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black-and-white

Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Partially black and partially white.
  • adjective Being in writing or print.
  • adjective Rendered in black and white or in achromatic colors.
  • adjective Of or relating to the reproduction or presentation of visual images in black and white.
  • adjective Expressing, recognizing, or based on two mutually exclusive sets of ideas or values.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color.
  • noun print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.
  • adjective Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey/gray rather than colour/color.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories
  • adjective not having or not capable of producing colors
  • adjective lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black

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Examples

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • All vehicles that take people into space are "spaceships", or "spacecraft", but the name "space shuttle" only refers to the black-and-white airplane thing with the two pointy little booster rockets and the big orange tank.

    Zoe P. Strassfield: Chronicling My NASA Internship Zoe P. Strassfield 2011

  • The sixth verse, Cancer, refers to a black-and-white mosaic floor to which both Jesus and Asmodeus direct their gaze, obviously a description of the interior of Rennes-le-Château’s church.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The sixth verse, Cancer, refers to a black-and-white mosaic floor to which both Jesus and Asmodeus direct their gaze, obviously a description of the interior of Rennes-le-Château’s church.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • The sixth verse, Cancer, refers to a black-and-white mosaic floor to which both Jesus and Asmodeus direct their gaze, obviously a description of the interior of Rennes-le-Château’s church.

    The Sion Revelation Lynn Picknett 2006

  • Still, great films from around the world continued to be made in black-and-white.

    The English Is Coming! Leslie Dunton-Downer 2010

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