different between arctic vs whiteout

English

Adjective

arctic (comparative more arctic, superlative most arctic)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Arctic

Noun

arctic (plural arctics)

1. Alternative letter-case form of Arctic

Anagrams

• -cratic, cratic

Romanian

Etymology

From Latin arcticus, from Ancient Greek ???????? (arktikós, “northern, of the (Great) Bear”), from ?????? (árktos, “bear, Ursa Major”).

Adjective

arctic m or n (feminine singular arctic?, masculine plural arctici, feminine and neuter plural arctice)

1. Arctic

Derived terms

• Oceanul Arctic m (“Arctic Ocean”)

English

Alternative forms

• white-out

Etymology

white +? out

Pronunciation

Noun

whiteout (countable and uncountable, plural whiteouts)

1. A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
2. Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
3. Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
4. (sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
5. (computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
6. The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
7. The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.

Translations

See also

• blackout
• brownout

Further reading

• whiteout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• withoute