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Definitions: BLACKS |
BLACKSNoun plural1. Black garments, etc. See Black, n., 4. 2. Soot flying in the air. 3. The name of a kind of in used in copperplate printing, prepared from the charred husks of the grape, and residue of the wine press. |
Date "BLACKS" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1601. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Literature | Blacks Mutes at funerals, who wore a black cloak; sometimes called the Black Guards. "I do pray ye To give me leave to live a little longer. You stand about me like my Blacks." Beaumont and Fletcher: Mons. Thomas, iii. 1. Blacks (The ), or "The 7th Dragoon Guards," or "The Princess Royal's D. G" Called blacks from their facings. Nicknames: "The Virgin Mary's Guard," "Straw boots," "Lingoniers," etc. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: BLACKSSynonyms: African Americans, Afro-Americans, American Negroes, Black Americans, Ethnic groups in the U.S., Negroes. (additional references) |
Crosswords: BLACKS |
| English words defined with "BLACKS": Boots ♦ Charcoal blacks, Civil Rights movement, color, color bar, color line, colored, colored person, colour, colour bar, colour line, crescent-cell anaemia, crescent-cell anemia ♦ drepanocytic anaemia, drepanocytic anemia ♦ Jim Crow ♦ king ♦ Martin Luther King, Martin Luther King Jr. ♦ Negro spiritual ♦ people of color, people of colour, preponderance, prevalence ♦ sickle-cell anaemia, sickle-cell anemia, sickle-cell disease, spiritual. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "BLACKS": Black Horse ♦ noisy blacks ♦ Waltham Blacks. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | The Blacks were sold into slavery and the Indians almost wiped out. (The Tomorrow People; writing credit: Brian Finch) No Jews and no blacks. (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Damn the levies man Cowardly blacks! (Zulu; writing credit: John Prebble;) We're gonna put the word out how you tried to set up the blacks, Eddie. (Cagney & Lacey; writing credit: Sagar Sarhadi) I'm serious, this country is being ruined by the blacks and the Jews. (Sports Night; writing credit: Tom Brady; Kevin Falls) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Afro-Centrix Volume 44: Tattooed Blacks (1998) Gentlemen Prefer Blacks (1997) Bootylicious: DP Blacks (1995) Adventures of D.P. Boys 4: Blacks Are C*mming (1994) Best of Blacks (1990) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
 | Oregon Trailnear Blacks CreekLower Snake River District.Credit: W. Meyer. |  | Petroglyphs near Blacks CreekOregon TrailLower Snake River District.Credit: W. Meyer. |
 | Blacks Creek and Bonneville Point roadsOregon TrailLower Snake River District.Credit: W. Meyer. |  | Massacre of the Whites by the Indians and Blacks in Florida.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The "War of Races"--The conflict in Tennessee - the "Regulators" shooting Blacks near Trenton, in Gibson County / sketched by W. Webb Metz.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | White and blacks solve problems together on the Sherwood Eddy cotton cooperative of Hill House, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Sharecroppers' families gathering needs for their 4th of July celebration, whites and blacks together. Hill House, Mississippi.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Firmly support American Blacks in their righteous struggle!.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Rates are substantially higher among blacks and the elderly. (references) | |
But the asthma death rate and hospitalization rate for blacks are three times the rate of whites. (references) | ||
However, some studies suggest that it occurs more often in whites than in blacks and more often in females than in males. (references) | ||
Discrimination | Brazil | The International Labor Organization (ILO) notes that important differences in wages affect women and blacks, particularly in rural areas. (references) |
Economic History | South Africa | Blacks remained effectively disenfranchised. (references) |
South Africa | Many blacks also moved into the area to work in the mines. (references) | |
Human Rights | Brazil | The Secretariat also administers or sponsors programs to reduce violence among the poor, to train police officials in human rights practices, and to combat discrimination against blacks, women, children, indigenous people, the elderly, and the disabled. (references) |
Minorities | Panama | Blacks are conspicuously absent from positions of political and economic power. (references) |
Panama | Racism against blacks occurs, although it generally is expressed in more subtle terms. (references) | |
Political Economy | Panama | Discrimination against indigenous people, blacks, and ethnic minorities continued to be a problem. (references) |
Political Rights | Cuba | Although blacks and persons of African descent make up more than half the population, they only hold six seats in the Politburo. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Rush Limbaugh | I rolled John Fund appearing on Hardball with Chris Matthews, addressing Trent Lott leading an effort at Ole Miss to keep blacks out of the national fraternity. |
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Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | That a change in the relations in which a man is placed should change his ideas of moral right or wrong, is neither new, nor peculiar to the color of the blacks. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Despite our strides in civil rights, blacks, Hispanics, and all minorities will not have full and equal power until they have full economic power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "BLACKS" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 72.36% of the time. "BLACKS" is used about 1,381 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (plural) | 72.36% | 999 | 7,365 |
| Noun (proper) | 27.42% | 379 | 14,472 |
| Lexical Verb (-s form) | 0.22% | 3 | 202,518 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,381 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Country | Name |
| United Kingdom | Blacks Leisure Group Plc |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "BLACKS": Charcoal blacks ♦ he lives among the blacks ♦ noisy blacks. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "BLACKS": blacks-only. | |
Ending with "BLACKS": All-blacks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "BLACKS"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 黑色 (Black). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | sort støj (noisy blacks), sort forstyrrelser (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | ruis in het zwart (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | neekerit (Africans, coloured people, negroes). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | noir perturbé (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schwarzen. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανομοιομορφία μέλανος (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | katonai rendőrség (blacks and tans, military police). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | nero disturbato (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 검 (Black, Qualification). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | acksblay negro perturbado (noisy blacks). (various references) trãieşte printre negri (he lives among the blacks). (various references) negro perturbado (noisy blacks). (various references) ojämn svartnivå (noisy blacks). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "BLACKS": blacksmith, blacksmithing, blacksmithings, blacksmiths, blacksnake, blacksnakes. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "BLACKS": bootblacks, lampblacks, nonblacks, shoeblacks. (additional references) | |
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"BLACKS" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: backsi, blacka, blacke, blackl, blackw, blacky, Blancks, blax, blix, bracksy, Glafkos. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "BLACKS" (pronounced bla"ks) |
| 4 | -l a" k s | flax, lacks, lax, plaques, relax, slacks. |
| 3 | -a" k s | antitax, attacks, ax, axe, backs, cracks, fax, hacks, jacks, knacks, macks, Macs, Max, packs, pacs, Pax, pretax, quacks, racks, rax, sacks, sacs, sax, shacks, smacks, snacks, stacks, tacks, tax, tracks, wacks, wax, whacks. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-c-k-l-s" | |
-1 letter: backs, balks, black, calks, lacks, slack. | |
-2 letters: albs, back, balk, bals, bask, cabs, calk, cask, kabs, labs, lack, lacs, sack, scab, slab. | |
-3 letters: abs, alb, als, ask, bal, bas, cab, kab, kas, lab, lac, las, sab, sac, sal, ska. | |
-4 letters: ab, al, as, ba, ka, la. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-c-k-l-s" | |
+2 letters: backlash, backless, backlist, backlogs, backslap, backslid, bechalks, becloaks, blackens, blackest, blackish, scablike, slotback. | |
+3 letters: backfills, backflows, backhauls, backlands, backlists, backslaps, backslash, backslide, backtalks, baldricks, blackboys, blackcaps, blackfins, blackfish, blackgums, blackings, blacklegs, blacklist, blackness, blackouts, blacktops, blockades, blockages, blowbacks, bluejacks, bucktails, callbacks, clambakes, claybanks, fallbacks, flashback, fullbacks, halfbacks, holdbacks, kickballs, leaseback, nonblacks, playbacks, plowbacks, pullbacks, rollbacks, shellback, shockable, shoeblack, slotbacks, stackable, stickball, tailbacks. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)42 4C 41 43 4B 53 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-... .-.. .- -.-. -.- ... |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000010 01001100 01000001 01000011 01001011 01010011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)B L A C K S |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0042 004C 0041 0043 004B 0053 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)364635374553 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Quotations: Spoken 10. Quotations: Speeches 11. Usage Frequency 12. Names: Company Usage | 13. Expressions 14. Translations: Modern 15. Derivations 16. Rhymes | 17. Anagrams 18. Orthography 19. Bibliography |
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