White vs Raspberry - What's the difference?
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Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
* (Henry Wadsworth Longfellow) (1807-1882)
* 1962' (quoting '''1381 text), (Hans Kurath) & Sherman M. Kuhn, eds., ''(Middle English Dictionary) , Ann Arbor, Mich.: (University of Michigan Press), , page 1242:
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.
* :
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.
The plant Rubus idaeus .
Any of many other (but not all) species in the genus Rubus .
The juicy aggregate fruit of these plants.
A (colour) red colour, the colour of a ripe raspberry.
Containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.
Of a dark pinkish red.
To gather or forage for .
* 1903 , M. E. Waller, A Daughter of the Rich , Little, Brown, and Company (1903),
* 1917 , Lucy Maud Montgomery, Anne's House of Dreams , Chapter 37:
* 1944 , Cornelius Weygandt, The Heart of New Hampshire: Things Held Dear by Folks of the Old Stocks , G. P. Putnam's Sons (1944),
* 1976 , Emily Ward, The Way Things Were: An Autobiography of Emily Ward , Newport Press (1976),
* 1988 , Charles McCarry, The Bride of the Wilderness , MysteriousPress.com (2011), ISBN 9781453232521,
(pejorative, colloquial) A noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.
(colloquial) To make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.
Cockney rhyming slang
As a proper noun white
is .As a noun raspberry is
the plant rubus idaeus or raspberry can be (pejorative|colloquial) a noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence, made by blowing air out of the mouth while the tongue is protruding from and pressed against the lips, or by blowing air through the lips while they are pressed firmly together or against skin, used humorously or to express derision.As an adjective raspberry is
containing or having the flavor/flavour of raspberries.As a verb raspberry is
to gather or forage for or raspberry can be (colloquial) to make the noise intended to imitate the passing of flatulence.white
English
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.
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(wikipedia raspberry)Etymology 1
From earlier raspis berry'', possibly from ''raspise'' (a sweet rose-colored wine), from Anglo-(etyl) ''vinum raspeys , of uncertain origin.Noun
(raspberries)Derived terms
* black raspberry * raspberry vinegar * Scotland raspberrySynonyms
* (obsolete) hindberryAdjective
(-)- She wore a raspberry beret'' — lyrics of ''Raspberry Beret , by the musician
Verb
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- "Owen and she went raspberrying in the woods back of her farm," answered Anne. "They won't be back before supper time—if then."
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- Mrs. Thrifty was picking pie cherries, two boys were raspberrying , and the fourth son, as I recall it, blueberrying.
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- My mother told my sister Sally and me that if we were good little girls we might go raspberrying up on the mountains when the raspberries were ripe.
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- In strawberry time she had seen individual bears grazing in the meadows along the bluff, and later, while raspberrying , she heard one gobbling fruit and snorting on the other side of the bush.