English Dictionary

black

/blæk/

noun

(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. / (countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.

I love wearing black.

意味（1）

(countable and uncountable) The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

black:

意味（2）

(countable and uncountable) A black dye or pigment.

意味（3）

(countable) A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.

意味（4）

(in the plural) 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.

意味（5）

(sometimes capitalised, countable, often offensive) A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.)

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

意味（6）

(informal) Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups.

black don't crack

意味（7）

(billiards, snooker, pool, countable) The black ball.

意味（8）

(baseball, countable) The edge of home plate.

意味（9）

(Britain, countable) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.

意味（10）

(informal, countable) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).

意味（11）

(in chess and similar games, countable) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

At this point black makes a disastrous move.

意味（12）

(countable) Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.

the black or sight of the eye

意味（13）

(obsolete, countable) A stain; a spot.

defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust

意味（14）

A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

意味（15）

(US, slang) Marijuana.