different between whites vs whiles

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /(h)wa?ts/

Noun

whites

1. plural of white

Noun

whites pl (plural only)

1. A set of white clothes, especially as a uniform.
   1. The white uniform of a chef.
   2. (cricket) Cricket whites.
   3. (US, military) A white uniform formerly worn by officers of United States Marine Corps.
2. Linen, especially laundry, that is white.
3. (informal) leukorrhea.

Usage notes

• Distinguished from other classes of cloth products because they could be bleached.

Verb

whites

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of white

Anagrams

• swithe, withes

English

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /wa?lz/
• Rhymes: -a?lz
• Homophone: wiles (in accents with the wine-whine merger)

Etymology

From while +? -s.

Adverb

whiles (not comparable)

1. (archaic or Scotland) sometimes; at times
2. (archaic or Scotland) meanwhile

Conjunction

whiles

1. (archaic or dialect) while
   • c. 1596-97, William Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Act I scene ii^[1]:

     Portia: […] Whiles we shut the gate upon one wooer, another knocks at the door.

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV scene i^[2]:

     for it so falls out, / That what we have we prize not to the worth / Whiles we enjoy it; but being lack'd and lost, / Why, then we rack the value, then we find / The virtue that possession would not show us / Whiles it was ours.

Noun

whiles

1. plural of while

Verb

whiles

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of while

Scots

Pronunciation

• enPR: w?lz, IPA^(key): /wa?lz/
• Rhymes: -a?lz

Adverb

whiles

1. Sometimes

   Whiles thay gang tae the strand, but maistly tae the bens- Sometimes they go to the beach, but mostly to the mountains