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Meaning of white

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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:

  white
      adj 1: 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" [ant: {black}]
      2: of or belonging to a racial group having light skin
         coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
         [ant: {black}]
      3: free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining
         white armor"
      4: marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the
         white hills of a northern winter" [syn: {white}, {snowy}]
      5: 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"
         [syn: {white}, {lily-white}]
      6: glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center
         of the fire" [syn: {white}, {white-hot}]
      7: benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
      8: (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages";
         "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white
         margins" [syn: {blank}, {clean}, {white}]
      9: (of coffee) having cream or milk added
      10: (of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old
          age" [syn: {white}, {whitened}]
      11: anemic looking from illness or emotion; "a face turned
          ashen"; "the invalid's blanched cheeks"; "tried to speak
          with bloodless lips"; "a face livid with shock";
          "lips...livid with the hue of death"- Mary W. Shelley; "lips
          white with terror"; "a face white with rage" [syn: {ashen},
          {blanched}, {bloodless}, {livid}, {white}]
      12: of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely
          sets; "white nights"
      n 1: a member of the Caucasoid race [syn: {White}, {White
           person}, {Caucasian}]
      2: the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest
         lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black) [syn:
         {white}, {whiteness}] [ant: {black}, {blackness}, {inkiness}]
      3: 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) [syn: {White},
         {Edward White}, {Edward D. White}, {Edward Douglas White
         Jr.}]
      4: Australian writer (1912-1990) [syn: {White}, {Patrick White},
         {Patrick Victor Martindale White}]
      5: United States political journalist (1915-1986) [syn: {White},
         {T. H. White}, {Theodore Harold White}]
      6: United States architect (1853-1906) [syn: {White}, {Stanford
         White}]
      7: United States writer noted for his humorous essays
         (1899-1985) [syn: {White}, {E. B. White}, {Elwyn Brooks
         White}]
      8: United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell)
         founded Cornell University and served as its first president
         (1832-1918) [syn: {White}, {Andrew D. White}, {Andrew Dickson
         White}]
      9: a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward
         through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri [syn:
         {White}, {White River}]
      10: 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" [syn: {egg white}, {white},
          {albumen}, {ovalbumin}]
      11: (board games) the lighter pieces [ant: {black}]
      12: (usually in the plural) trousers made of flannel or
          gabardine or tweed or white cloth [syn: {flannel},
          {gabardine}, {tweed}, {white}]
      v 1: turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry" [syn:
           {whiten}, {white}] [ant: {black}, {blacken}, {melanise},
           {melanize}, {nigrify}]

Source : WordNet ® Princeton University. 2010.

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