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# dark

«dark» in Mova's school dictionary: **with little or no light, like at night** — 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 (dark, darker, darkest); noun (the dark)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Dark means with little or no light, like at night. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#m1)

2) A dark colour is deep and close to black, like dark blue or dark green. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#m2)

3) Dark hair, eyes or skin are deep brown or black. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#m3)

4) The dark is the time or place with no light: «afraid of the dark». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#m4)

5) Dark can mean sad, scary or bad: «a dark story». [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#m5)

### sense in the lessons

In school maths: a word of the story or a colour used to sort things; hours of dark in a day. In science: light and dark; shadows; we need light to see; night happens when our side of the Earth faces away from the sun. In everyday life and safety: wear bright or reflective clothes when it is dark. Phrases: «in the dark» (not knowing), «afraid of the dark», «after dark», «pitch dark».

### examples

- It gets dark at 6 o'clock. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x1)
- There are 5 dark blue pens. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x2)
- Dark chocolate costs more. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x3)
- How many hours is it dark? [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x4)
- Many children are afraid of the dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x5)
- In winter it is dark when we go home from school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x6)
- We need light to see, so in the dark we see nothing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x7)
- Wear something bright if you walk after dark. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/D/dark/#x8)

### note

Opposite: «light» or «bright». «Darkness» is the noun. Maths: carries no clue to the operation; a colour sorts things into groups. Trap: hours of dark = 24 − hours of daylight.

### In the corpora

- [The film is pretend, but the feelings it makes are real, and they can stay with you after the screen goes dark.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/56-scary-films-nightmares-and-sad-endings/1/)
- [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/)
- [Octopuses and squid squirt dark ink and jet away, and some squid make an ink blob shaped like themselves as a decoy.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/53-how-animals-defend-themselves/11/)
- [Blood is always red, bright red with oxygen and dark red without, even though veins look blue through your skin.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/biology/65-the-heart-and-blood/3/)

### Trees and pragmatics

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