whites

white[ 'waits ]

• n.
  • a member of the Caucasoid race

    同义词：white personCaucasian

  • 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 WhiteEdward D. WhiteEdward Douglas White Jr.

  • Australian writer (1912-1990)

    同义词：Patrick WhitePatrick Victor Martindale White

  • United States political journalist (1915-1986)

    同义词：T. H. WhiteTheodore 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. WhiteElwyn 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. WhiteAndrew 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 whitealbumenovalbumin

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

    同义词：flannelgabardinetweed

• 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：blankclean

  • (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：ashenblanchedbloodlesslivid

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

    "white nights"