white [ 'waits ]

• n.
  • a member of the Caucasoid race

    同义词： white person Caucasian

  • the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

    同义词： whiteness

  • 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)

    同义词： Edward White Edward D. White Edward Douglas White Jr.

  • Australian writer (1912-1990)

    同义词： Patrick White Patrick Victor Martindale White

  • United States political journalist (1915-1986)

    同义词： T. H. White Theodore Harold White

  • United States architect (1853-1906)

    同义词： Stanford White

  • United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

    同义词： E. B. White Elwyn Brooks White

  • United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

    同义词： Andrew D. White Andrew Dickson White

  • a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

    同义词： White River

  • the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water

    "she separated the whites from the yolks of several eggs"

    同义词： egg white albumen ovalbumin

  • (board games) the lighter pieces
  • (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth

    同义词： flannel gabardine tweed

• v. turn white

  "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

  同义词： whiten

• adj.
  • being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light

    "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"

  • of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration

    "voting patterns within the white population"

  • free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied

    "in shining white armor"

  • marked by the presence of snow

    "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"

    同义词： snowy

  • restricted to whites only

    "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"

    同义词： lily-white

  • glowing white with heat

    "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

    同义词： white-hot

  • benevolent; without malicious intent

    "that's white of you"

  • (of a surface) not written or printed on

    "wide white margins"

    同义词： blank clean

  • (of coffee) having cream or milk added
  • (of hair) having lost its color

    "the white hairs of old age"

    同义词： whitened

  • anemic looking from illness or emotion

    "lips white with terror"; "a face white with rage"

    同义词： ashen blanched bloodless livid

  • of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets

    "white nights"

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