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white [a]

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"

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achromatic

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albescent light value achromatic

2)	of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"

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caucasian

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caucasoid light-skinned black

3)	free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"

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pure

4)	marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"

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snowy

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covered

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"

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lily-white

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segregated

6)	glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"

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white-hot

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hot

7)	benevolent; without malicious intent; "white magic"; "a white lie"; "that's white of you"

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good

8)	of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"

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blank clean

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empty

9)	(of coffee) having cream or milk added

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dilute

10)

dressed (or especially habited) in white; "white nuns"

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clad

11)

(of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"

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whitened

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colorless

12)

ash-colored or 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"

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ashen blanched bloodless livid

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colorless

13)

of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"

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light

white [n]

1)	a member of the Caucasoid race

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caucasian white_person

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human caucasian_race aryan circassian paleface semite cassite elamite white_man white_woman poor_white honkey wasp

2)	the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)

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whiteness

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achromatic_color black alabaster bleach bone chalk frostiness

3)	Australian writer (1912-1990)

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patrick_victor_martindale_white patrick_white

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author

4)	United States political journalist (1915-1986)

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t._h._white theodore_harold_white

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journalist

5)	United States architect (1853-1906)

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stanford_white

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architect

6)	United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)

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e._b._white elwyn_brooks_white

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author

7)	United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)

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andrew_d._white andrew_dickson_white

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educator

8)	a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri

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white_river

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river ar missouri

9)	(board games) the lighter pieces

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man chess checkers black

10)

(usually in the plural) trousers

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flannel gabardine tweed

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pants plural

white [v]

1)	turn white; "This detergent will whiten your laundry"

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whiten

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color blanching_agent lightening black bleach blanco

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