English words for 'The process of making something white or whiter.'
Closest matches for "The process of making something white or whiter." are ranked by semantic fit across dictionary definitions.
Search results
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
adj
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
verb
- make whiter or lighter
- cause to become white or lighter in color
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
noun
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
- turn white
- (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- (statistics) To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
verb
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
noun
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
verb
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To use evasion.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
adj
- White, whitish, or greyish-white.
- White or grey with age.
- (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
- (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
- (figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite.
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- ancient
prefix
adj
character
noun
prep
verb
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- (transitive) To provide with cotton.
- (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- take a liking to
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Thread of such fiber.
- A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- (countable) An item of clothing made from such textiles.
- (uncountable) A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- (addiction, recreational drugs) A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
- (uncountable, textiles) Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- A liking.
- (uncountable) Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- thread made of cotton fibers
verb
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- cover with whitewash
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
noun
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
noun
- the act or process of changing the color of something
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- a digestible substance used to give color to food
- An act or process which applies color.
- The appearance as to color.
- Any substance used to give color.
- (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
- A disguise or discoloration.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
adj
- coated with whitewash
- Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
- Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).
- (by extension, derogatory) A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.
- Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
verb
noun
- The application of whitewash.
- (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
- (derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of non-whites in an event and focusing on only white participation.
verb
adj
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- not full or rich
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.
noun
verb
verb
noun
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
verb
verb
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
noun
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
noun
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
verb
adj
verb
- (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- (intransitive) To gather or form cream.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
- make creamy by beating
- remove from the surface
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
adj
noun
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- (slang, vulgar) Semen.
- (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- the best people or things in a group
verb
- make whiter or lighter
- cause to become white or lighter in color
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
noun
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
adj
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
noun
- the act or process of changing the color of something
- a visual attribute of things that results from the light they emit or transmit or reflect
- a digestible substance used to give color to food
- An act or process which applies color.
- The appearance as to color.
- Any substance used to give color.
- (graph theory) An assignment of a color to each vertex of a graph, usually such that no two vertices connected by an edge are given the same color.
- A disguise or discoloration.
adj
verb
noun
adj
verb
noun
- The application of whitewash.
- (figuratively) The effacement of errors or bad actions.
- (derogatory) The process of whitewashing, of making over (a person or character, a group, an event, etc) so that it is or seems more white (Caucasian), for example by applying makeup to a person, or by covering over the participation of non-whites in an event and focusing on only white participation.
verb
noun
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
- (Canada) Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
- flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
- flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
- a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
- a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
- found off Atlantic coast of North America
verb
noun
- The process of deepening colours in dyeing.
- The action of placing something at a higher level.
- (linguistics, phonetics) A sound change in which a vowel or consonant becomes higher or raised, meaning that the tongue becomes more elevated or positioned closer to the roof of the mouth than before.
- Collection or gathering, especially of money.
- (linguistics) The movement of an argument from an embedded or subordinate clause to a matrix or main clause.
- Recruitment.
- Nurturing; cultivation; providing sustenance and protection for a living thing from conception to maturity.
- Elevation.
- The substance used to make bread rise.
- The operation of embossing sheet metal, or of forming it into cup-shaped or hollow articles, by hammering, stamping, or spinning.
- (US) The operation or work of setting up the frame of a building.
- the properties acquired as a consequence of the way you were treated as a child
- helping someone grow up to be an accepted member of the community
- the event of something being raised upward
verb
adj
verb
noun
- A white pigment.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- (uncountable) Ellipsis of white bread
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- A white bean.
- (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or gabardine or tweed or white cloth
- (board games) the lighter pieces
- the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
- the white part of an egg; the nutritive and protective gelatinous substance surrounding the yolk consisting mainly of albumin dissolved in water
adj
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (board games, chess) The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
- (now less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”).
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
- glowing white with heat
- being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light
- benevolent; without malicious intent
- restricted to whites only
- (of a surface) not written or printed on
- (of coffee) having cream or milk added
- marked by the presence of snow
- (of hair) having lost its color
- of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration
- of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets
- anemic looking from illness or emotion
- free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied
verb
- make whiter or lighter
- cause to become white or lighter in color
- (transitive, figurative) To make meaningless; to divest of meaning; to make empty.
- (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
- (intransitive) To be whitened or lightened (by the sun, for example).
- (intransitive, biology, of corals) To lose color due to stress-induced expulsion of symbiotic unicellular algae.
noun
- the whiteness that results from removing the color from something
- the act of whitening something by bleaching it (exposing it to sunlight or using a chemical bleaching agent)
- an agent that makes things white or colorless
- (countable) A variety of bleach.
- (uncountable) A chemical, such as sodium hypochlorite or hydrogen peroxide, or a preparation of such a chemical, used for disinfecting or whitening.
- An act of bleaching; exposure to the sun.
verb
- turn white
- (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- (statistics) To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- (cryptography) To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
verb
- To make white, as if with chalk; to make pale; to bleach.
- To record something, as on a blackboard, using chalk.
- (figurative) To record a score or event, as if on a chalkboard.
- To use powdered chalk to mark the lines on a playing field.
- To manure (land) with chalk.
- To apply chalk to anything, such as the tip of a billiard cue.
- write, draw, or trace with chalk
noun
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball) The prediction that there will be no upsets, and the favored competitor will win.
- Tailor's chalk.
- (US, sports, chiefly basketball, horse racing) The favorite in a sporting event.
- (uncountable) A soft, white, powdery limestone (calcium carbonate, CaCO₃).
- (US, military, countable) A platoon-sized group of airborne soldiers.
- (countable) A piece of chalk, or nowadays processed compressed gypsum (calcium sulfate, CaSO₄), that is used for drawing and for writing on a blackboard (chalkboard).
- (uncountable, climbing, gymnastics) A white powdery substance used to prevent hands slipping from holds when climbing, or losing grip in weight-lifting or gymnastics, sometimes but not always limestone-chalk, often magnesium carbonate (MgCO₃).
- a pure flat white with little reflectance
- a soft whitish calcite
- an amphetamine derivative (trade name Methedrine) used in the form of a crystalline hydrochloride; used as a stimulant to the nervous system and as an appetite suppressant
- a piece of calcite or a similar substance, usually in the shape of a crayon, that is used to write or draw on blackboards or other flat surfaces
verb
- (transitive) To take the color out of, and make white; to bleach.
- (transitive) To make white by removing the skin of, for example by scalding.
- (transitive, figuratively) To give a favorable appearance to; to whitewash; to whiten;
- (transitive) To whiten, for example the surface of meat, by plunging into boiling water and afterwards into cold, so as to harden the surface and retain the juices.
- (transitive, cooking) To cook by dipping briefly into boiling water, then directly into cold water.
- (transitive) To give a white lustre to (silver, before stamping, in the process of coining)
- To avoid, as from fear; to evade; to leave unnoticed.
- (intransitive) To grow or become white.
- To use evasion.
- To cause to turn aside or back.
- (intransitive) To cover (sheet iron) with a coating of tin.
- (transitive) To bleach by excluding light, for example the stalks or leaves of plants by earthing them up or tying them together.
- turn pale, as if in fear
- cook (vegetables) briefly
verb
- To enshroud with a layer of whiteness.
- To give the appearance of being dotted with cotton balls.
- (transitive) To provide with cotton.
- (tar and cotton) To cover with cotton bolls over a layer of tar (analogous to tar and feather )
- To protect from harsh stimuli, coddle, or muffle.
- To get on with someone or something; to have a good relationship with someone.
- To cover walls with fabric.
- (horticulture) To wrap with a protective layer of cotton fabric.
- To raise a nap, providing with a soft, cottony texture.
- To supply with a cotton wick.
- To develop a porous, cottony texture.
- To rub or burnish with cotton.
- To fill with a wad of cotton.
- take a liking to
adj
noun
- (uncountable) Thread of such fiber.
- A plant of genus Gossypium, used as a source of such fiber.
- (countable) An item of clothing made from such textiles.
- (uncountable) A soft, fibrous, usually white substance consisting of fine hairs, especially the substance around the seeds of a plant of genus Gossypium.
- (addiction, recreational drugs) A small piece of cotton used as a filter when drawing up a drug into a syringe.
- (uncountable, textiles) Textiles made from the fiber harvested from a cotton plant, especially Gossypium.
- Any plant that encases its seed in a thin fiber that is harvested and used as a fabric or cloth.
- A liking.
- (uncountable) Any similar soft, fibrous, white substance of fine hairs, of any origin.
- fabric woven from cotton fibers
- erect bushy mallow plant or small tree bearing bolls containing seeds with many long hairy fibers
- soft silky fibers from cotton plants in their raw state
- thread made of cotton fibers
verb
- To paint bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- cover with whitewash
- To paint (a building, a wall, etc.) a bright white with whitewash (noun noun sense 1).
- (media) To make over (someone of colour) so that they appear more white, for example, by applying lightening makeup to their skin or digitally manipulating an image of them.
- (sports, originally baseball, informal) To achieve a complete victory or series of victories over (an opponent) without suffering any losses; also, to achieve a victory or series of victories over (an opponent) by a very large margin.
- (chiefly film, television) To cast a white actor in a role for a person of colour in (a film, television programme, etc.).
- (chiefly literary and poetic, often passive voice) To cover or coat (something) with a white substance, as if with whitewash (noun noun sense 1); also, to light up (something) with white light.
- (derogatory) To distort or give a misleading account of (history, a narrative, etc.) by discounting the participation of people of colour and focusing on white people.
- (often politics) To hide (someone's) mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc., for (someone); also, to intentionally hide or overlook (mistakes, unfavourable facts, wrongdoing, etc.).
- (business) To clear (someone's) debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court; also, to clear or write off (a debt).
- (figurative, business) To have debts cleared through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data
- cover up a misdemeanor, fault, or error
noun
- (sports, originally baseball) A complete victory or series of victories without suffering any losses; a clean sweep; also, a victory or series of victories by a very large margin.
- (uncountable, cooking) The most basic type of thickening agent, consisting of flour blended with water to make a paste.
- (uncountable) A mixture of a powdered mineral substance (often slaked lime (containing calcium hydroxide), chalk (calcium carbonate), or both) and water which is used for painting surfaces such as fences and walls bright white.
- A thing used to hide mistakes, or to create an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; also (often politics), an act of hiding mistakes or creating an appearance of honesty, propriety, etc.; especially, a campaign, investigation, etc., which intentionally hides or overlooks unfavourable facts.
- (countable, cosmetics, historical) A preparation for making the skin look lighter.
- (business) An act of clearing a person's debts, especially through a declaration of bankruptcy by a court.
- a defeat in which the losing person or team fails to score
- a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects
- wash consisting of lime and size in water; used for whitening walls and other surfaces
verb
verb
- To mix (colours) in the way of distemper.
- To intoxicate.
- To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.
- To paint using distemper.
- To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.
- To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humoured, or malignant.
- paint with distemper
noun
- (countable) A painting produced with this kind of paint.
- A glue-based paint.
- (veterinary medicine, pathology) A viral disease of animals, such as dogs and cats, characterised by fever, coughing and catarrh.
- paint made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- a method of painting in which the pigments are mixed with water and a binder; used for painting posters or murals or stage scenery
- any of various infectious viral diseases of animals
- a painting created with paint that is made by mixing the pigments with water and a binder
- an angry and disagreeable mood
verb
- (transitive) To turn a yellowish white color; to give something the color of cream.
- (transitive) To puree, to blend with a liquifying process.
- (transitive, cooking) To rub, stir, or beat (butter) into a light creamy consistency.
- (transitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate in (clothing or a bodily orifice).
- (intransitive, vulgar, slang) To ejaculate (used of either gender).
- (transitive) To furnish with, or as if with, cream.
- (transitive, slang) To obliterate, to defeat decisively.
- (intransitive) To gather or form cream.
- (transitive) To skim, or take off by skimming, as cream.
- (transitive, figurative) To take off the best or choicest part of.
- make creamy by beating
- remove from the surface
- put on cream, as on one's face or body
- beat thoroughly and conclusively in a competition or fight
- add cream to one's coffee, for example
adj
noun
- (informal) Frosting, custard, creamer, or another substance similar to the oily part of milk or to whipped cream.
- (medicine) A viscous aqueous oil or fat emulsion with a medicament added, used to apply that medicament to the skin. (compare with ointment)
- (slang, vulgar) Semen.
- (standards of identity, UK) The liquid separated from milk containing at least 18 percent milkfat (48% for double cream).
- The butterfat or milkfat part of milk which rises to the top; this part when separated from the remainder.
- A dish prepared through creaming, particularly cream of
- (tea and coffee) A portion of cream, such as the amount found in a creamer.
- A yellowish white color; the color of cream.
- (standards of identity, US) The liquid separated from milk, possibly with certain other milk products added, and with at least eighteen percent of it milkfat.
- (figuratively) The best part of something.
- toiletry consisting of any of various substances in the form of a thick liquid that have a soothing and moisturizing effect when applied to the skin
- the part of milk containing the butterfat
- the best people or things in a group
adj
- White, whitish, or greyish-white.
- White or grey with age.
- (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs.
- (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
- (figurative) Old or old-fashioned; trite.
- showing characteristics of age, especially having grey or white hair
- covered with fine whitish hairs or down
- ancient
adj
character
noun
prep
adj
- coated with whitewash
- Painted with the temporary paint whitewash.
- Having been subjected to racial whitewashing: made to be or seem more white (Caucasian); for example, having been made to appear whiter via makeup, or by being illustrated in pictures or portrayed in films as white (despite originally or properly being nonwhite).
- (by extension, derogatory) A person of color perceived as having assimilated at the expense of their own racial or cultural identity.
- Having had any controversy or potential for scandal removed, ignored or downplayed.
verb
adj
- very light colored; highly diluted with white
- not full or rich
- (of light) lacking in intensity or brightness; dim or feeble
- lacking in vitality or interest or effectiveness
- abnormally deficient in color as suggesting physical or emotional distress
- (of human skin) Having a pallor (a light color, especially due to sickness, shock, fright etc.).
- Feeble, faint.
- Light in color.