The term is not usually used for black residents of other countries in the Americas.

author Debra Dickerson has argued that the term " black " should refer strictly to the descendents of Africans brought to America as slaves, and not the sons and daughters of black immigrants who lack that ancestry.

Similar viewpoints have been expressed by Stanley Crouch in a New York Daily News piece, Charles Steele, Jr. of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and African-American columnist David Ehrenstein of the LA Times who accused white liberals of flocking to blacks who were " Magic Negros ", a term that refers to a black person with no past who simply appears to assist the mainstream white ( as cultural protagonists / drivers ) agenda.

" She has also rejected an immigrant designation for African-Americans and instead prefers the term " black " or " white " to denote the African and European U. S. founding populations.

The term is rarely used by younger black people, but remained in use by many older black Americans who had grown up with the term, particularly in the southern U. S.

In English law, black letter law is a term used to describe those areas of law characterized by technical rules, rather than those areas of law characterized by having a more conceptual basis.

In common law, black letter legal doctrine is an informal term indicating the basic principles of law generally accepted by the courts and / or embodied in the statutes of a particular jurisdiction.

Being a monarchical state, with its roots invested in Colonial England, black letter law is that which is a term used to describe basic principles of law that are accepted by the majority of judges in most provinces and territories.

According to United Nation's Food and Agriculture Organization the term bean should include only species of Phaseolus ; however, a strict consensus definition has proven difficult because in the past, several species such as Vigna ( angularis ( azuki bean ), mungo ( black gram ), radiata ( mung bean ), aconitifolia ( moth bean )) were classified as Phaseolus and later reclassified.

The term black people is used in some socially-based systems of racial classification for humans of a dark-skinned phenotype, relative to other racial groups represented in a particular social context.

As a result, in North America, the term " black people " is not an indicator of skin color but of socially based racial classification related to being African American, with a history related to institutionalized slavery.

By that time, the majority of black people were U. S .- born, so use of the term " African " became problematic.

The term black was used throughout but not frequently as it carried a certain stigma.

Others have argued that " black " is a better term because " African " suggests foreignness, despite the long presence of black people in the US.

Still others believe the term black is inaccurate because African Americans have a variety of skin tones.

Since the late nineteenth century, the South used a colloquial term, the one-drop rule, to classify as black a person of any known African ancestry.

The term " black metal " was coined by the English band Venom with their second album Black Metal ( 1982 ).

Coal ( from the Old English term col, which has meant " mineral of fossilized carbon " since the 13th century ) is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock usually occurring in rock strata in layers or veins called coal beds By comparison in 2007, natural gas provided of oil equivalent per day, while oil provided per day.

" However, the meaning of this term is not certain as, in late seventeenth-century usage, the term negro would have been normally used, and the phrase " black Man " could mean either dark-skinned or black-haired.

In the lingo of the poker variation Texas Hold ' em, the hole cards Ace – King ( unsuited ) are sometimes referred to as an " Anna Kournikova ", a term introduced by the poker commentator Vince van Patten during a WPT tournament because it " looks great but never wins ".

This hole is termed the stop or diaphragm ; Abbe used the term aperture stop for both the hole and the limiting margin of the lens.

Several centuries later, in late Dark Age Europe, the term " firearm " was used in Old English to denote the arm in which the match was held that was used to light the touch hole on the hand cannon.

Bob Dole's tax-cut plan found itself under attack from the White House, who said it would " blow a hole in the deficit " which had been cut nearly in half during his opponent's term.

In turn, this leaves behind a localized positively-charged hole ( holes actually don't exist, the term is an abstraction for the location from which an electron was moved ; they have no charge in and of themselves ).

In Norwegian Nynorsk and Icelandic the Old Norse form has survived to this day ( in Icelandic only as a less used synonym to gluggi ), in Swedish the word vindöga remains as a term for a hole through the roof of a hut, and in the Danish language ‘ vindue ’ and Norwegian Bokmål ‘ vindu ’, the direct link to ‘ eye ’ is lost, just like for ' window '.

* Blind hole, a mechanical engineering term for a hole that does not come out at the other side

* 1967 — John Wheeler coins the term " black hole "

William Warde Fowler says these priests should have been concerned with lightningbolts, bidental being both the technical term for the puteal, the hole resembling a well left by strikes onto the ground and for the victims used to placate the god and purify the site.

An alternate meaning for the term electron hole is used in computational chemistry.

The term " blackhole " refers to a networking black hole, an expression for a link on a network that drops incoming traffic instead of forwarding it normally.

He contains within himself something called Skagganauk Abyss, which resembles a black hole, not a term in common use at the time.

The name ' Coober Pedy ' comes from the local Aboriginal term kupa-piti, which means ' white man's hole '.

This last usage can sometimes be confusing, because the term " flat-head " is also used to describe a screw with a flat top, designed to be installed in a countersunk hole.

Having done all they could in the short term to address the gaping hole in their front by sending light reconnaissance forces to cover the Caumont area until newly arriving divisions had assembled, the Germans turned their attention to their open left flank.

One infamous area of Ozone Park is known as " the hole " which is a term that is used for areas of Ozone Park where houses are below grade.

By the end of his term, the foreign debt had grown 1. 5 billion dollars larger, getting to 3. 8 billion dollars in the hole.

The term black hole was coined in 1967 during a talk he gave at the NASA Goddard Institute of Space Studies ( GISS ).

The term orbital drilling comes from that the cutting tool “ orbits ” around the hole center.

The term is usually understood to be an allusion to the camouflaged hole constructed by the trapdoor spider.

A DFP is known more commonly within United States Army slang as a " fighting position ", or the slang term " ranger grave ", within United States Marine Corps slang as a " fighting hole ", in Australian and New Zealand Army Corps ( ANZAC ) forces terminology as a " fighting pit ", in Australian Army terminology as a " Gun-Pit ", within the British and Canadian military argot as a " slit trench ", or simply — but less accurately — as a " trench ".

The term ' Lapita ' was coined by archaeologists after mishearing a word in the local Haveke language, xapeta ' a, which means ' to dig a hole ' or ' the place where one digs ', during the 1952 excavation in New Caledonia.