white - 26 definitions |
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| 1. | White -- a member of the Caucasoid race |
| synonyms: White, White person, Caucasian |
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| 2. | white -- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) |
| synonyms: whiteness |
| antonyms: black -- the quality or state of the achromatic color of least lightness (bearing the least resemblance to white) |
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| 3. | White -- 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) |
| synonyms: White, Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr. |
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| 4. | White -- Australian writer (1912-1990) |
| synonyms: White, Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White |
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| 5. | White -- United States political journalist (1915-1986) |
| synonyms: White, T. H. White, Theodore Harold White |
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| 6. | White -- United States architect (1853-1906) |
| synonyms: White, Stanford White |
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| 7. | White -- United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) |
| synonyms: White, E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White |
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| 8. | White -- United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) |
| synonyms: White, Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White |
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| 9. | White -- a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri |
| synonyms: White, White River |
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| 10. | egg white -- 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" |
| synonyms: egg white, albumen, ovalbumin |
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| 11. | white -- (board games) the lighter pieces |
| antonyms: black -- (board games) the darker pieces |
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| 12. | flannel -- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth |
| synonyms: flannel, gabardine, tweed |
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| - verb |
| 13. | whiten -- turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" |
| synonyms: whiten |
| antonyms: blacken -- make or become black; "The smoke blackened the ceiling"; "The ceiling blackened" |
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| 14. | white, whited -- to whiten |
| synonyms: whited, whiten, whiter, whites, unwhite, whitest |
| Source:OWL 2 Web Ontology Language |
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| - adjective |
| 15. | white -- 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" |
| antonyms: black -- being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
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| 16. | white -- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" |
| antonyms: black -- of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. |
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| 17. | white -- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" |
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| 18. | white -- marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" |
| synonyms: snowy |
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| 19. | white -- 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" |
| synonyms: lily-white |
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| 20. | white -- glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" |
| synonyms: white-hot |
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| 21. | white -- benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you" |
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| 22. | blank -- (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" |
| synonyms: blank, clean |
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| 23. | white -- (of coffee) having cream or milk added |
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| 24. | white -- (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age" |
| synonyms: whitened |
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| 25. | ashen -- 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" |
| synonyms: ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
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| 26. | white -- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" |
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