What part of speech is blacking?

Blacking can be categorized as a noun and a verb.

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Parts of speech

  • 1. blacking is a verb, gerund of black (infinitive).
  • 2. blacking is a noun, singular of blackings.

Inflections

Verb

Noun

What does blacking mean?

Definitions

Verb

black - To make black, to blacken.
black - To apply blacking to something.
black - To boycott something or someone, usually as part of an industrial dispute.

Noun

blacking - a substance used to produce a shiny protective surface on footwear

Examples of blacking

#   Sentence  
1. verb What's the point of blacking the user's name out if the tweet in question is very easy to find?
2. noun The widow wore black.
3. noun In the black of night.
4. noun Create a new layer and fill the later with black.
5. noun The fish is burnt black.
6. noun The widow was dressed in black.
7. noun This ought to bring in enough money to put us back in the black.
8. noun That publishing company is in the black.
9. noun I have two dogs. One is white and the other black.
10. noun I'll take my coffee black.
11. noun The pot can't call the kettle black.
12. noun In reality black is not a color; it is the absence of color.
13. noun The pot calls the kettle black.
14. noun He was dressed in black.
15. noun I don't know whether she likes her coffee black.
16. noun She is always dressed in black.
17. adj. A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
18. adj. Black leather jackets.
19. adj. As black as coal.
20. adj. Rich black soil.
21. adj. A black moonless night.
22. adj. Through the pitch-black woods.
23. adj. With feet black from playing outdoors.
24. adj. His shirt was black within an hour.
25. adj. The stock market crashed on Black Friday.
26. adj. Black deeds.
27. adj. A black lie.
28. adj. His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
29. adj. The future looked black.
30. adj. Black humor.
31. adj. Black looks.
Sentence  
verb
What's the point of blacking the user's name out if the tweet in question is very easy to find?
noun
The widow wore black.
In the black of night.
Create a new layer and fill the later with black.
The fish is burnt black.
The widow was dressed in black.
This ought to bring in enough money to put us back in the black.
That publishing company is in the black.
I have two dogs. One is white and the other black.
I'll take my coffee black.
The pot can't call the kettle black.
In reality black is not a color; it is the absence of color.
The pot calls the kettle black.
He was dressed in black.
I don't know whether she likes her coffee black.
She is always dressed in black.
adj.
A great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization.
Black leather jackets.
As black as coal.
Rich black soil.
A black moonless night.
Through the pitch-black woods.
With feet black from playing outdoors.
His shirt was black within an hour.
The stock market crashed on Black Friday.
Black deeds.
A black lie.
His black heart has concocted yet another black deed.
The future looked black.
Black humor.
Black looks.

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