| 单词 | white |
| 释义 | Word Frequency white(waɪt) adjective 1. having no hue due to the reflection of all or almost all incident light Compare black (sense 1)2. (of light, such as sunlight) consisting of all the colours of the spectrum or produced by certain mixtures of three additive primary colours, such as red, green, and blue 3. comparatively white or whitish-grey in colour or having parts of this colour white clover 4. (of an animal) having pale-coloured or white skin, fur, or feathers 5. bloodless or pale, as from pain, emotion, etc 6. (of hair, a beard, etc) silvery or grey, usually from age 7. benevolent or without malicious intent white magic 8. colourless or transparent white glass 9. capped with or accompanied by snow a white Christmas 10. (sometimes capital) counterrevolutionary, very conservative, or royalist Compare Red (sense 2)11. blank, as an unprinted area of a page 12. (of wine) made from pale grapes or from black grapes separated from their skins 13. a. (of coffee or tea) with milk or cream b. (of bread) made with white flour 14. physics having or characterized by a continuous distribution of energy, wavelength, or frequency white noise 15. informal honourable or generous 16. (of armour) made completely of iron or steel (esp in the phrase white harness) 17. rare morally unblemished 18. rare (of times, seasons, etc) auspicious; favourable 19. poetic or archaic having a fair complexion; blond 20. bleed white 21. whiter than white noun 22. a white colour 23. the condition or quality of being white; whiteness 24. the white or lightly coloured part or area of something 25. the white 26. anatomy the white part (sclera) of the eyeball 27. any of various butterflies of the family Pieridae large white, small white, cabbage white 28. chess, draughts a. a white or light-coloured piece or square b. (usually capital) the player playing with such pieces 29. anything that has or is characterized by a white colour, such as a white paint orpigment, a white cloth, a white ball in billiards 30. an unprinted area of a page 31. archery a. the outer ring of the target, having the lowest score b. a shot or arrow hitting this ring 32. poetic fairness of complexion 33. in the white verb 34. (usually foll by out) to create or leave white spaces in (printed or other matter) 35. obsolete to make or become white Derived forms whitely (ˈwhitely) adverb whiteness (ˈwhiteness) noun whitish (ˈwhitish) adjective whitishness (ˈwhitishness) noun Word origin Old English hwīt; related to Old Frisian hwīt, Old Saxon hwīt, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hveits, Old High German hwīz (German weiss)Word Frequency White 1(waɪt) noun 1. a person, esp one of European ancestry, from a human population having light pigmentation of the skin adjective 2. denoting or relating to a White person or White people Word Frequency White 2(waɪt) noun 1. Gilbert. 1720–93, English clergyman and naturalist, noted for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789) 2. Jimmy. born 1962, English snooker player 3. Marco Pierre. born 1961, British chef and restaurateur 4. Patrick (Victor Martindale). 1912–90, Australian novelist: his works include Voss (1957), The Eye of the Storm (1973), and A Fringe of Leaves (1976): Nobel prize for literature 1973 5. T(erence) H(anbury). 1906–64, British novelist: author of the Arthurian sequence The Once and Future King (1939–58) 6. Sir Willard (Wentworth) (ˈwɪlɑːd). born 1946, British operatic bass, born in Jamaica |
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