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White

[waɪt]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) (board games) the lighter pieces.

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

(noun.) a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.

(noun.) a member of the Caucasoid race.

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

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

(noun.) United States architect (1853-1906).

(noun.) United States political journalist (1915-1986).

(noun.) Australian writer (1912-1990).

(noun.) 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).

(adj.) of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; 'voting patterns within the white population' .

(adj.) of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; 'white nights' .

(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' .

(adj.) (of hair) having lost its color; 'the white hairs of old age' .

(adj.) (of coffee) having cream or milk added .

(adj.) benevolent; without malicious intent; 'that's white of you' .

(adj.) glowing white with heat; 'white flames'; 'a white-hot center of the fire' .

(adj.) 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' .

(adj.) marked by the presence of snow; 'a white Christmas'; 'the white hills of a northern winter' .

(adj.) free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; 'in shining white armor' .

埃米尔編輯--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.

(superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.

(superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.

(superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.

(superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.

(superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.

(n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.

(n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.

(n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.

(n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.

(n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.

(n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.

(v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

格伦达整理

同義詞及近義詞:

a. Of a white color, snowy, frosty, hoary, hoar.

昌西整理

同義詞及反義詞:

SYN:Colorless, pure, snowy, unblemished, unspotted, stainless, innocent, clear

ANT:Black, impure,[See BLAMELESS]

編輯:思朋斯

解釋/意思:

adj. of the colour of pure snow: pale pallid: colourless: pure: unblemished: purified from sin: bright: burnished without ornament: transparent and colourless as of wine: pertaining to the Carmelite monks: gracious favourable: (U.S.) reliable honest.—n. the colour of snow: anything white as a white man the mark at which an arrow is shot the albuminous part of an egg.—v.t. to make white.—ns. White′-alloy′ a cheap alloy used to imitate silver; White′-ant a termite.—adj. White′-backed having the back white or marked with white.—ns. White′bait the name by which the fry of the herring and sprat are known in the market and when served for the table esp. in London; White′-bass a silvery serranoid fish of the American Great Lake region.—adj. White′-beaked having a white beak.—ns. White′-bear the polar bear; White′-beard an old man.-adjs. White′-beard′ed; White′-bell′ied; White′-billed.—ns. White′boy a member of an association of Irish peasants first formed in County Tipperary about 1761—wearing white shirts—long noted for agrarian outrages; White′boyism the principles of the Whiteboys; White′-brass an alloy of copper and zinc.—adj. White′-breast′ed.—n.pl. White′caps (U.S.) the name given to a self-constituted committee of persons who generally commit outrageous acts under the guise of serving the community.—ns. White′chapel-cart a light two-wheeled spring-cart much used by London butchers grocers &c.; White′-copp′er a light-coloured alloy of copper.—adjs. White′-crest′ed -crowned having the crest or crown white—of birds.—n.pl. White′-crops grain as barley rye wheat.—ns. White′-damp carbonic oxide a poisonous but not inflammable gas found in coal-mines in the after-damp; White′-el′ephant (see Elephant).—adjs. White′-faced having a face pale with fear or from illness: with white front forehead—also White′-front′ed; White′-fā′voured wearing white favours.—ns. White′-feath′er (see Feather); White′fish a general name for such fish as the whiting haddock menhaden &c.: the largest of all the Coregoni or American lake whitefish; White′friar one of the Carmelite order of friars so called from their white dress.—adj. White′-hand′ed having white hands unstained with guilt.—ns. White′-hass (Scot.) an oatmeal and suet pudding; White′head the blue-winged snow-goose: a breed of domestic pigeons a white-tailed monk; White′-heat the degree of heat at which bodies become white; White′-herr′ing a fresh or uncured herring; White′-hon′eysuckle the clammy azalea; White′-horse the name applied to a figure of a horse on a hillside formed by removing the turf so as to show the underlying chalk—the most famous in Berkshire at Uffington traditionally supposed to commemorate Alfred the Great's victory of Ashdown (871)—periodically 'scoured' or cleaned from turf &c.—adj. White′-hot.—ns. White′-īron pig-iron in which the carbon is almost entirely in chemical combination with the iron; White′-lā′dy a spectral figure which appears in many of the castles of Germany as at Ansbach Baireuth Altenburg &c. by night as well as by day particularly when the death of any member of the family is imminent; White′-land land with a stiff clayey soil white when dry; White′lead a carbonate of lead used in painting white; White′-leath′er (see Leather); White′-leg an ailment of women after parturition—also Milk-leg; White′-lie (see Lie); White′-light ordinary sunlight; White′-lime whitewash.—adjs. White′-limed whitewashed; White′-list′ed having white lists or stripes on a darker ground; White′-liv′ered having a pale look so called because thought to be caused by a white liver: cowardly: malicious; White′ly (Shak.) coming near to white white-faced.—ns. White′-meat food made of milk butter eggs &c.: the flesh of poultry rabbits veal &c.; White′-met′al a general name for alloys of light colour.—v.t. Whī′ten to make white: to bleach.—v.i. to become or turn white.—ns. Whīt′ener; White′ness; White′-pot a Devonshire dish of sliced rolls milk eggs sugar &c. baked; White′-precip′itate a white mercurial preparation used externally; White′-pyrī′tes marcasite; White′-rent the tinner's poll-tax of eightpence to the Duke of Cornwall: rent paid in silver.—adj. White′-rumped.—ns. Whites (see Leucorrhœa); White′-salt salt dried and calcined; White′smith a worker in tinned or white iron: a tinsmith; White′-squall (see Squall); White′stone granulite; White′-swell′ing a disease of the joints esp. the knee in which the synovial membrane passes into pulpy degeneration; White′thorn the common hawthorn; White′throat a bird of the same genus as the Blackcap having the breast and belly of a brownish-white; White′-vit′riol sulphate of zinc; White′wash slaked quicklime reduced to the consistency of milk by means of water used for colouring walls and as a disinfectant: a wash for the skin: false colouring.—v.t. to cover with whitewash: to give a fair appearance to.—ns. White′washer one who whitewashes; White′-wa′ter shoal water near the shore breakers: the foaming water in rapids &c.; White′-wax bleached beeswax: Chinese wax or pela; White′-wine any wine of clear transparent colour as hock &c.; White′wing the velvet scoter scurf-duck: the chaffinch.—adj. White′-winged.—ns. White′wood a name applied to a large number of trees or their timber—the American tulip-tree white-wood cedar cheesewood &c.; Whī′ting a small sea-fish allied to the cod so called from its white colour: ground chalk free from stony matter and other impurities extensively used as a size-colour &c.—also White′ning and Spanish white Paris white (the finest); Whī′ting-time (Shak.) bleaching-time.—adj. Whī′tish somewhat white.—ns. Whī′tishness; Whīt′ster (Shak.) a bleacher of cloth or clothes.—adjs. Whī′ty whitish; Whī′ty-brown white with a tinge of brown.—White-headed eagle the North American bald eagle; White horse a white-topped wave; White House a popular name of the official residence of the President of the United States at Washington; White of an egg the albumen the pellucid viscous fluid surrounding the yolk; White of the eye that part of the ball of the eye which surrounds the iris or coloured part.—China white a very pure variety of whitelead—also Silver white and French white; Pearl white the basic nitrate of bismuth used as a cosmetic; Zinc white impure oxide of zinc.—Mark with a white stone (see Stone); Show the white feather (see Feather).

整理:米莉

娱乐性解釋/意思:

adj. and n. Black.

杰西整理

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