white
IPA: wˈaɪt
noun
- The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (countable) Any object or substance that is of the color white.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- A white pigment.
- A white bean.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- A common British and Irish surname transferred from the nickname.
- A locale in the United States:
- A minor city in Bartow County, Georgia; named for its first postmaster.
- A city in South Dakota; named for its first European settler.
- An unincorporated community in Washington; named for a Washington state judge.
- A ghost town in Missouri; named for a local mining official.
- (historical, politics) An anticommunist who fought against the Reds during the Russian Civil War; the term is mostly associated with monarchist forces.
- Alternative letter-case form of white (“European”). [The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.]
verb
- (transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
adjective
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry):.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- Honourable, fair; decent.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
- (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (chiefly US, sometimes Canada and UK) Alternative letter-case form of white (“of or relating to white complexion or Europeans”) [Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.]
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Examples of "white" in Sentences
- Hence white horse, the extension of ˜white horse™, is not the same as (identical to) horse, the extension of ˜horse™.
- His most famous line, A white horse is not a horse, deals with the important distinction between horse, white, and white horse.
- When people squint and say, Scott, you are a white guy, I peel off a shoe and sock and show them what my untanned skin looks like; "Oh, *white* guy."
- A denominative term such as ˜white™ signifies by imposition a substance that is white, but it signifies by representation the whiteness inhering in the substance.
- Prefix to the following nouns several adjectives expressing qualities, and then make complete sentences by _asserting_ the same qualities. white | Chalk _is white_.
- The blond-haired, blue-eyed white man has taught you and me to worship a _white_ Jesus, and to shout and sing and pray to this God that's _his_ God, the white man's God.
- Enemies: Sucking insects forming white downy patches on the bark and twigs, the _white pine weevil_, a boring insect, and the _white pine blister rust_, a fungus, are among its principal enemies.
- If the term ˜white™ stands for its suppositum, it refers to a thing that is white or to ˜that which is white™, but if it stands for the quality or form, it refers to the whiteness inhering in that which is white, rather than to the thing in which it inheres.
- T.J. [Footnote 7: Forster, the translator of this work, annihilates the argument for the settlement of the Welsh derived from the word "penguin" signifying "white head," by the fact of the bird in question having a _black_, not a _white_ head!] _Collar of SS.
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