chocolate

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A food made from ground roasted cocoa beans.

   Chocolate is a very popular treat.

2. 2
   noun

   A drink made by dissolving this food in boiling milk or water.

   Chocolate came in those fairy cups of India china, which made the delight of our grandmothers, and whose value was such, that the poet satirist considered their loss to be the severest trial to a woman's feelings—alias her temper;...

3. 3
   noun

   A single, small piece of confectionery made from chocolate.

   He bought her some chocolates as a gift. She ate one chocolate and threw the rest away.

4. 4
   noun

   A dark, reddish-brown colour/color, like that of chocolate (also called chocolate brown).

   As he cooked it the whole thing turned a rich, deep chocolate.

5. 5
   noun

   A black person.

   "I suppose you have some of your sweet chocolates working for you?" Barney nodded.

6. 6
   adj

   Black (relating to any of various ethnic groups having dark pigmentation of the skin).

   She was a chocolate honey with all the assets necessary to never have to work hard to pay her bills.

7. 7
   verb

   To treat blood agar by heating in order to lyse the red blood cells in the medium.

   Other formulations have been adopted to supply these growth factors; these include heating or "chocolating" the blood agar to release NAD directly from the erythrocytes in the agar medium.

8. 8
   noun

   a medium brown to dark-brown color

Etymology

Borrowed from Spanish chocolate, from Classical Nahuatl chocolātl, of uncertain origin. See that entry for more information.