whiteout
IPA: hwˈaɪtaʊt
noun
- A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
- (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
- The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.
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Examples of "whiteout" in Sentences
- Presumably intended to be the opposite of a whiteout.
- Power was lost due to blowing snow and whiteout conditions.
- X rays show patchy infiltrates or a diffuse whiteout of lung fields.
- The actors and blood are greatly highlighted on a whiteout background.
- The result may be either a blackout or a whiteout of the object information.
- We're talking about a complete whiteout, which is what we've been seeing from our live reports.
- You know, Jacqui, when we hear of cases like this we always hear of that term whiteout conditions.
- After a sudden "whiteout" that cut visibility to zero, the group inadvertently splintered into three parts.
- Nearly 2ft of snow fell on Washington today with President Barack Obama dubbing the whiteout 'Snowmageddon'.
- Bowman remembered a description he had once heard of the dreaded Antarctic "whiteout" - "like being inside a ping-pong ball."
- If you haven't already seen the movie, it will spoil nothing to tell you that the accident, discreetly shown as a "Six Feet Under" - style whiteout, is not fatal.
- The pictures are of the base, during the summer (there's light outside...) not the winter and certainly not in the middle of a Phase III (can you say "whiteout" ?)
- Stetko is suddenly involved in two races against time—first, she needs to solve the mystery before the transfer of personnel and she must solve it before a massive storm moves across the camp, resulting in a storm called a whiteout, where vision the hundred-mile-per-hour winds reduce vision to no more than six inches.
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