Black

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

   “The items around him were black in colour.”

2. sıfat Without light.
3. sıfat Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc.) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.)

   “Somebody tell me, what can I do / Something is holding me back / Is it because I'm black?”

4. sıfat Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.
5. sıfat Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).

   “black drinking fountain; black hospital”

6. sıfat Of the spades or clubs suits.

   “I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens.”

7. sıfat Bad; evil; ill-omened.

   “black magic”

8. sıfat Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.

   “He shot her a black look.”

9. sıfat Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.

   “Foodstuffs were rationed and, as in other countries in a similar situation, the black market was flourishing.”

10. sıfat Foul; dirty, soiled.

    “Then trip him, that his heeles may kicke at Heauen, / And that his Soule may be as damn'd aud blacke / As Hell, whereto it goes.”

11. sıfat Overcrowded.
12. sıfat Without any cream, milk, or creamer.

    “Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.”

13. sıfat Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess, the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).

    “The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.”

14. sıfat Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color.

    “Compare two Unicode symbols: ☞ (“WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX”); ☛ (“BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX”).”

15. sıfat Of or pertaining to anarchism; anarchist.
16. sıfat Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

    “After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.”

17. sıfat Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

    “5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.”

18. sıfat Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

    “Pope Joan, who once occupied the throne of the Vatican, was reputed to be the blackest sorcerer of them all.”

19. sıfat Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)

    “the Black North”

20. sıfat Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).

    “the black knight; black bile”

21. isim The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

    “Black is the badge of hell, / The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.”

22. isim A black dye or pigment.
23. isim A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
24. isim Black cloth hung up at funerals.

    “Groans, and convulsions, and a discolored face, and friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like, show death terrible.”

25. isim A member or descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin.

    “"How! They surely cannot pretend that the black is an Englishman?" "There are all kinds of Englishmen, black and white, when seamen grow scarce. […]"”

26. isim Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.

    “black don't crack”

27. isim The black ball.
28. isim The edge of home plate.
29. isim A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
30. isim Blackcurrant syrup or crème de cassis used for cocktails.

    “Pernod and black; snakebite and black; cider and black”