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n.
  1. The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
  2. The white or nearly white part, as:
    1. The albumen of an egg.
    2. The white part of an eyeball.
    3. A blank unprinted area, as of an advertisement.
  3. One that is white or nearly white, as:
    1. whites White trousers or a white outfit of a special nature: tennis whites.
    2. whites The white dress uniform of the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard.
    3. A white wine.
    4. A white pigment.
    5. A white breed, species, or variety of animal.
    6. also White A member of a racial group of people having light skin coloration, especially one of European origin. See Usage Note at black.
    7. Products of a white color, such as flour, salt, and sugar. Often used in the plural.
  4. Games.
    1. The white or light-colored pieces, as in chess.
    2. The player using these pieces.
    1. The outermost ring of an archery target.
    2. A hit in this ring.
  6. whites Pathology. Leukorrhea.
  7. A politically ultraconservative or reactionary person.
adj., whit·er, whit·est.
  1. Being of the color white; devoid of hue, as new snow.
  2. Approaching the color white, as:
    1. Weakly colored; almost colorless; pale: white wine.
    2. Pale gray; silvery and lustrous: white hair.
    3. Bloodless; blanched.
  3. Light or whitish in color or having light or whitish parts. Used with animal and plant names.
  4. also White Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration, especially one of European origin: voting patterns within the white population.
  5. Not written or printed on; blank.
  6. Unsullied; pure.
  7. Habited in white: white nuns.
  8. Accompanied by or mantled with snow: a white Christmas.
    1. Incandescent: white flames.
    2. Intensely heated; impassioned: white with fury.
  10. Ultraconservative or reactionary.
  11. With milk added. Used of tea or coffee.
tr.v., whit·ed, whit·ing, whites.
  1. Printing. To create or leave blank spaces in (printed or illustrated matter). Often used with out.
  2. Archaic.
    1. To whiten; whitewash.
    2. To blanch.

[Middle English, from Old English hwīt.]

whiteness white'ness n.
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Antonyms: white
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adj

Definition: extremely pale; clean
Antonyms: black, dark, dirty

 
English Folklore: white
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The primary symbolism of this colour is innocence, beauty, and virtue, for which reason it is favoured for bridal dresses and babies' clothes. However, it also has strong associations with shrouds and the pallor of death, and hence with spectral apparitions and death omens. A blacksmith's wife at Ashington (Sussex) said in 1868:

I shall hear bad news before the day is over; for late last night, as I was sitting up waiting for my husband, who had gone to Horsham, what should I see, on looking out of the window, lying close under it, but a thing like a duck, yet a great deal whiter than it ought to have been, whiter than any snow. I was all of a tremble and cried out quite loud, and off went the thing, faster than I ever saw anything run before (Latham, 1878: 54).


She could not accept that it might have been a cat in the moonlight, for ‘those white things were sent as warnings’.

Most of the flowers which should not be brought indoors are white ones, though white heather is lucky. A correspondent in N&Q wrote in 1931:
I have heard from a social worker in London that it is most unlucky—almost offensively unlucky, in fact—to give any white flowers, even those not native to England, like white chrysanthemums, to sick people. Apparently some implication that, being white, they would be suitable for the funeral, is involved. The people to whom these particular white chrysanthemums were given were quite young, moderately well educated, typical Londoners, and yet superstitious on this point—which they said was well known to everyone. (N&Q 160 (1931), 195)


The strongest current taboo is against having red and white flowers in the same vase without, any of another colour; this portends death, especially if given to a sick person. The colours are said to stand for ‘blood and bandages’.

 
Veterinary Dictionary: white
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1. a color lacking any hue; the color of fresh snow.
2. a coat color.

 
Devil's Dictionary: white
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A cynical view of the world by Ambrose Bierce


adj.

Black.

 
Word Tutor: white
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IN BRIEF: The lightest color.

pronunciation It doesn't matter if a cat is black or white, so long as it catches mice. — Deng Xiaoping, Chinese premier.

 
Dream Symbol: White
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In Western culture, white is commonly used to represent cleanliness, purity, and dignity; in Eastern traditions white is associated with mourning and death.

 
Wikipedia: White
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"White light" redirects here. For other uses, see White Light.
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White
— Common connotations —
Aryan, purity, softness, lack, snow, ice, heaven, Caucasian, peace, life, clean, air, light, clouds, nothing, frost, good, cotton, angels, winter, innocence, Reactionism
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Hex triplet #FFFFFF
RGBB (r, g, b) (255, 255, 255)
HSV (h, s, v) (-°, 0%, 100%)
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White is a color, the perception which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in nearly equal amount and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. A white visual stimulation will be void of hue and grayness.[1]

White light can be generated in many ways. The Sun is such a source, electric incandescence is another. Modern light sources are fluorescent lamps and light-emitting diodes. An object that does not alter the color of light reflected from its surface will appear white, unless it has very high specular reflection.

Since white objects such as clouds, snow and flowers appear often in nature, human culture has many references to white, often related to purity and cleanness. The high contrast between white and black is often used to represent opposites. In some cultures, like Chinese, white is considered to be a color that represents death.[citation needed] On the other hand in many cultures white represents purity, freedom, and hygenic purity.

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Etymology

The word white comes from hwitaz though the Old English word hwīt.[2]

Light

White light refracted in a prism revealing the color components.

Until Newton's work became accepted, most scientists believed that white was the fundamental color of light; and that other colors were formed only by adding something to light. Newton demonstrated this was not true by passing white light through a prism, then through another prism. If the colors were added by the prism, the second prism should have added further colors to the single-colored beam. Since the single-colored beam remained a single color, Newton concluded that the prism merely separated the colors already present in the light. White light is the effect of combining the visible colors of light in equal proportions.

Since the impression of white is obtained by three summations of light intensity across the visible spectrum, the number of combinations of light wavelengths that produce the sensation of white is practically infinite. There are a number of different white light sources such as the midday Sun, incandescent lamps, fluorescent lamps and white LEDs; due to the phenomenon of metamerism, such sources can appear similar whilst having quite different spectra. The impression of white light can also be created by mixing appropriate intensities of the primary colors of light — red, green and blue (RGB) — a process called additive mixing, as seen in many display technologies.

The best known way to generate white light is by the process called incandescence, by a black body at various relatively-high temperatures. For example, the color of a black body at a temperature of 2848 kelvins matches that produced by domestic incandescent light bulbs. It is said that "the color temperature of such a light bulb is 2848 K". The white light used in theatre illumination has a color temperature of about 3200 K. Daylight can vary from a cool red up to a bluish 25,000 K. Not all black body radiation can be considered white light: the background radiation of the universe, to name an extreme example, is only a few kelvins and is quite invisible.

Objects

White light reflected off objects can be seen when no part of the light spectrum is reflected significantly more than others and the reflecting material has a degree of diffusion. People see this when transparent fibers, particles, or droplets are in a transparent matrix of a substantially different refractive index. Examples include classic "white" substances such as sugar, foam, pure sand or snow, cotton, clouds, and milk. Crystal boundaries and imperfections can also make otherwise transparent materials white, as in the milky quartz or the microcrystalline structure of a seashell. This is also true for artificial paints and pigments, where white results when finely divided transparent material of a high refractive index is suspended in a contrasting binder. Typically paints contain calcium carbonate and/or synthetic rutile with no other pigments if a white color is desired. While the color of a light source can be reasonably measured by its correlated color temperature, a different approach is required for objects since different samples may appear white without a reference. Thus, assessment of whiteness requires a comparison. The International Commission on Illumination (CIE) prescribes one such method.

In nature

Astronomy

Geography

Mount Blanc in the Alps
  • Mauna Kea means white mountain in Hawaiian because, due to its high altitude, the top of this mountain is usually covered in snow during the winter.
  • Mount Blanc means white mountain in French named for its perennial snow cover.

Meteorology

Snowy landscape
  • White is commonly the color of snow and ice.
  • Whiteout is a weather condition in which visibility is reduced and surface definition lost in snowy environments.

In human culture

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Paint

In painting, white can be crafted by reflecting ambient light from a white pigment, although the ambient light must be white light, or else the white pigment will appear the color of the light. White when mixed with black produces gray.[citation needed] To art students, the use of white can present particular problems, and there is at least one training course specializing in the use of white in art.[citation needed] In watercolor painting, white areas are the absence of paint on the paper. When mixing paints in order to get a lighter color, it's advisable to mix a small amount of color to white, rather than trying to add white to the color, as it will take considerably more paint to get the desired tint.

Science and technology

Computer displays often have a color temperature control, allowing the user to select the color temperature (usually from a small set of fixed values) of the light emitted when the computer produces the electrical signal corresponding to "white". The RGB coordinates of white are (255, 255, 255).

  • White noise, in acoustics, is a sibilant sound that is often a nuisance, although it can also be deliberately created for test purposes.

Asian cultures

  • In China, traditionally, white was the symbol of West and Metal, one of the main five colors.
  • In Indian tradition, white is also the color of purity and sacredness. It is also used for depicting Peace and Purity. However it is also the color of mourning. People wear white after death of any of their family members.

Dress code

  • In a highly-formal social function, the traditional dress for men attending is white tie or "white tie and tails"-- a white bow tie and a swallowtail coat.
  • Physicians and scientists are known for wearing white coats both as a practical measure as protection against spills and infection, and as a sort of uniform showing authority.

Ethnography

Main article: color metaphor for race
  • The term white is often used in the West to denote the race of pale-skinned Caucasoids people of European descent with pale to white skin color, whose skin color actually varies widely from pale pink to pale brown. It has been suggested that the colors beige or peach are a more accurate representation of the color of most Caucasians. For more details, see White people.

Literature

Military

  • To "show the white feather" is to display cowardice. In cockfighting, a white feather in the tail is considered a mark of inferior breeding. In Victorian England a purported coward would be presented with a white feather.

Music

Government and politics

The White House, the residence of the President of the United States.
White Ribbon
  • Whitewash, figuratively, means an attempt to obscure the truth by issuing a blanket of lies. See propaganda. Also, it refers to the action of burying or shoving someone's face into the snow, as a form of bullying, or harassment (generally).
  • A white paper can be an authoritative report on a major issue, as by a team of experts; a government report outlining policy; or a short treatise whose purpose is to educate industry customers. It is called white paper because it was originally bound in white.

Religion

Love and sexuality

  • White is the traditional color of bridal dress in both western (European) and Japanese weddings. In Western weddings, a white dress is thought to be symbolic of purity (the bride has not engaged in pre-marital sex). This is also said to be the symbolism of the veil. In Japanese weddings, white is to symbolize the "death" of their former family and their introduction into their new family.

Sports

  • White is the color of the usual cricket clothing, usually referred to as 'whites'. It is a result of cricket being a summer game with players being exposed to direct sunlight for prolonged periods of time.
  • In Wimbledon, players always have to wear white as it is a very traditional event. Players will not be allowed to compete if they do not wear white.
  • Australian Rules Football umpires' traditional uniform color is white. Nowadays most competitions (including AFL and VFL) provide other colors to ensure the umpires aren't clashing with players uniforms for higher visibility. At lower levels, however white is still the predominant color.
  • White was originally the national auto racing color of Japan until international racing colors were abandoned due to sponsorship.
  • In baseball and basketball, white is the color typically used for uniforms worn by the home team.
  • There is a Major League Baseball team called the Chicago White Sox.

Symbolic dualism with black

Further information: black and white dualism
  • White often represents purity or innocence in Western Civilization,[5] particularly as white clothing or objects are easy to stain. In most Western countries white is the color worn by brides at weddings. Angels are typically depicted as clothed in white robes. In early film Westerns the stereotypically "good guy" wore a white hat (earning them the name "White Hats") while the "bad guy" wore black (earning them the name "Black Hats").
    • This can be reversed as a deliberate play on conventions, by having the evil character dress in white, as a symbol of their hypocrisy or arrogance. For example, Don Fanucci in "The Godfather, Part II" is an evil character, but wears an expensive all-white suit as a sign of his esteem, power and prestige.
  • Healing or "good" magic is called White magic.
  • A Treatise on White Magic is a book by Alice Bailey, a Theosophist.[6]
  • Yin and yang is usually depicted in black and white.
  • Board Games often has white as one of the two opponents in many board games of abstract strategy, such as go, chess, and checkers.
  • In Western TV programs, and Western movies, the "good guy" usually wears a white hat. But in the dramatic series Dallas, J. R. Ewing wears a white hat in defiance of this convention, inasmuch as there is nothing "good" about him.
  • A white hat describes a person who is ethically opposed to the abuse of computer systems, in contrast with a black hat, a person who abuses computer systems.

Vexillology and heraldry

References

  1. ^ Wyszecki & Stiles. Color Science. p. 506. 
  2. ^ Harper, Douglas (November 2001). "Online Etymology Dictionary". http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=white&searchmode=none. Retrieved on 2008-03-26. 
  3. ^ Whalen, William J. The Latter Day Saints in the Modern Day World 1962
  4. ^ Prophet, Elizabeth Clare The Great White Brotherhood in the Culture, History and Religion of America Summit University Press 1975
  5. ^ The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge. Encyclopedia Americana Corp.. 1918. pp. 329. 
  6. ^ Bailey, Alice A. A Treatise on White Magic New York:1934 Lucis Publishing Co.
  7. ^ Flags Compton’s Encyclopedia 1958 edition
  8. ^ The American Girls Handy Book, pg. 369

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Dansk (Danish)
adj. - hvid, bleg, pletfri, ren, uskyldig
n. - hvidt, hvidhed, hvidvin
v. tr. - hvidte, gøre hvidt

idioms:

  • go white    blive hvid
  • turn white    blive hvid
  • white blood cell    hvid blodcelle
  • white Christmas    hvid jul
  • white collar    kontoransat, funktionær
  • white elephant    hvid elefant, kostbar men unyttig ting
  • white feather    fejhed
  • white flag    hvidt flag
  • white goods    hårde hvidevarer
  • white heat    hvidglødende hede
  • White House    Det Hvide Hus
  • white lie    hvid løgn, nødløgn
  • white noise    hvid støj
  • white paper    hvidbog
  • white slavery    hvid slavehandel
  • white tie    formel aftenbeklædning for herrer; smoking
  • white trash    fattige hvide i den amerikanske sydstater
  • white wedding    hvidt bryllup

Nederlands (Dutch)
wit, blank, bleek, puur

Français (French)
adj. - blanc, pâle
n. - blanc (couleur), blanc (de l'¯uf), Blanc (caucasien), bille blanche (billard), blanc (vin), blancs (aux échecs), (Pol) Blanc
v. tr. - blanchir, faire blanchir, laisser des espaces/des blancs sur

idioms:

  • go white    devenir blanc, blanchir
  • turn white    faire blanchir
  • white blood cell    globule blanc
  • white Christmas    Noël sous la neige
  • white collar    col blanc, d'employé de bureau, (US) résidentiel
  • white elephant    bibelot, réalisation coûteuse et peu rentable
  • white feather    se dégonfler
  • white flag    drapeau blanc
  • white goods    linge de maison, gros électro-ménager
  • white heat    (Phys) rouge blanc, chaleur accablante, chaleur (d'émotion)
  • White House    Maison Blanche
  • white lie    pieux mensonge
  • white noise    bruit blanc
  • white out    effacer avec du blanc
  • white paper    (GB, Pol, Admin) livre blanc
  • white slavery    traite des blanches
  • white tie    n¯ud papillon blanc
  • white trash    (US) petits blancs (péj)
  • white wedding    mariage blanc

Deutsch (German)
n. - Weiß, Weißes, Weißer, Eiweiß, weiße Kleidung, Weißwäsche, Zwischenraum, (zo.) Weißling, weiße Kugel
adj. - weiß, bleich, hellhäutig, unschuldig, rein
v. - Zwischenräume lassen, weiß machen

idioms:

  • go white    weiß werden, erbleichen
  • turn white    weiß werden, erbleichen
  • white blood cell    weißes Blutkörperchen
  • white Christmas    weiße Weihnachten
  • white collar    Geistes-, Angestellten-, weißer Kragen
  • white elephant    nutzloser Besitz
  • white feather    weiße Feder (Feigheitssymbol)
  • white flag    weiße Fahne
  • white goods    Weißwaren, weiße Ware
  • white heat    Weißglut
  • White House    das Weiße Haus
  • white lie    Notlüge
  • white noise    weißes Rauschen
  • white out    starkes Schneegestöber
  • white paper    öffentl. Diskussionspapier über Regierungsvorhaben
  • white slavery    Frauen, die in die Prostitution gezwungen wurden
  • white tie    weiße Fliege (zum Frack)
  • white trash    weißes Gesindel
  • white wedding    Hochzeit in Weiß

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - λευκό χρώμα, λευκός, ασπράδι (αβγού κ.λπ.), λεύκωμα, (τυπογρ.) λευκό σελίδας (εφημερίδας κ.λπ.)
adj. - λευκός, άσπρος, λευκής φυλής, χλομός, (μτφ.) άδολος, αθώος ή έντιμος, (για καφέ) συνοδευόμενος από γάλα ή κρέμα
v. - ασπρίζω, λευκαίνω-ομαι

idioms:

  • go white    χλομιάζω, πανιάζω
  • turn white    χλομιάζω, πανιάζω
  • white blood cell    λευκό αιμοσφαίριο
  • white Christmas    χιονισμένα Χριστούγεννα
  • white collar    υπαλληλικός, των γραφιάδων, των χαρτογιακάδων
  • white elephant    άχρηστη πολυτέλεια
  • white feather    δειλία, σύμβολο/γνώρισμα δειλίας
  • white flag    λευκή σημαία, σημαία ανακωχής
  • white goods    ηλεκτρικές συσκευές κουζίνας
  • white heat    λευκοπύρωση, (καθομ.) φλογερό πάθος
  • White House    ο Λευκός Οίκος
  • white lie    αθώο ψέμα
  • white noise    παράσιτα από μπέρδεμα πολλών συχνοτήτων
  • white paper    Λευκή Βίβλος
  • white slavery    εμπόριο λευκής σαρκός
  • white tie    λευκή γραβάτα (φράκου)
  • white trash    φτωχολογιά
  • white wedding    λευκός γάμος

Italiano (Italian)
bianco

idioms:

  • bleed white    succhiare il sangue a, dissanguare, ridurre sul lastrico, spremere
  • go/turn white    impallidire
  • in black and white    in bianco e nero
  • white Christmas    Natale con la neve
  • white collar    da impiegato
  • white elephant    elefante bianco
  • white feather    viltà
  • white flag    bandiera bianca
  • white goods    elettrodomestici, biancheria
  • white heat    calore bianco
  • White House    Casa Bianca
  • white lie    bugia per omissione
  • white noise    rumore bianco
  • white paper    libro bianco
  • white slavery    tratta delle bianche
  • white tie    in frac
  • white trash    plebaglia bianca
  • white wedding    nozze in bianco

Português (Portuguese)
n. - branco (m), brancura (f)
adj. - branco, pálido, puro
v. - branquear

idioms:

  • bleed white    roubar tudo
  • go/turn white    tornar branco
  • in black and white    em preto e branco
  • white Christmas    Natal na neve
  • white collar    colarinho branco
  • white elephant    algo dispendioso
  • white feather    sinal de covardia (m)
  • white flag    bandeira branca (f)
  • white goods    roupas brancas
  • white heat    calor branco (m) (Téc.), ódio (m)
  • White House    Casa Branca (f)
  • white lie    mentira inofensiva (f)
  • white noise    som branco (Acús.)
  • white paper    papel branco, documento oficial (m)
  • white slavery    tráfico de escravas brancas (m)
  • white tie    roupa social
  • white trash    pessoas brancas pobres
  • white wedding    casamento em branco

Русский (Russian)
белый цвет, белизна, непорочность, белила, белок (яйца, глаза), белокожий, белая ткань, бельевой товар, белый, бледный, седой, чистый, непорочный, благоприятный, белить, отбеливать

idioms:

  • bleed white    обескровить, обобрать до нитки, выкачать все деньги
  • go/turn white    побледнеть, побелеть
  • in black and white    в письменной форме, черным по белому
  • white Christmas    рождество со снегопадом
  • white collar    "белый воротничок", канцелярский, конторский
  • white elephant    ненужная вещь, подарок от которого трудно избавиться
  • white feather    трусость, трус
  • white flag    белый флаг, знак капитуляции
  • white goods    бельевой товар, белый товар, постельное и столовое белье, холодильники, плиты и др. (обычно покрытые белой эмалью)
  • white heat    белое каление, состояние сильного физического или умственного напряжения
  • White House    Белый дом
  • white lie    безобидная ложь
  • white noise    белый шум
  • white paper    правительственный информационный документ по какому-л. вопросу, подробный или авторитетный доклад
  • white slavery    торговля женщинами, (вынужденная) проституция
  • white tie    белый галстук (фрачный), фрак
  • white trash    "белое отребье"
  • white wedding    свадьба в церкви, на которой невеста в белом

Español (Spanish)
adj. - blanco, pálido, cano, honrado, puro, inocente
n. - blanco, clara (de huevo), esclerótica, persona de la raza blanca
v. tr. - blanquear, emblanquecer, dejar espacios en blanco

idioms:

  • go white    palidecer, ponerse blanco
  • turn white    palidecer, ponerse blanco
  • white blood cell    glóbulo blanco, leucocito
  • white Christmas    Navidades blancas
  • white collar    personal de oficina, delito no violento o fraude cometido por oficinistas profesionales
  • white elephant    elefante blanco (cosa costosa y sin utilidad), posesión que trae más problemas que ventajas
  • white feather    pluma blanca (símbolo de cobardía)
  • white flag    bandera blanca (de rendición)
  • white goods    ropa blanca, electrodomésticos
  • white heat    calor blanco, temperatura en la cual el metal emite luz blanca, estado de intensa pasión o actividad, fiebre, frenesí
  • White House    la Casa Blanca
  • white lie    mentira piadosa, mentira oficiosa
  • white noise    ruido blanco
  • white out    borrar con líquido blanco
  • white paper    libro blanco, informe oficial
  • white slavery    trata de blancas
  • white tie    corbatín blanco, atuendo de gala, frac
  • white trash    blancos pobres del sur de los EE.UU.
  • white wedding    boda de iglesia en la que la novia viste de blanco

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - vit färg, vit man, vita
adj. - vit, blek, ren, färglös, hederlig
v. - blekna, lämna tomt

中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
白色的, 白种的, 纯洁的, 白色, 蛋白, 白种人, 使变成白色, 漂白

idioms:

  • go white    无血色的, 苍白的
  • turn white    无血色的, 苍白的
  • white blood cell    白细胞, 白血球
  • white Christmas    下雪的白色圣诞节
  • white collar    白领阶层的, 脑力劳动者
  • white elephant    白象, 累赘物
  • white feather    胆怯, 白羽毛
  • white flag    白旗
  • white goods    白色织物, 大型家用电器
  • white heat    白热化, 白热, 高度紧张
  • White House    白宫
  • white lie    无恶意的谎言, 小谎
  • white noise    白噪音
  • white paper    白皮书, 白纸, 官方报告, 详情报告
  • white slavery    沦为娼妓, 被迫或被骗为娼, 逼良为娼的买卖
  • white tie    社交场所要求男人穿正式晚礼服并带白领结的
  • white trash    穷苦白人, 贫穷白人的后裔
  • white wedding    白色婚礼, 新娘穿白纱礼服的婚礼

中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 白色的, 白種的, 純潔的
n. - 白色, 蛋白, 白種人
v. tr. - 使變成白色, 漂白

idioms:

  • go white    無血色的, 蒼白的
  • turn white    無血色的, 蒼白的
  • white blood cell    白細胞, 白血球
  • white Christmas    下雪的白色聖誕節
  • white collar    白領階層的, 腦力勞動者
  • white elephant    白象, 累贅物
  • white feather    膽怯, 白羽毛
  • white flag    白旗
  • white goods    白色織物, 大型家用電器
  • white heat    白熱化, 白熱, 高度緊張
  • White House    白宮
  • white lie    無惡意的謊言, 小謊
  • white noise    白噪音
  • white paper    白皮書, 白紙, 官方報告, 詳情報告
  • white slavery    淪為娼妓, 被迫或被騙為娼, 逼良為娼的買賣
  • white tie    社交場所要求男人穿正式晚禮服並帶白領結的
  • white trash    窮苦白人, 貧窮白人的後裔
  • white wedding    白色婚禮, 新娘穿白紗禮服的婚禮

한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 흰, 무색의, 백인의
n. - 백색, 흰 옷
v. tr. - 희게 하다, 여백으로 남기다

idioms:

  • go white    창백해 지다
  • turn white    창백해 지다

idioms:

  • white Sea    백해

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - 白, 白色染料, 白い絵の具, 白身, 白目, 白布, 白衣, 白人
adj. - 白い, 青白い, 透明な, 銀白の, 雪の降った, 白人の, 汚れのない

idioms:

  • as white as a sheet    顔面蒼白な
  • go/turn white    蒼白になる
  • white blood cell    白血球
  • white Christmas    ホワイトクリスマス
  • white collar    ホワイトカラー
  • white elephant    白象, やっかいもの
  • white feather    臆病の証拠, 臆病者
  • white flag    白旗
  • white goods    白い織物, 大型家庭用品
  • white heat    白熱
  • White House    ホワイトハウス, 米国大統領の職
  • white lie    悪意のないうそ, 罪のないうそ
  • white noise    白色騒音
  • white paper    白色紙, 白紙, 白書
  • white slavery    強制売春, 白人奴隷の売買
  • white tie    白の蝶ネクタイ, 晩餐用正装
  • white trash    貧乏白人
  • white wedding    純白の結婚式

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) طاهر, بريئ, غير مؤذ, اللون الأبيض (صفه) أبيض, أشحب, مصحوب بالثلج, هائج (فعل) يبيض‏

עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - ‮לבן, צחור, צח, חיוור, בעל שיער שיבה, תמים, (קפה) עם חלב/שמנת, שקוף‬
n. - ‮גוון לבן, לובן, אדם לבן, לובן-שבעין, חלבון, לחמית, מתנגד למהפכה, ריאקציונר, רווח ריק בהדפסה‬
v. tr. - ‮עשה ללבן (מיושן), דלדל, רושש, הציג ככלי ריק, השאיר רווח לבן (בהדפסה)‬

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