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white
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(ʰwaɪt, waɪt)adj. whit•er, whit•est, adj.
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(ʰwaɪt, waɪt)n.
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See Also: COLORS, COMPLEXION, PALLOR
- (Face) more white than sin —Dame Edith Sitwell
- Pure white as china door knobs —Reynolds Price
- White and bare as a winter moon —George Garrett
- White and clean as driftwood —George Garrett
See Also: CLEANLINESS
- (A yacht) white and pretty as a birthday cake —George Garrett
See Also: BEAUTY
- White and wan, like the head and skin of a dying man —Percy Bysshe Shelley
- (The desert is) white as a blind man’s eye —Sylvia Plath
- (He’s as) white as a chicken —Honore de Balzac
- (Face) white as a bandage —Helen Hudson
- White as a dog’s bone —Anne Sexton
- White as a foam-flower —Henry Van Dyke
- (Ball) white as a leghorn egg —W. P. Kinsella
- White as a lily —William Shakespeare
- (In marble halls as) white as milk —Anon old English riddle
Some variations to intensify the image: “White as new milk” by Dorothy Canfield Fisher and “Snow white as white milk from a white cow” by Eleanor Wylie.
- White as a milk tooth —Charles Simic
- (Body) white as an aspirin —Richard Ford
- White as any bough that blooms in May —Geoffrey Chaucer
- White as a peeled stick —Helen Hudson
- (Moon) white as a sand dollar —Diane Ackerman
- White as blanched almonds —Charles Cotton
- (Teeth) white as detergent —Margaret Atwood
- White as ermine —Dame Edith Sitwell
- (Her neck and temples were) white as flour —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- White as frost —G. K. Chesterton
An extension of this opening line of Chesterton’s poem, The Mirror of Madmen, is “White as hoarfrost.”
- White as ivory —Oscar Wilde
An extension by a contemporary short story writer, Barry Targan: “White as polished ivory.”
- White as lightning —Cynthia Ozick
The comparison is being used to describe the look of a woman in a nurse’s uniform.
- (The air blew white in my face,) white as my daughter’s communion dress, white as a bridal veil —Elizabeth Spencer
- (The little space between earth and sky was filled by a broken veil of drifting flakes as) white as pear blossoms —Phyllis Bottome
- (Teeth,) white as peeled almonds —Gerald Kersh
- (Veins) white as porkfat —Sylvia Plath
- White as pulverized bone —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- White as rice —Reynolds Price
- White as sheets and blizzards —T. Coraghessan Boyle
- White as snow —The Holy Bible
Similes comparing the whiteness of complexions, hair and miscellaneous objects to snow can be found throughout literature as well as in our everyday language. Some well-known variations include: “White as driven snow” by William Shakespeare, “White as new-fallen snow” by William Wordsworth, “White as dead snow” by Algernon Charles Swinburne and “White as the snow on high hills” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning.
- (Teeth) white as sun-cured bone —Beryl Markham
- (Hand) white as talcum —Mavis Gallant
- (Teeth) white as the petals of a daisy —Dan Jacobson
- White as the sun —Henry Chettle
- White as the surf —Oscar Wilde
- (Face is) white as the wall —Daphne du Maurier
- (Chest … ) white as wax —Patricia Henley
- (Hair) white as whipped cream —W. P. Kinsella
- (Face) white like a whitewashed fence —William Faulkner
- White like May-blossom —Charlotte Bronte
- White like salt —Aharon Megged
- White like sea foam —Joan Chase
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Past participle: whited
Gerund: whiting
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Noun | 1. | ![]() individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do" Aryan - (according to Nazi doctrine) a Caucasian person of Nordic descent (and not a Jew) Circassian - a member of the Sunni Muslim people living in northwestern Caucasia paleface - (slang) a derogatory term for a white person (supposedly used by North American Indians) Semite - a member of a group of Semitic-speaking peoples of the Middle East and northern Africa Elamite - a member of an ancient warlike people living in Elam east of Babylonia as early as 3000 BC white man - a man who is White white woman - a woman who is White white trash - (slang) an offensive term for White people who are impoverished whitey - (slang) offensive names for a White man WASP, white Anglo-Saxon Protestant - a white person of Anglo-Saxon ancestry who belongs to a Protestant denomination |
2. | white - the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) achromatic color, achromatic colour - a color lacking hue; white or grey or black alabaster - a very light white bleach - the whiteness that results from removing the color from something; "a complete bleach usually requires several applications" chalk - a pure flat white with little reflectance hoariness, frostiness - a silvery-white color | |
3. | White - 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) | |
4. | White - Australian writer (1912-1990) | |
5. | White - United States political journalist (1915-1986) | |
6. | White - United States architect (1853-1906) | |
7. | White - United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985) | |
8. | White - United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918) | |
9. | ![]() Arkansas, Land of Opportunity, AR - a state in south central United States; one of the Confederate states during the American Civil War Missouri, Show Me State, MO - a midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union | |
10. | ![]() fixings, ingredient - food that is a component of a mixture in cooking; "the recipe lists all the fixings for a salad" | |
11. | white - (board games) the lighter pieces checkers, draughts - a checkerboard game for two players who each have 12 pieces; the object is to jump over and so capture the opponent's pieces chess game, chess - a board game for two players who move their 16 pieces according to specific rules; the object is to checkmate the opponent's king man, piece - game equipment consisting of an object used in playing certain board games; "he taught me to set up the men on the chess board"; "he sacrificed a piece to get a strategic advantage" black - (board games) the darker pieces | |
12. | ![]() trouser, pant - (usually in the plural) a garment extending from the waist to the knee or ankle, covering each leg separately; "he had a sharp crease in his trousers" plural, plural form - the form of a word that is used to denote more than one | |
Verb | 1. | ![]() bleach - make whiter or lighter; "bleach the laundry" |
Adj. | 1. | ![]() light-colored, light - (used of color) having a relatively small amount of coloring agent; "light blue"; "light colors such as pastels"; "a light-colored powder" black - being of the achromatic color of maximum darkness; having little or no hue owing to absorption of almost all incident light; "black leather jackets"; "as black as coal"; "rich black soil" |
2. | white - of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population" black - of or belonging to a racial group having dark skin especially of sub-Saharan African origin; "a great people--a black people--...injected new meaning and dignity into the veins of civilization"- Martin Luther King Jr. | |
3. | white - free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor" pure - (used of persons or behaviors) having no faults; sinless; "I felt pure and sweet as a new baby"- Sylvia Plath; "pure as the driven snow" | |
4. | white - marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter" covered - overlaid or spread or topped with or enclosed within something; sometimes used as a combining form; "women with covered faces"; "covered wagons"; "a covered balcony" | |
5. | white - 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" segregated, unintegrated - separated or isolated from others or a main group; "a segregated school system"; "a segregated neighborhood" | |
6. | white - glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire" hot - used of physical heat; having a high or higher than desirable temperature or giving off heat or feeling or causing a sensation of heat or burning; "hot stove"; "hot water"; "a hot August day"; "a hot stuffy room"; "she's hot and tired"; "a hot forehead" | |
7. | white - benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you" good - morally admirable | |
8. | ![]() empty - holding or containing nothing; "an empty glass"; "an empty room"; "full of empty seats"; "empty hours" | |
9. | white - (of coffee) having cream or milk added | |
10. | ![]() colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful | |
11. | ![]() colorless, colourless - weak in color; not colorful | |
12. | white - of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights" light - characterized by or emitting light; "a room that is light when the shutters are open"; "the inside of the house was airy and light" |
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[waɪt]to go or turn white (in face) → ponerse blanco or pálido, palidecer
whiter than white [person, way of life] → sin tacha, angelical
"Bleacho" washes whiter than white → "Bleacho" deja la colada blanca como la nieve
he went white at the age of 30 → el pelo se le puso blanco a los 30 años, encaneció a los 30 años
she was white with rage → estaba pálida de la rabia
to show the white feather → mostrarse cobarde
to be as white as a sheet or ghost → estar pálido como la muerte
see also bleed B3
his face was a deathly white → su rostro estaba blanco or pálido como la muerte
the sheets were a dazzling white → las sábanas eran de un blanco deslumbrante
to be dressed in white → ir vestido de blanco
see also black A1, B1
white chocolate N → chocolate m blanco
white Christmas N → Navidades fpl blancas or con nieve
white coffee N (milky) → café m con leche; (with dash of milk) → café m cortado
white dwarf N (Astron) → enana f blanca
white elephant N (fig) → elefante m blanco
white elephant stall tenderete donde se venden cachivaches
white ensign N (Brit) → enseña f blanca
white flag N (Mil) → bandera f blanca
white fox N = arctic fox white gold N → oro m blanco
white goods NPL → electrodomésticos mpl
white grape N → uva f blanca
white heat N (Phys) → calor m blanco
white hope N the great white hope → la gran esperanza dorada
white horses NPL (on waves) → cabrillas fpl
the White House N (in US) → la Casa Blanca
white knight N (Fin) → caballero m blanco
white lead N (Chem) → albayalde m
white lie N → mentira f piadosa
to tell a white lie → decir una mentira piadosa
white light N (Phys) → luz f blanca
white magic N → magia f blanca
white meat N (Culin) → carne f blanca
White Nile N = Nile white noise N (Acoustics) → ruido m blanco or uniforme
white owl N → búho m blanco
White Paper N (Brit, Australia, Canada) (Parl) → libro m blanco
white pepper N → pimienta f blanca
White Russia N (Hist) → la Rusia Blanca
White Russian N (Hist) → ruso/a m/f blanco/a
white sale N (Comm) → rebajas fpl de ropa blanca
white sapphire N → zafiro m blanco
white sauce N → salsa f bechamel, besamel f
the White Sea N → el Mar Blanco
white shark N → tiburón m blanco
white slave trade N → trata f de blancas
white spirit N (Brit) → trementina f
white tie N (= tie) → pajarita f blanca; (= outfit) → traje m de etiqueta con pajarita blanca
see also white-tie white trash N (US) (pej) término ofensivo contra la clase blanca pobre estadounidense
white water N → aguas fpl rápidas
white water rafting → piragüismo m en aguas rápidas, rafting m
white wedding N to have a white wedding → casarse de blanco (y por la iglesia)
white whale N → ballena f blanca
white wine N → vino m blanco
white wood N → madera f blanca
see also supremacist
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[ˈhwaɪt]He's got white hair → Il a les cheveux blancs.
a white shirt → une chemise blanche
fluffy white clouds → de blancs nuages moutonneux
the land of the long white cloud → le pays du long nuage blanc
to turn white [hair] → blanchir
to paint sth white → peindre qch en blanc
a white loaf → une miche de pain blanc
Would you like your coffee black or white? - White, please → Vous voulez votre café noir ou avec du lait? - Avec du lait, s'il vous plaît.
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[waɪt]to turn or go white (person) → sbiancare (hair) → diventare bianco/a
a white man → un bianco
a white Christmas → un Natale con la neve
the great white hope (fig) → la promessa numero uno
to be as white as a sheet → essere bianco/a come un cencio
as white as snow → niveo/a, bianco or candido come la neve
white with fear → pallido/a dalla paura
it washes the clothes whiter than white → lava più bianco del bianco
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(wait) adjectivewhite
→ أَبْيَض bílý hvid weiß λευκός blanco valkoinen blanc bijeli bianco 白い 흰 wit hvit biały branco белый vit สีขาว beyaz trắng 白的white
- In black and white
- Coffee with milk, please (US)
A white coffee, please (UK) - Can you recommend a good white wine?
- A bottle of white wine
- A carafe of white wine