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გამოთქმა: /wʌɪt/

ზედსართავი

Universal
  • 1of the colour of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light; the opposite of black:a sheet of white paper
  • very pale:her face was white with fear
  • (of a plant) having white flowers or pale-coloured fruit.
  • (of a tree) having light-coloured bark.
  • (of wine) made from white grapes, or dark grapes with the skins removed, and having a yellowish colour.
  • British (of coffee or tea) served with milk or cream.
  • (of food such as bread or rice) light in colour as a result of a refining process.
  • (of glass) transparent; colourless.
  • 2 (also White) belonging to or denoting a human group having light-coloured skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction):a white farming community
  • relating to white people:white Australian culture
  • South African, historical reserved by law for those classified as white.

არსებითი სახელი

Universal
  • 1 [mass noun] white colour or pigment:garnet-red flowers flecked with white
  • white clothes or material:he was dressed from head to foot in white
  • (whites) white clothes, especially as worn for playing cricket or tennis, as naval uniform, or in the context of washing:wash whites separately to avoid them being dulled
  • white wine:a bottle of house white
  • (White) the player of the white pieces in chess or draughts.
  • [count noun] a white thing, in particular the white ball (the cue ball) in snooker or billiards.
  • 2the visible pale part of the eyeball around the iris.
  • 3the outer part (white when cooked) which surrounds the yolk of an egg; the albumen.
  • 4 (also White) a member of a light-skinned people, especially one of European extraction.
  • 5 [with modifier] a white or cream butterfly which has dark veins or spots on the wings and can be a serious crop pest.

ზმნა

Universal
  • paint or turn (something) white:your passion hath whited your face

whited sepulchre

literary a hypocrite.
[with biblical allusion to Matt 23:27]

white man's burden

the task, believed by white colonizers to be incumbent upon them, of imposing Western civilization on the black inhabitants of European colonies.
[from Rudyard Kipling's The White Man's Burden (1899)]

whiter than white

extremely white: the detergent that washes whiter than white
morally beyond reproach: they expect standards of behaviour whiter than white

white out

(of vision) become impaired by exposure to sudden bright light.
(of a person) lose colour vision as a prelude to losing consciousness.

white something out

  • 1obliterate a mistake with white correction fluid.
  • 2impair someone’s vision with a sudden bright light.

whitely

adverb

whiteness

noun

whitish

adjective

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