BLACK AND WHITE meaning: Absence and presence of light

We found 30 dictionaries that define the word black and white:

General (21 matching dictionaries)

black-and-white, black and white: Merriam-Webster
black and white: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
black-and-white, black and white: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
black-and-white, black-and-white, black and white: Collins English Dictionary
black-and-white, black and white: Vocabulary.com
black-and-white, black and white: Wordnik
black-and-white, black and white: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
black-and-white, black and white: Wiktionary
black and white: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
black and white: Infoplease Dictionary
Black and white, black-and-white, black and white: Dictionary.com
black-and-white: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Black and White (BoDeans album), Black and White (Dennis Miller), Black and White (Kylie Minogue song), Black and White (Kylie and Garibay song), Black and White (Static-X song), Black and White (The Stranglers album), Black and White (Three Dog Night song), Black and White (Tony Joe White album), Black and White (audio play), Black and White (ballet), Black and White (film), Black and White (magazine), Black and White (novel), Black and White (picture book), Black and White (soundtrack), Black and White, Black-and-white, Black and white (disambiguation), Black and white (police vehicle), Black and white (slang), Black and white (video game), Black and white: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
black-and-white, black and white: Rhymezone
BLACK AND WHITE: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
black-and-white, black and white: FreeDictionary.org
black-and-white, black and white: Mnemonic Dictionary
black-and-white, black and white: TheFreeDictionary.com
black and white: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (3 matching dictionaries)

black and white: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
Movie Terminology Glossary (No longer online)
ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

black-and-white, black and white: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

black-and-white, black and white: Idioms

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)

black and white, black and white: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
Black and white: Street Terms: Drugs and the Drug Trade
black-and-white, black and white: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

PhotoNotes Dictionary of Film and Digital Photography (No longer online)

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Google, News, Images, Wikipedia, Reddit, BlueSky

Definitions from Wiktionary (black and white)

▸ noun:  (US, slang, law enforcement) A police patrol car.
▸ noun:  (US, slang, by extension) The police, a police officer or the clothing they wear.
▸ noun:  A type of giant cookie (about 8 inches diameter) with icing on the top side: half white, half dark chocolate.
▸ adjective:  (figuratively, idiomatic) Easily divided into diametrically opposing camps or schools of thought.
▸ adjective:  Alternative form of black-and-white (of an image, a video, etc: in black, white, and perhaps shades of grey, rather than in colour) [Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.]

Opposite:

color

Types:

zebra, panda, skunk, penguin, panther, leopard, more...

Phrases:

in black and white, black and white colobus, black and white television, black and white warbler, black and white village, more...

Adjectives:

jake, smokey, serial, bear, one-time, copper, barney, blue, white-shoe, peddling

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