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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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  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. President Obama:

    We have made enormous progress in race relations over the course of the last several decades, i have witnessed that in my own life and to deny that progress, I think, is to deny America’s capacity for change. A new Gallup poll shows Americans' perception of race relations essential unchanged since 2002, with roughly 66 percent of black respondents saying relations are good, compared to 72 percent for non-Hispanic whites. Obama also told National Public Radio, in the year-end interview with.

  2. Mark Naison:

    That was Barack Obama one chance to win over the low - and moderate-income whites that are deeply suspicious of Barack Obama, barack Obama could have won over whites with a New Deal jobs program rather than a health care act.

  3. Andrew Yang:

    In the context of my book, I was saying, how will this tribalism and violence manifest itself. Poor whites who felt like they had no future and then that violence would emerge in large part because that group would become increasingly angry and distressed, that's the context of the book.

  4. Steve Fitzgerald:

    Ask the blacks about slavery. Ask the American Indians, ask -- well, of course, American Indians were doing it to each other. The whites were doing it to each other. But if you go all back in history, we have never had much compunction about killing each other, especially if you couldn't fight back.

  5. Bernie Sanders:

    Many white people are not sensitive to the kind of abuse that African-Americans, especially younger African-Americans, receive at the hands of police officers and police departments. I think for most whites their experience with the police has been good or neutral because they don't interact with the police as much as those in the black community.

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