White vs Sky - 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.
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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.
(lb) A cloud.
The atmosphere above a given point, especially as visible from the ground during the day.
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The part of the sky which can be seen from a specific place or at a specific time; its condition, climate etc.
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*:So this was my future home, I thought!Backed by towering hills, the but faintly discernible purple line of the French boundary off to the southwest, a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.
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*:She wakened in sharp panic, bewildered by the grotesquerie of some half-remembered dream in contrast with the harshness of inclement fact, drowsily realising that since she had fallen asleep it had come on to rain smartly out of a shrouded sky .
Heaven.
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(sports) to hit, kick or throw (a ball) extremely high.
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(colloquial, dated) To hang (a picture on exhibition) near the top of a wall, where it cannot be well seen.
* The Century
(colloquial) to drink something from a container without one's lips touching the container
As a proper noun white
is .As an acronym sky is
s'uomen '''k'''ielitieteellinen ' y hdistys: linguistic association of finland.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.
Statistics
*sky
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Alternative forms
* skie (obsolete)Noun
(skies)Usage notes
Usually the word can be used correctly in either the singular or plural form, but the plural is now mainly poetic.Synonyms
* firmament * heaven *Derived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Verb
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- Brother Academicians who skied his pictures.