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black



preto
preto


Definições

inglês > português
black
     1. Adjetivo. (Cor) preto
     2. Substantivo. (Cor) preto
     3. Substantivo. (Etnicidade) negro, preto
     4. Substantivo. (Figurado) preto (tendência estabelecida como moda)
     5. Verbo. pretejar
inglês > inglês
black
     1. adj. (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.
     2. adj. (of a place, etc) Without light.
     3. adj. (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.
     4. adj. (chiefly historical) Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.
           black drinking fountain; black hospital
     5. adj. (card games, of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red
           I got two red queens, he got one of the black queens.
     6. adj. Bad; evil; ill-omened.
     7. adj. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.
           He shot her a black look.
     8. adj. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.
     9. adj. (Ireland, informal) Overcrowded.
     10. adj. (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.
           Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer.
     11. adj. (board games, chess) Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' ac
           The black pieces in this chess set are made of dark blue glass.
     12. adj. (typography) Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white.
           Compare two Unicode symbols: , ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; , ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX
     13. adj. (politics) Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.
           After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance.
     14. adj. Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.
           5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects.
     15. adj. (Ireland, now pejorative) Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic
           Originally "the Black North" meant west Ulster
     16. adj. 1812, Edward Wakefield, "There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North,"
     17. adj. then Protestant east Ulster.1841 March 20 Catholic Herald (Bengal) Vol. 2 No. 1 p. 27 'Even in the "black North"—in " Protestant Ulster"—Catholicity is progessing at a rate that must strike terror in
     18. adj. Used in the vernacular name of a species to indicate that it has one or more features that is black or dark, especially in comparison to another species with the same base name.
           black birch, black locust, black rhino
     19. n. The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.
           (colour panel, 000)
     20. n. A black dye or pigment.
     21. n. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment.
     22. n. (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.
     23. n. (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.
     24. n. (billiards, snooker, pool, with the) The black ball.
     25. n. (baseball) The edge of home plate
     26. n. (British) A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
     27. n. (informal) Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).
     28. n. (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.
           At this point black makes a disastrous move.
     29. n. Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.
     30. n. (obsolete) A stain; a spot.
     31. v. To make black, to blacken.
     32. v. To apply blacking to something.
     33. v. (British) To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
português > inglês
preto
     1. adj. black; black in colour
           O tecido preto esquenta mais rapidamente. - Black cloth heats up more quickly.
     2. adj. (loosely) being the darkest of its kind
           pão preto - rye bread
           peças pretas de xadrez - black chess pieces
           nuvem preta - black cloud
     3. adj. (of a person usually offensive) black (dark-skinned)
           Uma mulher preta passou por aqui. - A black woman was here.
     4. adj. (idiomatic, of situations) bad; very adverse
           A coisa está preta. - The current situation is bad.
     5. n-m. the color black
           O preto é a mais escura das cores. - Black is the darkest colour.
     6. n-m. (usually offensive ethnic slur) a black person
           Uma preta passou por aqui. - A black woman was here.

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Exemplos

She has two cats. One is white and the other one is black.
    Ela tem dois gatos. Um é branco e o outro é preto.
One of the cats is black, the other is brown.
    Um dos gatos é preto, o outro é marrom.
"I'm just thinking about my wish," replied the little black rabbit.
    "Estou só pensando no meu desejo", respondeu o coelhinho preto.
So all you need is good cheese and a jar of black cherry jam.
    Assim, tudo o que você precisa é um bom queijo e um pote de geleia de cereja negra.
This car is black.
    Este carro é preto.



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