See black on Wiktionary
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{ "forms": [ { "form": "black", "tags": [ "singular" ] }, { "form": "blacks", "tags": [ "plural" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "noun" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "noun", "senses": [ { "examples": [ {}, { "text": "He stood away in the black of the night." } ], "glosses": [ "The darkest color; with no light; the color of the sky at night." ] }, { "categories": [ "Countable nouns" ], "examples": [ { "text": "There were many whites, some blacks and native Americans, and a few Asians." } ], "glosses": [ "Blacks are people of a race with dark coloured skin." ], "raw_tags": [ "countable", "usually plural", "potentially offensive in modern day" ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "It took a year for the restaurant to get in the black." } ], "glosses": [ "If a company is in the black, it is making a profit. (opposite = in the red)" ], "tags": [ "singular" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "blăk" }, { "ipa": "/blæk/" }, { "sampa": "/bl{k/" }, { "audio": "en-uk-black.ogg", "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "black" } { "forms": [ { "form": "black", "tags": [ "positive" ] }, { "form": "blacker", "tags": [ "comparative" ] }, { "form": "blackest", "tags": [ "superlative" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "args": { "1": "black", "2": "blacker", "3": "blackest" }, "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "adj" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "adj", "senses": [ { "examples": [ { "text": "The black bunny was the color of night." } ], "glosses": [ "colored black" ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "It's still difficult for a black person to become a manager." }, { "text": "About 30 percent of Southfield's 80,000 citizens are black." } ], "glosses": [ "If someone is black, they belong to a race with dark-coloured skin." ] }, { "categories": [ "Attributive modifiers" ], "examples": [ { "text": "More and more universities are offering courses in black history." } ], "glosses": [ "About a race with dark-coloured skin." ], "raw_tags": [ "usually before a noun" ] }, { "categories": [ "Attributive modifiers" ], "glosses": [ "Black coffee or tea has no milk in it." ], "raw_tags": [ "usually before a noun" ] }, { "examples": [ { "text": "The day the war started was a black day in history." } ], "glosses": [ "If something is black, it is very bad." ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "blăk" }, { "ipa": "/blæk/" }, { "sampa": "/bl{k/" }, { "audio": "en-uk-black.ogg", "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "black" } { "forms": [ { "form": "black", "tags": [ "canonical" ] }, { "form": "blacks", "tags": [ "third-person", "singular" ] }, { "form": "blacked", "tags": [ "past" ] }, { "form": "blacked", "tags": [ "past", "participle" ] }, { "form": "blacking", "tags": [ "present", "participle" ] } ], "head_templates": [ { "expansion": "[POS TABLE]", "name": "verb" } ], "lang": "English", "lang_code": "en", "pos": "verb", "senses": [ { "categories": [ "Transitive verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "He blacked his boots before the party." }, { "text": "They blacked out the windows so the light would not be seen outside." }, { "text": "A number of lines in the report were blacked out." } ], "glosses": [ "If you black something, you color it black." ], "raw_tags": [ "transitive" ] }, { "categories": [ "Intransitive verbs", "Verbs" ], "examples": [ { "text": "After his tenth beer, he blacked out and we couldn't wake him up." } ], "glosses": [ "If you black out, you quit seeing and hearing anything around you and you fall down." ], "raw_tags": [ "intransitive" ] } ], "sounds": [ { "enpr": "blăk" }, { "ipa": "/blæk/" }, { "sampa": "/bl{k/" }, { "audio": "en-uk-black.ogg", "tags": [ "UK" ] } ], "word": "black" }
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