White vs Bone - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between white and bone

is that white is street name for cocaine while bone is form of trombone|lang=en.

As adjectives the difference between white and bone

is that white is bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light while bone is of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

As nouns the difference between white and bone

is that white is the color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths while bone is a composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

As verbs the difference between white and bone

is that white is to make white; to whiten; to bleach while bone is to prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

As proper nouns the difference between white and bone

is that white is {{surname|common|from=nicknames} while Bône is a city in eastern Algeria, now known as Annaba.

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.

* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:

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773;, d?r? adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.

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.

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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

'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

bone

English

(wikipedia bone)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l), (l) (dialectal)

Noun

(uncountable) A composite material consisting largely of calcium phosphate and collagen and making up the skeleton of most vertebrates.

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(countable) Any of the components of an endoskeleton, made of bone.

A bone of a fish; a fishbone.

One of the rigid parts of a corset that forms its frame, the boning, originally made of whalebone.

Anything made of bone, such as a bobbin for weaving bone lace.

(figurative) The framework of anything.

An off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

(US, informal) A dollar.

(slang) An erect penis; a boner.

(slang) Dominoes or dice.

(slang) .

Synonyms

* (rigid parts of a corset) rib, stay

Adjective

(-)

Of an off-white colour, like the colour of bone.

Verb

(bon)

To prepare (meat, etc) by removing the bone or bones from.

* 1949 , (Kenneth Lewis Roberts), I Wanted to Write , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=upsEAQAAIAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=KyP_TrXtI6PsmAWp8MzvCw&redir_esc=y page 44],

One of the fish stalls specialized in boning' shad, and he who has never eaten a ' boned shad baked twenty minutes on a hot oak plank has been deprived of the most delicious morsel that the ocean yields.

* 1977 , Prosper Montagné, Charlotte Snyder Turgeon, The New Larousse Gastronomique , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=rqQRAQAAMAAJ&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=wRb_Tuv2O-XMmAXioqiIAg&redir_esc=y page 73],

The ballottine is made of a piece of meat, fowl, game or fish which is boned', stuffed, and rolled into the shape of a bundle. The term ballottine should strictly apply only to meat, ' boned and rolled, but not stuffed.

* 2009 , Maguelonne Toussaint-Samat, A History of Food , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=QmevzbQ0AsIC&pg=PA379&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=0w7_Toz1FYyUmQX25YSjAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 379],

Then it is boned ; keeping the bone in during cooking improves the flavour and enriches the meat with calcium.

* 2011 , Aliza Green, Steve Legato, The Fishmonger's Apprentice , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=hDe3j9hIgw0C&pg=PT38&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=1_X-Tv-rDO_zmAXHqsG1Ag&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 38],

Other fish suited to boning through the back include small bluefish, Arctic char, steelhead salmon, salmon, small wild striped bass, hybrid striped bass, Whitefish, drum, trout, and sea trout.

To fertilize with bone.

* 1859 July 9, (The Economist) , [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=3tcjAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA758&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=HBr_Tq7KMaXymAXC4dCYAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 758],

He cites an instance of land heavily boned 70 years ago as “still markedly luxuriant beyond any other grass land in the same district.”

To put whalebone into.

to bone stays

(Ash)

(civil engineering) To make level, using a particular procedure; to survey a level line.

boning rod

(vulgar, slang, of a man) To have sexual intercourse with.

So, did you bone her?

(Australia, dated, in Aboriginal culture) To perform "bone pointing", a ritual that is intended to bring illness or even death to the victim.

* 1962 , Arthur Upfield, The Will of the Tribe , Collier Books, page 48.

"You don't know!", Bony echoed. "You can tell me who boned me fifteen years ago on the other side of the world, and you can't tell me who killed the white-fella in the Crater".

To study.

bone up

* 1896 , Burt L. Standish, Frank Merriwell's Chums

"I know it. You do not study." "What's the use of boning all the time! I wasn't cut out for it."

To polish boots to a shiny finish.

* F. van Zyl, [http://web.archive.org/20040622112824/uk.geocities.com/sadf_history1/ferdivz.html SADF National Service (1979-1980) ]

"...the permanent boning (excessive polishing) of boots by recruits"

Synonyms

* (remove the bone from) debone * bury the bone, bonk (British), do, fuck, screw, shag (British)

Derived terms

* auditory bone * bare bones * bone ash * bone-cruncher * bone-crunching * bone marrow * bone meal * bone of contention * bone spavin * bone structure * bone turquoise * bone up * boned * bone-dry * bonefish * bonehead * boneless * boner * boney * bonesetter * boneshaker * boneyard * bonfire * boning rod * bony * breastbone * breed in the bone * cannon bone * capitate bone * close to the bone * coffin bone * collarbone * condyle * crazy bone * cuboid bone * cuneiform bone * dembones * debone * dog bone * ethmoid bone * feel in one's bones * fishbone * frontal bone * funny bone * greenstick fracture * hamate bone * hamulus * have a bone in one's leg * have a bone in one's throat * have a bone to pick * heel bone * hipbone * hyoid bone * innominate bone * intermediate cuneiform bone * jawbone * keep one's bone green * lacrimal bone * lamella * lateral cuneiform bone * long bone * lucky-bone * lunate bone * make no bones about * mastoid bone * medial cuneiform bone * membrane bone * nasal bone * navicular bone * near the bone * not make old bones * occipital bone * otic bone * palatine bone * parietal bone * pisiform bone * pull bone * pulley bone * rag-and-bone man * ringbone * scaphoid bone * shinbone * skin and bones * sphenoid bone * splint bone * stirrup bone * T-bone steak * temporal bone * throw a bone to * to the bone * trapezoid bone * triquetral bone * vomer bone * wishbone * work one's fingers to the bone * zygomatic bone

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Etymology 2

Origin unknown; probably related in some way to Etymology 1, above.

Verb

(bon)

(slang) To apprehend, steal.

* 1839 , (Charles Dickens), (Nicholas Nickleby)'', in ''Museum of Foreign Literature, Science and Art , Volume XXXVII, [http://books.google.com.au/books?id=fOQXAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA127&dq=%22boned%22, %22boning%22+-intitle:%22boned, boning%22+-inauthor:%22boned, boning%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2B3_TtvrC4f_mAXim5XJAg&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22boned%22, %22boning%22%20-intitle%3A%22boned, boning%22%20-inauthor%3A%22boned, boning%22&f=false page 127],

“Did I?” said Squeers, “Well it was rather a startling thing for a stranger to come and recommend himself by saying that he knew all about you, and what your name was, and why you were living so quiet here, and what you had boned', and who you had ' boned it from.”

* 1915 , William Roscoe Thayer, The Life and Letters of John Hay ,

as long as you and I live I take it for granted that you will not suspect me of boning them. But to guard against casualties hereafter, I have asked Nicolay to write you a line saying that I have never had in my possession or custody any of the papers which you entrusted to him.

* 1942 , Rebecca West, Black Lamb and Grey Falcon , 2006, Canongate, p.802,

Therefore she wants to take results that belong to other people: she wants to bone everybody else's loaf.

Etymology 3

From (etyl) bornoyer to look at with one eye, to sight, from borgne one-eyed.

Verb

(bon)

(carpentry, masonry, surveying) To sight along an object or set of objects to check whether they are level or in line.

(Knight)

* W. M. Buchanan

Joiners, etc., bone their work with two straight edges.

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White vs Bone - What's the difference?

In lang=en terms the difference between white and bone

As adjectives the difference between white and bone

As nouns the difference between white and bone

As verbs the difference between white and bone

As proper nouns the difference between white and bone

white

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bone

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Etymology 1

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