color vs white

color

adj
  • Conveying color, as opposed to shades of gray. 

verb
  • To apply colors to the areas within the boundaries of a line drawing using colored markers or crayons. 

  • To attribute a quality to; to portray (as). 

  • To assign colors to the vertices of a graph (or the regions of a map) so that no two vertices connected by an edge (regions sharing a border) have the same color. 

  • To give something color. 

  • To cause (a pipe, especially a meerschaum) to take on a brown or black color, by smoking. 

  • To become red through increased blood flow. 

  • To affect without completely changing. 

noun
  • The flag of a nation or team. 

  • These hues as used in color television or films, color photographs, etc (as opposed to the shades of grey used in black-and-white television). 

  • A paint. 

  • An award for sporting achievement, particularly within a school or university. 

  • The morning ceremony of raising the flag. 

  • A property of quarks, with three values called red, green, and blue, which they can exchange by passing gluons; color charge. 

  • The spectral composition of visible light. 

  • A standard or banner. 

  • A front or facade; an ostensible truth actually false; pretext. 

  • Human skin tone, especially as an indicator of race or ethnicity. 

  • Skin color, noted as normal, jaundiced, cyanotic, flush, mottled, pale, or ashen as part of the skin signs assessment. 

  • Gang insignia. 

  • Hue as opposed to achromatic colors (black, white and grays). 

  • A third-order measure of derivative price sensitivity, expressed as the rate of change of gamma with respect to time, or equivalently the rate of change of charm with respect to changes in the underlying asset price. 

  • Any of the standard dark tinctures used in a coat of arms, including azure, gules, sable, and vert. 

  • The relative lightness or darkness of a mass of written or printed text on a page. (See type color on Wikipedia.Wikipedia) 

  • A flushed appearance of blood in the face; redness of complexion. 

  • Any of the colored balls excluding the reds. 

  • An appearance of right or authority; color of law. 

  • A particular set of visible spectral compositions, perceived or named as a class. 

  • Richness of expression; detail or flavour that is likely to generate interest or enjoyment. 

white

adj
  • Relatively light or pale in colour. 

  • Alwhite, pertaining to white armor. 

  • Affected by leucism. 

  • Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc. 

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

  • The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour. 

  • Characterised by the presence of snow. 

  • Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned. 

  • Not containing characters; see white space. 

  • Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian. 

  • Containing cream, milk, or creamer. 

  • Honourable, fair; decent. 

  • Made from immature leaves and shoots. 

  • Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare black (“said of a character or symbol filled with color”). 

  • Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin. 

  • Designated for use by Caucasians. 

  • Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary. 

  • Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements. 

noun
  • Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae. 

  • The sclera, white of the eye. 

  • The cue ball in cue games. 

  • The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten. 

  • White wine. 

  • Cocaine 

  • A white bean 

  • A white pigment. 

  • The albumen of bird eggs (egg white). 

  • The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf. 

  • A person of European descent with light-coloured skin. 

  • White coffee 

  • A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade. 

  • The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot. 

  • The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths. 

verb
  • To make white; to whiten; to bleach. 

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