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black-a-vised |
black-and-blue |
black-and-tan |
black-and-tan coonhound |
black-and-tan terrier |
black-and-white
| black-backed gull
| black-barred
| black-billed cuckoo
| black-body radiation
| black-browed
black-and-white
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Adjective black-and-white has 3 senses
- black-and-white(a = adj.pert) Array - lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black; "a black-and-white cow"; "black-and-white blooms"; "black-and-white stripes"
- black-and-white(a = adj.all) black and white - not having or not capable of producing colors; "black-and-white film"; "a black-and-white TV"; "the movie was in black and white" Antonym: color
- black-and-white(s = adj.all) Array - of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories; "he rejected a black-and-white world"; "there are no black-and-white certainties"; "there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"
CIDE DICTIONARY
black-and-white, n.
print or writing, especially the result of the printing process. [WordNet 1.5]
black-and-white, adj.
depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome ; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color , and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color ; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie “Schindler's List” was shot in black and white. [WordNet 1.5]
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