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white | false |

As a proper noun white

is .

As an adjective false is

(label) one of two states of a boolean variable; logic.

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:
  • dorr?&
  • 773;, d?r? adj. & n. toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
  • Of the Caucasian race.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1949, chapter=The Green Book, author=Wendell P. Alston, page=3
  • , title=The Negro Motorist Green Book, edition=1949, location=New York, publisher=Victor H. Green , passage=
  • 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

    See also

    * * leucite * leukoma * leukosis * Sauvignon blanc * Svetambara * terra alba * (Race)

    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.

    Statistics

    *

    false

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Untrue, not factual, factually incorrect.
  • *{{quote-book, year=1551, year_published=1888
  • , title= A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles: Founded Mainly on the Materials Collected by the Philological Society , section=Part 1, publisher=Clarendon Press, location=Oxford, editor= , volume=1, page=217 , passage=Also the rule of false position, with dyuers examples not onely vulgar, but some appertaynyng to the rule of Algeber.}}
  • Based on factually incorrect premises: false legislation
  • Spurious, artificial.
  • :
  • *
  • *:At her invitation he outlined for her the succeeding chapters with terse military accuracy?; and what she liked best and best understood was avoidance of that false modesty which condescends, turning technicality into pabulum.
  • (lb) Of a state in Boolean logic that indicates a negative result.
  • Uttering falsehood; dishonest or deceitful.
  • :
  • Not faithful or loyal, as to obligations, allegiance, vows, etc.; untrue; treacherous.
  • :
  • *(John Milton) (1608-1674)
  • *:I to myself was false , ere thou to me.
  • Not well founded; not firm or trustworthy; erroneous.
  • :
  • *(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
  • *:whose false foundation waves have swept away
  • Not essential or permanent, as parts of a structure which are temporary or supplemental.
  • (lb) Out of tune.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • One of two options on a true-or-false test.
  • Synonyms

    * * See also

    Antonyms

    * (untrue) real, true

    Derived terms

    * false attack * false dawn * false friend * falsehood * falseness * falsify * falsity

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • Not truly; not honestly; falsely.
  • * Shakespeare
  • You play me false .

    Anagrams

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