White Definition–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) marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, as of many Caucasoids. | | 4. | for, limited to, or predominantly made up of persons whose racial heritage is Caucasian: a white club; a white neighborhood. | | 5. | pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage. | | 6. | silvery, gray, or hoary: white hair. | | 7. | snowy: a white Christmas. | | 8. | lacking color; transparent. | | 9. | (politically) ultraconservative. | | 10. | blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter: Fill in the white space below. | | 11. | Armor. composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite. | | 12. | wearing white clothing: a white monk. | | 13. | Slang. decent, honorable, or dependable: That's very white of you. | | 14. | auspicious or fortunate. | | 15. | morally pure; innocent. | | 16. | without malice; harmless: white magic. | | 17. | (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red. | | 18. | British. (of coffee) containing milk. | –noun | 19. | 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. | | 20. | a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible. | | 21. | quality or state of being white. | | 22. | lightness of skin pigment. | | 23. | a person whose racial heritage is Caucasian. | | 24. | a white material or substance. | | 25. | the white part of something. | | 26. | Biology. a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen. | | 27. | the white part of the eyeball: He has a speck in the white of his eye. | | 28. | whites, | a. | white or nearly white clothing. | | b. | top-grade white flour. | | | 29. | white wine: Graves is a good white. | | 30. | a type or breed that is white in color. | | 31. | Usually, whites. a blank space in printing. | | 32. | (initial capital letter ) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White. | | 33. | Entomology. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies. | | 35. | Archery. | a. | the outermost ring of the butt. | | b. | an arrow that hits this portion of the butt. | | c. | the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow. | | d. | Archaic. a target painted white. | | | 36. | Chess, Checkers. the men or pieces that are light-colored. | | 37. | (often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party. | –verb (used with object) | 38. | Printing. | a. | to make white by leaving blank spaces (often fol. by out). | | b. | to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often fol. by out). | | | 39. | Archaic. to make white; whiten. | —Verb phrase | 40. | white out, | a. | to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. | | b. | to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink. | | —Idioms | 41. | bleed white, Informal. to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources: Dishonesty is bleeding the union white. | | 42. | in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished. | From DictionaryGold Definition–noun | 1. | a precious yellow metallic element, highly malleable and ductile, and not subject to oxidation or corrosion. Symbol: Au; atomic weight: 196.967; atomic number: 79; specific gravity: 19.3 at 20°C. | | 2. | a quantity of gold coins: to pay in gold. | | 3. | a monetary standard based on this metal; gold standard. | | 4. | money; wealth; riches. | | 5. | something likened to this metal in brightness, preciousness, superiority, etc.: a heart of gold. | | 6. | a bright, metallic yellow color, sometimes tending toward brown. | | 8. | (initial capital letter) Military. the code name for one of the five D-day invasion beaches, assaulted by British troops. | –adjective | 9. | consisting of gold
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. | | 12. | of the color of gold. | | 13. | indicating the fiftieth event of a series, as a wedding anniversary. | | 14. | (of a record, CD, or cassette) having sold a minimum of 500,000 copies. | |
From DictionaryEngagement Definition–noun | 1. | the act of engaging or the state of being engaged. | | 2. | an appointment or arrange
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ment: a business engagement. | | 3. | betrothal: They announced their engagement. | | 4. | a pledge; an obligation or agreement: All his time seems to be taken up with social engagements. | | 5. | employment, or a period or post of employment, esp. in the performing arts: Her engagement at the nightclub will last five weeks. | | 6. | an encounter, conflict, or battle: We have had two very costly engagements with the enemy this week alone. | | 7. | Mechanics. the act or state of interlocking. | | 8. | engagements, Commerce. financial obligations. | From DictionaryRing Definition–noun | 1. | a typically circular band of metal or other durable material, esp. one of gold or other precious metal, often set with gems, for wearing on the finger as an ornament, a token of betrothal or marriage, etc. | | 2. | anything having the form of such a band: a napkin ring; a smoke ring. | | 3. | a circular or surrounding line or mark: dark rings around the eyes. | | 4. | a circular course: to dance in a ring. | | 5. | a number of persons or things situated in
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a circle or in an approximately circular arrangement: a ring of stones; a ring of hills. | | 6. | the outside edge of a circular body, as a wheel; rim. | | 7. | an enclosed area, often circular, as for a sports contest or exhibition: a circus ring. | | 9. | an enclosure in which boxing and wrestling matches take place, usually consisting of a square, canvas-covered platform with surrounding ropes that are supported at each corner by posts. | | 10. | the sport of boxing; prizefighting: the heyday of the ring. | | 11. | (formerly in the U.S., now only in Brit.) an area in a racetrack where bookmakers take bets. | | 12. | a group of persons cooperating for unethical, illicit, or illegal purposes, as to control stock-market prices, manipulate politicians, or elude the law: a ring of dope smugglers. | | 13. | a single turn in a spiral or helix or in a spiral course. | | 14. | Geometry. the area or space between two concentric circles. | | 16. | a circle of bark cut from around a tree. | | 17. | Chemistry. a number of atoms so united that they may be graphically represented in cyclic form. Compare chain (def. 7). | | 18. | Architecture. rowlock (def. 1). | | 19. | a bowlike or circular piece at the top of an anchor, to which the chain or cable is secured. | | 20. | Also called spinning ring. Textiles. (in the ring-spinning frame) a circular track of highly polished steel on which the traveler moves and which imparts twists to the yarn by variations in its vertical movement. | | 21. | a unit of measurement of
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the diameter of cigars, equal to 1/64 of an inch. Also called ring gauge. | | 23. | Mathematics. a set that is closed under the operations of addition and multiplication and that is an Abelian group with respect to addition and an associative semigroup with respect to multiplication and in which the distributive laws relating the two operations hold. | –verb (used with object) | 24. | to surround with a ring; encircle. | | 26. | to insert a ring through the nose of (an animal). | | 27. | to hem in (animals) by riding or circling about them. | | 29. | (in horseshoes, ringtoss, etc.) to encircle (a stake or peg) with a ring, horseshoe, etc. | –verb (used without object) | 30. | to form a ring or rings. | | 31. | to move in a ring or a constantly curving course: The road rings around the mountain. | —Idioms | 32. | run rings around, to be obviously superior to; surpass; outdo: As an artist, she can run rings around her brother. | | 33. | throw or toss one's hat in or into the ring. hat (def. 8). | |
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