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English → English (WordNet)
Definition: black and white
black and white
n 1: the result of the printing process;
“I want to see it in
black and white” [syn:
print]
2: a black-and-white photograph or slide [syn:
monochrome]
black and white
adj : not having or not capable of producing colors;
“black-and-white film”;
“a black-and-white TV”;
“the
movie was in black and white” [syn:
black-and-white,
black and white(p)] [ant:
color]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Black and white
White
\White\, n.
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1. The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of
bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all
colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note
under
Color, n., 1.
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Finely attired in a of white. --Shak.
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2. Something having the color of snow; something white, or
nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
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3. Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery,
which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at
which a missile is shot.
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'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.
--Shak.
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4. A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or
Caucasian, races of men.
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5. A white pigment; as, Venice white.
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6. (Zo["o]l.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies
belonging to
Pieris, and allied genera in which the
color is usually white. See
Cabbage butterfly, under
Cabbage.
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Black and white. See under
Black.
Flake white,
Paris white, etc. See under
Flack,
Paris, etc.
White of a seed (Bot.), the albumen. See
Albumen, 2.
White of egg, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds
the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In
a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent
of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater
portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a
small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar,
with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it
coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it
contains. --Parr.
White of the eye (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the
eye surrounding the transparent cornea.
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Black
\Black\, n.
1. 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.
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Black is the badge of hell,
The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night. --Shak.
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2. A black pigment or dye.
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3. A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or
shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain
African races.
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4. A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.)
Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery.
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Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the
like show death terrible. --Bacon.
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That was the full time they used to wear blacks for
the death of their fathers. --Sir T.
North.
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5. The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest
by being black.
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The black or sight of the eye. --Sir K.
Digby.
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6. A stain; a spot; a smooch.
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Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks
of lust. --Rowley.
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Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that
statement in black and white.
Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color.
Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by
calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief
ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.
Berlin black. See under
Berlin.
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