Difference between Black and Ebony

What is the difference between Black and Ebony?

Black as an adjective is absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and colourless. while Ebony as an adjective is made of ebony wood.

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: I'll always love the time I spent making 'Black and White.'

Ebony

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A hard, heavy, deep black wood from various subtropical and tropical trees, especially of the genus Diospyros.A tree that yields such wood.A deep, dark black colour.

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Made of ebony wood.A deep, dark black colour.

We hope you now know whether to use Black or Ebony in your sentence.

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