What is the difference between fair and white?
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Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
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, title= Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
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*Book of Common Prayer
*:a fair white linen cloth
Light in color, pale, particularly as regards skin tone but also referring to blond hair.
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*1677 , (Matthew Hale),
*:the northern people large and fair -complexioned
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*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking. In complexion fair , and with blue or gray eyes, he was tall as any Viking, as broad in the shoulder.
Just, equitable.
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*:“[…] it is not fair of you to bring against mankind double weapons ! Dangerous enough you are as woman alone, without bringing to your aid those gifts of mind suited to problems which men have been accustomed to arrogate to themselves.”
Adequate, reasonable, or decent.
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Not overcast; cloudless; clear; pleasant; propitious; said of the sky, weather, or wind, etc.
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*(Matthew Prior) (1664-1721)
*:You wish fair winds may waft him over.
Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
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*Sir (Walter Raleigh) (ca.1554-1618)
*:The caliphs obtained a mighty empire, which was in a fair way to have enlarged.
(lb) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
(lb) Between the baselines.
Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
(obsolete) A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
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* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, p. 39:
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , III.24:
(obsolete) Fairness, beauty.
A fair woman; a sweetheart.
* Shenstone
(obsolete) Good fortune; good luck.
* Shakespeare
To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
To construct or design a structure whose primary function is to produce a smooth outline or reduce air drag or water resistance.
(obsolete) To make fair or beautiful.
* Shakespeare
A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
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, title= An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business.
A funfair, an amusement park.
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
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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)
(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.
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Honourable, fair; decent.
* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
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* 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.’
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Lacking coloration from ultraviolet light.
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
(label) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
(label) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
* (Geoffrey Chaucer) (c.1343-1400)
* (1586-c.1639)
(label) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
* 1932 , (Duff Cooper), Talleyrand , Folio Society, 2010, p.163:
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.
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(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
A white pigment.
To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
White is a synonym of fair.
In obsolete terms the difference between fair and white
is that fair is to make fair or beautiful while white is regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.As adjectives the difference between fair and white
is that fair is beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality while white is bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.As nouns the difference between fair and white
is that fair is something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective) while white is the color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.As verbs the difference between fair and white
is that fair is to smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface) while white is to make white; to whiten; to bleach.As an adverb fair
is clearly; openly; frankly; civilly; honestly; favorably; auspiciously; agreeably.As a proper noun White is
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English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) fayr, feir, fager, from (etyl) .Adjective
(er)A Princess of Mars, passage="It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.}}
Beowulf, genre=Fiction, publisher=iUniverse, isbn=9781440156977, page=33 , passage=And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.}}
The Primitive Origination of Mankind, Considered and Examined According to the Light of Nature, page 200
Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=My hopes wa'n't disappointed. I never saw clams thicker than they was along them inshore flats. I filled my dreener in no time, and then it come to me that 'twouldn't be a bad idee to get a lot more, take 'em with me to Wellmouth, and peddle 'em out. Clams was fairly scarce over that side of the bay and ought to fetch a fair price.}}
Synonyms
* (beautiful) beautiful, pretty, lovely * (unblemished) pure, clean, neat * (light in color) pale * (just) honest, just, equitableDerived terms
* all's fair in love and war * fair and square * fair cop * fair copy * fair go * fair play * fair sex * fair to middling * fair use * fair-weather friend * to be fairNoun
(fair)- When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?
- ''Love and Hymen, hand in hand,
- ''Come, restore the nuptial band!
- ''And sincere delights prepare
- ''To crown the hero and the fair .
- In enjoying, therefore, such place of rendezvous, the British fair ought to esteem themselves more happy than any of their foreign sisters
- If single, probably his plighted Fair / Has in his absence wedded some rich miser [...].
- (Shakespeare)
- I have found out a gift for my fair .
- Now fair befall thee!
Verb
(en verb)- Fairing the foul.
Synonyms
* (to reduce air drag or water resistance) to streamlineDerived terms
* fair off * fair up * fairingDerived terms
* bid fair * fair and squareEtymology 2
From (etyl) feire, from (etyl) .Noun
(en noun)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=The turmoil went on—no rest, no peace. […] It was nearly eleven o'clock now, and he strolled out again. In the little fair created by the costers' barrows the evening only seemed beginning; and the naphtha flares made one's eyes ache, the men's voices grated harshly, and the girls' faces saddened one.}}
Derived terms
* funfairStatistics
* ----white
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- white as the whitest lily on a stream.
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- Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"
- 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
- White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
- No whiter page than Addison's remains.
- Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.
- On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
- Come forth, my white spouse.
- I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
- 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) tannedSynonyms
* (lacking coloration) fair, paleNoun
(en noun)- 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white .
- 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 * whitishSee also
* * leucite * leukoma * leukosis * Sauvignon blanc * Svetambara * terra alba * (Race)Verb
(whit)- 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.