the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"
a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
a member of the Caucasoid race
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
United States architect (1853-1906)
United States political journalist (1915-1986)
Australian writer (1912-1990)
United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"
being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
(of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
(of coffee) having cream or milk added
benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"
domesticated bovine animals as a group regardless of sex or age; "so many head of cattle"; "wait till the cows come home"; "seven thin and ill-favored kine"- Bible; "a team of oxen"
black clothing (worn as a sign of mourning); "the widow wore black"
(board games) the darker pieces
the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white)
a person with dark skin who comes from Africa (or whose ancestors came from Africa)
popular child actress of the 1930's (born in 1928)
British chemist who identified carbon dioxide and who formulated the concepts of specific heat and latent heat (1728-1799)
marked by anger or resentment or hostility; "black looks"; "black words"
of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr.
extremely dark; "a black moonless night"; "through the pitch-black woods"; "it was pitch-dark in the cellar"
being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil"
(of the face) made black especially as with suffused blood; "a face black with fury"
soiled with dirt or soot; "with feet black from playing outdoors"; "his shirt was black within an hour"
dressed in black; "a black knight"; "black friars"
(of coffee) without cream or sugar
(of events) having extremely unfortunate or dire consequences; bringing ruin; "the stock market crashed on Black Friday"; "a calamitous defeat"; "the battle was a disastrous end to a disastrous campaign"; "such doctrines, if true, would be absolutely fatal to my theory"- Charles Darwin; "it is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it"- Douglas MacArthur; "a fateful error"
stemming from evil characteristics or forces; wicked or dishonorable; "black deeds"; "a black lie"; "his black heart has concocted yet another black deed"; "Darth Vader of the dark side"; "a dark purpose"; "dark undercurrents of ethnic hostility"; "the scheme of some sinister intelligence bent on punishing him"-Thomas Hardy
(used of conduct or character) deserving or bringing disgrace or shame; "Man...has written one of his blackest records as a destroyer on the oceanic islands"- Rachel Carson; "an ignominious retreat"; "inglorious defeat"; "an opprobrious monument to human greed"; "a shameful display of cowardice"
offering little or no hope; "the future looked black"; "prospects were bleak"; "Life in the Aran Islands has always been bleak and difficult"- J.M.Synge; "took a dim view of things"
film consisting of a succession of related shots that develop a given subject in a movie
a following of one thing after another in time; "the doctor saw a sequence of patients"
several repetitions of a melodic phrase in different keys
serial arrangement in which things follow in logical order or a recurrent pattern; "the sequence of names was alphabetical"; "he invented a technique to determine the sequence of base pairs in DNA"
arrange in a sequence
determine the order of constituents in; "They sequenced the human genome"