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Pronounce Black as B L AH K K.

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    Black phonetic transcription:

    When you start learning English, it's important to become familiar with the typical sounds of the language. The best way to do this is by studying phonetics. Below is the UK transcription for the word 'black'. Get the right phonetic representation for any word using our free Phonetic Transcription Tool.

    • Traditional IPA representation of black: /blækk/
    • Modern IPA representation of black: /blæck/

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    List of meaning for black

    of the darkest color, like coal or the sky at midnight

    black, blackness, inkiness(noun)

    the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)

    total darkness, lightlessness, blackness, pitch blackness, black(noun)

    total absence of light

    "they fumbled around in total darkness"; "in the black of night"

    Black, Joseph Black(noun)

    British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)

    Black, Shirley Temple Black, Shirley Temple(noun)

    popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)

    Black, Black person, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid(noun)

    a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)

    black(noun)

    (board games) the darker pieces

    black(adj)

    black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning)

    "the widow wore black"

    black(adj)

    being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light

    "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"

    black(adj)

    of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin

    "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.

    black(adj)

    marked by anger or resentment or hostility

    "black looks"; "black words"

    black, bleak, dim(adj)

    offering little or no hope

    "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"

    black, dark, sinister(adj)

    stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable

    "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy

    black, calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful(adj)

    (of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin

    "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"

    black, blackened(adj)

    (of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood

    "a face black with fury"

    black, pitch-black, pitch-dark(adj)

    extremely dark

    "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"

    black, grim, mordant(adj)

    harshly ironic or sinister

    "black humor"; "a grim joke"; "grim laughter"; "fun ranging from slapstick clowning ... to savage mordant wit"

    black(adj)

    (of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading

    "black propaganda"

    bootleg, black, black-market, contraband, smuggled(adj)

    distributed or sold illicitly

    "the black economy pays no taxes"

    black, disgraceful, ignominious, inglorious, opprobrious, shameful(adj)

    (used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame

    "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"

    black(adj)

    (of coffee) without cream or sugar

    black, smutty(verb)

    soiled with dirt or soot

    "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

    blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black(verb)

    make or become black

    "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

    having the color of soot or coal

    we adopted a little black kitten

    causing or marked by an atmosphere lacking in cheer

    the Friday of the stock market crash was indeed a black day for the country

    not conforming to a high moral standard; morally unacceptable

    the black deeds of the brigands along the Scottish border

    not having a light complexion

    a black Irishman, Tyrone Power had the classic looks of a Hollywood leading man

    being without light or without much light

    on a black night such as this, the imagination runs wild

    not clean

    don't you dare touch my curtains with those black hands!

    a time or place of little or no light

    we had to find our way on back roads in the black of night

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    black in sentence

    1. His keen reflexes allowed the black belt to respond before his attacker could even land the first punch.

    2. On Black Friday, there is almost always a large crowd of people in front of the most popular stores, ready to charge in and buy everything they want for a low price.

    3. While the majority of the kitchen floor is white, there is one incongruous black tile that ruins its unity.

    4. I own several pieces of luggage, but my favorite suitcase is the black and white one with polka dots.

    5. So that the text box would be noticeable on the poster, I decided to outline the box with a dark black marker.

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    Quotes and sayings containing the term black

    When I came up, I think really the only black male lead was Denzel Washington, right before we came out with' Boyz n the Hood,' Wesley Snipes was in' New Jack City.' But now I'm looking at everybody. There's Samuel Jackson, Denzel, Idris Elba, Michael B. Jordan. There's a lot of people out there now.

    – Morris Chestnut

    To be rich or to be poor, that is the question." Hunger or homelessness can signify poverty and so can mental or emotional deficiency. Hunger or homelessness are lethal physical hazards, if they bear the taint of starvation or hypothermia. Mental or emotional deficiencies are inexorable perils, if they are stained by the black mark of depression or hopelessness. The magic antidote in any circumstances is seeing the bright side of things, possibly "with a little help". ( "Homeless down in the corner" )

    – Erik Pevernagie

    So, either black holes can grow faster than the speed limit, but we don't know how that works, and we have not seen it yet in action, or there is an unknown way to make 5,000 solar mass black holes very close in time to the Big Bang, but who knows what happened in the dark early ages of the universe ?

    – Christian Wolf

    So of course it was fun to watch, but now weve turned it into something useful, we have actually measured the atmosphere around a black hole at a radius, which was completely inaccessible before.

    – Stefan Gillessen

    We received an update from the field that the pinger locator already detected pings, we have our fingers crossed it is the black box. Divers need to confirm. Unfortunately it seems it's off from the tail. But the divers need to confirm the position.

    – Santoso Sayogo

    The African American Defense League and The New Black Panther Party are hate groups with a long and very different record than Black Lives Matter, which is an idea, a movement, defense League’s not even close. People should be asking if BLM was n’t leading protests, who would be leading them ? Defense League could be worse. What group would fill the vacuum ?

    – Oren Segal

    Barbershops are, like, a whole new adventure, they have black men around them giving them directions and encouraging them to do something positive. I think that this is essential, and it will create memories for them that will empower them.

    – Andrew Lovett

    I hope to teach our kids that with privilege comes responsibility, people are fighting for justice all around us. Our job is to lift up the amazing work of black and brown led organizations and figure out the best way to support them.

    – Shannon Gaggero

    I know this is a difficult topic to talk about, i know that so many of us hoped by electing our first black President we had turned the page on this chapter in our history. I know there are truths we don't like to say out loud in discussions with our children, but we have to. That is the only way we can possibly move forward together.

    – Hillary Clinton

    In the black community, the church is the only thing we ever had to call our own, when we couldn't go to Civic Center or Union League, we always had the church. It is here where our children learn how to speak, how to stand before audiences.

    – Pastor Dent

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