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81black — adj 1. dark, pitch black, coal black, jet, jetty; ebony, ebon, raven, sable; inky, pitchy, nigritu dinous, atramentous; blackish, nigrescent, swarthy, swart, dark skinned. 2.Negro, Negroid, colored, Afro American, Afra merican; Negrito, Papuan,… …
82black — Many traditional meanings of black are gloomy: night, death, evil, or the *Devil. Yet *chimney sweeps are lucky, as is *coal, a black *cat, and (according to some sources) a single black lamb in a flock (Latham, 1878: 8, 10; Opie and Tatem,… …
83black — /blæk/ noun ♦ in the black, into the black in or into credit ● The company has moved into the black. ● My bank account is still in the black. ■ verb to forbid trading in specific goods or with specific suppliers ● Three firms were blacked by the… …
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85Black — A description of a positive balance on a company s financial statements. A company would be said to be in the black if it is profitable or, more specifically, if the company produces positive earnings after accounting for all expenses. Conversely …
86black — [OE] The usual Old English word for ‘black’ was sweart (source of modern English swart and swarthy, and related to German schwarz ‘black’), but black already existed (Old English blæc), and since the Middle English period it has replaced swart.… …
87black up — (of a white actor) to take the role of a non white character by applying dark make up Unacceptable today on several counts, especially as being seen to mitigate against the employment of black actors: This means that actors should be …
88black — I. a. 1. Dark, ebon, inky, atramentous, swarthy. 2. Murky, dusky, pitchy, dingy, Cimmerian, lowering. 3. Dismal, sullen, forbidding, gloomy, dark, depressing, doleful, sombre, mournful, disastrous, calamitous. 4. Wicked, atrocious, villanous,… …
89black — /blæk/ adjective ♦ in the black in credit ● The company has moved into the black. ● My bank account is still in the black. ■ verb to forbid trading in specific goods or with specific suppliers ● Three firms were blacked by the government. ● The… …
90black — see it doesn’t matter if a cat is black or white, as long as it catches mice the devil is not so black as he is painted February fill dyke, be it black or be it white two blacks don’t make a white …
