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river 500 miles (805 kilometers) long in southeastern Asia rising in central Yunnan, China, and flowing southeast to the Red River in northern Vietnam
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Synonyms & Antonyms for black
Synonyms: Adjective
ebony, pitch-black, pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, sable
Synonyms: Noun
blackness, candlelight, dark, darkness, dusk, gloaming, gloom, murk, night, semidarkness, shade, shadows, twilight, umbra
Antonyms: Adjective
Antonyms: Noun
blaze, brightness, brilliance, day, daylight, glare, glow, light, lightness
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Examples of black in a Sentence
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a little black dress blends into the night very wellNoun
The wall was painted in black. a mixture of grays and blacks She was dressed in black.Verb
He blacked his boots with polish. Labor union members have blacked the company.
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In California, these range from black-tie galas with lunar astronauts in attendance to blowout parties at NASA facilities to family-friendly educational events focused on our lunar satellite. — Valerie Stimac, SFChronicle.com, "5 ways to celebrate the Apollo 11 anniversary in California," 12 July 2019 Baffled Southern whites predicted black homesteaders would fail and return to plantation labor. — Charles Lane, WSJ, "Five Best: Charles Lane on Reconstruction and Its Consequences," 12 July 2019 In 1967, rioting erupted in Newark, N.J., over the police beating of a black taxi driver; 26 people were killed in the five days of violence that followed. — BostonGlobe.com, "This day in history," 12 July 2019 Anglin also faces a possible default judgment in another case involving a troll storm against the first female black student government president at American University. — Mallory Simon, CNN, "Jewish woman tells court how followers of a neo-Nazi targeted her," 12 July 2019 Best Lion Queen Looks: Beyoncé, Marsai Martin, and Yara Shahidi The Lion King premiere was full of black girl magic. — Sara Radin, Teen Vogue, "From The Lion King Premiere to the Women's Soccer Team, This Week Was FULL of Good Celeb Looks," 12 July 2019 In an interview with cleveland.com, McShepard said Cleveland might never have elected an African American as mayor of a unified government because the merger of Cleveland and Cuyahoga County would have diluted the black vote. — Peter Krouse, cleveland.com, "What might be different today if Cleveland and Cuyahoga County had merged decades ago? Cleveland 2030, A Way Forward," 12 July 2019 Did black children suffer at substandard public schools? — Nr Editors, National Review, "The Week," 11 July 2019 Near the entrance to the facility, five or six black vultures brunched on roadkill. — Mark Dent, WIRED, "The Hard-Luck Texas Town That Bet on Bitcoin—and Lost," 11 July 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Noun
White males, 18 to 34, are the most likely to see disco as the product of homosexuals, blacks and Latins. — Joe Lapointe, Detroit Free Press, "40 years ago, Disco Demolition Night stirred culture war still being fought," 12 July 2019 While the American memory of the Space Race is most often filtered through black-and-white photos of white men on the moon, NASA’s reality was Technicolor. — Rachel Hatzipanagos, Washington Post, "‘A citizen of the world’: NASA’s first Latino astronaut reflects on how space changed his immigrant identity," 12 July 2019 Showy Damascus steel with swirling patterns of black and silver, glimmering handles fashioned from mother of pearl. — Paul Stephen, ExpressNews.com, "Our guide to knives will give you an edge in the kitchen," 10 July 2019 Cedrick is black and has brown eyes and black braided hair. — Dallas News, "Amber Alert issued for toddler who may have been abducted from Lake Highlands home," 10 July 2019 City leaders justifying segregation also pointed to fears of fights breaking out if whites and blacks mingled. — Victoria W. Wolcott, The Conversation, "The forgotten history of segregated swimming pools and amusement parks," 9 July 2019 Dressed in blacks and greys, the group looks incredibly regal, including Queen Beyoncé who stars as the voice of Nala. — Lisa Respers France, CNN, "Be prepared for the 'Lion King' cast photo," 8 July 2019 One study found that black and Latinx students in the United States left STEM majors in college at a higher rate than their white peers. — Brittney Mcnamara, Teen Vogue, "The First Black Woman to Earn a Physics PhD From University of Glasgow Just Graduated," 3 July 2019 This week, my selections feel like a balance of strong color and black-and-white images. — Kristen Mcnicholas, National Geographic, "Your best photos of the week, June 28, 2019," 28 June 2019Recent Examples on the Web: Verb
Reddington recalled blacking in and out as someone called 911 for help. — Katherine Lam, Fox News, "Man accidentally shot by FBI agent in a Denver nightclub recalls bizarre incident," 10 June 2018 Reddington recalled blacking in and out as someone called 911 for help. — Katherine Lam, Fox News, "Man accidentally shot by FBI agent in a Denver nightclub recalls bizarre incident," 10 June 2018 Reddington recalled blacking in and out as someone called 911 for help. — Katherine Lam, Fox News, "Man accidentally shot by FBI agent in a Denver nightclub recalls bizarre incident," 10 June 2018 The collection is available in a range of three materials in Dell’Acqua's go-to pink and black, as well as Tod’s signature brown leather. — Isabel Greenberg, Harper's BAZAAR, "Tod’s Is Launching Their First Factory Capsule Collection with Alessandro Dell’Acqua," 19 Nov. 2018 Reddington recalled blacking in and out as someone called 911 for help. — Katherine Lam, Fox News, "Man accidentally shot by FBI agent in a Denver nightclub recalls bizarre incident," 10 June 2018 Reddington recalled blacking in and out as someone called 911 for help. — Katherine Lam, Fox News, "Man accidentally shot by FBI agent in a Denver nightclub recalls bizarre incident," 10 June 2018 Instead, Giuliani deflects to black-on-black crime. — Jeneé Osterheldt, kansascity, "Turn our anger into change," 25 Nov. 2014 In other words, will black and brown doulas be displaced? — Danielle Jackson, Longreads, "A Frustrating Year of Reporting on Black Maternal Health," 14 June 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'black.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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nounFinancial Definition of black
What It Is
Black is slang for profit. Profit, also called net income, is the amount remaining after all costs, depreciation, interest, taxes, and other expenses have been deducted from total sales. Profit is also referred to as the bottom line, net profit, or net earnings. The formula for profit is:
Total Sales - Total Expenses = Profit
Note that preferred stock dividends are typically included in the traditional net income calculation, but common stock dividends are not.
How It Works
Here is some information about Company XYZ for last year:
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Using the formula and the information above, we can calculate that Company XYZ's profit was:
$1,000,000 - $500,000 - $300,000 - $100,000 - $5,000 + $1,000 - $10,000 - $10,000 = $76,000
This means that Company XYZ made $76,000 of profit last year. It was “in the black.”
Why It Matters
Philosophically speaking, being in the black is what motivates industry, entrepreneurship, and innovation. It is the very thing that enables people to feed themselves, clothe their families, create jobs, and set money aside for the future. It is not a vice, but rather an incentive to dream, take risks, and try harder. As Adam Smith, the founder of modern economics, put it, "It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we can expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest.”
In the retail industry, companies often don’t become profitable until the fourth quarter, when Christmas shopping begins. This is the source of the term “Black Friday.”
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