| 单词 | to white out |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto white out to white out 1. transitive. Printing. To use white space on or around (a page or text). Frequently in passive. Now somewhat rare. ΚΠ 1892 A. Oldfield Pract. Man. Typogr. i. 15 Reglets for whiting out bills and placards are made of wood. 1905 Printing Art Mar. 17 If the lines are badly spaced or whited out, the balance of the page is destroyed. 1923 Inland Printer Mar. 849/3 The leaflet is not well whited out, the type matter seeming to crowd the border at the left quite too closely. 2. transitive. a. Of snow: to cover or obscure (the ground, sky, etc.). Cf. whiteout n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > precipitation or atmospheric moisture > snow > [verb (transitive)] > cover with snow snowc1400 to white out1940 1940 Washington Post 6 Feb. 1/1 (headline) Helsinki denies report as snow whites out cities, balks air raiders. 1959 Mich. Alumnus 23 May 236/1 The snow sifted down and the prairie was whited out by the drifting stinging pellets. 1997 Observer 16 Nov. (Review section) 18/2 The author finds himself caught in a terrifying ground blizzard in Wyoming that whites out the highway he hurtles along. 2006 N.Y. Times 14 Oct. b4/5 The sky was essentially whited out by whirling clouds of snow. b. To obscure or cover with something white; spec. to cover (a mistake) with correction fluid. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > memory > effacement, obliteration > efface, obliterate [verb (transitive)] > by covering with liquid unpainta1648 bisk1713 to paint out1834 to black out1850 ink out1881 to white out1974 Tippex1983 1974 N.Y. Mag. 8 July 66/2 In a magisterial erasure, Matisse whites out the belly-button—an extra dot that distracted. 1978 M. Duffy Housespy vi. 141 Its long shop window was whited out. 1982 R. Leigh Girl with Bright Head xi. 74 There's also a couple of places where she has had to white out mistakes and type over them. 2006 J. W. Hall in L. Standiford Miami Noir 26 Jumpy used a battered Royal typewriter and he whited out his mistakes with big glops. 3. intransitive. Of a person: to see nothing but white, esp. as a prelude to losing consciousness. Also of the mind: to go blank.In quot. 1972 as part of an extended pun. ΚΠ 1972 Lima (Ohio) News 22 Aug. 8/4 Slappy White, the brilliant black comic, just signed a $1 million deal... He got so excited, he whited out. When he came to, he commented ‘White is beautiful, but so is green.’ 1990 R. Price Tongues of Angels i. 54 What on Earth would I say? My mind whited out. 1994 Capital (Annapolis, Maryland) 17 June b1/4 I didn't black out, I whited out. Everything turned white. 2006 R. King Sound of Butterflies (2008) viii. 199 Every time he picked up his pen his mind whited out as if filled with glare. 2012 C. Harris Bad Hair Day 217 The pain was so intense that I whited out again. 4. intransitive. Of vision: to be impaired by exposure to sudden bright light. Also occasionally transitive: to dazzle. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (intransitive)] > be prevented from seeing to white out1978 the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > not seeing or preventing from seeing > prevent from seeing [verb (transitive)] > dazzle ablendOE ablind?c1225 awileg-en?c1225 astonec1385 dazea1529 dazzle1536 blaze1570 bedazzlea1616 to white out1978 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [verb (intransitive)] > shine brightly and suddenly to white out1978 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [verb (transitive)] > shine brightly and suddenly on to white out1978 1978 ‘A. Stuart’ Vicious Circles 22 At once my eyes whited out—as disoriented by the brilliant evening sun as a bat caught by a searchlight. 1983 Listener 3 Feb. 32/3 In Bristol the Little Theatre performs the stage play, using lasers and whiting-out audiences. 2009 O. Woods Soul Key xxix. 300 Raiq instinctively brought up her hands to shield her eyes, but it was too late: her vision whited out. < as lemmas |
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