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