kitchens

As noun

a room or place equipped for cooking

culinary department; cuisine:This restaurant has a fine Italian kitchen

the staff or equipment of a kitchen

As adjective

of, relating to, or designed for use in a kitchen:kitchen window; kitchen curtains

employed in or assigned to a kitchen:kitchen help

of or resembling a pidginized language, especially one used for communication between employers and servants or other employees who do not speak the same language

white

As adjective, whiter, whitest

of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc

; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light

light or comparatively light in color

(of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent

for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:a white neighborhood

pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:white with rage

silvery, gray, or hoary:white hair

snowy:a white Christmas

lacking color; transparent

(politically) ultraconservative

blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:Fill in the white space below

Armor

composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite

wearing white clothing:a white monk

Older Use: Offensive

decent, honorable, or dependable:That's mighty white of you

auspicious or fortunate

morally pure; innocent

without malice; harmless:white magic

(of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red

British

(of coffee) containing milk

As noun

a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black

A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely

Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect percent of the incident light

It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color

Compare black (def )

a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible

quality or state of being white

lightness of skin pigment

a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent

a white material or substance

the white part of something

Biology

a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen

the white part of the eyeball:He has a speck in the white of his eye

whites

white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites

top-grade white flour

white wine:Graves is a good white

a type or breed that is white in color

Usually, whites

a blank space in printing

(initial capital letter) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White

Entomology

any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies

white fabric

Archery

the outermost ring of the butt

an arrow that hits this portion of the butt

the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow

Archaic

a target painted white

Chess, Checkers

the men or pieces that are light-colored

(often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party

As verb (used with object), whited, whiting

Printing

to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out)

to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out)

Archaic

to make white; whiten

As Verb phrases

white out, to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid

to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink

As Idioms

bleed white, Informal

to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources:Dishonesty is bleeding the union white

in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished

cabinets

As noun

a piece of furniture with shelves, drawers, etc

, for holding or displaying items:a curio cabinet; a file cabinet

a wall cupboard used for storage, as of kitchen utensils or toilet articles:a kitchen cabinet; a medicine cabinet

a piece of furniture containing a radio or television set, usually standing on the floor and often having a record player or a place for phonograph records

(often initial capital letter) a council advising a president, sovereign, etc

, especially the group of ministers or executives responsible for the government of a nation

(often initial capital letter) (in the U

S

) an advisory body to the president, consisting of the heads of the executive departments of the federal government

a small case with compartments for valuables or other small objects

a small chamber or booth for special use, especially a shower stall

a private room

a room set aside for the exhibition of small works of art or objets d'art

Also called cabinet wine

a dry white wine produced in Germany from fully matured grapes without the addition of extra sugar

New England (chiefly Rhode Island and Southern Massachusetts)

a milk shake made with ice cream

Archaic

a small room

Obsolete

a small cabin

As adjective

pertaining to a political cabinet:a cabinet meeting

private; confidential; secret

pertaining to a private room

of suitable value, beauty, or size for a private room, small display case, etc

:a cabinet edition of Milton

of, relating to, or used by a cabinetmaker or in cabinetmaking

Drafting

designating a method of projection (cabinet projection) in which a three-dimensional object is represented by a drawing (cabinet drawing) having all vertical and horizontal lines drawn to exact scale, with oblique lines reduced to about half scale so as to offset the appearance of distortion

Compare axonometric, isometric (def ), oblique (def )