whiten
verb/ˈ(h)waɪ̯.tən/ · [ˈ(h)waɪ̯tn̩]
Etymology From Middle English whitenen, whitnen, from Old Norse hvítna (“to whiten”), from Proto-Germanic *hwītnōną (“to whiten, become white”), from Proto-Indo-European *kwind-, *kwint- (“bright”), equivalent to white + -en. Cognate with Icelandic hvítna (“to whiten”), Swedish vitna, hvitna (“to whiten”), Danish hvidne (“to whiten”). Compare Old English hwītian (“to whiten, become white, be white, make white”).
Ergative (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
- Age had whitened his hair.
- The trees in spring whiten with blossoms.
1 more example
- Whenever black people are furious with me, I walk over to them and whiten their face, and scream and scream and scream 'daddy’s the boss.'2024 February 12, very tall bart, 1:34 from the start, in [YTP] Dennis Prager is crazy (YouTube poop; video), spoken by Penis Prager (Dennis Prager):
Computing, Cryptography, Engineering, Mathematics, Natural sciences, Physical sciences, Sciences To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
Mathematics, Sciences, Statistics To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.
- Derived terms
- prewhiten