whiten
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- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 12
- Letters
- 6
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Definition of whiten
4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
verb
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(ergative)(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
“Age had whitened his hair.”
“The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.”
“Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'”
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verb
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(ergative)(To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
“Age had whitened his hair.”
“The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.”
“Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'”
- To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
- To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
name
- A surname.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).
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