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单词 white-out
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Definition of white-out in English:

white-out

noun
  • 1A dense blizzard, especially in polar regions.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The concept has potential: two strangers, trapped in an Alaska cabin during a white-out, one a woman in a wedding dress stumbling in from the cold, the other, the reserved and anti-social inhabitant of the cabin.
    • This proved a good area to go to escape a disorienting white-out on the upper slopes, as did Arc 1600.
    • Their scheduled league opposition are otherwise engaged in fixtures hit by last week's deluge and white-out leaving York to concentrate on the visit of former rivals Goole in a club clash.
    • The white-out in and around the city caused match promoter Martin Witts to put the Barbican meeting between Jimmy White and Alex Higgins on hold.
    • Then a blizzard closed in forcing the men to make a 15-mile detour around the water in a complete white-out.
    • As the bomber approached Goose Bay, it flew into a white-out and fuel began to run out.
    • Chickens are not being counted but fingers are crossed for the promised white-out and perhaps even some snow pictures of a more impressive nature!
    • There is no little irony in the fact that a man who had continually risked his life in the harshest of conditions, ever since a brush with death in a white-out on Ben Nevis as a 16-year-old, died in such relatively benign circumstances.
    • Our weather is a factor most of the time, with very thick fogs in springtime, very heavy snow in the fall, and blizzards and white-outs in the winter.
    1. 1.1 A weather condition in which the features and horizon of snow-covered country are indistinguishable due to uniform light diffusion.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The US fighter pilots crashed their F-15 jets into the upper slopes of Ben Macdui in white-out conditions in March 2001.
      • Straining my eyes in the dazzling white-out, I excitedly make my first sighting in the distance, only to be informed it's a herd of cattle from a nearby ranch.
      • By the time we got back to the top - barely making it I might add - it was a genuine white-out.
      • Roads throughout the country were closed because of white-out conditions and people were advised by emergency services to stay indoors.
      • For example, helicopter landings in Afghanistan are particularly troublesome because the high altitudes and very fine sand on the ground can cause near white-out conditions during landings.
      • Just wanted to call and say since the last update we've moved to camp 2 on quite snowy conditions and pretty white-out, zero visibility.
      • By 4.35 am it was a white-out - you could not see a thing.
      • Hurricane-force winds hampered clean-up efforts with high drifts and white-out conditions, and, with snow this deep, you want more than just a shovel.
      • Suddenly, the climbers heard a loud roar behind them and soon were in white-out conditions.
      • It was a complete white-out, except for the ghostlike silhouette of our boat.
      • The white-out breaks to a view of Mount Columbia, then the mist closes down again like someone raking dry cotton balls over our eyes.
      • Mountain rescue teams battled through white-out conditions to find the wreckage near the summit of the Highland mountain, the second highest in the UK.
      • When I went on deck to make sure everything was okay, the visibility just disappeared, in what I can only describe as an Arctic white-out.
      • With no food or water, and the dangers of hypothermia and dehydration sliding into inevitability, the men continue their treacherous descent through white-out conditions.
      • Not long after we left the wind picked up and for 18 hours the remaining inhabitants suffered a white-out (where you can see little but dust), something we'd escaped all the time we were there.
      • At times, when it's been a white-out, I have walked past Corrunich because I couldn't see anything.
  • 2mass noun White correction fluid for covering typing or writing mistakes.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not one notebook, pen, eraser, glue stick, scissors, or white-out remained.
    • He sat on the seat of the tractor, writing something with a white-out marker on the black seating.
    • She painted white-out over a few names, then blew and waved furiously until it was dry.
    • Should any negative psychic forces manifest themselves on the page, I'll merely banish them with magical white-out.
    • ‘It's as if you put white-out over all the ads,’ says English.
    • I mean - OK, just forget I said that, I lost my white-out pen.
    • Most of the ‘apt pupils’ were pulling out their various forms of white-out and re-writing their carefully thought out lives.
    • This includes food products, of course, but also school supplies such as ink, toner, white-out, and paint.
    • I colored in the bottom part of the goggles with white-out to make their vision even smaller.
    • In his new post, McEttrick oversees all functions of lighters, shavers, writing instruments and white-out correction products.
    • She peered at the appointment register, torn and tattered, with crossings out, sections covered over with white-out and written on again, arrows, inserts, every kind of revision mark you can imagine.
    • I hadn't used any white-out in over a decade, and I wondered: Who the heck still uses this stuff?
    • This is Christmas in Connecticut and chestnuts roasting on an open fire, instead of white-out dropping on a 1040EZ tax form, which is more in keeping with this pre-April calendar.
  • 3A loss of colour vision due to rapid acceleration, often prior to a loss of consciousness.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Either way, I'm going to lie down before total white-out.
    • As you enter, visual and acoustic references are slowly erased, leaving only a visual white-out and the white noise of the pulsating nozzles.
 
 
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