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Definition of white in English:

white

adjective wʌɪt(h)waɪt

  • 1Of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black.

    a sheet of white paper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • New England, with its little white fences, glittering snow and bare trees was beautiful!
    • This September several of the stalks have bloomed with pretty white flowers that have a very nice scent.
    • The lone winds teased the white drifts of snow into the air, reminding me oddly of Fantasia.
    • Perched on a tiny, tear-shaped island in the middle of the lake sat a small, white church shrouded in trees.
    • The light reflected off my white lab coat as it billowed behind my thin frame.
    • He had blond hair and was wearing a light coloured jacket, white trousers and black shoes.
    • At the moment, it is festooned with masses of clusters of white flowers which give a thick, heady scent.
    • The bedspread was white as snow, the pillow large and fluffy, the room screamed spring.
    • Another way of creating the impression of large spaces is to have light colour or white flooring.
    • The instruments are also more distinctive, black figures on white background and very clear too.
    • Do not wear white socks with dark-colored dress shoes.
    • The sun shines in the sky, which is bright blue with a few pearl white clouds hovering above.
    • Brighten up a plain white bathroom with these fresh colours from Dulux.
    • On the floors were white ceramic tiles that reflected the fluorescent lights overhead.
    • The bright lights reflect off the white tiles and the mirrors and hurt my skin.
    • On good days, it could also smell like a hot steam iron on a fresh white sheet.
    • She saw treetops covered in white snow, which glistened and sparkled in the light of the sun.
    • He was wearing a black jacket with white reflection marks, dark blue jeans and trainers.
    • I smiled at my reflection and my pearly white teeth were visible and stood out from my tanned face.
    • Adults are black except for white wing linings visible when the birds are soaring.
    Synonyms
    colourless, unpigmented, undyed, bleached, natural
    snowy, milky, chalky, snow-white, snowy-white, milk-white, milky-white, chalk-white, chalky-white, ivory
    pale, clear, transparent
    snowy, snowy-white, grey, silver, silvery, hoary, grizzled
    albino
    1. 1.1 Very pale.
      her face was white with fear
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His color had gone from grey to milky white, and it was almost as if he were writhing in pain.
      • He span in his chair, and his old and rugged face was white with fear.
      • Kay's face turned pale white, so white that she looked like a ghost.
      • I'm usually the poor sap sitting right next to her who is white with fear.
      • His knuckles were white from the tight grip he had had on his sheets and pillow.
      • White scars stood prominently out against her tanned skin.
      • His face was white with fear and his eyes were wide and panicked.
      • However, that wasn't what had made him go white with fear.
      • Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods.
      • He sees me looking at him, turns pale white, and runs over to the room.
      • But Melissa did not go white with fear.
      • Her face was as white as snow, and her hair as black as ink, and her lips as red as the blood on her gravestone.
      • I saw Chris's knuckles turn white from his tight grip on the steering wheel.
      • Two days later Jacek comes running into the house, his face white.
      • Marc dressed in black, looking thin as a rake and white as a sheet.
      • I looked to my father and was stricken at how white his lips were.
      • Some had mist-filled eyes while many a countenance went white as a sheet of paper.
      • Cautiously, he rolled her over to find her face pale, deathly white, and covered with blood.
      • Wait, there he was leaning against a tree, looking as white and shaken as everyone else.
      • He looked awful - he was paper white, even his lips, and he had dark shadows under his eyes.
      Synonyms
      pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white as a ghost/sheet, grey, anaemic, jaundiced, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, chalk-white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached
      rare etiolated
    2. 1.2 (of a plant) having white flowers or pale-coloured fruit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We put sprigs of white hyacinth in a glass tumbler and placed it on a tray with candles.
      • She leaned against one of the white cherry blossom trees and began to hum to herself.
      • I look up at Jeremiah whose rearranging the white lilies on the coffee table in front of the couch.
      • Hanging in garlands on the sides of the tables, trees, and the fountain were white lilies.
      • Vegetation such as gorse, heather and white grass is considered to be high fire risk while grassland is low risk.
      • A mixture of tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied to the places where the body has been cut open.
      • The most delicate is the classic white marguerite, Argyranthemum frutenscens.
    3. 1.3 (of a tree) having light-coloured bark.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fifth biggest tree in the east is the famous white oak at Wye Mills, Maryland.
      • I sighed deeply and took a seat on the grass, bracing next to a tall white oak tree.
      • Not only was it the biggest white oak, it was the biggest tree of any kind ever measured in Maryland.
      • All trees between these white oaks and the grassy opening were under 36 years of age.
      • It doesn't matter if you collect the seeds from a White Dogwood or a Pink Dogwood, the seedlings are likely to be white.
    4. 1.4 (of wine) made from white grapes, or dark grapes with the skins removed, and having a yellowish colour.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • When allowed to warm close to room temperature, it is one of the finest white wines I have ever had.
      • For all that, Grossman drinks more white wine than red, partly because he eats a lot of fish and vegetarian food.
      • This splendidly frisky Italian white wine from Piedmont is made from the Cortese grape.
      • Some is made with red grapes in the same way as still rosé, but most by mixing a little red wine into white champagne.
      • Contemporary palates, myself included, view sauvignon as one of the most useful white wines in the rack.
      • This is achieved by pressing the red grapes rapidly to produce white wine without a trace of colour.
      • If a glass of dry white retsina transports you and your palate back to the sun-kissed beaches of Greece, well, okay.
      • And what sauvignon blanc does for white wines, cabernet sauvignon can do for reds.
      • With white wines they progress from almost water clear when young, to gold and amber in old age.
      • Place the cleaned mussels and clams into a large pan and pour over the white wine.
      • I would generally allow about one kilo for two generous helpings and serve with crusty bread and chilled crisp white muscadet.
      • We ordered glasses of white Lillet, a sweet French apéritif wine from Bordeaux.
      • Among white wines, Chardonnay stands up better to being boxed than most grape varieties.
      • The white wine is from his wife Catherine's family vineyard in South Africa.
      • Pinot Gris seems to have come out of nowhere to be the trendy white wine in New Zealand and overseas.
      • He then suggested that we start the tasting session with a white wine.
      • Begin with an aperitif such as a glass of chilled white port.
      • Whisk the white wine, rum, sugar, lemon and orange zest and lemon and orange juice together in a bowl.
      • For the broth, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, simmer the white wine for one minute.
      • It has become a bit famous in recent years for its white wines, especially chenin blanc.
    5. 1.5British (of coffee or tea) served with milk or cream.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We drank flat white coffees, and Ray noticed me looking at the blurry blue tattoo on his forearm.
      • Just don't ask for a white coffee - you'll get condensed milk already in the cup, urgh.
      • She was still smiling when she carried the two white coffees up the rickety wooden stairs.
    6. 1.6 (of food such as bread or rice) light in colour as a result of a refining process.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • You can also, while they last, have granary or white crusty rolls or sliced bread.
      • The main ingredient in French bread is white flour, which has very little nutritional value.
      • I made a loaf of white soda bread and a batch of cheese scones for lunch on Saturday.
      • I also had to give up white and wheat flour because they block the digestive process.
      • Buy different types of bread from a baker's instead of flabby sliced white loaves.
      • His diet permitted no more white breads or dinner rolls, which was one of the hardest things for him to put aside.
      • Today, as usual, he would eat a bowl of muesli with extra sugar and two pieces of white toast, coated in apricot jam.
      • A basket full of warm, fluffy-soft, white French bread heralded the meal.
      • Nihan pointed out a popular dish where a raw egg is mixed with hot white rice and soy sauce.
      • I am far too in love with fig rolls and thick white sliced bread smothered in cheap spread.
      • The only rule here is that you absolutely cannot use plain white, sliced bread, which goes all pappy like a soggy sandwich.
      • Two slices of bread, one white, the other brown and neatly cut, were included.
      • White bran does not impart the bitter taste associated with red bran.
      • The slices of thick, airy, white loaf with burnt crusts lathered in creamy butter were completely moreish.
      • I always ate white rice until I read that you can sustain yourself on brown rice alone.
      • These are made of white toast with their crusts cut off, and are filled with smoked salmon and prawn mayonnaise.
      • If you do not like the Indian version then you get nasty white toast and bright red jam that tastes like bubble gum.
      • I snack on tons of Inarizushi - it's white rice stuffed inside sweetened tofu wrapping.
      • I'm off to the supermarket later to clear the shelves of white sliced bread and tins of baked beans.
      • Where do you find the best value baked beans, sausages, ketchup and white sliced bread?
      • For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I've eaten for as long as I can remember.
    7. 1.7 (of glass) transparent; colourless.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In the middle there lay a small table, with a cloudy white glass sphere in the middle.
      • A generous front in white glass curves out to form porches for the two main entrance doors.
      • Her initial technique was animating beach sand on white glass lit from below.
      • She offered you both hard candy from a white glass bowl and looked into your daughter's face.

  • 2Belonging to or denoting a human group having light-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction)

    a white farming community
    Example sentencesExamples
    • As a person born with white skin, I do not pretend to speak on behalf of people of colour.
    • There may be people in England and Wales who refer to white South Africans as Africans but I would not expect them to be numerous.
    • The Pass Laws meant that everyone had to carry an ID card which indicated whether they were white, coloured or black.
    • A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.
    • The intruder was described as being a clean shaven white male with glasses and around 55 years old.
    • His passenger was white, with fair skin and hair that was shaved at the back.
    • She called for the Asian and white communities to pull together and support her.
    • The car driver was white, wore glasses and had a chubby build.
    • Imagine the uproar had a white European leader demanded the removal from power of anyone with Indian origins.
    • Why is it that almost everything in my home was invented by a white, mostly European male?
    • Obviously, that old-fashioned confidence primarily belongs to the white middle class.
    • Lee apparently had enough money to hire an expensive white lawyer and served only a short jail term.
    • No longer can the elite class be categorized homogenously as white and European.
    • Two of the survivors are white European and the rest are mainland Chinese nationals.
    • Stofile claimed there was a perception that they looked at granting amnesty only to white perpetrators.
    • Are there things that a White woman can do to get ahead in the workplace that you think a Black woman never could do?
    • Most participants were white Europeans who were being treated by their general practitioner.
    • In the colonial context, the camera wielded by white Europeans was an intrusive weapon of domination.
    • The ten commissioners, five of whom are white and five black, voted along colour lines.
    • Nearly all the nation's 4000 white farmers have been served with forfeiture notices.
    Synonyms
    Caucasian, European, non-black
    1. 2.1 Relating to white people.
      white Australian culture
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The South lost the Civil War, but it did not thereby lose its dedication to white supremacy.
      • This was a startling shift for a company that was an icon of white American culture.
      • Youths were as fed up with black leadership as they were with white supremacy.
      • The major causes were white lust for land and the gap between Indian and white cultures.
      • The dominant white culture is killing us slowly with its ignorance.
      • Second, a number of recent historians have maintained that Northerners were as committed to white supremacy as Southerners.
      • They identified more with black and Latino American culture than white American culture.
      • The speaker is William Buckley, two years after his return to white society.
      • Thurmond dropped overt appeals to white supremacy only after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
      • To claim that the global acceptance of a US passport somehow equals white imperialism is silly.
      • Black nationalism was centered on blackness and saw no value in white culture and religion.
      • The BRIT awards show does not exist to celebrate white culture - or any other kind of culture come to that.
      • Her literary debut, The Grass Is Singing, exposed the moral bankruptcy of the white settler culture.
      • The sin that you commit is to give this ‘mentality’ credence by reducing it solely to white racism.
      • The Republican campaign in Mississippi made heavy use of barely disguised appeals to white racism.
      • Why would a culture like white Christian society suddenly abandon itself and admit its crimes?
      • Anybody who tried to assert white culture was automatically a member of the BNP.
      • We black people like to think of ourselves as somehow outside of mainstream white culture.
    2. 2.2South African historical Reserved by law for those classified as white.

  • 3historical Counter-revolutionary or reactionary.

    Contrasted with red (sense 2 of the adjective)
noun wʌɪt(h)waɪt

  • 1mass noun White colour or pigment.

    garnet-red flowers flecked with white
    Example sentencesExamples
    • In daylight, the human brain reacts more quickly to fluorescent colours than any other shade-even white.
    • In spring the fritillaries flower, turning the meadow into a mass of purple and white.
    • Shocking half-page pictures in colour and black and white underline the story throughout.
    • Black dominates the whole collection, but red, beige and white are also prominent throughout.
    • They oppose it with tint, which is the opposite process of adding white to a colour, to desaturate it.
    • A couple of weeks ago, when I changed the colour scheme of this site to red and white, England won.
    • In reality, it's better to mix white with shades of ivory, almond, ecru and tan.
    • There are no vegetables, and in fact the plate is colourless beyond the eerie white of these Polish dumplings.
    • Patriotic colours of red, navy and white as well as pastel tweeds were striking.
    • In my dreams, his hair and skin tone are the same as mine, except he has no purple pigments embedded in his pallid white.
    • My husband said ‘no’ because we've got to stick to the club colours of black and white.
    • Ivory seems to be the colour most brides-to-be are favouring as white may be a little stark in terms of matching accessories.
    • The ceiling was a soft rosy color and the floor was tiled in sky blue and white.
    • Instead they decided to defer the matter to give the park time to change the colour scheme to all white to make it look less conspicuous.
    • So I've stripped out the colours and reverted to plain black on white.
    • Smitty is very experienced, not only in diving but in life, as the flecks of white in his beard attest.
    • Erial, as was her wont, chose mostly whites and other pale, unobtrusive colours.
    • Rays of pure red and white flew off in random directions, leaving only a vivid rose.
    • She slid it open and the first colour she saw was white, a stark, blinding white.
    • The vases in this collection come in midnight black and pristine white.
    1. 1.1 White clothes or material.
      he was dressed from head to foot in white
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The grand pas de deux was danced in white with red trim and while Kitri's costume was beautiful the stiff tutu lacked grace.
      • Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
      • She stood before the throne of her master in armor of purest white edged in gold.
      • She could see them now, humans dressed in white with their faces covered by strange masks.
      • Hundreds of people dressed in the traditional white with red scarves take part in each run.
      • She wore a newly fashioned gown of shimmering white, a delicate veil and a golden circlet.
      • I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
      • The dashes of red had gone and there were a number of highly contrasting garments in black and white.
      • In the shop and outside are divinely tailored ladies, all dressed in black and white.
      • We left our blazers on a chair, then made to the rooms and got dressed in the same white.
      • Next to her sat an old lady dressed in white who peered at Komal with screwed up eyes.
      • The lovers are all in white with costumes of a variety of nineteenth century periods.
      • In the small room next to the car porch sat a middle aged person, dressed in full white.
      • Two dancers in white make a classical assignation, she on pointe, he in heroic blouson.
      • Nearly everyone dresses in the traditional white with red neckerchiefs and sashes.
      • At the time Michael did not realise where Kilgarvan was, but saw that they were dressed in red and white.
      • A fleeting video image of a woman dressed in white and moving through moonlit trees cast a spell of love and mystery.
      • Upon the terrace was a beautiful woman, garbed in a flowing silk gown of glowing white.
      • Greece will play in white with blue trim while Portugal wear red shirts with green shorts.
      • She was dressed in a cowboy outfit of bright green and white, contrasting perfectly with the colour of the horse.
    2. 1.2whites White clothes, especially as worn for playing cricket or tennis, as naval uniform, or in the context of washing.
      wash whites separately to avoid them being dulled
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The MPs will don tall chefs' hats and traditional whites and toss pancakes in the air as they run.
      • Other uniform combinations included dress whites, dress blue pants with the Ike jacket, and dress blues in winter.
      • Suddenly, the chef, appears in his whites and says ‘shut up and eat!’
      • He walked through our cars in fresh whites with his tall chef's hat asking how we liked the meal.
      • Nylon whites should be washed separately to avoid graying.
      • They swapped their cricket whites for oversized army helmets to pose as diggers in a re-enactment of a 1915 photograph.
      • Chef Passot was out saying goodnight in his whites, somehow more pristine than our crumbed and wine-smudged selves.
      • One fine Saturday afternoon in Cape Town in April, Graeme Smith, the lantern-jawed South African cricket captain, pulled on his whites and strode out on to the turf.
      • Stewart, aged 16, is thrilled to own a set of chef's knives, a sparkling set of whites and a chef's hat.
      • The foundation provided him with new cricket whites, boots, gloves, pads, anew bat, a helmet, six balls and a cricket bag.
      • Separate the light colors from the dark ones and try to wash whites separately.
      • Hunter was standing at a commercial sized stove, dressed in chef whites, with an apron wrapped around his slim waist.
      • Adults can wear either chef whites, company uniform, fancy dress or sports gear.
      • A daring university student dressed in cricket whites, pads and a helmet gave an innovative spin to the concept of pitch invasion.
      • Wash whites separately; light and medium colors together; and brights and darks by themselves.
      • Americans, in fact, could have ended up staying in striped caps and cricket whites.
      • You know the one I mean, the one where the guys all wore cricket whites and the women all had flowery dresses that button up the front.
      • Rush's portrait shows Warne in cricket whites tossing up a ball in the air.
      • An all-girl choir, dressed in cricket whites, rendered powerful and moving songs of praise and gratitude.
      • Literally and metaphorically, Lenny was everywhere, attending to every minute organisational detail and then getting into the ring in whites as a ref.
    3. 1.3 White wine.
      a bottle of house white
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In general, Aussie reds are easy and lush while their whites (primarily Chardonnay and Semillon) are big and round.
      • Made by a winery that makes great wines at every price point, this is a restrained, citrus fruity white.
      • At £19.75, it was the best white that the wine list had to offer, which some might see as a lack of ambition in the cellar.
      • Her other two whites are both Chardonnays, one from Burgundy and one from California's Sonoma Valley.
      • Although Bordeaux is best known for its red wines, the region produces excellent whites, particularly the sweet Sauternes.
      • We tasted a wide range of wines, from a sparkler to whites to reds to a very nice little semisparkler for dessert.
      • We ordered a glass of house medium white for me, an apple juice for Lili.
      • Bordeaux whites, based on Sauvignon Blanc and sometimes blended with Semillon, are crisp and dry but usually not overtly herbaceous.
      • The purity of these wines can be lost, or if you prefer diluted, in a blend, which is why most wine hacks like varietal whites, but drink blended reds.
      • Ultimately, his efforts produced a good dry red and a solid dry white from a full range of wines from the estate.
      • There are four wine lists - two for reds, two for whites, divided into Spanish and foreign - and more than 700 wines, lots of which may be drunk by the glass.
      • Lighter foods, such as grilled fish, work best with more delicate whites such as Sauvignon Blanc or a light Chardonnay.
      • Sweeter whites, like Rieslings or Gewuerztraminers, are well suited to big, smoky flavors.
      • I love big Italian red wines and New Zealand whites.
      • This honeyed, concentrated, sweet and sour style white is perfect with this dish.
      • For the great sweet Bordeaux whites, you need Sauternes of similar status and you go to d' Yquem, where they don't do red.
      • The ripe, peachy La Mancha white displays lots of apple and pear-scented fruit.
      • You will need bold summer food to cope with this sweet, hefty, toasty, nutty white.
      • The main varietals in Chile are Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for whites and Cabernet, Merlot and Carmenere for reds.
      • Semillon brings a lush texture to dry whites while Sauvignon Blanc brings an herbal raciness - a terrific combination.
    4. 1.4 The player of the white pieces in chess or draughts.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After this White's position is very bad because his pieces are so poorly placed for the middle-game.
    5. 1.5count noun A white thing, in particular the white ball (the cue ball) in snooker or billiards.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But a potted white by Perry let Ding back in and he cleared up to win.

  • 2The visible pale part of the eyeball around the iris.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • You could only see the whites of her eyes and she was red hot.
    • You half expect to see orange dimpled leather instead of eye whites when you look at him, but there is nothing robotic about him.
    • This is characterised by broken blood vessels on the whites of the eyes and in the skin.
    • This causes yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, darkening of the urine and pale clay coloured stools.
    • Jo looked up, the whites of her eyes visible under the moon.
    • When the liver is affected by hepatitis, it is unable to process the bilirubin and raised levels in the blood cause the whites of the eyes to go yellow and urine to become dark.
    • His eyes, though still inhumanly brilliant, bore smaller irises and more pronounced whites - just like Arun's own.
    • The absence of pigment in the human sclera (the whites of the eyes) highlights the iris and thereby enhances the interpretation of eye movements.
    • The whites of his eyes were large in my view and surrounding two jet black preternatural pupils unlike any I had seen before.
    • Viral conjunctivitis can spread to the cornea, the white of the eye.
    • The conjunctiva is a thin lining that covers the whites of the eyes and the insides of the eyelids.
    • In some people, the white of the eye can be seen above the iris at all times.
    • They looked like normal people until you saw their eyes, completely black, no whites or irises.
    • His eyes were wide, with the whites visible so starkly against his skin, and he was pushing his other hand onto his mouth, tightly, until the knuckles turned pale.
    • Inflammation causes small blood vessels in the conjunctiva to become more prominent, resulting in a pinkish or reddish cast to the whites of your eyes.
    • The gray pupils are glazed and the yellowed whites are striated with red.

  • 3The outer part (white when cooked) which surrounds the yolk of an egg; the albumen.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Crispy fried noodle threads and minced peppers add crunch; sieved egg yolks and whites add softness.
    • I brought in 64 eggs, separated the yolks from the whites and had the students varnish their paintings using haki brushes.
    • Suddenly dozens of eggs fell from the basket and smashed into a puddle of yolks and whites as he shifted the pole from one shoulder to the other.
    • You apparently mustn't have any yolk in the white if you are going to whisk it successfully.
    • When you make the meringue, ensure you pour the syrup on to the egg whites while still hot, then it will ‘cook’ the whites and blow up into a dense, airy foam.
    • You may be used to eating the whites and discarding the yolks, but skip that step during pregnancy because the yolks provide extra calories, Vitamin D and folic acid.
    • When the whites congeal, just spoon some water over the yellow yolks and the albumen will turn white, and you have your runny eggs.
    • Cool and peel the eggs, reserving the yolks and discarding the whites.
    • Six whites and one yolk yield 24 g of protein and 6 g of fat, much of it healthy.
    • Cook the eggs long enough to solidify the whites, but the yolks remain somewhat runny.
    • To make the custard, separate the eggs and whisk the vanilla sugar into the yolks (save the whites for meringues).
    • Combine the egg yolks and whites and fold them carefully together.
    • Put the fish stock and tomato sauce into a large saucepan with crushed shells and whites of four eggs.
    • Lightly whisk one-quarter of the whites into the custard to loosen it slightly, then carefully fold in the remainder.
    • Separate the eggs, putting the yolks and whites into separate large bowls.
    • Add 4 egg yolks (saving the whites for later) and thoroughly incorporate.
    • Carefully crack your six eggs so that the raw yolks and whites are arranged fairly evenly inside the pastry-lined dish.
    • The whole thing is then cooked again to harden the whites around the yolk.
    • Later, he decided that the result was improved if the yolk and white were cooked separately.
    • Rather than stovetop stirring, you stabilize the souffle by beating sugar into the egg yolks and whites separately.

  • 4A member of a light-skinned people, especially one of European extraction.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • African, Hispanic, and Native Americans are twice as likely to have gastric cancer as whites however.
    • Hispanics descended from Europeans are no more heat-tolerant than other whites.
    • It is based on research that documents cultural differences between whites and blacks in communication styles.
    • In the present South African team there are no whites and blacks.
    • Civic leagues had been founded with the sole purpose of keeping whites from leasing to blacks.
    • In fact, research suggests that when compared with whites of European descent, ethnic minorities exhibit greater variability in their preferences.
    • One audience member asked whether whites should go out of their way to develop black friends.
    • You know the old saying: No one gets a free lunch and that applies to blacks, whites and any other race.
    • Approximately one in seven whites was uninsured, and 10% had only public insurance.
    • It is the most common lethal genetic disease in whites with 90% percent of the mortality due to pulmonary infections.
    • As I read the Times' story, the issue in the survey was whether minority group members should be admitted over whites with higher test scores and grades.
    • Willingham grew up in the 1960s in Jacksonville, N.C., which prepared him for a world that often has different rules for blacks and whites.
    • Gilman grew up in the upper Upper West Side of New York, where whites were a very visible minority.
    • Unlike whites and members of other ethnic groups, blacks who live in the suburbs are far wealthier than their city brethren.
    • He has also lambasted the European Union and declared verbal war on whites who tell blacks in Africa how to run free and fair elections.
    • In addition to a historical legacy of unequal care, black patients also appear to view suffering somewhat differently than whites of European background.
    • Wisdom teeth problems are more common among European whites compared to Orientals and blacks.
    • Now, the complaint, at least from members of The New Black Panther Party, is that whites are moving in.
    • Dark-skinned people in Brazil are more likely to be poor than light skinned-people and whites have average monthly incomes almost two and a half times greater than nonwhites.
    • Before Charles cracked that barrier, the country music scene was seen and regarded by many blacks and whites as the exclusive preserve of white, rural Southern singers.

  • 5with modifier A white or cream butterfly which has dark veins or spots on the wings and can be a serious crop pest.

    Pieris and other genera, family Pieridae. See also cabbage white

verb wʌɪt(h)waɪt
[with object]archaic

  • Paint or turn (something) white.

    your passion hath whited your face
    Synonyms
    become white, make white, become pale, make pale, bleach, blanch, lighten, fade, wash out, be washed out, etiolate

Usage

The term white has been used to refer to the skin colour of Europeans or people of European extraction since the early 17th century. Unlike other labels for skin colour such as red or yellow, white has not been generally used in a derogatory way. In modern contexts there is a growing tendency to prefer to use terms which relate to geographical origin rather than skin colour: hence the current preference in the US for African American rather than black and European rather than white

Phrases

  • whited sepulchre

    • literary A hypocrite.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • With delicious invective, Nietzsche describes the legions of modern educators who are forever trying to teach a humanistic ethic as ‘whited sepulchers who impersonate life.’
      • I wonder how He might fare today with His uncompromising stand on Hypocrites and whited sepulchres?
      • Our unusually tidy house is a sham, all deceiving beauty outside yet all corruption within, as a whited sepulchre, or market stall pear.
      • I think of one particular whited sepulchre, who insists that, ‘we must never give up on people’.
      • Instead of pointing the finger at yobs we should perhaps inspect our own whited sepulchres.
      • When asked how he would describe Vizard now, Hilliard replied: ‘He's a whited sepulchre, full of dead man's bones and rottenness.’
      • Keep up the good fight, and as to the whited sepulchres, keep giving it to them good and hard.
      • They're a bunch of whited sepulchres, and I think if we could bring religious people to see that, I think the battle would be halfway won.
      Synonyms
      sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor

  • white man's burden

    • The task, believed by white colonizers to be incumbent upon them, of imposing Western civilization on the black inhabitants of European colonies.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • You know, apart from ‘the white man's burden,’ there were other patronising ideas floating around at the time.
      • Even the neocons, for all their viciousness and totalitarian gut instincts, sometimes show signs of taking their white man's burden seriously.
      • We will go out, we will pick up the white man's burden and we will colonise these areas that are not yet under our domination.
      • The self-defeating nature of imperialism is slyly suggested through a dramatic reversal that exploits the notion of the white man's burden.
      • Earlier settlers are cruel and violent, unable to understand the white man's burden in Africa or the value of fairness and bureaucracy.
      • He blamed the white man who, in the name of civilization and ‘the white man's burden,’ impoverished many peoples in the world.
      • It is a sort of modern style of the white man's burden in 2004.
      • This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation.
      • He bears the white man's burden with exceptional grace.
      • He obviously thinks it's time we donned our pith helmets and picked up the white man's burden again.

  • whiter than white

    • 1Extremely white.

      the detergent that washes whiter than white
      Example sentencesExamples
      • They have better upholstery, they're adequately airbrushed and their teeth are whiter than white.
      • We want clean clothes, but within that simple desire lie images of crisp starching, of linen whiter than white.
      • The wall fronting Strand Street was gleaming whiter than white in the spring sunshine..
      • The weather forecast is looking good for this weekend, I may even get some colour to my whiter than white legs.
      • He smiled, showing off two perfectly straight rows of clean whiter than white teeth.
      • They are polishing the Santiago Bernabeu right now, scrubbing up the exterior to make it look whiter than white in this the centenary year.
      • He is kind of cute, and has a whiter than white toothpaste smile, a wicked sense of humour and an accent to die for.
      • The team prepared a new sample by coating a titanium plate with a layer of titanium dioxide, or titania, familiar as the whiter than white pigment in household paints.
      • I've just had soup for lunch and I was wearing a whiter than white t-shirt.
      • It was a close up shot, framed in blue light in a dental surgery, but still unmistakably the actor's whiter than white teeth.
      1. 1.1Morally beyond reproach.
        they expect standards of behaviour whiter than white
        Example sentencesExamples
        • He suggests that they may have believed, somewhat naively, that big business was whiter than white.
        • The lawyers and accountants needed to know absolutely everything was whiter than white.
        • The conclusions they came to do not surprise me because this chief constable must be seen to be whiter than white with no black marks,’ he said.
        • That organisation measures corruption on a scale of one to 18, with one being whiter than white, and 18 being the most corrupt of the corrupt.
        • Individuals in positions of public authority should remember they have to be whiter than white if they are not to compromise their position.
        • I always find it amusing that LibDems portray themselves as whiter than white yet will fight dirtier than anyone.
        • If our glorious leaders want to be so righteous and take the stance they have then in my mind they should be above reproach themselves, whiter than white.
        • He seems to believe they are whiter than white when it comes to sectarianism and criminality.
        • The public expects us as members of a planning committee to be whiter than white, and rightly so.
        • A big part of his job, therefore, is to restore trust by demonstrating that local government is whiter than white.
        Synonyms
        virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, beyond reproach, irreproachable, innocent

Phrasal Verbs

  • white out

    • 1(of vision) become impaired by exposure to sudden bright light.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He tried to raise his head, and his sight whited out entirely.
      • My head had started to spin again, and my vision almost whited out.
      1. 1.1(of a person) lose colour vision as a prelude to losing consciousness.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • I bolted for the door and whited out as I hit the street.

  • white something out

    • 1Obliterate a mistake with white correction fluid.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was in the production department, which involved random paste-ups, little editorial corrections and whiting out lines when they went over the panel border.
      • Because of the privacy thing, when looking at students' papers, we white out all the names that are in the paper.
      • A teacher at the school took a copy of the New York ballot paper, photocopied it and whited out all the nominees names, putting school subjects in their place.
      • You can't just hit delete, you have to rip the pages or white out the text.
      • The governor's office had whited out the answers.
      • They should release the documents containing the allegations against him, with the sensitive bits whited out.

    • 2Impair someone's vision with a sudden bright light.

Derivatives

  • whitely

    • adverb
    • A long, wide car has pulled up in the driveway, a face peering whitely from its passenger window.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fog swirled whitely around us in a sudden gust of wind.
      • Its whitely gleaming limestone façade was smoothly intact, an awesome sight unseen since the dawn of recorded history.
      • Her even white teeth gleamed whitely as she raised her own opened soda to her lips.
      • You can see the Parthenon from anywhere in Athens, gleaming whitely on the Acropolis.

  • whitish

    • adjective ˈwʌɪtɪʃ
    • Frostbitten skin initially turns red, then it takes on a whitish, waxy appearance.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Indonesians cultivate it as a garden vegetable and recognize numerous forms, including a large whitish one and smaller green ones.
      • Pseudopollen is a mealy material, usually whitish or yellowish in colour, which superficially resembles pollen.
      • Add the prawn cutlets and toss until they are just sealed and turn a whitish pink colour.
      • There was a full moon, so the moonlight made the tall grass glow an eerie whitish green.

Origin

Late Old English hwīt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wit and German weiss, also to wheat.

  • The Old English word white, related to wheat, is used in many English phrases. A white elephant is a useless or unwanted possession, especially one that's expensive to maintain. The originals were real albino animals regarded as holy in some Asian countries, especially Siam (present-day Thailand). The story goes that it was the custom for a king of Siam to give one of these elephants to a courtier he particularly disliked: the unfortunate recipient could neither refuse the gift nor give it away later for fear of causing offence, and would end up financially ruined by the costs of looking after the animal. A whited sepulchre is a hypocrite. The phrase comes from Jesus's condemnation of the Pharisees in the Gospel of Matthew: he likens them to whited sepulchres, or whitewashed tombs, ‘which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead mens' bones, and of all uncleanness’. The white heat of technology is a phrase usually credited to Harold Wilson. What he actually said in a 1963 speech was, ‘The Britain that is going to be forged in the white heat of this revolution will be no place for restrictive practices or for outdated methods on either side of industry.’ The white man's burden, the task of imposing Western civilization on the inhabitants of colonies, comes from a poem by Rudyard Kipling, published in 1899. Called ‘The White Man's Burden: The United States and The Philippine Islands’, it urged the USA to take up the burden of empire following its acquisition of the Philippines after the Spanish-American War. The festival Whit Sunday or Whitsuntide also comes from white. It is a reference to the white robes worn by early Christians who were baptized at this time. White feather (late 18th century) as a sign of cowardice refers to a white feather in the tail of a fighting cock, seen as a sign of bad breeding. White-knuckle ride [1970s] refers to the effect caused by gripping tightly to side rails of a fairground ride. See also blackmail, blue

Rhymes

affright, alight, alright, aright, bedight, bight, bite, blight, bright, byte, cite, dight, Dwight, excite, fight, flight, fright, goodnight, height, ignite, impolite, indict, indite, invite, kite, knight, light, lite, might, mite, night, nite, outfight, outright, plight, polite, quite, right, rite, sight, site, skintight, skite, sleight, slight, smite, Snow-white, spite, sprite, tight, tonight, trite, twite, underwrite, unite, uptight, wight, wright, write
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Definition of white in US English:

white

adjective(h)wīt(h)waɪt

  • 1Of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of most wavelengths of visible light; the opposite of black.

    a sheet of white paper
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Another way of creating the impression of large spaces is to have light colour or white flooring.
    • On good days, it could also smell like a hot steam iron on a fresh white sheet.
    • The bright lights reflect off the white tiles and the mirrors and hurt my skin.
    • He was wearing a black jacket with white reflection marks, dark blue jeans and trainers.
    • On the floors were white ceramic tiles that reflected the fluorescent lights overhead.
    • Do not wear white socks with dark-colored dress shoes.
    • The light reflected off my white lab coat as it billowed behind my thin frame.
    • The bedspread was white as snow, the pillow large and fluffy, the room screamed spring.
    • At the moment, it is festooned with masses of clusters of white flowers which give a thick, heady scent.
    • The instruments are also more distinctive, black figures on white background and very clear too.
    • She saw treetops covered in white snow, which glistened and sparkled in the light of the sun.
    • New England, with its little white fences, glittering snow and bare trees was beautiful!
    • Perched on a tiny, tear-shaped island in the middle of the lake sat a small, white church shrouded in trees.
    • Adults are black except for white wing linings visible when the birds are soaring.
    • The lone winds teased the white drifts of snow into the air, reminding me oddly of Fantasia.
    • This September several of the stalks have bloomed with pretty white flowers that have a very nice scent.
    • I smiled at my reflection and my pearly white teeth were visible and stood out from my tanned face.
    • Brighten up a plain white bathroom with these fresh colours from Dulux.
    • The sun shines in the sky, which is bright blue with a few pearl white clouds hovering above.
    • He had blond hair and was wearing a light coloured jacket, white trousers and black shoes.
    Synonyms
    colourless, unpigmented, undyed, bleached, natural
    snowy, snowy-white, grey, silver, silvery, hoary, grizzled
    1. 1.1 Approaching the color white; very pale.
      her face was white with fear
      Example sentencesExamples
      • His knuckles were white from the tight grip he had had on his sheets and pillow.
      • He span in his chair, and his old and rugged face was white with fear.
      • He looked awful - he was paper white, even his lips, and he had dark shadows under his eyes.
      • Kay's face turned pale white, so white that she looked like a ghost.
      • Her face was as white as snow, and her hair as black as ink, and her lips as red as the blood on her gravestone.
      • He sees me looking at him, turns pale white, and runs over to the room.
      • I looked to my father and was stricken at how white his lips were.
      • Cautiously, he rolled her over to find her face pale, deathly white, and covered with blood.
      • Tightening her grasp on the tray until her knuckles turn white, Rena suddenly nods.
      • His face was white with fear and his eyes were wide and panicked.
      • Some had mist-filled eyes while many a countenance went white as a sheet of paper.
      • However, that wasn't what had made him go white with fear.
      • Two days later Jacek comes running into the house, his face white.
      • His color had gone from grey to milky white, and it was almost as if he were writhing in pain.
      • Wait, there he was leaning against a tree, looking as white and shaken as everyone else.
      • White scars stood prominently out against her tanned skin.
      • Marc dressed in black, looking thin as a rake and white as a sheet.
      • But Melissa did not go white with fear.
      • I saw Chris's knuckles turn white from his tight grip on the steering wheel.
      • I'm usually the poor sap sitting right next to her who is white with fear.
      Synonyms
      pale, pallid, wan, ashen, white as a ghost, white as a sheet, grey, anaemic, jaundiced, colourless, bloodless, waxen, chalky, chalk-white, milky, pasty, pasty-faced, whey-faced, peaky, sickly, tired-looking, washed out, sallow, drained, drawn, sapped, ghostly, deathly, deathlike, bleached
    2. 1.2 (of a plant) having white flowers or pale-colored fruit.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The most delicate is the classic white marguerite, Argyranthemum frutenscens.
      • Hanging in garlands on the sides of the tables, trees, and the fountain were white lilies.
      • We put sprigs of white hyacinth in a glass tumbler and placed it on a tray with candles.
      • She leaned against one of the white cherry blossom trees and began to hum to herself.
      • Vegetation such as gorse, heather and white grass is considered to be high fire risk while grassland is low risk.
      • I look up at Jeremiah whose rearranging the white lilies on the coffee table in front of the couch.
      • A mixture of tree resin, roots of white lilies and dried human excrement should be applied to the places where the body has been cut open.
    3. 1.3 (of a tree) having light-colored bark.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • All trees between these white oaks and the grassy opening were under 36 years of age.
      • The fifth biggest tree in the east is the famous white oak at Wye Mills, Maryland.
      • Not only was it the biggest white oak, it was the biggest tree of any kind ever measured in Maryland.
      • It doesn't matter if you collect the seeds from a White Dogwood or a Pink Dogwood, the seedlings are likely to be white.
      • I sighed deeply and took a seat on the grass, bracing next to a tall white oak tree.
    4. 1.4 (of wine) made from white grapes, or dark grapes with the skins removed, and having a yellowish color.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • For the broth, in a medium saucepan over medium heat, simmer the white wine for one minute.
      • The white wine is from his wife Catherine's family vineyard in South Africa.
      • With white wines they progress from almost water clear when young, to gold and amber in old age.
      • When allowed to warm close to room temperature, it is one of the finest white wines I have ever had.
      • For all that, Grossman drinks more white wine than red, partly because he eats a lot of fish and vegetarian food.
      • This splendidly frisky Italian white wine from Piedmont is made from the Cortese grape.
      • It has become a bit famous in recent years for its white wines, especially chenin blanc.
      • Pinot Gris seems to have come out of nowhere to be the trendy white wine in New Zealand and overseas.
      • Place the cleaned mussels and clams into a large pan and pour over the white wine.
      • If a glass of dry white retsina transports you and your palate back to the sun-kissed beaches of Greece, well, okay.
      • Whisk the white wine, rum, sugar, lemon and orange zest and lemon and orange juice together in a bowl.
      • We ordered glasses of white Lillet, a sweet French apéritif wine from Bordeaux.
      • I would generally allow about one kilo for two generous helpings and serve with crusty bread and chilled crisp white muscadet.
      • Some is made with red grapes in the same way as still rosé, but most by mixing a little red wine into white champagne.
      • Begin with an aperitif such as a glass of chilled white port.
      • Contemporary palates, myself included, view sauvignon as one of the most useful white wines in the rack.
      • And what sauvignon blanc does for white wines, cabernet sauvignon can do for reds.
      • He then suggested that we start the tasting session with a white wine.
      • Among white wines, Chardonnay stands up better to being boxed than most grape varieties.
      • This is achieved by pressing the red grapes rapidly to produce white wine without a trace of colour.
    5. 1.5British (of coffee or tea) served with milk or cream.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • We drank flat white coffees, and Ray noticed me looking at the blurry blue tattoo on his forearm.
      • Just don't ask for a white coffee - you'll get condensed milk already in the cup, urgh.
      • She was still smiling when she carried the two white coffees up the rickety wooden stairs.
    6. 1.6 (of bread) made from a light-colored, sifted, or bleached flour.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • These are made of white toast with their crusts cut off, and are filled with smoked salmon and prawn mayonnaise.
      • The only rule here is that you absolutely cannot use plain white, sliced bread, which goes all pappy like a soggy sandwich.
      • His diet permitted no more white breads or dinner rolls, which was one of the hardest things for him to put aside.
      • Two slices of bread, one white, the other brown and neatly cut, were included.
      • For lunch I like corned beef, white rice and fried onions, which I've eaten for as long as I can remember.
      • I always ate white rice until I read that you can sustain yourself on brown rice alone.
      • The main ingredient in French bread is white flour, which has very little nutritional value.
      • White bran does not impart the bitter taste associated with red bran.
      • If you do not like the Indian version then you get nasty white toast and bright red jam that tastes like bubble gum.
      • I am far too in love with fig rolls and thick white sliced bread smothered in cheap spread.
      • Buy different types of bread from a baker's instead of flabby sliced white loaves.
      • Today, as usual, he would eat a bowl of muesli with extra sugar and two pieces of white toast, coated in apricot jam.
      • You can also, while they last, have granary or white crusty rolls or sliced bread.
      • I snack on tons of Inarizushi - it's white rice stuffed inside sweetened tofu wrapping.
      • Where do you find the best value baked beans, sausages, ketchup and white sliced bread?
      • I also had to give up white and wheat flour because they block the digestive process.
      • The slices of thick, airy, white loaf with burnt crusts lathered in creamy butter were completely moreish.
      • A basket full of warm, fluffy-soft, white French bread heralded the meal.
      • I'm off to the supermarket later to clear the shelves of white sliced bread and tins of baked beans.
      • Nihan pointed out a popular dish where a raw egg is mixed with hot white rice and soy sauce.
      • I made a loaf of white soda bread and a batch of cheese scones for lunch on Saturday.
    7. 1.7 (of glass) transparent; colorless.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • She offered you both hard candy from a white glass bowl and looked into your daughter's face.
      • Her initial technique was animating beach sand on white glass lit from below.
      • In the middle there lay a small table, with a cloudy white glass sphere in the middle.
      • A generous front in white glass curves out to form porches for the two main entrance doors.

  • 2Belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction)

    a white farming community
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Are there things that a White woman can do to get ahead in the workplace that you think a Black woman never could do?
    • Lee apparently had enough money to hire an expensive white lawyer and served only a short jail term.
    • Stofile claimed there was a perception that they looked at granting amnesty only to white perpetrators.
    • The ten commissioners, five of whom are white and five black, voted along colour lines.
    • Imagine the uproar had a white European leader demanded the removal from power of anyone with Indian origins.
    • His passenger was white, with fair skin and hair that was shaved at the back.
    • Why is it that almost everything in my home was invented by a white, mostly European male?
    • No longer can the elite class be categorized homogenously as white and European.
    • In the colonial context, the camera wielded by white Europeans was an intrusive weapon of domination.
    • The intruder was described as being a clean shaven white male with glasses and around 55 years old.
    • Most participants were white Europeans who were being treated by their general practitioner.
    • The car driver was white, wore glasses and had a chubby build.
    • Two of the survivors are white European and the rest are mainland Chinese nationals.
    • As a person born with white skin, I do not pretend to speak on behalf of people of colour.
    • Nearly all the nation's 4000 white farmers have been served with forfeiture notices.
    • A different reaction or argument of white Southerners in respect to recent events in the South is bewilderment.
    • Obviously, that old-fashioned confidence primarily belongs to the white middle class.
    • She called for the Asian and white communities to pull together and support her.
    • The Pass Laws meant that everyone had to carry an ID card which indicated whether they were white, coloured or black.
    • There may be people in England and Wales who refer to white South Africans as Africans but I would not expect them to be numerous.
    Synonyms
    caucasian, european, non-black
    1. 2.1 Relating to white people.
      white Australian culture
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The South lost the Civil War, but it did not thereby lose its dedication to white supremacy.
      • The dominant white culture is killing us slowly with its ignorance.
      • Youths were as fed up with black leadership as they were with white supremacy.
      • The BRIT awards show does not exist to celebrate white culture - or any other kind of culture come to that.
      • To claim that the global acceptance of a US passport somehow equals white imperialism is silly.
      • Thurmond dropped overt appeals to white supremacy only after the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
      • Anybody who tried to assert white culture was automatically a member of the BNP.
      • The Republican campaign in Mississippi made heavy use of barely disguised appeals to white racism.
      • The sin that you commit is to give this ‘mentality’ credence by reducing it solely to white racism.
      • They identified more with black and Latino American culture than white American culture.
      • Her literary debut, The Grass Is Singing, exposed the moral bankruptcy of the white settler culture.
      • Why would a culture like white Christian society suddenly abandon itself and admit its crimes?
      • This was a startling shift for a company that was an icon of white American culture.
      • The major causes were white lust for land and the gap between Indian and white cultures.
      • The speaker is William Buckley, two years after his return to white society.
      • We black people like to think of ourselves as somehow outside of mainstream white culture.
      • Second, a number of recent historians have maintained that Northerners were as committed to white supremacy as Southerners.
      • Black nationalism was centered on blackness and saw no value in white culture and religion.

  • 3historical Counterrevolutionary or reactionary.

    Contrasted with red (sense 2 of the adjective)
noun(h)wīt(h)waɪt

  • 1White color or pigment.

    garnet-red flowers flecked with white
    the woodwork was an immaculate white
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Patriotic colours of red, navy and white as well as pastel tweeds were striking.
    • A couple of weeks ago, when I changed the colour scheme of this site to red and white, England won.
    • In spring the fritillaries flower, turning the meadow into a mass of purple and white.
    • Erial, as was her wont, chose mostly whites and other pale, unobtrusive colours.
    • Black dominates the whole collection, but red, beige and white are also prominent throughout.
    • There are no vegetables, and in fact the plate is colourless beyond the eerie white of these Polish dumplings.
    • Smitty is very experienced, not only in diving but in life, as the flecks of white in his beard attest.
    • They oppose it with tint, which is the opposite process of adding white to a colour, to desaturate it.
    • Rays of pure red and white flew off in random directions, leaving only a vivid rose.
    • She slid it open and the first colour she saw was white, a stark, blinding white.
    • In reality, it's better to mix white with shades of ivory, almond, ecru and tan.
    • The vases in this collection come in midnight black and pristine white.
    • In daylight, the human brain reacts more quickly to fluorescent colours than any other shade-even white.
    • The ceiling was a soft rosy color and the floor was tiled in sky blue and white.
    • Instead they decided to defer the matter to give the park time to change the colour scheme to all white to make it look less conspicuous.
    • Ivory seems to be the colour most brides-to-be are favouring as white may be a little stark in terms of matching accessories.
    • My husband said ‘no’ because we've got to stick to the club colours of black and white.
    • In my dreams, his hair and skin tone are the same as mine, except he has no purple pigments embedded in his pallid white.
    • So I've stripped out the colours and reverted to plain black on white.
    • Shocking half-page pictures in colour and black and white underline the story throughout.
    1. 1.1 White clothes or material.
      he was dressed from head to foot in white
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The grand pas de deux was danced in white with red trim and while Kitri's costume was beautiful the stiff tutu lacked grace.
      • In the shop and outside are divinely tailored ladies, all dressed in black and white.
      • Next to her sat an old lady dressed in white who peered at Komal with screwed up eyes.
      • Nearly everyone dresses in the traditional white with red neckerchiefs and sashes.
      • She stood before the throne of her master in armor of purest white edged in gold.
      • The dashes of red had gone and there were a number of highly contrasting garments in black and white.
      • We left our blazers on a chair, then made to the rooms and got dressed in the same white.
      • She wore a newly fashioned gown of shimmering white, a delicate veil and a golden circlet.
      • A fleeting video image of a woman dressed in white and moving through moonlit trees cast a spell of love and mystery.
      • Molly stood up in surprise and noticed that she was now wearing a gauzy dress of iridescent white.
      • Upon the terrace was a beautiful woman, garbed in a flowing silk gown of glowing white.
      • The lovers are all in white with costumes of a variety of nineteenth century periods.
      • She was dressed in a cowboy outfit of bright green and white, contrasting perfectly with the colour of the horse.
      • Two dancers in white make a classical assignation, she on pointe, he in heroic blouson.
      • Hundreds of people dressed in the traditional white with red scarves take part in each run.
      • Greece will play in white with blue trim while Portugal wear red shirts with green shorts.
      • I am wearing dark green and white with a purple scarf - suffragette colours.
      • In the small room next to the car porch sat a middle aged person, dressed in full white.
      • She could see them now, humans dressed in white with their faces covered by strange masks.
      • At the time Michael did not realise where Kilgarvan was, but saw that they were dressed in red and white.
    2. 1.2whites White clothes, especially as worn for playing tennis, or as naval uniform, or in the context of washing.
      wash whites separately
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Other uniform combinations included dress whites, dress blue pants with the Ike jacket, and dress blues in winter.
      • One fine Saturday afternoon in Cape Town in April, Graeme Smith, the lantern-jawed South African cricket captain, pulled on his whites and strode out on to the turf.
      • The foundation provided him with new cricket whites, boots, gloves, pads, anew bat, a helmet, six balls and a cricket bag.
      • Separate the light colors from the dark ones and try to wash whites separately.
      • You know the one I mean, the one where the guys all wore cricket whites and the women all had flowery dresses that button up the front.
      • Stewart, aged 16, is thrilled to own a set of chef's knives, a sparkling set of whites and a chef's hat.
      • Adults can wear either chef whites, company uniform, fancy dress or sports gear.
      • Literally and metaphorically, Lenny was everywhere, attending to every minute organisational detail and then getting into the ring in whites as a ref.
      • Nylon whites should be washed separately to avoid graying.
      • He walked through our cars in fresh whites with his tall chef's hat asking how we liked the meal.
      • An all-girl choir, dressed in cricket whites, rendered powerful and moving songs of praise and gratitude.
      • They swapped their cricket whites for oversized army helmets to pose as diggers in a re-enactment of a 1915 photograph.
      • The MPs will don tall chefs' hats and traditional whites and toss pancakes in the air as they run.
      • Rush's portrait shows Warne in cricket whites tossing up a ball in the air.
      • Hunter was standing at a commercial sized stove, dressed in chef whites, with an apron wrapped around his slim waist.
      • Wash whites separately; light and medium colors together; and brights and darks by themselves.
      • Chef Passot was out saying goodnight in his whites, somehow more pristine than our crumbed and wine-smudged selves.
      • A daring university student dressed in cricket whites, pads and a helmet gave an innovative spin to the concept of pitch invasion.
      • Suddenly, the chef, appears in his whites and says ‘shut up and eat!’
      • Americans, in fact, could have ended up staying in striped caps and cricket whites.
    3. 1.3 White wine.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • There are four wine lists - two for reds, two for whites, divided into Spanish and foreign - and more than 700 wines, lots of which may be drunk by the glass.
      • Ultimately, his efforts produced a good dry red and a solid dry white from a full range of wines from the estate.
      • Bordeaux whites, based on Sauvignon Blanc and sometimes blended with Semillon, are crisp and dry but usually not overtly herbaceous.
      • The main varietals in Chile are Chardonnay and Sauvignon Blanc for whites and Cabernet, Merlot and Carmenere for reds.
      • Sweeter whites, like Rieslings or Gewuerztraminers, are well suited to big, smoky flavors.
      • I love big Italian red wines and New Zealand whites.
      • This honeyed, concentrated, sweet and sour style white is perfect with this dish.
      • Lighter foods, such as grilled fish, work best with more delicate whites such as Sauvignon Blanc or a light Chardonnay.
      • The ripe, peachy La Mancha white displays lots of apple and pear-scented fruit.
      • Although Bordeaux is best known for its red wines, the region produces excellent whites, particularly the sweet Sauternes.
      • We tasted a wide range of wines, from a sparkler to whites to reds to a very nice little semisparkler for dessert.
      • In general, Aussie reds are easy and lush while their whites (primarily Chardonnay and Semillon) are big and round.
      • Made by a winery that makes great wines at every price point, this is a restrained, citrus fruity white.
      • We ordered a glass of house medium white for me, an apple juice for Lili.
      • Her other two whites are both Chardonnays, one from Burgundy and one from California's Sonoma Valley.
      • For the great sweet Bordeaux whites, you need Sauternes of similar status and you go to d' Yquem, where they don't do red.
      • The purity of these wines can be lost, or if you prefer diluted, in a blend, which is why most wine hacks like varietal whites, but drink blended reds.
      • You will need bold summer food to cope with this sweet, hefty, toasty, nutty white.
      • Semillon brings a lush texture to dry whites while Sauvignon Blanc brings an herbal raciness - a terrific combination.
      • At £19.75, it was the best white that the wine list had to offer, which some might see as a lack of ambition in the cellar.
    4. 1.4 The player of the white pieces in chess or checkers.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • After this White's position is very bad because his pieces are so poorly placed for the middle-game.
    5. 1.5 The white pieces in chess.
    6. 1.6 A white thing, in particular the white ball (the cue ball) in billiards.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • But a potted white by Perry let Ding back in and he cleared up to win.
    7. 1.7 White bread.
      tuna on white

  • 2The visible pale part of the eyeball around the iris.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • This is characterised by broken blood vessels on the whites of the eyes and in the skin.
    • You could only see the whites of her eyes and she was red hot.
    • When the liver is affected by hepatitis, it is unable to process the bilirubin and raised levels in the blood cause the whites of the eyes to go yellow and urine to become dark.
    • They looked like normal people until you saw their eyes, completely black, no whites or irises.
    • In some people, the white of the eye can be seen above the iris at all times.
    • Viral conjunctivitis can spread to the cornea, the white of the eye.
    • The whites of his eyes were large in my view and surrounding two jet black preternatural pupils unlike any I had seen before.
    • You half expect to see orange dimpled leather instead of eye whites when you look at him, but there is nothing robotic about him.
    • This causes yellowing of the skin and the whites of the eyes, darkening of the urine and pale clay coloured stools.
    • His eyes were wide, with the whites visible so starkly against his skin, and he was pushing his other hand onto his mouth, tightly, until the knuckles turned pale.
    • His eyes, though still inhumanly brilliant, bore smaller irises and more pronounced whites - just like Arun's own.
    • Inflammation causes small blood vessels in the conjunctiva to become more prominent, resulting in a pinkish or reddish cast to the whites of your eyes.
    • The conjunctiva is a thin lining that covers the whites of the eyes and the insides of the eyelids.
    • Jo looked up, the whites of her eyes visible under the moon.
    • The absence of pigment in the human sclera (the whites of the eyes) highlights the iris and thereby enhances the interpretation of eye movements.
    • The gray pupils are glazed and the yellowed whites are striated with red.

  • 3The outer part (white when cooked) which surrounds the yolk of an egg; the albumen.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Put the fish stock and tomato sauce into a large saucepan with crushed shells and whites of four eggs.
    • Suddenly dozens of eggs fell from the basket and smashed into a puddle of yolks and whites as he shifted the pole from one shoulder to the other.
    • Add 4 egg yolks (saving the whites for later) and thoroughly incorporate.
    • Cool and peel the eggs, reserving the yolks and discarding the whites.
    • Rather than stovetop stirring, you stabilize the souffle by beating sugar into the egg yolks and whites separately.
    • Combine the egg yolks and whites and fold them carefully together.
    • Separate the eggs, putting the yolks and whites into separate large bowls.
    • Six whites and one yolk yield 24 g of protein and 6 g of fat, much of it healthy.
    • Crispy fried noodle threads and minced peppers add crunch; sieved egg yolks and whites add softness.
    • Later, he decided that the result was improved if the yolk and white were cooked separately.
    • You apparently mustn't have any yolk in the white if you are going to whisk it successfully.
    • You may be used to eating the whites and discarding the yolks, but skip that step during pregnancy because the yolks provide extra calories, Vitamin D and folic acid.
    • The whole thing is then cooked again to harden the whites around the yolk.
    • When you make the meringue, ensure you pour the syrup on to the egg whites while still hot, then it will ‘cook’ the whites and blow up into a dense, airy foam.
    • Carefully crack your six eggs so that the raw yolks and whites are arranged fairly evenly inside the pastry-lined dish.
    • I brought in 64 eggs, separated the yolks from the whites and had the students varnish their paintings using haki brushes.
    • When the whites congeal, just spoon some water over the yellow yolks and the albumen will turn white, and you have your runny eggs.
    • Cook the eggs long enough to solidify the whites, but the yolks remain somewhat runny.
    • To make the custard, separate the eggs and whisk the vanilla sugar into the yolks (save the whites for meringues).
    • Lightly whisk one-quarter of the whites into the custard to loosen it slightly, then carefully fold in the remainder.

  • 4A member of a light-skinned people, especially one of European extraction.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • In fact, research suggests that when compared with whites of European descent, ethnic minorities exhibit greater variability in their preferences.
    • Dark-skinned people in Brazil are more likely to be poor than light skinned-people and whites have average monthly incomes almost two and a half times greater than nonwhites.
    • Willingham grew up in the 1960s in Jacksonville, N.C., which prepared him for a world that often has different rules for blacks and whites.
    • Civic leagues had been founded with the sole purpose of keeping whites from leasing to blacks.
    • It is the most common lethal genetic disease in whites with 90% percent of the mortality due to pulmonary infections.
    • As I read the Times' story, the issue in the survey was whether minority group members should be admitted over whites with higher test scores and grades.
    • African, Hispanic, and Native Americans are twice as likely to have gastric cancer as whites however.
    • Unlike whites and members of other ethnic groups, blacks who live in the suburbs are far wealthier than their city brethren.
    • In the present South African team there are no whites and blacks.
    • He has also lambasted the European Union and declared verbal war on whites who tell blacks in Africa how to run free and fair elections.
    • One audience member asked whether whites should go out of their way to develop black friends.
    • Gilman grew up in the upper Upper West Side of New York, where whites were a very visible minority.
    • You know the old saying: No one gets a free lunch and that applies to blacks, whites and any other race.
    • Before Charles cracked that barrier, the country music scene was seen and regarded by many blacks and whites as the exclusive preserve of white, rural Southern singers.
    • Hispanics descended from Europeans are no more heat-tolerant than other whites.
    • Wisdom teeth problems are more common among European whites compared to Orientals and blacks.
    • It is based on research that documents cultural differences between whites and blacks in communication styles.
    • In addition to a historical legacy of unequal care, black patients also appear to view suffering somewhat differently than whites of European background.
    • Now, the complaint, at least from members of The New Black Panther Party, is that whites are moving in.
    • Approximately one in seven whites was uninsured, and 10% had only public insurance.

  • 5with modifier A white or cream butterfly that has dark veins or spots on the wings. It can be a serious crop pest.

    Pieris and other genera, family Pieridae. See also cabbage white

verb(h)wīt(h)waɪt
[with object]archaic

  • Paint or turn (something) white.

    your passion hath whited your face
    Synonyms
    become white, make white, become pale, make pale, bleach, blanch, lighten, fade, wash out, be washed out, etiolate

Phrases

  • white man's burden

    • The task that white colonizers believed they had to impose their civilization on the black inhabitants of their colonies.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • He obviously thinks it's time we donned our pith helmets and picked up the white man's burden again.
      • The self-defeating nature of imperialism is slyly suggested through a dramatic reversal that exploits the notion of the white man's burden.
      • He blamed the white man who, in the name of civilization and ‘the white man's burden,’ impoverished many peoples in the world.
      • Earlier settlers are cruel and violent, unable to understand the white man's burden in Africa or the value of fairness and bureaucracy.
      • You know, apart from ‘the white man's burden,’ there were other patronising ideas floating around at the time.
      • He bears the white man's burden with exceptional grace.
      • It is a sort of modern style of the white man's burden in 2004.
      • This is hardly surprising, since the white man's burden has long been recognized as an excuse for the most vile exploitation.
      • Even the neocons, for all their viciousness and totalitarian gut instincts, sometimes show signs of taking their white man's burden seriously.
      • We will go out, we will pick up the white man's burden and we will colonise these areas that are not yet under our domination.

  • whiter than white

    • 1Extremely white.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • We want clean clothes, but within that simple desire lie images of crisp starching, of linen whiter than white.
      • The weather forecast is looking good for this weekend, I may even get some colour to my whiter than white legs.
      • They are polishing the Santiago Bernabeu right now, scrubbing up the exterior to make it look whiter than white in this the centenary year.
      • They have better upholstery, they're adequately airbrushed and their teeth are whiter than white.
      • The team prepared a new sample by coating a titanium plate with a layer of titanium dioxide, or titania, familiar as the whiter than white pigment in household paints.
      • It was a close up shot, framed in blue light in a dental surgery, but still unmistakably the actor's whiter than white teeth.
      • The wall fronting Strand Street was gleaming whiter than white in the spring sunshine..
      • I've just had soup for lunch and I was wearing a whiter than white t-shirt.
      • He is kind of cute, and has a whiter than white toothpaste smile, a wicked sense of humour and an accent to die for.
      • He smiled, showing off two perfectly straight rows of clean whiter than white teeth.
      1. 1.1Morally beyond reproach.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • Individuals in positions of public authority should remember they have to be whiter than white if they are not to compromise their position.
        • If our glorious leaders want to be so righteous and take the stance they have then in my mind they should be above reproach themselves, whiter than white.
        • He suggests that they may have believed, somewhat naively, that big business was whiter than white.
        • That organisation measures corruption on a scale of one to 18, with one being whiter than white, and 18 being the most corrupt of the corrupt.
        • The public expects us as members of a planning committee to be whiter than white, and rightly so.
        • The lawyers and accountants needed to know absolutely everything was whiter than white.
        • I always find it amusing that LibDems portray themselves as whiter than white yet will fight dirtier than anyone.
        • A big part of his job, therefore, is to restore trust by demonstrating that local government is whiter than white.
        • He seems to believe they are whiter than white when it comes to sectarianism and criminality.
        • The conclusions they came to do not surprise me because this chief constable must be seen to be whiter than white with no black marks,’ he said.
        Synonyms
        virtuous, moral, ethical, good, righteous, angelic, saintly, pious, honourable, reputable, wholesome, clean, honest, upright, upstanding, exemplary, above reproach, beyond reproach, irreproachable, innocent

  • whited sepulcher

    • literary A hypocrite.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I wonder how He might fare today with His uncompromising stand on Hypocrites and whited sepulchres?
      • Instead of pointing the finger at yobs we should perhaps inspect our own whited sepulchres.
      • When asked how he would describe Vizard now, Hilliard replied: ‘He's a whited sepulchre, full of dead man's bones and rottenness.’
      • I think of one particular whited sepulchre, who insists that, ‘we must never give up on people’.
      • Our unusually tidy house is a sham, all deceiving beauty outside yet all corruption within, as a whited sepulchre, or market stall pear.
      • They're a bunch of whited sepulchres, and I think if we could bring religious people to see that, I think the battle would be halfway won.
      • With delicious invective, Nietzsche describes the legions of modern educators who are forever trying to teach a humanistic ethic as ‘whited sepulchers who impersonate life.’
      • Keep up the good fight, and as to the whited sepulchres, keep giving it to them good and hard.
      Synonyms
      sanctimonious person, pietist, whited sepulchre, plaster saint, humbug, pretender, deceiver, dissembler, impostor

Phrasal Verbs

  • white out

    • 1(of vision) become impaired by exposure to sudden bright light.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • My head had started to spin again, and my vision almost whited out.
      • He tried to raise his head, and his sight whited out entirely.
      1. 1.1(of a person) lose color vision as a prelude to losing consciousness.
        Example sentencesExamples
        • I bolted for the door and whited out as I hit the street.

  • white something out

    • 1Obliterate a mistake with white correction fluid.

      Example sentencesExamples
      • I was in the production department, which involved random paste-ups, little editorial corrections and whiting out lines when they went over the panel border.
      • You can't just hit delete, you have to rip the pages or white out the text.
      • The governor's office had whited out the answers.
      • A teacher at the school took a copy of the New York ballot paper, photocopied it and whited out all the nominees names, putting school subjects in their place.
      • Because of the privacy thing, when looking at students' papers, we white out all the names that are in the paper.
      • They should release the documents containing the allegations against him, with the sensitive bits whited out.
      1. 1.1Cover one's face or facial blemishes completely with makeup.

    • 2Impair someone's vision with a sudden bright light.

Origin

Late Old English hwīt, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch wit and German weiss, also to wheat.

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