oscuro
black ; dark ; darkling ; dim ; obscure ; murky ; dusky ; shadowy ; blacked-out.
Thoughts of this sort kept running about like clockwork mice in his head, while the murmur of chatter filled the room and outside dusk had yielded to black night.
Input fields for passwords be dark to prevent other close the terminal from seeing, and perhaps copying the input.
I surmise that Slake will start in the hard-edged reality of modern urban life before sliding ineluctably into the darkling land of Hereafter.
The genesis of this brave new world of solid state logic, in which bibliographic data are reduced to phantasmagoria on the faces of cathode-ray tubes (CRT), extends at most only three-quarters of a decade into the dim past.
Examples are generally poor or obscure (often in Latin or German).
There are extraordinary uncertainties in the murky future of higher education and to change the character of our library at this stage would be too extreme a measure.
The film centers on a non-white secretary who believes that her dusky kin and non-Nordic features prevent her boss from returning her affections.
It was there that my husband about jumped out of his skin when he saw a shadowy figure suddenly dart out of the kitchen.
Government officials and corporate executives are frequently to be seen in the back seat of a chauffeured car - unless it has blacked-out windows.
a oscuras
in the dark
in darkness
If you run in the dark, you can increase your chances of avoiding an accident by wearing clothing that makes you more visible.
Forever, they walked and worked in darkness, hiding from the light in the darkness of night.
azul oscuro
deep blue
dark blue
They wore field dress uniforms, which were deep blue with red woolen collars, cuffs, and lapels and coattails lined in white.
Actually, they are sheets of paper coated with aniline dye which is commonly dark blue or purple, although rainbow packs are obtainable which include red, blue, green, yellow, brown and black.
callejón oscuro
dark alley
English, on the other hand, has been accused of waylaying other languages in dark alleys and rifling their pockets for loose vocabulary.
claroscuro
light-and-shade
Three-dimensional watermarks gave a light-and-shade effect in the paper.
cuarto oscuro
darkroom
The decision was taken to replace the conventional darkroom equipment with modern, digital equivalents.
cuarto oscuro de fotografía
photographic darkroom
The Centre has extensive facilities for creating learning resources, with a reprographics workshop, a television studio, a videocassette recorder and other hardware, and photographic darkroom.
de color verde oscuro [Nombre y adjetivo]
bottle green
But it is the bottle-green icebergs that provoke the most interest, for it is not certain why they are green.
dejar a oscuras
cut out + light
A rubber blanket or hinged lid covers the document to cut out extraneous light and then, at the push of a button, paper is fed into the machine and charged with electricity.
de pelo oscuro
dark-haired
He was a lady-killer - tall, dark-haired, handsome in his army officer's uniform.
en un pasado oscuro y lejano
in the dim and distant past
Perhaps all these tribes are genetically linked and were partners in their explorations of new lands in the dim and distant past.
futuro muy oscuro
bleak future
A bleak future awaits today's youth as they are being forced to bear the brunt of the capitalist crisis despite having had nothing to do with its creation.
mantener Algo a oscuras
keep + Nombre + in the dark
It can change colour by keeping it in the dark or slowly heating and cooling it.
marrón oscuro
dark brown
I looked down and saw a tiny but perfect mummified human body with hair, dark brown skin and more disturbingly, wings.
oscuro como boca de lobo
pitch-black
pitch-dark
The area dehydrated as a result of embolism appeared pitch-black.
There is nothing so deceptive as the distance of a light upon a pitch-dark night.
pasado oscuro
dark past
She comes from a very dark past, making her feel that the world is untrustworthy.
secreto oscuro
dark secret
Showing a happy and fulfilled facade, she is hiding a dark secret that could eventually bring her to her knees.
traje oscuro de rayas
pinstripe(d) suit
He was looking very dapper in a pinstripe suit and tie, for some reason not sweaty and gross like everyone else.
un pasado oscuro
a dark past
'Shit Happens' in the story of two flatmates: Halifax, a ex-journalist with a dark past and long lost ex-wife, and Shakra, a college-drop out bent on Halifax's destruction = "A veces las cosas salen mal" es la historia de dos compañeros de piso: Halifax, un ex-periodista con un pasado oscuro y con una exesposa que no ve desde hace mucho, y Shakra, un compañero de universidad obcecado en la destrucción de Halifax .
volverse oscuro
turn + dark
For fifty years impregnated papers have been used which turn dark at every point where an electrical contact touches them by reason of the chemical change thus produced in a iodine compound included in the paper.
