'black-and-white' definitions:
Definition of 'black-and-white'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Lacking hue or shades of grey; part white and part black; "a black-and-white cow"; "black-and-white blooms"; "black-and-white stripes"
adjective
Not having or not capable of producing colors; "black-and- white film"; "a black-and-white TV"; "the movie was in black and white" [syn: black-and-white, black and white(p)] [ant: color, colour]
adjective
Of a situation that is sharply divided into mutually exclusive categories; "he rejected a black-and-white world"; "there are no black-and-white certainties"; "there were no grey areas, you were either for him or against him, he was all black-and-white"
Definition of 'black-and-white'
From: GCIDE
- black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\n. print or writing, especially the result of the printing process.
- Syn: print. [WordNet 1.5] black-and-white
Definition of 'black-and-white'
From: GCIDE
- black-and-white \black-and-white\, black and white \black and white\adj. (Photography, Imaging; Printing) depicted only in black and white colors, or in shades of gray; also called monochromatic and monochrome; -- of images. Opposite of color or in color, and contrasting with polychrome technicolor three-color; as, a black-and-white TV; black-and-white film; the movie "Schindler's List" was shot in black and white.
- Syn: black and white, monochromatic, monochrome. [WordNet 1.5]