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white


Noun
  • (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
  • (board games) the lighter pieces
  • the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
    • she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs
  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
  • United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
  • United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
  • United States architect (1853-1906)
  • United States political journalist (1915-1986)
  • Australian writer (1912-1990)
  • United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
  • a member of the Caucasoid race

Verb
  • turn white
    • This detergent will whiten your laundry

Adjective
  • of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
    • white nights
  • anemic looking from illness or emotion
    • a face turned ashen
    • the invalid's blanched cheeks
    • tried to speak with bloodless lips
    • a face livid with shock
    • lips...livid with the hue of death- Mary W. Shelley
    • lips white with terror
    • a face white with rage
  • (of hair) having lost its color
    • the white hairs of old age
  • (of coffee) having cream or milk added
  • (of a surface) not written or printed on
    • blank pages
    • fill in the blank spaces
    • a clean page
    • wide white margins
  • benevolent; without malicious intent
    • that's white of you
  • glowing white with heat
    • white flames
    • a white-hot center of the fire
  • restricted to whites only
    • under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
    • a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
  • marked by the presence of snow
    • a white Christmas
    • the white hills of a northern winter
  • free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
    • in shining white armor
  • of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
    • voting patterns within the white population
  • being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
    • as white as fresh snow
    • a bride's white dress

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