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whiteout
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Wiktionary
n. 1 a heavy snowstorm; a blizzard 2 a 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
WordNet
n. an arctic atmospheric condition with clouds over snow produce a uniform whiteness and objects are difficult to see; occurs when the light reflected off the snow equals the light coming through the clouds
Wikipedia
Whiteout or white out may refer to:
- Whiteout (weather)
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Correction fluid
- Wite-Out, a brand of correction fluid
- Winnipeg White Out, a hockey tradition started by fans of the Winnipeg Jets
- Whiteout (Follett novel), a 2004 novel by Ken Follett
- Whiteout (Judge Dredd novel), an original novel written by James Swallow
- Whiteout (album), a 2000 album by rock band Boss Hog
- Whiteout (EP), a 2012 EP by Dawn Richard
- "White Out", a 2014 song by Amy Lee featuring Dave Eggar from the album Aftermath
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Whiteout (Oni Press), a comic book limited series by Greg Rucka
- Whiteout (2009 film), a film directed by Dominic Sena based on the comic book
- Whiteout (2000 film), a Japanese film directed by Setsurou Wakamatsu
- Whiteout (G.I. Joe), a fictional character in the G.I. Joe universe
- Whiteout (Marvel Comics), a comic book supervillain
- Whiteout (band), a Scottish rock group
- "Whiteout", a song by Killing Joke on the 1994 album Pandemonium
- Whiteout: The CIA, Drugs and the Press, a history book by Alexander Cockburn and Jeffrey St. Clair
- White-Out, a limited release flavor of Mountain Dew soda
- White Out (band), an American experimental rock group
- White-Out Conditions an album by the Norwegian band Bel Canto
- Greyout or Whiteout, a transient loss of vision characterized by a perceived dimming of light and color
Whiteout is a weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand. The horizon disappears completely and there are no reference points at all, leaving the individual with a distorted orientation. Whiteout has been defined as: "A condition of diffuse light when no shadows are cast, due to a continuous white cloud layer appearing to merge with the white snow surface. No surface irregularities of the snow are visible, but a dark object may be clearly seen. There is no visible horizon."
A whiteout may be due simply to extremely heavy snowfall rates as seen in lake effect conditions, or to other factors such as diffuse lighting from overcast clouds, mist or fog, or a background of snow. People can be lost in their own front yards during a true whiteout, when the door is only away, and they would have to feel their way back. Motorists have to stop their cars where they are, as the road is impossible to see. Normal snowfalls and blizzards, where snow is falling at /h), or where the relief visibility is not clear yet having a clear field of view for over , are often incorrectly called whiteouts.
Whiteout is a comic book limited series by writer Greg Rucka and artist Steve Lieber. It was originally released in four issues during 1998, by Oni Press and then collected into a trade paperback.
A film adaptation of the series was released on September 11, 2009.
Whiteout is a fictional character in the Marvel Comics universe.
Whiteout (2004) is a thriller novel written by British author Ken Follett about the theft of a deadly virus from a lab in snow-covered Scotland.
Whiteout, in comics, may refer to:
- Whiteout (Marvel Comics), a Marvel Comics character from the Savage Land
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Whiteout (Oni Press), a series from Oni Press, written by Greg Rucka and adapted into a film released in 2009
- Whiteout: Melt, a sequel also by Greg Rucka
- Whyteout, a Marvel Comics character who appeared in Thunderstrike
Whiteout is the third studio album by alternative rock band Boss Hog.
Whiteout is an original novel written by James Swallow and based on the long-running British science fiction comic strip Judge Dredd. It is Swallow's second Judge Dredd novel.
Whiteout is the second EP by American Recording Artist Dawn Richard. It was released on December 1, 2012.
Whiteout was a short-lived UK rock group from Greenock in Scotland, who were most famous for their hit "Jackie's Racing". Although they had existed in a different incarnation since the very early 1990's, the band, whose classic line-up consisted of Andrew Caldwell (vocals), Paul Carroll (bass), Eric Lindsay (guitar) and Stuart Smith (drums) since 1993, took their name from a slang term for the disorientating effects of alcohol. They were the first guitar band to sign to the Silvertone label after their enormous success with the Stone Roses. Whiteout's principal recordings were the albums Bite It (1995) and Big Wow (1998). Their music was influenced by the country rock and glam rock of the early 1970s, as well as the aforementioned Stone Roses.
Whiteout achieved minor success during the Britpop era in the UK, co-headlining a tour with Oasis and supported The Charlatans and Pulp. They opened both the Glasgow Sound City event and the Phoenix festival in 1994 before releasing their second single, "Starrclub" (which included the line, "Look at me, i'm on TV"). The singles "Detroit" and "Jackie's Racing" followed and the group began to achieve a growing reputation in Japan.
On 11 October 1994 Whiteout performed at BBC Radio 1's Peel Sessions. They played four songs: "Everyday", "Time and Again", "Get Me Through", and "Higher".
Andrew Caldwell left the group in 1996, after Bite It (replaced briefly by Warren McIntyre) and by the time the (now three piece of Carroll, Lindsay & McDermott) band reemerged with their second album "Big Wow" in 1998 (The last track of which included the refrain "We'll all go down in history") it was to a largely dismissive reception from the music media. Original drummer Mark Fairhurst ('Fudge') had replaced McDermott on drums in 1997, appearing on two of "Big Wow"'s tracks, but Whiteout split soon after, around 1999, shortly after becoming a 4-piece again with Eric Russell on keys.
The only recorded material since has come from Eric Lindsay's outfit 'Eli', and the album 'Dreams Are The Foundations of Reality' (2009), though there have been brief outings by combinations of Lindsay, Carroll and Russell since the split in various acoustic and electric incarnations. Eric can currently be found playing guitar with ex-Superstar frontman Joe McAlinden's band Linden.
Whiteout ( French: Whiteout : Enfer blanc) is a 2009 thriller film based on the 1998 comic book of the same name by Greg Rucka and Steve Lieber. Directed by Dominic Sena, with uncredited reshoots by Stuart Baird and Len Wiseman, it stars Kate Beckinsale, Gabriel Macht, Columbus Short, Tom Skerritt, and Alex O'Loughlin. The film was distributed by Warner Bros. and released on September 11, 2009. It was produced under the banner of Dark Castle Entertainment by Joel Silver, Susan Downey and David Gambino.
The movie is set in Antarctica, where Deputy U.S. Marshal Carrie Stetko (Kate Beckinsale) is planning to leave in a few days. After finding a dead body, Stetko is attacked by a masked killer who is trying to get hold of the cargo in an old Soviet plane that crash landed in the ice during the Cold War.
Usage examples of "whiteout".
Thermally and electromagnetically, the rippling circle was the equivalent of an Arctic whiteout to any probing sensors.
Hel and his mountaineer companions had known that conditions were developing toward a whiteout because, like all Basques from Haute Soule, they were constantly if subliminally attuned to the weather patterns that could be read in the eloquent Basque sky as the dominant winds circled in their ancient and regular boxing of the compass.
That torque was slight, but dreadful in its scale and Hackle now began to run outright, shouldering fanatically forward through the stinging whiteouts, steering by glimpses of the portal-pit.
White snowy ground underfoot, white sky overhead, and white haze and snowfall obscuring any other features of the surroundings, whiteout was disorienting and dangerous.
Five days ago they had left Ice Trapper territory, traveling through ice storms and whiteouts, across black hackled ice and snowbound foothills, and in all that time she had seen nothing but certainty on his face.
Of course, being stupid ips, Siggy and the others had no idea what the technical readings actually said, but this was where the storm swept down upon them, losing both ips and company men in a whiteout.
They never managed to get enough altitude and nearly met total disaster not far from Lone Pine, when they were both forced to turn back toward the eastern flank of the Sierras by the whiteout blizzard.
One of them brushed against me, and my senses abruptly went into whiteout, overwhelmed with a simple image of walking down a sidewalk in worn shoes, the sun bright overhead, a purse bumping on my hip, stomach twinging with pleasant hunger pangs, the scent of hot asphalt in my nose, children laughing and splashing somewhere nearby.