black
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Betekenis (Engels)
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- Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
- Without light.
- 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.)
- 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.)
- Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above).
- Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”)
- Bad; evil; ill-omened.
- Expressing menace or discontent; threatening; sullen.
- Illegitimate, illegal, or disgraced.
- Foul; dirty, soiled.
- (informal) Overcrowded.
- Without any cream, milk, or creamer.
- 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).
- Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism.
- Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”).
- Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
- Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.
- Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.
- Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").)
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
- Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc.) that is dark (or black).
Synoniemen
dark-coloured
dark-blue
black person
total darkness
very black
black color
dark colour
black one
make black
dark-colored
musk-colored
pitch blackness
Bad
become black
blood-colored
dark-complexioned
light color
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crimson snapper
black colour
be black
dark coloured
not white
adhesive mud
black-colored
Black person
dusky-colored
inky-black
varnish tree
red bream
casting skin
bik
high brow sea perch
red jew
rounded snapper
black color
black colour
declare black
to be
disparage
Frequentie
Uitgesproken als (IPA)
/blæk/
Etymologie (Engels)
In summary
From Middle English blak, black, blake, from Old English blæc (“black, dark", also "ink”), from Proto-West Germanic *blak, from Proto-Germanic *blakaz (“burnt”) (compare Dutch blaken (“to burn”), Low German blak, black (“blackness, black paint, (black) ink”), Old High German blah (“black”)), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰleg- (“to burn, shine”) (compare Latin flagrāre (“to burn”), Ancient Greek φλόξ (phlóx, “flame”), Sanskrit भर्ग (bharga, “radiance”)). More at bleak.
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