black vs open

black

adj
  • Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public. 

  • Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless. 

  • Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany. 

  • Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red (“of the hearts or diamonds suit”) 

  • Foul; dirty, soiled. 

  • Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public. 

  • Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare white (“said of a character or symbol outline, not filled with color”). 

  • Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen. 

  • Without any cream, milk, or creamer. 

  • Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name. 

  • Belonging to or descended from any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes below.) 

  • Bad; evil; ill-omened. 

  • Of or relating to the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the "black" set (in chess the set used by the player who moves second) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour). 

  • Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. 

  • Belonging to or descended from any of various sub-Saharan African ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. 

  • Anarchist; of or pertaining to anarchism. 

  • Overcrowded. 

  • Designated for use by those ethnic groups (as described above). 

  • Without light. 

  • Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic. (Compare blackmouth ("Presbyterian").) 

noun
  • Blackness, the condition of belonging to or being descended from one of these ethnic groups. 

  • The edge of home plate. 

  • A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. 

  • The black ball. 

  • The colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed. 

  • A black dye or pigment. 

  • A member of descendant of any of various (African, Aboriginal, etc) ethnic groups which typically have dark pigmentation of the skin. (See usage notes.) 

  • A type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour. 

  • The person playing with the black set of pieces. 

  • Something, or a part of a thing, which is black. 

  • Marijuana. 

  • A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat. 

  • Black cloth hung up at funerals. 

verb
  • To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute. 

  • To make black; to blacken. 

  • To apply blacking to (something). 

open

adj
  • Public 

  • Not fulfilled. 

  • Made public, usable with a free licence and without proprietary components. 

  • Having a free variable. 

  • Having component words separated by spaces, as opposed to being joined together or hyphenated; for example, time slot as opposed to timeslot or time-slot. 

  • Mild (of the weather); free from frost or snow. 

  • With open access, of open science, or both. 

  • Candid, ingenuous, not subtle in character. 

  • Resulting from an incision, puncture or any other process by which the skin no longer protects an internal part of the body. 

  • In current use; mapped to part of memory. 

  • Of a note, played without pressing the string against the fingerboard. 

  • Actively conducting or prepared to conduct business. 

  • Able to have something pass through or along it. 

  • not covered, showing what is inside 

  • To be in a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • Uttered, as a consonant, with the oral passage simply narrowed without closure. 

  • Source code of a computer program that is not within the text of a macro being generated. 

  • To be in a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • Of a note, played without closing any finger-hole, key or valve. 

  • Able to be accessed (physically). 

  • Uttered with a relatively wide opening of the articulating organs; said of vowels. 

  • That ends in a vowel; not having a coda. 

  • Not physically drawn together, closed, folded or contracted; extended. 

  • Receptive. 

  • Which is part of a predefined collection of subsets of X, that defines a topological space on X. 

  • Written or sent with the intention that it may made public or referred to at any trial, rather than by way of confidential private negotiation for a settlement. 

  • Not settled or adjusted; not decided or determined; not closed or withdrawn from consideration. 

  • Not of a quality to prevent communication, as by closing waterways, blocking roads, etc.; hence, not frosty or inclement; mild; used of the weather or the climate. 

  • Whose first and last vertices are different. 

noun
  • Open or unobstructed space; an exposed location. 

  • Public knowledge or scrutiny; full view. 

  • The act of something being opened, such as an e-mail message. 

  • A defect in an electrical circuit preventing current from flowing. 

  • A sports event in which anybody can compete. 

verb
  • To move to a position allowing fluid to flow. 

  • To bring up, broach. 

  • To make accessible to customers or clients. 

  • To bet before any other player has in a particular betting round in a game of poker. 

  • To spread; to expand into an open or loose position. 

  • To move to a position preventing electricity from flowing. 

  • To become open. 

  • To make something accessible or allow for passage by moving from a shut position. 

  • To enter upon, begin. 

  • To turn on; to switch on. 

  • To make (an open space, etc.) by clearing away an obstacle or obstacles, in order to allow for passage, access, or visibility. 

  • To begin a side's innings as one of the first two batsmen. 

  • To make (a bed) ready for a patient by folding back the bedcovers. 

  • To start (a campaign). 

  • To begin conducting business. 

  • To reveal one's hand. 

  • To load into memory for viewing or editing. 

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