black and white
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3.1
- noun
- /blæk ənd waɪt/
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fotografía en blanco y negro
- And it's a black and white photo of Chris.
- a black and white photo
- a black and white photograph
- a black and white film
Examples
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Along with them, the black and white photo of young Early and his mother.
Fiction book (1993) -
Or shooting my first role of black and white film in Paris.
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But there it was, in black and white.
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Big name in black and white films.
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Great horror movies are in black and white.
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Past members are also represented, with another 30 black and white prints, some dating back to the 1950s.
Academic text (2000) -
Jordan added to this sound work a photographic montage, a black and white silent film, as she called it.
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I click one button, a hundred newsmen will read your name alongside Sam Lancaster's in black and white.
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"Inevitably, there is a pause, and then the description begins: "It's a black-and-white photograph of a man.
Academic text (2008) -
This black and white photograph captures the beauty of the landscape at dawn.
Synonyms
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2.5
An image, film, or pattern that uses only black, white and gray
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6.3
A picture made using only one color or its different shades
Antonyms
How Colorful
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'a photo produced in shades of black, white, and gray' is directly and compositionally derived from the constituents 'black' + 'and' + 'white'—the words literally describe the colours present in the image. This descriptive, cross-linguistically common pattern follows basic adjective coordination and is immediately comprehensible to a B1 learner who knows the component words.
Etymology
Black and white originally named a picture or film made only with black, white and gray tones, like the old movies and photos before color was possible. That's why a 'black and white' is 'a picture without color'.