Sekirov Dictionary

black and white

adjective 5
noun 5
forms 6

adjective5

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Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
- Their photos from that era are all black and white.
Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
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Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
- I wish she weren't always so black and white about every single thing.
Easily divided into diametrically opposing categories.
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Of art, a photograph or photography, using dots or lines that are either black or white (with no other values involved).
- Using Adobe Photoshop, he opened the images that were grayscale and converted them to be black and white.

noun5

(US, slang) A police patrol car.
A type of giant cookie (about eight inches in diameter) with icing on the top side: half white, half dark chocolate.
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(US, slang) The police, a police officer or the clothing they wear.
- Them punk motherfuckers in black and white ain't the only motherfuckers I gots to fight. — 1992
(figurative) Day and night (two very different things).
A kind of ice cream soda with chocolate and vanilla flavors.

forms

black and whites · black-and-whites · more black and white · more black-and-white · most black and white · most black-and-white

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