White vs Bright - What's the difference?

As adjectives the difference between white and bright

is that white is bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light while bright is visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.

As nouns the difference between white and bright

is that white is the color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths while bright is an artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.

As a verb white

is to make white; to whiten; to bleach.

white

English

Alternative forms

* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)

Adjective

(er)

Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

white as the whitest lily on a stream.

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Of the Caucasian race.

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Designated for use by Caucasians.

Relatively light or pale in colour.

Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.

* (Lord Byron) (1788-1824)

Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"

(label) Containing cream, milk or creamer.

The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.

* :

NOw rydeth Galahalt yet withouten shelde / and so rode four dayes without ony aduenture / And at the fourth day after euensonge / he came to a whyte Abbay / and there was he receyued with grete reuerence / and ledde vnto a chambre / and there was he vnarmed / And thenne was he ware of knyghtes of the table round

Honourable, fair; decent.

* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)

White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.

* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

No whiter page than Addison's remains.

* 1953 , (Raymond Chandler), The Long Goodbye , Penguin, 2010, p.12:

*:‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’

Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.

Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.

* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.

(label) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.

* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)

On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.

(label) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.

* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)

Come forth, my white spouse.

* (1586-c.1639)

I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.

(label) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.

* 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.163:

Aimée de Coigny had always adopted with enthusiasm the political views of her ruling lover and she had thus already held nearly every shade of opinion from red republicanism to white reaction.

Antonyms

* (bright and colourless) black, nonwhite, unwhite * (of coffee) black * (lacking coloration) tanned

Synonyms

* (lacking coloration) fair, pale

Noun

(en noun)

The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.

A Caucasian person.

The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).

(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.

Any butterfly of the Pieris genus.

(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.

(countable, and, uncountable) wine.

* {{quote-song

, year = 1977 , title = (Scenes from an Italian Restaurant) , composer = (Billy Joel) , album = , passage = A bottle of red, a bottle of white / It all depends upon your appetite / I'll meet you any time you want / In our Italian Restaurant. }}

(slang) Street name for cocaine.

(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.

* Shakespeare

'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white .

A white pigment.

Venice white

Derived terms

(terms derived from "white") * black-and-white * egg white * flake white * flat white * great white shark * honorary white * Large White * non-white * off-white,offwhite * snow-white * Snow White * titanium white * white heat * white admiral * white alkali * white area * white as a sheet * white as driven snow * white ash * white as snow * White Australia Policy * white bacon * white bear * white belt * white blood cell * white book * white bread * white bryony * white cell * white chip * white Chirstmas * white chocolate * white cloud * white clover * white coal * white corpuscle * white crappie * white currant * white dwarf * white elephant * White Ensign * white feather * white fish * white flag * white flight * white flour * white fox * white frost * white gasoline * white gold * white goods * white gum * white hole * white hope * white horse * White House * white hunter * white knight * white lady * white lead * white leather * white lie * white light * white lightning * white lime * white line * white list * white magic * white man * white marlin * white matter * white meat * white metal * white mica * white mustard * white night * white noise * white out * white pages * white pepper * white pointer * white power * white pudding * white radish * white rice * white room * white rust * white sale * white sapphire * White Sea * white sheep * white-shoe * white space * white spirit * white stick * white sugar * white tie * white vitriol * white water * white wedding * white witch * whitebait * whitebeam * whiteboard * white-bread * white-breasted sea eagle * whitecap * whitecoat * white-collar * white-collar crime * white-collar worker * white-crowned sparrow * whitecurrant * whitedamp * white-eye * whiteface * white-faced * white-faced heron * whitefly * white-footed mouse * white-glove building * white-haired * white-headed * white-hot * white-knuckle * white-kuckle ride * white-livered * whitely * whiten * whiteness * white-out * whiter than white * whites * white-shoe firm * white-sided dolphin * whitesmith * white-tablecloth restaurant * whitethroat * white-tie * whitewall * whitewall tire * whitewash * whitewater rafting * whitish

Verb

(whit)

To make white; to whiten; to bleach.

Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of uncleanness. — Matthew xxiii. 27.

So as no fuller on earth can white them. — Mark ix. 3.

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* (l) English terms with homophones 1000 English basic words

bright

English

Adjective

(er)

Visually dazzling; luminous, lucent, clear, radiant; not dark.

*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.

*Sir (Francis Drake) (c.1540-1596)

*:The earth was dark, but the heavens were bright .

* (1800-1859)

*:The public places were as bright as at noonday.

*(Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)

*:The sun was bright o'erhead.

Having a clear, quick intellect; intelligent.

* Episode 16

*:—Ah, God, Corley replied, sure I couldn't teach in a school, man. I was never one of your bright ones, he added with a half laugh.

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-08-03, volume=408, issue=8847, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= Revenge of the nerds , passage=Think of banking today and the image is of grey-suited men in towering skyscrapers. Its future, however, is being shaped in converted warehouses and funky offices in San Francisco, New York and London, where bright young things in jeans and T-shirts huddle around laptops, sipping lattes or munching on free food.}}

Vivid, colourful, brilliant.

*(Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)

*:Here the bright crocus and blue violet grew.

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Happy, in (soplink).

*1937 , , (The Hobbit) , Ch.11:

*:Their spirits had risen a little at the discovery of the path, but now they sank into their boots; and yet they would not give it up and go away. The hobbit was no longer much brighter than the dwarves. He would do nothing but sit with his back to the rock-face and stare.

Sparkling with wit; lively; vivacious; cheerful.

*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Be bright and jovial among your guests.

Illustrious; glorious.

*(Charles Cotton) (1630-1687)

*:the brightest annals of a female reign

Clear; transparent.

*(James Thomson) (1700-1748)

*:From the brightest wines / He'd turn abhorrent.

(lb) Manifest to the mind, as light is to the eyes; clear; evident; plain.

*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)

*:with brighter evidence, and with surer success

Synonyms

* See also

Derived terms

* * brighten * bright-eyed * bright-eyed and bushy-tailed * brightness * bright side * bright young thing * brightwork * eyebright

Noun

(en noun)

An artist's brush used in oil and acrylic painting with a long ferrule and a flat, somewhat tapering bristle head.

(obsolete) splendour; brightness

* Milton

Dark with excessive bright thy skirts appear.

(neologism) A person with a naturalistic worldview with no supernatural or mystical elements.

* {{quote-news, date = 2003-06-20

, title = The future looks bright , first = Richard , last = Dawkins , authorlink = Richard Dawkins , newspaper = (The Guardian) , issn = 0261-3077 , url = http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2003/jun/21/society.richarddawkins , passage = Brights' constitute 60% of American scientists, and a stunning 93% of those scientists good enough to be elected to the elite National Academy of Sciences (equivalent to Fellows of the Royal Society) are ' brights . }}

* {{quote-book, date = 2006-02-02

, title = Breaking the Spell: Religion As a Natural Phenomenon , first = Daniel C. , last = Dennett , authorlink = Daniel C. Dennett , location = New York , publisher = Viking , isbn = 9780670034727 , ol = 3421576M , page = 27 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=yWtwDDqR61QC&pg=PA27&dq=brights , passage = Many of us brights' have devoted considerable time and energy at some point in our lives to looking at the arguments for and against the existence of God, and many ' brights continue to pursue these issues, hacking away vigorously at the arguments of believers as if they were trying to refute a rival scientific theory. }}

* {{quote-book, date = 2008-03-17

, title = The Delusion of Disbelief: Why the New Atheism Is a Threat to Your Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Happiness , first = David , last = Aikman , location = Carol Stream , publisher = Tyndale House Publishers , isbn = 9781414317083 , ol = 24967138M , page = 28 , pageurl = http://books.google.com/books?id=zn6XkS-4BJcC&pg=PA28&dq=brights , passage = Dawkins has received appreciative letters from people who were formerly what he derisively calls "faith-heads" who have abandoned their delusions and come over to the side of the brights , the pleasant green pastures where clear-eyed, brave, bold, and supremely brainy atheists graze contentedly. }}

Antonyms

* (non-supernaturalist) (neologism) super, supernaturalist

Hyponyms

* (non-supernaturalist) atheist

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* 1000 English basic words