The difference between Black and Pitch-black

When used as adjectives, black means absorbing all light and reflecting none, whereas pitch-black means very dark.

Black is also noun with the meaning: the colour/color perceived in the absence of light, but also when no light is reflected, but rather absorbed.

Black is also verb with the meaning: to make black, to blacken.

check bellow for the other definitions of Black and Pitch-black

  1. Black as an adjective (of an object):

    Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

  2. Black as an adjective (of a place, etc):

    Without light.

  3. Black as an adjective (sometimes [[capitalized]]):

    Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

  4. Black as an adjective (chiefly, historical):

    Designated for use by those ethnic groups which have dark pigmentation of the skin.

    Examples:

    "black drinking fountain; black hospital"

  5. Black as an adjective (card games, of a card):

    Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare

    Examples:

    "I was dealt two red queens, and he got one of the black queens."

  6. Black as an adjective:

    Bad; evil; ill-omened.

  7. Black as an adjective:

    Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.

    Examples:

    "He shot her a black look."

  8. Black as an adjective:

    Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

  9. Black as an adjective (Ireland, informal):

    Overcrowded.

  10. Black as an adjective (of [[coffee]] or [[tea]]):

    Without any cream, milk or creamer.

    Examples:

    "Jim drinks his coffee black, but Ellen prefers it with creamer."

  11. Black as an adjective (board games, chess):

    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) .

    Examples:

    "The black pieces in this [[chess set]] are made of [[dark]] [[blue]] [[glass]]."

  12. Black as an adjective (typography):

    Said of a symbol or character that is solid, filled with color. Compare .

    Examples:

    "Compare two Unicode symbols: mu ☞ = "WHITE RIGHT POINTING INDEX"; mu ☛ = BLACK RIGHT POINTING INDEX"

  13. Black as an adjective (politics):

    Related to the of Germany.

    Examples:

    "After the election, the parties united in a black-yellow alliance."

  14. Black as an adjective:

    Relating to an initiative whose existence or exact nature must remain withheld from the general public.

    Examples:

    "5 percent of the Defense Department funding will go to black projects."

  15. Black as an adjective (Ireland, now, pejorative):

    Protestant, often with the implication of being militantly pro-British or anti-Catholic

    Examples:

    "Originally "the Black North" meant west [[Ulster]],<ref> 1812, Edward Wakefield, [https://books.google.ie/books?id=P54TAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA737 ''An Account of Ireland, Statistical and Political'' Vol. 2 p. 737] "There is a district, comprehending Donegal, the interior of the county of Derry, and the western side of Tyrone, which is emphatically called by the people "the Black North," an expression not meant, as I conceive, to mark its greater exposure to the westerly winds, but rather its dreary aspect." </ref> then Protestant east Ulster. Compare also [[blackmouth]] ["[[Presbyterian]]"] and the [[w:Royal Black Institution Royal Black Institution]]."

  16. Black as an adjective:

    Examples:

    "[[black birch]], [[black locust]], [[black rhino]]"

  1. Black as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

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

    Examples:

    "colour pane000"

  2. Black as a noun (countable, and, uncountable):

    A black dye or pigment.

  3. Black as a noun (countable):

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

  4. Black as a noun (in the plural):

    Black cloth hung up at funerals.

  5. Black as a noun (sometimes capitalised, countable):

    A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.

  6. Black as a noun (billiards, snooker, pool, countable):

    The black ball.

  7. Black as a noun (baseball, countable):

    The edge of home plate.

  8. Black as a noun (British, countable):

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

  9. Black as a noun (informal, countable):

    Blackcurrant syrup (in mixed drinks, e.g. snakebite and black, cider and black).

  10. Black as a noun (in chess and similar games, countable):

    The person playing with the black set of pieces.

    Examples:

    "At this point black makes a disastrous move."

  11. Black as a noun (countable):

    Part of a thing which is distinguished from the rest by being black.

  12. Black as a noun (obsolete, countable):

    A stain; a spot.

  13. Black as a noun:

    A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

  1. Black as a verb:

    To make black, to blacken.

  2. Black as a verb:

    To apply blacking to something.

  3. Black as a verb (British):

    To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

  1. Pitch-black as an adjective:

    very dark; without light.

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