la oveja negra de la familia

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: noun

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

Definition: A black dye or pigment.

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

Definition: (in the plural) Black cloth hung up at funerals.

Definition: (sometimes capitalised) A person of African, Aborigine, or Maori descent; a dark-skinned person.

Definition: Blackness, the condition of having dark skin.

Definition: The black ball.

Definition: The edge of home plate.

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

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

Definition: (in chess and similar games) The person playing with the black set of pieces.

Example: At this point black makes a disastrous move.

Definition: Something, or a part of a thing, which is black.

Definition: A stain; a spot.

Definition: A dark smut fungus, harmful to wheat.

Definition: Marijuana.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To make black; to blacken.

Definition: To apply blacking to (something).

Definition: To boycott, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Phonetic: "/blak/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: (of an object) Absorbing all light and reflecting none; dark and hueless.

Definition: (of a place, etc) Without light.

Definition: (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin.

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

Example: black drinking fountain; black hospital

Definition: (of a card) Of the spades or clubs suits. Compare red

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

Definition: Bad; evil; ill-omened.

Definition: Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen.

Example: He shot her a black look.

Definition: (of objects, markets, etc) Illegitimate, illegal or disgraced.

Definition: Overcrowded.

Definition: (of coffee or tea) Without any cream, milk or creamer.

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

Definition: 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) (often regardless of the pieces' actual colour).

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

Definition: Related to the Christian Democratic Union of Germany.

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

Definition: Clandestine; relating to a political, military, or espionage operation or site, the existence or details of which is withheld from the general public.

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

Definition: Occult; relating to something (such as mystical or magical knowledge) which is unknown to or kept secret from the general public.

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

Definition: Having one or more features (hair, fur, armour, clothes, bark, etc) that is dark (or black); in taxonomy, especially: dark in comparison to another species with the same base name.

Definition: Foul; dirty.

Phonetic: "/ʃiːp/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A woolly ruminant of the genus Ovis.

Definition: A timid, shy person who is easily led by others.

Definition: (chiefly plural) A religious adherent, a member of a congregation or religious community (compare flock).

Definition: Sheepskin leather.

Definition: (speech recognition) A person who is easily understood by a speech recognition system; contrasted with goat.

Phonetic: "/ɔv/"

Part Of Speech: preposition

Definition: Expressing distance or motion.

Definition: Expressing separation.

Definition: Expressing origin.

Definition: Expressing agency.

Definition: Expressing composition, substance.

Definition: Introducing subject matter.

Definition: Having partitive effect.

Definition: Expressing possession.

Definition: Forming the "objective genitive".

Definition: Expressing qualities or characteristics.

Definition: Expressing a point in time.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A group of people who are closely related to one another (by blood, marriage or adoption); kin; for example, a set of parents and their children; an immediate family.

Example: Our family lives in town.

Definition: An extended family; a group of people who are related to one another by blood or marriage.

Example: 1915, William T. Groves, A History and Genealogy of the Groves Family in America

Definition: A (close-knit) group of people related by blood, friendship, marriage, law, or custom, especially if they live or work together.

Example: Our company is one big happy family.

Definition: Lineage, especially an honorable one

Definition: A rank in the classification of organisms, below order and above genus; a taxon at that rank.

Example: Magnolias belong to the family Magnoliaceae.

Definition: Any group or aggregation of things classed together as kindred or related from possessing in common characteristics which distinguish them from other things of the same order.

Example: Doliracetam is a drug from the racetam family.

Definition: A group of instruments having the same basic method of tone production.

Example: the brass family;  the violin family

Definition: A group of languages believed to have descended from the same ancestral language.

Example: the Indo-European language family;  the Afroasiatic language family

Definition: Used attributively.

Example: For Apocynaceae, this type of flower is a family characteristic.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Suitable for children and adults.

Example: It's not good for a date, it's a family restaurant.

Definition: Conservative, traditional.

Example: The cultural struggle is for the survival of family values against all manner of atheistic amorality.

Definition: Homosexual.

Example: I knew he was family when I first met him.

Phonetic: "/ˈfɛm(ɘ)li/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: A person belonging to a particular family; a close relative or relation.