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# black

«black» in Mova's school dictionary: **the darkest color, the color of the night sky or of coal** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

adjective (black, blacker, blackest); noun (black)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Black is the darkest color, the color of the night sky or of coal. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#m1)

2) Black means with no light: «It was black outside». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#m2)

3) Black can describe people whose families came from Africa. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#m3)

4) Black coffee has no milk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#m4)

### sense in the lessons

a color that sorts things into groups to count or compare; in art, black mixed with a color makes a darker shade; phrases «black and white», «blackboard», «blackout», «black eye», «in black and white» (written down)

### examples

- There are 12 black cats and 8 white cats. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x1)
- She has 5 black pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x2)
- How many socks are not black? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x3)
- The black car costs more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x4)
- Write your name in black ink. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x5)
- The old film is in black and white. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x6)
- The sky turned black before the storm. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x7)
- A zebra has black and white stripes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x8)
- He got a black eye playing football. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x9)
- Black clothes get hot in the sun. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/#x10)

### note

Sorts things into groups; groups are added or compared. Trap: the black ones are a part, not the total. Black objects take in more heat from sunlight than white ones.

### In the corpora

- [Nearly 2000 years ago a volcano buried a Roman town and burned a library of scrolls to black lumps that nobody could open.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/ai/23-news-tricked-bots-discoveries/0/)
- [In black-and-white films, chocolate syrup was used as fake blood because it looked right on screen.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/25-special-effects-and-stunts/12/)
- [The stage crew work backstage, often dressed in black so the audience does not notice them.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/27-theatre-stage-actors-backstage/6/)
- [Adding white to a colour makes a lighter tint, and adding black makes a darker shade.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/arts/42-olympiad-picture-puzzles/6/)
- [A black panther is a leopard or jaguar with extra dark pigment, and its spots can still be seen in bright light.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/20-leopards-jaguars-cheetahs-and-the-house-cat/8/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «black» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/black/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.