"in black and white" meaning in English

See in black and white in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Prepositional phrase

Audio: en-au-in black and white.ogg [Australia]
Head templates: {{head|en|prepositional phrase|head=}} in black and white, {{en-PP}} in black and white
  1. (idiomatic) Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas. Tags: idiomatic Translations (explicitly): mustaa valkoisella (Finnish), noir sur blanc (French), schwarz auf weiß (German), nero su bianco (Italian), чёрным по белому (čórnym po belomu) (Russian), negro sobre blanco (Spanish), svart på vitt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-rNKfC5kC Disambiguation of 'explicitly': 98 1 1
  2. (literally) Using shades of gray rather than color. Tags: literally Translations (using shades of gray): en noir et blanc (French), en branco e negro (Galician), em preto e branco (Portuguese), чёрно-белый (čórno-belyj) (Russian), en blanco y negro (Spanish), svartvitt (Swedish)
    Sense id: en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-GUgHqVad Disambiguation of 'using shades of gray': 4 58 38
  3. Having it displayed using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color (as it was shot or recorded).
    Sense id: en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-F19Bz1wX

Download JSON data for in black and white meaning in English (3.2kB)

{
  "categories": [],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "in black and white",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "in black and white",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'll believe that when I see it in black and white."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas."
      ],
      "id": "en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-rNKfC5kC",
      "links": [
        [
          "Explicitly",
          "explicitly"
        ],
        [
          "in writing",
          "in writing"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "doubt",
          "doubt"
        ],
        [
          "misunderstanding",
          "misunderstanding"
        ],
        [
          "grey area",
          "grey area"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "mustaa valkoisella"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "noir sur blanc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "schwarz auf weiß"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "nero su bianco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čórnym po belomu",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "чёрным по белому"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "negro sobre blanco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "98 1 1",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "explicitly",
          "word": "svart på vitt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This film was shot in black and white."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Using shades of gray rather than color."
      ],
      "id": "en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-GUgHqVad",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) Using shades of gray rather than color."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "en noir et blanc"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "gl",
          "lang": "Galician",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "en branco e negro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "pt",
          "lang": "Portuguese",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "em preto e branco"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "ru",
          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "čórno-belyj",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "чёрно-белый"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "es",
          "lang": "Spanish",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "en blanco y negro"
        },
        {
          "_dis1": "4 58 38",
          "code": "sv",
          "lang": "Swedish",
          "sense": "using shades of gray",
          "word": "svartvitt"
        }
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to watch color films in black and white"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having it displayed using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color (as it was shot or recorded)."
      ],
      "id": "en-in_black_and_white-en-prep_phrase-F19Bz1wX"
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-in black and white.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "word": "in black and white"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "English lemmas",
    "English multiword terms",
    "English prepositional phrases",
    "English terms with audio links"
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "en",
        "2": "prepositional phrase",
        "head": ""
      },
      "expansion": "in black and white",
      "name": "head"
    },
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "in black and white",
      "name": "en-PP"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "prep_phrase",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English idioms"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "I'll believe that when I see it in black and white."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "Explicitly",
          "explicitly"
        ],
        [
          "in writing",
          "in writing"
        ],
        [
          "clearly",
          "clearly"
        ],
        [
          "doubt",
          "doubt"
        ],
        [
          "misunderstanding",
          "misunderstanding"
        ],
        [
          "grey area",
          "grey area"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic) Explicitly, in writing, clearly and without doubt or misunderstanding, without any grey areas."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "This film was shot in black and white."
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Using shades of gray rather than color."
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(literally) Using shades of gray rather than color."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "literally"
      ]
    },
    {
      "examples": [
        {
          "text": "to watch color films in black and white"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Having it displayed using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color (as it was shot or recorded)."
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "audio": "en-au-in black and white.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/3/3e/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/3/3e/En-au-in_black_and_white.ogg",
      "tags": [
        "Australia"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (AU)"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "mustaa valkoisella"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "noir sur blanc"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "schwarz auf weiß"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "nero su bianco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čórnym po belomu",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "чёрным по белому"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "negro sobre blanco"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "explicitly",
      "word": "svart på vitt"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "en noir et blanc"
    },
    {
      "code": "gl",
      "lang": "Galician",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "en branco e negro"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "em preto e branco"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "čórno-belyj",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "чёрно-белый"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "en blanco y negro"
    },
    {
      "code": "sv",
      "lang": "Swedish",
      "sense": "using shades of gray",
      "word": "svartvitt"
    }
  ],
  "word": "in black and white"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-04-17 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-04-01 using wiktextract (0b52755 and 5cb0836). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.