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| Inglês | Português |
black as night,
as black as night adj | (black in color) | negro como a noite loc adj |
| The cat's fur was black as night. |
| O pelo do gato era negro como a noite. |
| black bear n | (American mammal) | urso-negro sm |
| Black bears are smaller than Grizzly or Polar bears. |
| black bear n | (Asian mammal) (asiático) | urso-negro-asiático sm |
| black gold | figurative (oil) | ouro negro n |
| black hole n | (space: area with strong gravity) | buraco negro sm |
| A black hole has strong gravitational pull. |
| black hole n | figurative (place, etc. where sth disappears) (figurado: vazio) | buraco negro sm |
| This closet is a black hole for shirts! I can never find the one I need. |
black humor (US),
black humour (UK) n | uncountable (morbid comedy) | humor negro loc sm |
| black market n | (illegal trade) | mercado negro sm |
| Although it's illegal, many people buy merchandise on the black market. |
| Official economic statistics do not take into account the black market economy. |
| blackboard n | (school chalkboard) | quadro-negro, quadro-de-giz sm |
| (escola) | quadro sm |
| lousa sf |
| Someone scrawled obscenities all over the blackboard. |
| BM n | US, initialism (black male) | homem negro sm |
| bottomless pit n | informal, figurative (thing: absorbs money, effort) (figurado) | saco sem fundo expres |
| (figurado) | buraco negro sm |
| chalkboard n | (blackboard) | lousa sf |
| quadro-negro sm |
| There's no worse sound than that of fingernails on a chalkboard. |
| dark comedy n | (black humour, macabre comedy) | humor negro loc sm |
| The play was a dark comedy filled with deliciously macabre characters. |
| fish crow n | (black bird) | corvo-negro sm |
| The fish crow is smaller than the American crow, with a higher-pitched caw. |
gallows humor (US),
gallows humour (UK) n | (macabre jokes) | humor negro loc n |
| humor mórbido loc n |
| The medical examiner relies on gallows humor to deal with the nature of her work. |
| A examinadora médica se fia no humor negro para lidar com a natureza do trabalho dela. |
gray market (US),
grey market (UK) n | figurative (unauthorized trading) | mercado negro n |
| The company's shares were traded on the grey market before they were issued in an initial public offering. |
| Os títulos da companhia foram negociados no mercado negro antes de serem emitidos numa oferta pública inicial. |
| henbane n | (European plant: poisonous) (botânica) | meimendro negro sm+adj |
| lampblack n | (carbon used as a pigment) | negro de fumo sm + prep + sm |
negritude,
Negritude n | uncountable (black African cultural movement) | movimento cultural negro africano loc sm |
negritude,
Negritude n | uncountable (fact, condition of being black) | condição de negro loc sf |
| underbelly n | figurative (hidden side of sth) | lado negro loc sm |
| ponto cego loc sm |
| The documentary exposes the sordid underbelly of life in the city. |
| whiteboard n | (classroom, etc.: erasable board) | quadro branco sm |
| quadro negro sm |
| (BRA) | lousa sf |
| Remember to clean the whiteboard at the end of each lesson. |
