the usage or vocabulary that is characteristic of a specific group of people; "the immigrants spoke an odd dialect of English"; "he has a strong German accent"; "it has been said that a language is a dialect with an army and navy"
the act of rotating as if on an axis; "the rotation of the dancer kept time with the music"
a planned recurrent sequence (of crops or personnel etc.); "crop rotation makes a balanced demand on the fertility of the soil"; "the manager had only four starting pitchers in his rotation"
a single complete turn (axial or orbital); "the plane made three rotations before it crashed"; "the revolution of the earth about the sun takes one year"
(mathematics) a transformation in which the coordinate axes are rotated by a fixed angle about the origin
the quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
a tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
a member of the Caucasoid race
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
United States architect (1853-1906)
United States political journalist (1915-1986)
Australian writer (1912-1990)
United States jurist appointed chief justice of the United States Supreme Court in 1910 by President Taft; noted for his work on antitrust legislation (1845-1921)
of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration; "voting patterns within the white population"
of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets; "white nights"
being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light; "as white as fresh snow"; "a bride's white dress"
(of hair) having lost its color; "the white hairs of old age"
(of coffee) having cream or milk added
benevolent; without malicious intent; "that's white of you"
glowing white with heat; "white flames"; "a white-hot center of the fire"
restricted to whites only; "under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains"; "a lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization"
marked by the presence of snow; "a white Christmas"; "the white hills of a northern winter"
free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied; "in shining white armor"