Crossword clues for whitening
whitening
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whiten \Whit"en\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Whitened; p. pr. & vb. n. Whitening.] [OE. whitenen; cf. Icel. hv[=i]tn
] To grow white; to turn or become white or whiter; as, the hair whitens with age; the sea whitens with foam; the trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
Whitening \Whit"en*ing\, n.
The act or process of making or becoming white.
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That which is used to render white; whiting. [R.]
Whitening stone, a sharpening and polishing stone used by cutlers; also, a finishing grindstone of fine texture.
Wiktionary
n. 1 a substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter 2 the process of making something white or whiter
WordNet
n. changing to a lighter color [syn: lightening]
Wikipedia
Whitening may refer to:
- Key whitening, a technique intended to increase the security of an iterated block cipher
- Racial whitening, a theory of racial profiling
- Skin whitening, a cosmetic procedure used to whiten the skin
- Tooth whitening, a common procedure in general dentistry
- Whitening (leather processing), the process of lightening the colour of leather
- Whitening transformation, a decorrelation method that converts a covariance matrix of a set of samples into an identity matrix.
- Blanqueamiento, the practice of marrying whiter people in order to have whiter offspring
Whitener may also refer to:
- Coffee whitener, a non-dairy additive product for hot drinks
- Optical brightener, a fluorescent ingredient in products such as laundry detergents
- Basil Lee Whitener, a Democratic U.S. Representative from North Carolina between 1957 and 1968.
Usage examples of "whitening".
Bones whitening beneath a glaring sun, a fiery scalpel that cut away the last of the deracinated flesh upon the fingerlike spread of ribs and rounded skull.
He swung the flashlight in a short arc, the beam whitening the trunk and upswept branches of a dead tree, making it look for an instant like the skeleton of a strange animal, frozen forever in an anguished pose.
The whitening bones of a cat, the dry fragments spread obscenely apart by coarse twine looped around the nearest tree trunks.
To these two he would always be an unruly boy, though by now he is as old and grizzled as they, and the last tinge of color will soon be gone from his own whitening fur.
Kamo River, opposite Shirakawa, and was preparing to ford it, when he saw dawn whitening the shoulder of Mount Hiei.
The white, giant sun of Shubra that indirectly, through reradiation in the nebula, nourished several colonies was perceptible by a general whitening and brightening, in one direction only, of the eternal pale pastels of the interplanetary mist.
It is known to you, O King, and to all the lords of Witchland, that my bones were whitening these six years in Impland the More if Lord Juss had not saved me from the barbarous Imps that followed Fax Fay Faz, who besieged me four months with my small following shut up in Lida Nanguna.
The dust the vehicles had disturbed had settled on the trees on either side of the chaung, whitening them until they bore the appearance of a disused indoor television lot.
The dust the vehicles had disturbed had settled on the trees on either side of the chaung, whitening them until they bore the appearance of a disused indoor television lot.
He had been born in a town very distant from the sea, and he had set foot on a ship only at an advanced age, when—he said—his body was nothing but a withering of the cutis, a dimming of the sight, a besnotting of the nose, a whispering of the ears, a yellowing of the teeth, a stiffening of the spine, a wattling of the throat, a gouting of the heels, a spotting of the complection, a whitening of the locks, a creaking of the tibias, a trembling of the fingers, a stumbling of the feet, and his breast was all one purging of catarrhs amid the coughing of phlegm and the spitting of sputum.
The orange discoloring on the palms of his limp hands would last painfully long, reminding him of his failure, before whitening away.
Below the scratches, the snow water continued in pink-tinted runnels over breasts elongated by years of nursing, the rounded hill of her stomach, down toward the whitening thatch of her womanhood, discuses and almost forgotten.