a small pimple having a white or yellowish head; milium.
Origin of whitehead
First recorded in 1930–35; white + head
Words nearby whitehead
white-haired boy, white hake, Whitehall, white-handed gibbon, white hat, whitehead, white-headed, Whitehead's operation, white heat, white hellebore, white hole
Definition for whitehead (2 of 2)
Whitehead
[ hwahyt-hed, wahyt- ]
/ ˈʰwaɪtˌhɛd, ˈwaɪt- /
noun
Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.
Whitehead says that when he was at Goldman, the firm shunned dubious business practices like financing hostile takeovers.
Are Ethics for Suckers?|Joanne Lipman|April 11, 2011|DAILY BEAST
Michael Lind is the Whitehead Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation.
What He Should Have Said|Michael Lind|February 25, 2009|DAILY BEAST
Before the end of the first half, Whitehead had put in four substitutes.
Polly's Senior Year at Boarding School|Dorothy Whitehill
Whitehead torpedoes are now so arranged that they can be ejected by pressing an electric button.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 520, December 19, 1885|Various
Dr. Whitehead had given his orders—Mother must have change of air at once, and they were all going to Clifton for two months.
Chatterbox, 1906|Various
Nine went mounted to the home of Mrs. Whitehead and six others went along a byway to the home of Henry Bryant.
A Social History of The American Negro|Benjamin Brawley
They were not keen to confront Pope himself, but Whitehead presented a less formidable opponent.
Are these Things So? (1740) The Great Man's Answer to Are These things So: (1740)|Anonymous
British Dictionary definitions for whitehead
Whitehead
/ (ˈwaɪtˌhɛd) /
noun
Alfred North. 1861–1947, English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell in writing Principia Mathematica (1910–13), and developed a holistic philosophy of science, chiefly in Process and Reality (1929)
A tiny epidermal cystlike mass with a narrow or obstructed opening on the skin surface, which may rupture, caused by the retention of secretions of a sebaceous gland.closed comedo