black and white

Noun · Adjective

Synonyms: written communication written language black and white monochrome black-and-white black and white(p)

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

communication by means of written symbols (either printed or handwritten)Synonyms: written communication written language black and white
a black-and-white photograph or slideSynonyms: black and white monochrome

Adjective (1)

not having or not capable of producing colors“black-and-white film”“a black-and-white TV”“the movie was in black and white”Synonyms: black-and-white black and white(p)

Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

White \White\, n. [1913 Webster]

1.The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1. [1913 Webster]

Finely attired in a of white.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye. [1913 Webster]

3.Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot. [1913 Webster]

'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

4.A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men. [1913 Webster]

5.A white pigment; as, Venice white. [1913 Webster]

6.(Zool.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage. [1913 Webster]

Black and white. See under Black.

Flake white, Paris white, etc. See under Flack, Paris, etc.

White of a seed (Bot.), the albumen. See Albumen, 2.

White of egg, the viscous pellucid fluid which surrounds the yolk in an egg, particularly in the egg of a fowl. In a hen's egg it is alkaline, and contains about 86 per cent of water and 14 per cent of solid matter, the greater portion of which is egg albumin. It likewise contains a small amount of globulin, and traces of fats and sugar, with some inorganic matter. Heated above 60[deg] C. it coagulates to a solid mass, owing to the albumin which it contains. --Parr.

White of the eye (Anat.), the white part of the ball of the eye surrounding the transparent cornea. [1913 Webster]

Black \Black\, n.

1.That which is destitute of light or whiteness; the darkest color, or rather a destitution of all color; as, a cloth has a good black. [1913 Webster]

Black is the badge of hell, The hue of dungeons, and the suit of night.— Shak.[1913 Webster]

2.A black pigment or dye. [1913 Webster]

3.A negro; a person whose skin is of a black color, or shaded with black; esp. a member or descendant of certain African races. [1913 Webster]

4.A black garment or dress; as, she wears black; pl. (Obs.) Mourning garments of a black color; funereal drapery. [1913 Webster]

Friends weeping, and blacks, and obsequies, and the like show death terrible.— Bacon.[1913 Webster]

That was the full time they used to wear blacks for the death of their fathers.— Sir T. North.[1913 Webster]

5.The part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black. [1913 Webster]

The black or sight of the eye.— Sir K. Digby.[1913 Webster]

6.A stain; a spot; a smooch. [1913 Webster]

Defiling her white lawn of chastity with ugly blacks of lust.— Rowley.[1913 Webster]

Black and white, writing or print; as, I must have that statement in black and white.

Blue black, a pigment of a blue black color.

Ivory black, a fine kind of animal charcoal prepared by calcining ivory or bones. When ground it is the chief ingredient of the ink used in copperplate printing.

Berlin black. See under Berlin. [1913 Webster]

black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\n. print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.

Syn: print. [WordNet 1.5] black-and-white

black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\adj. (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; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie "Schindler's List" was shot in black and white.

Syn: black and white, monochromatic, monochrome. [WordNet 1.5]