Black
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless. without light. Relating to persons of African descent or (especially in the US) their culture. Bad; evil. Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced. Overcrowded. Lacking cream, milk and creamer. The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the black set, no matter what the actual colour.
Part of speech: noun
Definition: The colour/color perceived in the absence of light. A black dye, pigment. A pen, pencil, crayon, etc., made of black pigment. A person of African descent. the black: The black ball. The edge of home plate a type of firecracker that is really more dark brown in colour.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make black, to blacken. To apply blacking to something. To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.
Example sentence: If everything isn't black and white, I say, 'Why the hell not?'
Dirty
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make (something) dirty.To stain or tarnish (somebody) with dishonor.To debase by distorting the real nature of (something).To become soiled.
Part of speech: adverb
Definition: In a dirty manner.
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Unclean; covered with or containing unpleasant substances such as dirt or grime.That makes one unclean; corrupting, infecting.Morally unclean; obscene or indecent, especially sexually.Dishonourable; violating accepted standards or rules.Corrupt, illegal, or improper.Out of tune.Of color, discolored by impurities.Containing data which need to be written back to a larger memory.Carrying illegal drugs.
Example sentence: A dark house is always an unhealthy house, always an ill-aired house, always a dirty house. Want of light stops growth and promotes scrofula, rickets, etc., among the children. People lose their health in a dark house, and if they get ill, they cannot get well again in it.