black and white
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- adjective
- /blæk ənd waɪt/
:
en blanco y negro
- The classic film was shot entirely in black and white, capturing the essence of the story without color distractions.
- black-and-white film
- black-and-white photograph
- black-and-white image
We've made a trilogy of shorts in black and white.
- We've made a trilogy of shorts in black and white.
- So if I flip over to black and white, it's going to give me a more true black and white look with more contrast.
- There is power saving mode that actually turns the screen black and white.
- Does it not make it go from black and white to five dimensional Technicolor?
- And we're told that there was a black and white playbook, but there's not.
Examples
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It's like going from black and white to color.
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Here it is, all in black and white.
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Most of this is in black and white and it's in French.
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That was the key, I had it all the time, right in front of me in black and white.
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Say, it was such fun at the time but I must say it looks awful in black and white.
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In one corner of the Turtle are several of her black and white prints.
Fiction book (1993) -
Mainly, they were just a collection of black and white stills from the old movies.
Fiction book (1995) -
I recall how we used to watch black and white movies together, and musicals were your favorite.
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The entire installation is in black and white: black marks on white backdrops.
Academic text (2008) -
But this year for fall, I'm seeing black and white trends everywhere and I'm loving them.
Synonyms
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2.5
An image, film, or pattern that uses only black, white and gray
Having only two colors or tones, for example black and white
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 comes from old photographs and films that showed only black, white and shades of gray because early cameras and printers could not make color. So it means 'not in color'.