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Wiktionary

  1. whitesnoun

    Clothing or linens, especially laundry, that is white

  2. whitesnoun

    The uniform of a chef

  3. whitesnoun

    cricket whites

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Whitesnoun

    It arises from a laxness of the glands of the uterus, and a cold pituitous blood. John Quincy

Wikipedia

  1. whites

    White is a racialized classification of people and a skin color specifier, generally used for people of European origin, although the definition can vary depending on context, nationality, and point of view. Description of populations as "White" in reference to their skin color predates this notion and is occasionally found in Greco-Roman ethnography and other ancient or medieval sources, but these societies did not have any notion of a White or pan-European race. The term "White race" or "White people", defined by their light skin among other physical characteristics, entered the major European languages in the later seventeenth century, when the concept of a "unified White" achieve universal acceptance in Europe, in the context of racialized slavery and unequal social status in the European colonies. Scholarship on race distinguishes the modern concept from pre-modern descriptions, which focused on physical complexion rather than race. Prior to the modern era, no European peoples regarded themselves as "White", but rather defined their race, ancestry, or ethnicity in terms of their nationality.Contemporary anthropologists and other scientists, while recognizing the reality of biological variation between different human populations, regard the concept of a unified, distinguishable "White race" as socially constructed, rather than scientific.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Whites

    leucorrh/a

  2. Whites

    the finest flour made from white wheat

  3. Whites

    cloth or garments of a plain white color

Wikidata

  1. Whites

    Pieris, the whites or garden whites, is a widespread genus of butterflies of the family Pieridae. Many species of this genus have caterpillars which feed on cabbage and other members of the Brassicaceae. The chemical basis of this association with a certain plant group has been studied for over 100 years, and is now known to occur via a number of biochemical adaptations to chemicals called glucosinolates in these plants. In contrast to most other insects, Pieris caterpillars are able to detoxify these chemicals, and have become so specialised that they will not eat any food without glucosinolates. The Pieris females, in turn, check for the presence of glucosinolates before laying eggs on a plant. The crop-damaging species have spread from Eurasia to most of the rest of the world and are considered pest insects almost everywhere. The females of many Pieris butterflies are UV reflecting, while the male wings are strongly UV absorbing due to pigments in the scales.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whites in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whites in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of whites in a Sentence

  1. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow:

    It was a march of an entire civilization that had been uprooted, freed slaves and a lot of dispossessed whites. And that's what interested me, because during the course of that -- people changed.

  2. Colonel William Prescott:

    Don't one of you fire until you see the whites of their eyes.N.B. A lesser-known version of this quotation was supposedly said by Frederick the Great at Prague in 1757 By push of bayonets, no firing till you see the whites of their eyes.

  3. The FBI:

    Some said Alonzo Brooks may have flirted with a girl, some said drunken White men wanted to fight an African-American male, and some said racist Whites simply resented Brooks' presence.

  4. Eric Foner:

    The heart of Louisiana was big slave plantations and most Whites in Louisiana were deeply committed to White Supremacy.

  5. Emily Bucholz:

    Although the reasons for these disparities are unclear, they may be related to racial disparities in access to care, differences in clinical presentation or procedural indications between minorities and whites, physician biases, or patient preferences.

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