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black-and-white

black-and-white
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Transcription

    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • UK Pronunciation
    • UK IPA
    • [blak and hwahyt, wahyt]
    • /blæk ænd ʰwaɪt, waɪt/
    • /blæk ənd waɪt/
    • US Pronunciation
    • US IPA
    • [blak and hwahyt, wahyt]
    • /blæk ænd ʰwaɪt, waɪt/

Definitions of black-and-white word

  • adjective black-and-white displaying only black and white tones; without color, as a picture or chart: a black-and-white photograph. 1
  • adjective black-and-white partly black and partly white; made up of separate areas or design elements of black and white: black-and-white shoes. 1
  • adjective black-and-white of, relating to, or constituting a two-valued system, as of logic or morality; absolute: To those who think in black-and-white terms, a person must be either entirely good or entirely bad. 1
  • noun black-and-white black (def 33). 1
  • adjective black-and-white Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color. 0
  • adjective black-and-white Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color. 0
See all 8 definitions of black-and-white

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Origin of black-and-white

First appearance:

before 1590
One of the 37% oldest English words
First recorded in 1590-1600

Historical Comparancy

Parts of speech for Black-and-white

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Full grammatical hierarchy of Black-and-white

black-and-white popularity

A pretty common term. Usually people know it’s meaning, but prefer to use a more spread out synonym. About 69% of English native speakers know the meaning and use word.
This word is included in each student's vocabulary. Most likely there is at least one movie with this word in the title.

Synonyms for black-and-white

noun black-and-white

  • photograph — a picture produced by photography.
  • stamp — to strike or beat with a forcible, downward thrust of the foot.
  • writing — the act of a person or thing that writes.
  • edition — one of a series of printings of the same book, newspaper, etc., each issued at a different time and differing from another by alterations, additions, etc. (distinguished from impression).
  • magazine — a publication that is issued periodically, usually bound in a paper cover, and typically contains essays, stories, poems, etc., by many writers, and often photographs and drawings, frequently specializing in a particular subject or area, as hobbies, news, or sports.
All 27 Synonyms of black-and-white

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  • ancona

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  • blackburnian warbler

    a black-and-white North American wood warbler, Dendroica fusca, having an orange throat and an orange and black head.

  • cold tone

    a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.

  • colorize

    to prepare a video version of (a black-and-white film) in which color tones have been added by means of a computer program

  • currawong

    any Australian crowlike songbird of the genus Strepera, having black, grey, and white plumage: family Cracticidae
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