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I dont have a black startup because I dont have all black customers.

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

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of black gathered in one view.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for black.

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

noun

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

See also: Black, blackamoor, Negro, Negroid

noun

(board games) the darker pieces

noun

black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"

verb

make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened"

See also: blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify

adjective

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"

adjective

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.

adjective

marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"

adjective

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"

adjective

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

adjective

(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"

See also: calamitous, disastrous, fatal, fateful

adjective

(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"

adjective

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

adjective

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

adjective

(of intelligence operations) deliberately misleading; "black propaganda"

adjective

distributed or sold illicitly; "the black economy pays no taxes"

See also: bootleg, black-market, contraband, smuggled

adjective

(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"

adjective

(of coffee) without cream or sugar

adjective

soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"

Example sentences

I dont have a black startup because I dont have all black customers.

But the fact is that when the black swans show up on our doorstep, they don't seem like they're going to be black swans.

What strategic advantage comes from going to a "black" incubator?

"* The black coworker is given a dictionary and told "I got this for you cause I know you speak ebonics.

Man finds a black kind of rock that burns; discovers that you can get a lot of this rock if you dig deeper, but deep mines have water.

She was not entitled to live in the property he owned, as black people could not legally own property.

"Are you prepared to open your family to harassment, black lists and 9 hour detentions during travel?".

There is no black point and that's a bad thing for the image; which leads me to say you can't make the sweeping generalization that black is always bad.

Who cares about Bootstrap when people are throwing bananas at a minister in the Italian government because she's black?

Actual black people were not part of this protest, because a mob of black people attacking a bus would be getting wall-to-wall coverage on every channel.

That was the whole point of my essay; that's why I refer to them as black swans, and why I say that "we're in a business where we need to pick unpromising-looking outliers.

As a black programmer, I remember the cliche about problems and regular expressions in my head as "regular expressions are like calling the cops.

They often work together, the gray sucking away every positive feeling and the black feeding everything negative.

"* The latino coworker is then told "I would have gotten you one too but they didnt have wetback to english"* The author, who is black, is then told "Hey hes dressed like Run DMC, does he know how to rap?

Should he know of and contribute to every one of the many groups and organizations involved in gender equality?And what exactly is wrong with the "I have black friends" defense?

However, let's not forget that every piece of code they write and every root-kit they successfully deploy will soon be taken advantage of by black-hats, quite probably in ways that will cause damage to systems completely unrelated to media playback of any sort.

But sometimes one is dominant, and if the gray beast gets its teeth all the way into you, it takes away not just positive feelings but everything until you're just a walking shell so empty you can't even fully comprehend what you've lost.> The converse, when the black beast has you, can be much like you describe - you can still feel a kind of dreadful, frenzied joy in short moments as you cling desperately to the edge of the sucking dark hole in yourself, trying to ignore the beast's whispers that any pleasure is a lie that will just make the coming pain more stark and inescapable and utterly deserved.> They're liars, but they're good at it.