:being a color that lacks hue and brightness and absorbs light without reflecting any of the rays composing it: They labeled the boxes with a black permanent marker.
:characterized by absence of light; enveloped in darkness: a black night.
:soiled or stained with dirt: That shirt was black within an hour.
:gloomy; pessimistic; dismal: a black outlook.
:deliberately harmful; inexcusable: a black lie.
:boding ill; sullen or hostile; threatening: black words;black looks.
: without milk or cream: I take my coffee black.
:without any moral quality or goodness; evil; wicked: His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
:indicating censure, disgrace, or liability to punishment: a black mark on one's record.
:marked by disaster or misfortune: black areas of drought; Black Friday.
:wearing black or dark clothing or armor: the black prince.
:based on the grotesque, morbid, or unpleasant aspects of life: black comedy;black humor.
: done or written in black to indicate, as on a list, that which is undesirable, substandard, potentially dangerous, etc.: Pilots put a black flag next to the ten most dangerous airports.
:illegal or underground: The black economy pays no taxes.
:showing a profit; not showing any losses: the first black quarter in two years.
:deliberately false or intentionally misleading: black propaganda.
:British. boycotted, as certain goods or products by a trade union.
: in the form in which it comes from the rolling mill or forge; unfinished.
n.名词 noun
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:the color at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to white, absorbing all light incident upon it.Compare white.
:black clothing, especially as a sign of mourning: He wore black at the funeral.
:Chess, Checkers. the dark-colored men or pieces or squares.
:black pigment: lamp black.
:Slang. black beauty.
:a horse or other animal that is entirely black.
v.有主动词 verb
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:to make black; put black on; blacken.
:British. to boycott or ban.
:to polish with blacking.
v.无主动词 verb
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:to become black; take on a black color; blacken.
adv.副词 adverb
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: served without milk or cream.
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:black out, to lose consciousness: He blacked out at the sight of blood.to erase, obliterate, or suppress: News reports were blacked out.to forget everything relating to a particular event, person, etc.: When it came to his war experiences he blacked out completely.Theater.to extinguish all of the stage lights.to make or become inoperable: to black out the radio broadcasts from the U.S.Military.to obscure by concealing all light in defense against air raids.Radio and Television.to impose a broadcast blackout on.to withdraw or cancel for a designated period: The special airfare discount will be blacked out by the airlines over the holiday weekend.