White cake mix recipes
Definition and synonyms of white from the white cake mix recipes English dictionary from Macmillan Education. This is the British English definition of white. View American English definition of white.
Change your default dictionary to American English. Join Macmillan Dictionary on Twitter and Facebook for daily word facts, quizzes and language news. Shades of white are colors that differ only slightly from pure white. Variations of white include what are commonly termed off-white colors, which may be considered part of a neutral color scheme or yellow that looks like brown. Strictly speaking, a “shade of white” would be a neutral grey. Colors often considered “shades of white” include cream, eggshell, ivory, Navajo white, and vanilla.
Off-white colors were pervasively paired with beiges in the 1930s, and especially popular again from roughly 1955 to 1975. Whiteness measures the degree to which a surface is white in colorimetry. Below is a chart showing the computer web color shades of white. An achromatic white is a white color in which the red, green, and blues codes are exactly equal. The web colors white and white smoke are achromatic colors.
White is a color, the perception of which is evoked by light that stimulates all three types of color sensitive cone cells in the human eye in equal amounts and with high brightness compared to the surroundings. Chalk white is a tint of white resembling the chalk color. The web color ghost white is a tint of white associated with what the ‘creator’ of the color imagined the hue of a ghost could be. There is no evidence that this color name was in use before the X11 color names were formulated in 1987. The web color white smoke is displayed on the left. The color is also known as Cultured Pearl, one of crayon colors issued by Crayola in its 16-pack of Pearl Brite Crayons. The web color white solid is displayed on the left.
Sometimes also known as Ghost White, the color has marked blue hues, although is otherwise very close to being completely white in the RGB color system. The Crayola crayon color baby powder was introduced in 1994 as part of its specialty Magic Scent crayon collection. The web color snow is displayed at left. The first recorded use of snow as a color name in English was in 1000. The color snow was included as one of the X11 colors when they were formulated in 1987.
It has a very slight tint of yellow. The first recorded use of ivory as a color name in English was in 1385. The color ivory was included as one of the X11 colors when they were formulated in 1987. The web color floral white is displayed at left. Seashell is an off-white color that resembles some of the very pale pinkish tones that are common in many seashells. The first recorded use of seashell as a color name in English was in 1926. In 1987, seashell was included as one of the X11 colors.
Bone white is a yellowish-gray shade of white which represents the color of natural, unbleached bones. Cornsilk is a color that is a representation of the color of cornsilk. The first recorded use of cornsilk as a color name in English was in 1927. In 1987, cornsilk was included as one of the X11 colors. Old lace is a web color that is a very pale yellowish orange that resembles the color of an old lace tablecloth. It is one of the original X11 colors.
