Definitions for whites

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whites white

Spelling: [hwahyt, wahyt]

IPA: /ʰwaɪt, waɪt/

Whites is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 105 anagrams from letters in whites (ehistw).

Definitions for whites

noun

1. 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 (def 20).
2. a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
3. quality or state of being white.
4. lightness of skin pigment.
5. a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent.
6. a white material or substance.
7. the white part of something.
8. Biology. a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen.
9. the white part of the eyeball:
10. whites. white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites. top-grade white flour.
11. white wine:
12. a type or breed that is white in color.
13. Usually, whites. a blank space in printing.
14. (initial capital letter) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.
15. Entomology. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.
16. white fabric.
17. Archery. the outermost ring of the butt. an arrow that hits this portion of the butt. the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow. Archaic. a target painted white.
18. Chess, Checkers. the men or pieces that are light-colored.
19. (often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.

Idioms

1. bleed white, Informal. to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources:
2. in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished.

adjective

1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
2. light or comparatively light in color.
3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
4. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:
5. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:
6. silvery, gray, or hoary:
7. snowy:
8. lacking color; transparent.
9. (politically) ultraconservative.
10. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:
11. Armor. composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite.
12. wearing white clothing:
13. Older Use: Offensive. decent, honorable, or dependable:
14. auspicious or fortunate.
15. morally pure; innocent.
16. without malice; harmless:
17. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
18. British. (of coffee) containing milk.

Verb phrases

1. white out, to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.

verb (used with object)

1. Printing. to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out). to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out).
2. Archaic. to make white; whiten.

Origin of whites

before 900; Middle English whit(e), Old English hwīt; cognate with German weiss, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hweits; akin to wheat

Examples for whites

Blacks, males especially, do have reason to be more afraid of cops than whites do.

Break eight eggs, separate the whites from the yolks, and strain them.

Beat the whites stiff and fold them carefully into the sauce.

One cop who admitted to hitting the man went on to become one of the five whites on the six-member Ferguson City Council.

Chop the yolks of all, and the whites of two, and stir them into melted butter.

(b) Why should egg whites not be allowed to stand after beating?

Try 21 times more likely—31 per million as opposed to 1.5 per million for whites.

Yet race politics has limited appeal to whites, and ultimately may not guarantee keeping many minority voters in check.

We had seniors, blacks, whites—a real coalition of people—and we had a lot of them in Mississippi for the AFL-CIO.

Only the whites of the eggs are used, and so the cake is white in color.