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In obsolete terms the difference between summer and white

is that summer is a pack-horse while white is regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.

As nouns the difference between summer and white

is that summer is one of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere 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 summer and white

is that summer is to spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday while white is to make white; to whiten; to bleach.

As proper nouns the difference between summer and white

is that summer is {{given name|female|from=English}} of modern usage, for a girl born in summer while White is {{surname|common|from=nicknames}.

As an adjective white is

bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

summer

English

(wikipedia summer)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (obsolete)

Noun

(en noun)
  • One of four seasons, traditionally the second, marked by the longest and typically hottest days of the year due to the inclination of the Earth and thermal lag. Typically regarded as being from June 21 to September 22 or 23 in parts of the USA, the months of June, July and August in the United Kingdom and the months of December, January and February in the Southern Hemisphere.
  • :
  • *{{quote-book, year=a1420, year_published=1894
    • , author=The British Museum Additional MS, 12,056, by=(Lanfranc of Milan) , title= Lanfranc's "Science of cirurgie." , chapter=Wounds complicated by the Dislocation of a Bone, isbn= 1163911380, page= 63 , publisher=K. Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co, location=London, editor=Robert von Fleischhacker , passage=Ne take noon hede to brynge togidere þe parties of þe boon þat is to-broken or dislocate, til viij. daies ben goon in þe wyntir, & v. in þe somer ; for þanne it schal make quytture, and be sikir from swellynge; & þanne brynge togidere þe brynkis eiþer þe disiuncture after þe techynge þat schal be seid in þe chapitle of algebra.}}
  • *
  • *:At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.
  • *
    • , title= Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=A chap named Eleazir Kendrick and I had chummed in together the summer afore and built a fish-weir and shanty at Setuckit Point, down Orham way. For a spell we done pretty well.}}
  • *{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
    • , chapter=5 citation , passage=A waiter brought his aperitif, which was a small scotch and soda, and as he sipped it gratefully he sighed. ¶ ‘Civilized,’ he said to Mr. Campion. ‘Humanizing.’
    Usage notes
    (season name spelling)
    Antonyms
    * winter
    Derived terms
    * aftersummer * All-Hallown Summer * dog days of summer * go-summer * (Great Summer Army) * have but a mile to midsummer * high summer * Hutchinson's summer prurigo, summer prurigo of Hutchinson * Indian summer * little summer of St Luke * Martinmas summer * midsummer * net summer capability * nuclear summer * old wives' summer * polar mesospheric summer echoes * (Red Summer) * (Revolution Summer) * Russian spring-summer encephalitis * Saint Luke's little summer, Saint Luke's summer, St Luke's little summer, St Luke's summer * Saint Martin's summer, St Martin's summer * snow-in-summer * summer-ale * summer and winter * summer annual * (w, Summer Archbishop's Palace), Summer Archiepiscopal Palace * summer associate * summer asthma * summer-barm * summer bird * summer bleeding * summer-blink * summer boarder * summer break * summer-broach * summer camp * summer capital * summer catarrh * summercater * summer cholera * summer-cloud * (Summer Coast) * summer cock * summer cohosh * summer cold * summer colony * summer colt, summer-colt * summer complaint * (Summercon) * summer coot * summer cottage * summer country * summer crookneck * summer cypress * summer damask rose * summer-day * summer diarrhea, summer diarrhoea * summer-dream * summer duck * summer-eat * summer eggs * summer encephalitis * summer fallow, summer-fallow * summer-fallowing * (Summerfest) * summer fever * summer-field * summer finch * summer floor * summer flounder * summer-fold * summer fool * summer fruit tortrix moth * summerful * summer-game * Summer Games * (Summer Garden) * summer-gauze, summer-goose * summer grape * summer grass * summer hall * summer haw * summerhead * summer-heat * summer hemp * summer-herring * summer hit * summer holiday * summer holidays * summer house, summer-house, summerhouse * summer-hutch * summer hyacinth * summerish * summerise, summerize * (Summer Isles) * summer itch * summer kill * summer kitchen * summer lady * Summerland * summer-land, summerland * summerlay * summer lea-land * summer learning loss * summer-lease * summer-leding * summerless * summer lightning * summer-like, summerlike * summerling * summer-long, summerlong * summer-lord * summerly * summer master * summer mastitis * summer meal * summer migrant * summer monsoon * summer number * Summer of Hate * Summer of Love * (Summer of Three Popes) * Summer Olympic Games * summer-ova * * (Summer Paralympics) * summer parlour * summer pole * summer pruning * summer prurigo * summer pudding * summer queen, summer's queen * summer queening * summer range * summer rape * summer rash * summer reading program * summer red-bird, summer redbird * summer redcap * summer resort * summer-ripe * summer road * summer roll * summer-room * summer rose * summer rules * summer-run fish * summers * summer sale * summer sausage * summer savory * summer's bird * summer school * summer's cloud * summer's day * summer season * summer-seeming * summer services * summer sheldrake * summer slide * summer smog * summer snake * summer snipe * summer snowflake * summer-sob * summer solstice * summer sores * summer soup * summer spore * summer spot * summer squash, summer squash vine * summer's tide * summer's time * summer-stirring * summer stock * summer sweet, summer-sweet * summer tanager * summer teal * summer term * summer theater, summer theatre * summer-tide, summertide * summer-tilth * summer time * summer-time, summertime * summer top * summer tree * the Summer Triangle * summer tulip * summer vacation * summer village * summer visitor * summerward, summerwards * summer warbler * summer-weight * summer wheat * summer-whiting * summer wood, summerwood * summer-work * summer-worm * summery * summer-yellow * summer yellowbird * unsummered * winter and summer * the (Year Without a Summer)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To spend the summer, as in a particular place on holiday.
    • We like to summer in the Mediterranean.
    Derived terms
    * summer and winter * summer over * summering

    See also

    * , aestival, estival *

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) (m), (m), from .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (obsolete) A pack-horse.
  • A horizontal beam supporting a building.
  • *, I.43:
    • And we are warned, that the foundation or maine summers of our houses faile and shrinke, when we see the quarters bend, or wals to breake.
    Synonyms
    * (horizontal beam) summer-tree
    Derived terms
    * breastsommer, breastsummer, bressomer, bressumer, bressummer, brestsummer * summer bar * summer-beam * summer-castle * summering * summer-piece * summer-stone * summer-tower * summer-tree, summertree * summer-trestle * transsummer

    Etymology 3

    (sum)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who sums.
    • Derived terms
    * summer-up

    Statistics

    * 1000 English basic words

    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.

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