Vaihtoehtoiset kirjoitusmuodot
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Haettu sana löytyi näillä lähdekielillä:
| Käännös | Konteksti |
|---|
| Verbit |
| 1. | | |
| Adjektiivit |
| 2. | | väri |
| 3. | | |
| 4. | | |
| 5. | | urheilu, biljardi, snooker |
| 6. | | |
| Substantiivit |
| 7. | | väri |
| 8. | | |
| 9. | | anatomia |
| 10. | | anatomia |
| 11. | | |
| 12. | | urheilu, biljardi, snooker |
| 13. | | |
| 14. | | slangi |
Määritelmät
Adjektiivi
- Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Europeans or those of European descent, regardless if their skin has cool or warm undertones.
- (sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians (people with white complexion and European ancestry).
- (sometimes capitalized) By U.S. Census Bureau definition, of or relating to people hailing from Europe, North Africa, and the Middle East.
- (chiefly historical) Designated for use by Caucasians.
- Relatively light or pale in colour.
- Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
- (of a person or skin) Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
- (of an animal) Affected by leucism.
- (of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
- (board games, chess) 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 less common and often offensive) Honourable, fair, decent, kind; generous.
- Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
- (archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
- (obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
- (politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
- (of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
- (typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
- (typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black.
- Characterised by the presence of snow.
- (of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
Verbi
- (transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
Substantiivi
- The color of snow or milk; the color of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
- A person of European descent with light-colored skin.
- Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
- (countable and uncountable) White wine.
- (countable and uncountable) White coffee
- (uncountable) White bread
- (countable) Any object or substance that is of the color white.
- The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
- (anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
- (sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The cue ball in cue games.
- (slang, US, UK) Cocaine.
- The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
- A white pigment.
- A white bean.
- (archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
- The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
- A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
- (board games, chess) The person playing with the white set of pieces.
Esimerkit
- ‘We've only met twice and you've been more than white to me both times.’
- So as no fuller on earth can white them. — Mark ix. 3.
- Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of [...] uncleanness. — Matthew xxiii. 27.
- Venice white
- 'Twas I won the wager, though you hit the white.
- 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.
- 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.
- I am his white boy, and will not be gulled.
- Come forth, my white spouse.
- On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
- Your high engendered battles 'gainst a head / So old and white as this.
- Even decency has been regarded as a white or Christian attribute, as is evidenced by the expression "that's very white of you"
- Write in black ink on white paper.
- “I’ll put you down at my club; and then, the governor will want to see you in the country.” / Jim had no idea of what was involved in being put down at a club, but he consented. “That ’s mighty white of you, old man, but I don’t know where I shall make down.”
- No whiter page than Addison's remains.
- White as thy fame, and as thy honour clear.
- 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
- The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
- Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! / They come! they come!"
- white wine; white grapes
- white drinking fountain; white hospital
- [...]more white corporations cognizant of the mounting purchasing power of the Negro consumer, have Negro representatives in the field.
- dorrẹ̅, dōrī adj. & n. [...] cook. glazed with a yellow substance; pome(s ~, sopes ~. [...] 1381 Pegge Cook. Recipes p. 114: For to make Soupys dorry. Nym onyons [...] Nym wyn [...] toste wyte bred and do yt in dischis, and god Almande mylk.
- white as the whitest lily on a stream.
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