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.

In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds.

Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible.

A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races.

Includes persons who indicated their race as "Black or Negro" or reported entries such as African American, Afro-American, Black Puerto Rican, Jamaican, Nigerian, West Indian, or Haitian.

any scene containing one or more African-American women.

a horse whose entire coat, mane, and tail is black with the exception of white markings.

having a black background with black markings

The player who moves second. (But, in the Orient, the player with white stones traditionally moves second.)

Fischer Black born in 1938, is remembered for his work on the pricing of derivatives. Together with Robert Merton and Myron Scholes, he made a pioneering contribution to economic sciences by developing a new method of determining the value of derivatives - known as the "Black-Scholes" option pricing model. Their innovative work in the early 1970s, which solved a longstanding problem in financial economics, has provided us with completely new ways of dealing with financial risk, both in theory and in practice. Their method has contributed substantially to the rapid growth of markets for derivatives in the last two decades. Fischer Black died in 1995.

distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

Fischer and Myron S. Scholes (1973). The pricing of options and corporate liabilities, Journal of Political Economy, 81, 637-654.

marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"

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 Hardy

harshly ironic or sinister; "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

One of the players in the game of Backgammon, the one using the darker or black checkers.

(board games) the darker pieces

The player who uses the black or darker checkers.

"Black" is a track on grunge group Pearl Jam's debut album, Ten. The song is a soliloquy by a heart-broken man, who is remembering his absent lover.

Black is Lita Ford's sixth solo album of original material and is a change of style, compared to her other albums. Black sees Ford move into other musical styles such as Blues and Grunge, while still maintaining her Metal and Rock roots.

(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"

(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"

A term used to refer to a secret program that has not been acknowledged, e.g. 'Aurora', 'Astra', TR-3 etc. Also used as state of a runway. if the runway is Black, then its not useable due to a crash or mishap etc.

As Indigenous issues were internationalised and politicised through the influence of Black Power movements in the United States of America, the term 'black' promoted by writer Roberta Sykes and 'blak' the more recent term devised by Torres Strait Islander artist Destiny Deacon, are intended to subvert racist connotations in order to regain cultural pride.

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"

Black (Hindi: ब्लॅक, Urdu: بلاک) is a Hindi and Indian English film released in 2005 and directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali. It is a story of a blind and deaf girl who graduates from a normal college. The film is based on the life of Helen Keller, though the first half is similar to the 1962 film The Miracle Worker, which focuses on Anne Sullivan's struggle to educate Helen Keller.

Black is a small lunar crater that lies just to the southeast of the Kästner walled-basin. To the south-southwest is the Ansgarius crater, and to the east is the small Dale crater. This formation is located near the eastern limb of the Moon, just to the southwest of the Mare Smythii.

Black is a full-length play by Joyce Carol Oates first published in Twelve Plays (1991) and reprinted in The Perfectionist and Other Plays (1995). Together with I Stand Before You Naked, Tone Clusters, Ontological Proof of My Existence and Bad Girls, Black is one of Oates's most frequently performed plays. The prose version of Black appeared in Witness in 1989.

Beans. Dead coffee beans which have dropped from the trees before harvest. For counting imperfections in grading coffee on the New York Coffee Exchange, the black bean has been taken as the basis unit and all imperfections are calculated in terms of black beans.

(of coffee) without cream or sugar

Native of the Yucatán; satiny black on the exterior, creamy white inside, with a hearty, almost smoky flavor; commonly used in soups and low-fat sauces, side dishes, salads and puréed; cooked beans can be rinsed and added to salsas for visual interest. This multipurpose dried bean is medium-sized (up to one-half inch long), round to almost square, and deep black with a white line and interior.

popular child actress of the 1930's (born 1927)

Black is the musical vehicle for singer/songwriter Colin Vearncombe (born 26 May 1962, in Liverpool, England).

Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks.

Cannabis

A black appearance is desirable preferably with 'bloom'.

mold”: This poorly defined term, which has no scientific meaning (also called “toxic black mold”), has been associated with Stachybotrys chartarum. While only a few mold s are truly black, many appear black. Not all mold s that appear to be black are Stachybotrys.

The appearance of a blank black video screen, often used for transitions from one program to the next, as in 'fade to black.'

a specialist in malignant tumors and will head the newly created Neurosurgical Institute at Cedars-Sinai

Black is a first-person shooter for Play Station 2 and Xbox, developed by Criterion Games and published by Electronic Arts. Black is essentially a run n' gun shooter with some minor 'stop & pop' tactics, with few mission objectives and a “kill 'em all” general strategy. There is a distinct lack of blood and gore in the game however, perhaps as a tie-in with its Hollywood stylings.

A black pigment or dye.

The complete absence of light. Because of impurities, you can not create black with pigments. In most black pigments, the is a slight blue trace. A black surface absorbs all light.

Probably the least attractive colour for diamond, although there seems good demand for treated black diamonds. The main attraction surely being the excellent surface lustre. Black is technically the complete absence of any colour. Many black diamonds have poor surface quality and are probably partially carbonado.

Plan for seizure of Dakar (later PICADOR and BARRISTER).

Sullenly; threateningly; maliciously; so as to produce blackness.

a video signal that is used as a reference source to lock editing equipment to a common sync source. It consists of a DC level of video at 7.5 units of IRE. See IRE. Also, the common term of a monitor when it has no input signal other than black.

Video signal set to a pre-determined level (7.5 IRE units) so that no picture information appears and the screen is black. Also referred to as pedestal or setup, the level at which this signal is set determines overall picture contrast and quality.

mysterious/ romantic/ powerful/ moody/ a good lover/ brunet(te)

To make black; to blacken; to soil; to sully.

soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

A $100 cheque.

A stain; a spot; a smooch.

An even-money bet on the ball to land on any black number.

When a player bets on the black spots of the wheel.

a thousand times better than NICOLE KIDMAN

A black garment or dress; as, she wears black

dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"

(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"

a font that has more weight than the bold version of a typeface.

See Bold Type.

soldiers — the ex-soldiers involved in Freikorps units

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British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

to fry something until it turns black. At this point, smoke detector usually goes off

To make black and shining, as boots or a stove, by applying blacking and then polishing with a brush.

man-made, “cultural,” features such as roads, buildings, etc. It is also used to show geographical names (toponymy), certain symbols, geographic coordinates, precise elevations, border information and surround information.

Black is a Alternative Rock band in Bangladesh. It began with five members, but now has four.

100 chips. I don't bet black, I bet green.

Chip = A $100 chip.

100 chips (which are black in many casinos)

Black affiliate is someone who uses none ethical means of getting traffic to their sites. AKA Spammer.

The signal sent to the human brain when human eyes are unable to detect optical photons.

This category of persons was the subject of self-identification in the United States census, and statistics in this category are from the United States census.                  City.

The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

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see control track.

Allows the calling party to not be billed for the call placed