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单词 white hat
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white hatn.

Brit. /ˈwʌɪt ˌhat/, U.S. /ˈ(h)waɪt ˌhæt/
Forms: see white adj. and n. and hat n.; also with capital initials.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: white adj., hat n.
Etymology: < white adj. + hat n. Originally (in quot. 1523 at sense 1) after Middle French Blancs Chaperons, plural (late 14th cent. in Froissart; French Chaperons Blancs, now historical).
1. In plural. Usually with capital initials. A group of Ghent insurgents who rebelled against Louis II, Count of Flanders, during the Ghent War (1379–85). historical.The rebellion was sparked by plans to build a canal between Bruges and the river Leie south of Ghent. The rebels were distinguished by their white hats (see quot. 1752).
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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > insurrection > [noun] > insurgent > one of specific body of insurgents
white hats1523
commonwealth1549
whiggamore1654
Oakboy1776
1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. f. ccxxvii/2 Johan Lyon, and the whyte hattes perseuered styll in their outrage.
1683 J. Bulteel tr. F. E. de Mézeray Gen. Chronol. Hist. France ii. 403 John Lyon chief of the White Hats, had so blown up the troubles in Flanders, that his death could not extinguish the Flame.
1752 tr. V.-C. Châlons Hist. France I. 402 They..called themselves the Chaperons Blancs, or White Hats, because they wore hats of that colour, to distinguish [printed distingush] and know one another.
1862 G. H. Townsend Man. Dates 346/2 The insurrection of the ‘White Hats’ broke out in 1378.
2002 J. A. Burrow Gestures & Looks in Medieval Narr. (2004) ii. 19 Later, in the town market-place, the radical party of Ghent (the ‘White Hats’) express their hostility to the Count by an outright refusal to bow.
2. Newfoundland. The name of a spirit or ghost. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun]
soulOE
huea1000
ghostOE
fantasyc1325
spiritc1350
phantomc1384
phantasmc1430
haunterc1440
shadowa1464
appearance1488
wraith1513
hag1538
spoorn1584
vizarda1591
life-in-death1593
phantasma1598
umbra1601
larve1603
spectre1605
spectrum1611
apparitiona1616
shadea1616
shapea1616
showa1616
idolum1619
larva1651
white hat?1693
zumbi1704
jumbie1764
duppy1774
waff1777
zombie1788
Wild Huntsman1796
spook1801
ghostie1810
hantua1811
preta1811
bodach1814
revenant1823
death-fetch1826
sowlth1829
haunt1843
night-bat1847
spectrality1850
thivish1852
beastie1867
ghost soul1869
barrow-wight1891
resurrect1892
waft1897
churel1901
comeback1908
?1693 C. Mather Brand Pluck'd out of Burning in G. L. Burr Narr. Witchcraft Cases (1914) 284 That spirit by them [sc. the Newfoundlanders] called White-Hat, who ordinarily appears on the Shore, in a White-hat..a little before some dangerous Tempest.
3. (The name of) a person who is noted for or distinguished by wearing a white hat.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > wearing clothing > [noun] > wearing headgear > one who
redcap1550
flat cap1599
sash1657
black cap1856
white hat1872
shawlie1914
raghead1917
hijabi1986
1872 All Year Round 12 Oct. 510/2 Among his admirers Greeley is familiarly and affectionately known as..Old White Hat, Old Tree Chopper, Our Honest Old Uncle,..and Our Modern Cincinnatus.
1892 Outing Feb. 10/2 To make the contest a unique affair Captain Wood's eleven wore white hats and vests... The White Hats were disposed of for 38 runs only, not a batsman scoring double figures.
1947 S. Dickson San Francisco is Your Home (1948) 7 It was ‘White Hat’ McCarthy, strutting through the courts of the Palace Hotel, bowing right and left to people who had no idea who he was.
2001 D. O'Brien Contract Surgeon v. 24 The Indian scouts, for whom Clark was the commanding officer, called him White Hat.
4. U.S. Navy slang. An enlisted seaman.
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society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > ordinary seaman
common sailor1698
ordinary seaman1702
OS1802
ranker1890
O.D.1916
hostile ord1919
erk1925
white hat1952
rate1977
society > armed hostility > hostilities at sea > seafaring warrior or naval man > [noun] > enlisted man
gobshite1910
white hat1952
1952 Washington Post 15 Dec. 27/2 There are 215 white hats (enlisted men) aboard this ship.
1956 E. N. Rogers Queenie's Brood 241 There's a white hat out here who has gone crazy.
1994 S. Coonts Intruders iii. 33 Muldowski's spectacular arrival had just catapulted him to superstardom with the white hats, which was precisely the effect..that the bosun intended.
2002 St. Petersburg (Florida) Times (Nexis) 28 June (City Times section) 1 McMullen still looks like a sailor. He turns up the floppy part of his golf hat like a Navy ‘white hat’ would.
5. Frequently opposed to black hat.
a. colloquial (originally U.S.). A person who is perceived as being on one's side, or on the side of right; a ‘good guy’.With reference to the white hat traditionally worn by the hero in western movies, in contrast to the black hat of the villain.
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the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > [noun] > good person > male
nib1819
a broth of a boy1823
regular guy1912
white hat1965
1965 N. Thimmesch & W. Johnson Robert Kennedy at 40 i. 22 His wife Ethel once said, ‘For him, the world is divided into black and white hats. The white hats are for us and the black hats against us.’
1975 W. Safire Before Fall iii. vii. 191 Nixon and Haldeman clung to the original game plan..against the urging of..Garment, and other ‘white hats’.
1975 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 28 Feb. 5/2 Laver's the last of the white hats (the good guys who wear the white hats in cowboy movies).
1996 High Country News 5 Aug. 2/2 Maybe it's the habit of perceiving people as black hats or white hats that eventually seems old hat.
b. Computing slang. A person who engages in computer hacking for benign or altruistic purposes, esp. in order to test security systems and prevent illegal acts. Also more fully white hat hacker.
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1988 Sydney Morning Herald (Nexis) 28 Mar. 22 Members of Chaos seem to have swapped their white hats for something of a more evil hue because it is reported that members of the club have planted a series of logic bombs in the Span system computers.]
1990 Security, not Obscurity, Round II in news.sysadmin (Usenet newsgroup) 13 Apr. There is a lot of information that needs to be passed from the white hats to the white hats that just isn't happening. Not everyone needs to know about the intricacies (nor how to exploit it) of the latest sendmail bug. But it's nice to have a place to talk about it.
1998 Computerworld 2 Feb. 74/5 Don't tell that to the ‘white-hat’ hackers. They don't like to admit that they..can be duped.
2002 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Nov. r11/2 Drugstore.com contracts with outside ‘white hat hackers’ to probe its network for weaknesses and try to compromise it by any means possible.
2014 D. D. Riley & K. A. Hunt Computational Thinking for Mod. Probl. Solver xii. 375 Our only hope is that white hats create mitigation strategies at a similar rate to the black hats' newest attacks.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2015; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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