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| TV Shop | As seen on TV: White Light Tooth Whitener, beauty, diets, exercise, household, kitchen, personal, vitamins, and other popular TV-products. |
| Sounds | hhway't; way't |
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| Rhymes | acolyte, airtight, alight, and 175 more rhymes in ayt... |
| Meaning | Of the achromatic color of maximum lightness. Having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light. |
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| Examples | "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress" |
| Contrary | black |
| Similar | albescent |
| See also | light, light-colored |
| Attribute of | value |
| Nouns | whiteness |
| Meaning | Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration. |
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| Examples | "voting patterns within the white population" |
| Contrary | black |
| Similar | Caucasian, Caucasoid; light-skinned |
| Meaning | Free from moral blemish or impurity. Unsullied. |
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| Examples | "in shining white armor" |
| Similar to | pure |
| Nouns | whiteness |
| Meaning | Marked by the presence of snow. |
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| Examples | "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" |
| Synonyms | snowy |
| Similar to | covered |
| Meaning | Restricted to whites only. |
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| Examples | "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization" |
| Synonyms | lily-white |
| Similar to | segregated, unintegrated |
| Meaning | Glowing white with heat. |
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| Examples | "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" |
| Synonyms | white-hot |
| Similar to | hot |
| Meaning | Benevolent. Without malicious intent. |
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| Examples | "that's white of you" |
| Similar to | good |
| Meaning | (of a surface) not written or printed on. |
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| Examples | "wide white margins" |
| Synonyms | blank, clean |
| Similar to | empty |
| Meaning | (of coffee) having cream or milk added. |
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| Similar to | diluted, dilute |
| Meaning | (of hair) having lost its color. |
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| Examples | "the white hairs of old age" |
| Synonyms | whitened |
| Similar to | colorless, colourless |
| Meaning | Anemic looking from illness or emotion. |
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| Examples | "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage" |
| Synonyms | ashen, blanched, bloodless, livid |
| Similar to | colorless, colourless |
| Meaning | Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets. |
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| Examples | "white nights" |
| Similar to | light |
| Meaning | A member of the Caucasoid race. |
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| Synonyms | white person, Caucasian |
| Member of | White race, White people, Caucasoid race, Caucasian race |
| Broader | person, individual, someone, somebody, mortal, soul |
| Narrower | Aryan; Circassian; paleface; Semite; Kassite, Cassite; Elamite; white man; white woman; white trash, poor white trash, poor white; whitey, honky, honkey, honkie; WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant |
| Meaning | The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black). |
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| Synonyms | whiteness |
| Contrary | black, blackness, inkiness |
| Broader | achromatic color, achromatic colour |
| Narrower | alabaster; bleach; bone, ivory, pearl, off-white; chalk; frostiness, hoariness |
| Verbs | white |
| Meaning | United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft. Noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921). |
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| Synonyms | Edward White, Edward D. White, Edward Douglas White Jr. |
| Instance of | chief justice |
| Meaning | Australian writer (1912-1990). |
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| Synonyms | Patrick White, Patrick Victor Martindale White |
| Instance of | writer, author |
| Meaning | United States political journalist (1915-1986). |
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| Synonyms | T. H. White, Theodore Harold White |
| Instance of | journalist |
| Meaning | United States architect (1853-1906). |
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| Synonyms | Stanford White |
| Instance of | architect, designer |
| Meaning | United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985). |
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| Synonyms | E. B. White, Elwyn Brooks White |
| Instance of | writer, author |
| Meaning | United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918). |
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| Synonyms | Andrew D. White, Andrew Dickson White |
| Instance of | educator, pedagogue, pedagog |
| Meaning | A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri. |
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| Synonyms | White River |
| Part of | Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR; Missouri, Show Me State, MO |
| Instance of | river |
| Meaning | The white part of an egg. The nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water. |
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| Examples | "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs" |
| Synonyms | egg white, albumen, ovalbumin |
| Part of | egg, eggs |
| Broader | ingredient, fixings |
| Meaning | (board games) the lighter pieces. |
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| Contrary | black |
| Category | checkers, draughts; chess, chess game |
| Broader | man, piece |
| Meaning | (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth. |
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| Synonyms | flannel, gabardine, tweed |
| Usage | plural, plural form |
| Broader | trouser, pant |
| Meaning | Turn white. |
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| Pattern | Something ----s; Somebody ----s something; Something ----s something |
| Examples | "This detergent will whiten your laundry" |
| Synonyms | whiten |
| Contrary | blacken, melanize, melanise, nigrify, black |
| Broader | discolor, discolour, colour, color |
| Narrower | bleach |
| Nouns | white |
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