White

Word WHITE
Character 5
Hyphenation white
Pronunciations /waɪt/

Definitions and meanings of "White"

What do we mean by white?

The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast. noun

The white or nearly white part, as. noun

The albumen of an egg. noun

The white part of an eyeball. noun

A blank or unprinted area, as of an advertisement. noun

One that is white or nearly white, as. noun

Pieces of laundry having a white or nearly white color. noun

White trousers or a white outfit of a special nature. noun

The white dress uniform of the US Navy or Coast Guard. noun

A white wine. noun

A white pigment. noun

A white breed, species, or variety of animal. noun

Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae, characteristically having chiefly white wings often with black markings. noun

A member of a racial group having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin. noun

Products of a white color, such as flour, salt, and sugar. noun

The white or light-colored pieces, as in chess. noun

The player using these pieces. noun

The outermost ring of an archery target. 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 family Pieridae.

White wine.

Any object or substance that is of the color white.

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.

Synonyms and Antonyms for White

The word "white" in example sentences

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." ❋ Steven Barnes (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Hence white horse, the extension of ˜white horse™, is not the same as (identical to) horse, the extension of ˜horse™. ❋ Fraser, Chris (2005)

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. ❋ Lagerlund, Henrik (2004)

His most famous line, “A white horse is not a horse, ” deals with the important distinction between “horse, ” “white, ” and “white horse. ❋ Unknown (2001)

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. ❋ X, Malcolm, 1925-1965 (1964)

Prefix to the following nouns several adjectives expressing qualities, and then make complete sentences by _asserting_ the same qualities. white | Chalk _is white_. ❋ Brainerd Kellogg (N/A)

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. ❋ Jacob Joshua Levison (N/A)

If the Stock Solution is greenish white and turbid, undissolved _indigo white_ is present. ❋ Ethel M. Mairet (N/A)

Negro children and white children are alike at birth in one remarkable particular -- they are both born _white_, and so much alike, as far as color is concerned, as scarcely to be distinguished from each other. ❋ E. N. [Editor] Elliott (N/A)

These are false appellations of a white lead, called also _French white_. ❋ George Field (N/A)

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. ❋ Various (N/A)

In Tibetan both the methods of order and of true case relation may be employed: woman white (i.e., “white woman”) or white-of woman (i.e., “woman of whiteness, woman who is white, white woman”). ❋ Unknown (1921)

The Negro dimly personifies in the white man all his ills and misfortunes; if he is poor, it is because the white man seizes the fruit of his toil; if he is ignorant, it is because the white man gives him neither time nor facilities to learn; and, indeed, if any misfortune happens to him, it is because of some hidden machinations of “white folks. ❋ William Edward Burghardt (1903)

The _rose-coloured_ angels have _olive and white wings_; the _white angels, rose and olive wings_; and _the olive angels, white and rose wings_. ❋ Walter Crane (1880)

These objects were associated in their young minds with all that was romantic and wild, hyperborean and polar, brilliant and sparkling, and light and white -- emphatically _white_. ❋ Unknown (1859)

You may fancy their astonishment as well as chagrin, when, upon getting close to the animal, they discovered that what they had taken for a white buffalo was no white buffalo after all, but a _black one painted white_! ❋ Mayne Reid (1850)

_Scarlet_ flannel is now much used instead of _white_ flannel; and as scarlet flannel has a more comfortable appearance, and does not shrink so much in washing, it may be substituted for the white. ❋ Pye Henry Chavasse (1844)

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