WHITE — ТЛУМАЧЕННЯ
white
(usually in the plural) trousers.
(board games) the lighter pieces.
The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black).
Turn white.
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- This detergent will whiten your laundry.
Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration.
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- Voting patterns within the white population.
Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets.
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- White nights.
Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light.
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- As white as fresh snow.
- A bride's white dress.
Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion.
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- 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.
(of hair) having lost its color.
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- The white hairs of old age.
Dressed (or especially habited) in white.
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- White nuns.
(of coffee) having cream or milk added.
Of a surface; not written or printed on.
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- Blank pages.
- Fill in the blank spaces.
- A clean page.
- Wide white margins.
Benevolent; without malicious intent.
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- White magic.
- A white lie.
- That's white of you.
Glowing white with heat.
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- White flames.
- A white-hot center of the fire.
Restricted to whites only.
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- Under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains.
- A lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization.
Marked by the presence of snow.
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- A white Christmas.
- The white hills of a northern winter.
Free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied.
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- In shining white armor.
WordNet
White
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri.
A member of the Caucasoid race.
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918).
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985).
United States architect (1853-1906).
United States political journalist (1915-1986).
Australian writer (1912-1990).
WordNet
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