white 的 4 个定义
whit·er, whit·est.
- of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
- light or comparatively light in color.
- belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
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- a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. 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. It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color.Compare black.
- a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
- quality or state of being white.
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whit·ed, whit·ing.
- Printing. to make white by leaving blank spaces.to whiten in retouching preparatory to photoengraving.
- Archaic. to make white; whiten.
- white out, to cover with a white correction fluid.to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.
white 近义词
extremely pale; lacking color
由white构成的短语
- white as a sheet
- white elephant
- white feather
- white flag, show the
- white lie
- white sale
- black and white
- bleed someone white
- great white hope
- show the white feather
更多white例句
- The breakdown of the 114th Congress is 80 percent white, 80 percent male, and 92 percent Christian.
- If Congress accurately reflected our nation on the basis of race, about 63 percent would be white, not 80 percent.
- There were rumors of shrieks and flashes emanating from the well, and reports of a figure in white.
- The FBI raided his home in 2000 with an affidavit questioning his use of $200,000 from his white supremacist fundraising.
- But after winning 55 percent of the white vote, Duke had a database of supporters some politicians coveted.
- And she would be wearing some of the jewels with the white dress—just a few, not many, of course.
- None other would dare to show herself unveiled to a stranger, and a white man at that.
- One would not have wanted her white neck a mite less full or her beautiful arms more slender.
- That evening in the gondola, with one old and two newer friends, is marked with a white stone in my recollection.
- Why not have sought out the pure white lime-rocks of the flat country, or the grey granite of the hills?