Government( often cap.) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.Chessthe men or pieces that are light-colored.the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow.an arrow that hits this portion of the butt.Insects any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.( cap.) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.PrintingUsually, whites. a blank space in printing.a type or breed that is white in color.Winewhite wine: Graves is a good white.Clothingwhite or nearly white clothing.Anatomythe white part of the eyeball: He has a speck in the white of his eye.Biochemistrya pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg.Physical Anthropologya person whose racial heritage is Caucasian.a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
#Colored white out series
It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Optics, Physics, Physicsa color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black.Informal Terms bleed white, to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources: Dishonesty is bleeding the union white.British Terms(of coffee) containing milk.Wine(of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.decent, honorable, or dependable: That's very white of you.Clothingwearing white clothing: a white monk.Heraldry composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering.Printingblank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter: Fill in the white space below.
Government(politically) ultraconservative.pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage.Physical Anthropologyfor, limited to, or predominantly made up of persons whose racial heritage is Caucasian: a white club a white neighborhood.Physical Anthropology(of human beings) marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, as of many Caucasoids.Reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.White (hwīt, wīt), USA pronunciation adj., whit
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