry) (goods, firm) → boicottare
black out
1. vt + adv
a. (obliterate) → cancellare
2. vi + adv (faint) → svenire
Collins Italian Dictionary 1st Edition © HarperCollins Publishers 1995
black
(blӕk) adjective1. of the colour in which these words are printed. black paint.
2. without light. a black night; The night was black and starless.
3. dirty. Your hands are black!; black hands from lifting coal.
4. without milk. black coffee.
5. evil. black magic.
6. (often offensive. currently acceptable in the United States, South Africa etc) Negro, of African, West Indian descent.
7. (especially South Africa) coloured; of mixed descent (increasingly used by people of mixed descent to refer to themselves).
noun1. the colour in which these words are printed. Black and white are opposites.
2. something (eg paint) black in colour. I've used up all the black.
3. (often with capital. often offensive: currently acceptable in the United states, South Africa etc) a Negro; a person of African, West Indian etc descent.
verb to make black.
ˈblackness nounˈblacken verb
1. to make or become black. The sky blackened before the storm.
2. to make to seem bad. She blackened his character.
3. to clean with black polish. He blackened his boots.
black art/magic magic performed for evil reasons. He tries to practise black magic.
ˈblackbird noun a dark-coloured bird of the thrush family.
ˈblackboard noun a dark-coloured board for writing on in chalk (used especially in schools).
black box a built-in machine for automatic recording of the details of a plane's flight. They found the black box two miles away from the wreckage of the crashed plane.
the Black Death noun the plague that killed large numbers of people in Europe in the 14th to 18th centuries.
black eye an eye with bad bruising around it (eg from a punch). George gave me a black eye.
ˈblackhead noun a small black-topped lump in a pore of the skin, especially of the face.
ˈblacklist noun a list of people who are out of favour etc.
verb to put (a person etc) on such a list.
ˈblackmail verb to obtain money illegally from (a person), usually by threatening to make known something which the victim wants to keep secret.
noun the act of blackmailing. money got by blackmail.
ˈblackmailer nounBlack Maria (məˈraiə)
a prison van. The policeman took the three suspects to the police station in a Black Maria.
black market (a place for) the illegal buying and selling, at high prices, of goods that are scarce, rationed etc. coffee on the black market.
black marketeer a person who sells goods on the black market.
ˈblackout noun1. a period of darkness produced by putting out all lights. Accidents increase during a blackout.
2. a ban (on news etc). a blackout of news about the coup.
3. a period of unconsciousness. He has had several blackouts during his illness.
4. a brief, temporary loss of memory, as when an actor forgets his/her lines.
5. (also outage) a period of a general power failure.
6. (in the theatre) the putting out of the stage lights at the end of a scene etc.
black sheep a member of a family or group who is unsatisfactory in some way. My brother is the black sheep of the family.
ˈblacksmith noun a person who makes and repairs by hand things made of iron. The blacksmith made a new shoe for the horse.
black and blue badly bruised. After the fight the boy was all black and blue.
black out to lose consciousness. He blacked out for almost a minute.
in black and white in writing or print. Would you put that down in black and white?
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black
→ أَسْوَد černý sort schwarz μαύρος negro musta noir crn nero 黒い 검은 zwart sort czarny preto черный svart ดำ siyah đen 黑的Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
black
a. negro-a;
___ and blue → amoratado;
___ eye → ojo amoratado;
___ death → peste bubónica;
___ urine → melanuria.
English-Spanish Medical Dictionary © Farlex 2012
Collins Multilingual Translator © HarperCollins Publishers 2009
black
adj negro; to — out (to lose consciousness) desmayarse, perder el conocimiento or la conciencia; (to suffer memory lapse) sufrir una laguna mental, perder la memoria por un tiempo (debido al alcohol)English-Spanish/Spanish-English Medical Dictionary Copyright © 2006 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All rights reserved.