black and white en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- (Australia) audio
Etymology
The police car sense reflects a traditional livery scheme for such cars.
Meanings
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(qualifier:literal; strictly; literal; strictly) Of art, a photograph or photography, using dots or lines that are either black or white (with no other values involved).
Using Adobe Photoshop, he opened the images that were grayscale and converted them to be black and white.
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(broadly, qualifier:literal) Of art, a photograph or photography, using shades of grey rather than shades of any other color.
Their photos from that era are all black and white.
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Of a television or monitor, displaying images in shades of grey rather than color.
The second segment is one of the most audacious and ambitious in “Treehouse Of Horror” history, and not just because it’s in black and white. It’s a parody of King Kong that works spectacularly well because Homer isn’t just ape-like and simian on the inside: he’s ape-like and simian on the outside as well, so it’s not too much of a stretch to imagine the rage-filled man-child as a giant ape with serious anger-control issues.
2012 April 29, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Treehouse of Horror III” (season 4, episode 5; originally aired 10/29/1992)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name):
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Classifying people, objects or concepts as two polar opposites, especially "right" and "wrong"; dichotomous and inflexible.
“It's complicated. Not everything is black-and-white, Ginny. Sometimes, it's just gray.” The disillusionment in Ginny's eyes hurt bone-deep. She was a black-and-white kind of person. Actions were either right or wrong. No room for in-betweens.
2011, Sandra Orchard, Deep Cover, Harlequin, →ISBN, page 144:I wish she weren't always so black and white about every single thing.
You could say that inflexible thinking is black-and-white thinking and flexible thinking is rainbow thinking. Black-and-white thinkers have difficulty being flexible in their mind and seeing different possibilities and perspectives.
2011, Aileen Zeitz Collucci, Big Picture Thinking: Using Central Coherence Theory to Support Social Skills : a Book for Students, AAPC Publishing, →ISBN, page 82:The pseudo-community of enemies in The Day the Earth Stood Still consists of politicians, the military, and businessmen, whereas the pseudo-community of friends, the element that complements the enemies and reinforces the black-and-white morality of paranoia (Cameron, "Revisited" 56), is composed of scientists, women, and children.
1999, Cynthia Hendershot, Paranoia, the Bomb, and 1950s Science Fiction Films, Popular Press, →ISBN, page 28:2008, Linus Torvalds, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140805134937/http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/706950 Re: [stable] Linux 2.6.25.10], LKML; quoted in: Bezpieczeństwo, Jacek Popławski, pl.comp.os.advocacy, Usenet Security people are often the black-and-white kind of people that I can't stand.
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Easily divided into diametrically opposing categories.
Near-synonym: night-and-day
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more black and white | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| black-and-white | alternative | lexicographic | |
| most black and white | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |
Coordinates
color · greyscale · color · colour · monochrome · colour · grayscale · color · colour
Synonyms
grayscale · greyscale · night-and-day · monochrome
Translations (2)
fi mustavalkoinen (clear cut) · pl czarno na białym (clear cut)