White vs. Blank
Whiteadjective
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Whiteadjective
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
Whiteadjective
Designated for use by Caucasians.
Whiteadjective
Relatively light or pale in colour.
Whiteadjective
Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
Whiteadjective
Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
Whiteadjective
(of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
Whiteadjective
The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
Whiteadjective
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
Whiteadjective
Honourable, fair; decent.
Whiteadjective
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Whiteadjective
(archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
Whiteadjective
(obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
Whiteadjective
(politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
Whiteadjective
(of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
Whiteadjective
(typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
Whiteadjective
(typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare said of a character or symbol filled with color.
Whiteadjective
Characterised by the presence of snow
Whitenoun
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
Whitenoun
A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
Whitenoun
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
Whitenoun
(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
Whitenoun
Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.
Whitenoun
The cue ball in cue games.
Whitenoun
White wine.
Whitenoun
Cocaine
Whitenoun
(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
Whitenoun
The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
Whitenoun
A white pigment.
Whitenoun
(countable) Anything that is of the color white.
Whitenoun
The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
Whiteverb
(transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
Whiteadjective
Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; - the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
Whiteadjective
Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
Whiteadjective
Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
Whiteadjective
Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Whiteadjective
Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
Whiteadjective
Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
Whitenoun
The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
Whitenoun
Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
Whitenoun
Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
Whitenoun
A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
Whitenoun
A white pigment; as, Venice white.
Whitenoun
Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
Whiteverb
To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
Whitenoun
a member of the Caucasoid race
Whitenoun
the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
Whitenoun
Australian writer (1912-1990)
Whitenoun
United States political journalist (1915-1986)
Whitenoun
United States architect (1853-1906)
Whitenoun
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
Whitenoun
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
Whitenoun
a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
Whitenoun
(board games) the lighter pieces
Whitenoun
(usually in the plural) trousers
Whiteverb
turn white;
Whiteadjective
being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light;
Whiteadjective
of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration;
Whiteadjective
free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied;
Whiteadjective
marked by the presence of snow;
Whiteadjective
restricted to whites only;
Whiteadjective
glowing white with heat;
Whiteadjective
benevolent; without malicious intent;
Whiteadjective
of a surface; not written or printed on;
Whiteadjective
(of coffee) having cream or milk added
Whiteadjective
dressed (or especially habited) in white;
Whiteadjective
(of hair) having lost its color;
Whiteadjective
ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion;
Whiteadjective
of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets;
White
White is the lightest color and is achromatic (having no hue). It is the color of fresh snow, chalk, and milk, and is the opposite of black.
Blankadjective
(archaic) White or pale; without colour.
Blankadjective
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in
Blankadjective
(sports) Scoreless; without any goals or points.
Blankadjective
(figurative) Lacking characteristics which give variety; uniform.
Blankadjective
Absolute; downright; sheer.
Blankadjective
Without expression.
Blankadjective
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Blankadjective
Empty; void; without result; fruitless.
Blankadjective
Devoid of thoughts, memory, or inspiration.
Blankadjective
(military) Of ammunition: having propellant but no bullets; unbulleted.
Blanknoun
A small French coin, originally of silver, afterwards of copper, worth 5 deniers; also a silver coin of Henry V current in the parts of France then held by the English, worth about 8 pence .
Blanknoun
(obsolete) A nonplus 16th century.
Blanknoun
The white spot in the centre of a target; hence (figuratively) the object to which anything is directed or aimed, the range of such aim .
Blanknoun
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated since the 16th century.
Blanknoun
An empty space; a void, for example on a paper .
Blanknoun
A space to be filled in on a form or template.
Blanknoun
Provisional words printed in italics (instead of blank spaces) in a bill before Parliament, being matters of practical detail, of which the final form will be settled in Committee .
Blanknoun
(now chiefly U.S.) A document, paper, or form with spaces left blank to be filled up at the pleasure of the person to whom it is given (e.g. a blank charter, ballot, form, contract, etc.), or as the event may determine; a blank form .
Blanknoun
An empty form without substance; anything insignificant; nothing at all .
Blanknoun
An unprinted leaf of a book 20th century.
Blanknoun
(literature) Blank verse .
Blanknoun
A piece of metal (such as a coin, screw, nuts), cut and shaped to the required size of the thing to be made, and ready for the finishing operations; (coining) the disc of metal before stamping .
Blanknoun
Any article of glass on which subsequent processing is required since the 19th century.
Blanknoun
(electric recording) The shaved wax ready for placing on a recording machine for making wax records with a stylus 20th century.
Blanknoun
(figurative) A vacant space, place, or period; a void since the 17th century.
Blanknoun
The 1 / 230400 of a grain 17th century.
Blanknoun
An empty space in one's memory; a forgotten item or memory since the 18th century.
Blanknoun
A dash written in place of an omitted letter or word since the 18th century
Blanknoun
The space character; the character resulting from pressing the space-bar on a keyboard.
Blanknoun
(dominoes) A domino without points on one or both of its divisions.
Blanknoun
Short for blank-cartridge; a cartridge that is designed to simulate the noise and smoke of real gunfire without actually firing a projectile since the 19th century.
Blanknoun
An ineffective effort which achieves nothing since the 20th century.
Blanknoun
(chemistry) A sample for a control experiment that does not contain any of the analyte of interest, in order to deliberately produce a non-detection to verify that a detection is distinguishable from it.
Blanknoun
(slang) Infertile semen.
Blankverb
(transitive) To make void; to erase.
Blankverb
To ignore (a person) deliberately.
Blankverb
(transitive) To prevent from scoring, for example in a sporting event.
Blankverb
(intransitive) To become blank.
Blankverb
(intransitive) To be temporarily unable to remember.
Blankadjective
Of a white or pale color; without color.
Blankadjective
Free from writing, printing, or marks; having an empty space to be filled in with some special writing; - said of checks, official documents, etc.; as, blank paper; a blank check; a blank ballot.
Blankadjective
Utterly confounded or discomfited.
Blankadjective
Empty; void; without result; fruitless; as, a blank space; a blank day.
Blankadjective
Lacking characteristics which give variety; as, a blank desert; a blank wall; destitute of interests, affections, hopes, etc.; as, to live a blank existence; destitute of sensations; as, blank unconsciousness.
Blankadjective
Lacking animation and intelligence, or their associated characteristics, as expression of face, look, etc.; expressionless; vacant.
Blankadjective
Absolute; downright; unmixed; as, blank terror.
Blanknoun
Any void space; a void space on paper, or in any written instrument; an interval void of consciousness, action, result, etc; a void.
Blanknoun
A lot by which nothing is gained; a ticket in a lottery on which no prize is indicated.
Blanknoun
A paper unwritten; a paper without marks or characters a blank ballot; - especially, a paper on which are to be inserted designated items of information, for which spaces are left vacant; a bland form.
Blanknoun
A paper containing the substance of a legal instrument, as a deed, release, writ, or execution, with spaces left to be filled with names, date, descriptions, etc.
Blanknoun
The point aimed at in a target, marked with a white spot; hence, the object to which anything is directed.
Blanknoun
Aim; shot; range.
Blanknoun
A kind of base silver money, first coined in England by Henry V., and worth about 8 pence; also, a French coin of the seventeenth century, worth about 4 pence.
Blanknoun
A piece of metal prepared to be made into something by a further operation, as a coin, screw, nuts.
Blanknoun
A piece or division of a piece, without spots; as, the "double blank"; the "six blank."
Blankverb
To make void; to annul.
Blankverb
To blanch; to make blank; to damp the spirits of; to dispirit or confuse.
Blanknoun
a blank character used to separate successive words in writing or printing;
Blanknoun
a substitute for a taboo word;
Blanknoun
a blank gap or missing part
Blanknoun
a piece of material ready to be made into something
Blanknoun
a cartridge containing an explosive charge but no bullet
Blankverb
keep the opposing (baseball) team from winning
Blankadjective
of a surface; not written or printed on;
Blankadjective
void of expression;
Blankadjective
not charged with a bullet;
