different between whiteout vs blinding

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.

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See also

• blackout
• brownout

Further reading

• whiteout on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• withoute

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?bla?nd??/

Verb

blinding

1. present participle of blind

Adjective

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. Very bright (as if to cause blindness).
2. Making blind or as if blind; depriving of sight or of understanding.

   • Turning back, then, toward the basement staircase, she began to grope her way through blinding darkness, but had taken only a few uncertain steps when, of a sudden, she stopped short and for a little stood like a stricken thing, quite motionless save that she quaked to her very marrow in the grasp of a great and enervating fear.

3. (Britain, slang) Brilliant; marvellous.

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Adverb

blinding (comparative more blinding, superlative most blinding)

1. (nonstandard) To an extreme degree; blindingly.

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Noun

blinding (plural blindings)

1. The act of causing blindness.
2. A thin coat of sand or gravel used to fill holes in a new road surface.
3. A thin sprinkling of sand or chippings laid on a newly tarred surface.

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