What's the difference between dapple and white?

Dapple


Definition:

  • (n.) One of the spots on a dappled animal.
  • (a.) Alt. of Dappled
  • (v. t.) To variegate with spots; to spot.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) But Kiki Bertens, a smiling, 23-year-old Dutch qualifier who looked pleased just to be here, made a decent fist of her impossible assignment in dappled light on Arthur Ashe and pushed Serena Williams at least to the lower slopes of anxiety on day three of the 2015 US Open.
  • (2) In addition, all affected members show a characteristic pattern of cutaneous hyperpigmentation, which resembles macular amyloidosis around the neck and waist, but which confers a dappled appearance to the axillae, popliteal fossae, thighs, buttocks, and lower aspect of the abdomen.
  • (3) Drinking water in dappled forest shade, Boban points to wild asparagus growing by the roadside.
  • (4) Unfortunately this data is about as much use in predicting the future course of the property market as sun-dappled photos of the summer of 1914.
  • (5) From the drifts of waxy, geometric paper leaves on the floor, to the dappled lighting; from the wonky litter bin, to the library table as the room's centrepiece; Boyce's room is both impressive and affecting.
  • (6) These findings are interpreted as obvious gene dosis effects of the incompletely dominant merle gene which is used to produce a characteric harlequin dappling in many breeds of dogs.
  • (7) After creating the Reading striker’s opener, Carney headed England’s late second in front of a capacity 13,000-plus crowd at a sun-dappled Moncton Stadium.
  • (8) It's 6.30pm and I'm on the sofa, watching an overgrown blue woolly person with a red security blanket and a bell in his foot, who is squeaking and jingling through a sun-dappled wood in the company of a large, excitable dolly - her hair stands on end when she's especially thrilled - who says, 'Ooh!
  • (9) As for Serena’s great rival, Sharapova, she was seen off by Kerber in a rollicking fourth-round match on a sun-dappled, cabriolet Centre Court: 7-6, 4-6, 6-4.
  • (10) The perfect summer lunch, for me at least, will involve a table outdoors, but in dappled shade, a group of people who enjoy eating and drinking, and some seasonal food.
  • (11) Taiyo, but also to dapple fruit symptoms on peach cv.
  • (12) Leave time for a meal in the grounds at the idyllic Lodi restaurant, where you can loll in a private gypsy wagon overlooking a sun-dappled courtyard, sip cocktails and work your way through the delicious Mediterranean menu.
  • (13) Probe HSV-1 detected all the members of HSV group, such as HSV-hop, HSV-grapevine, HSV-cucumber, HSV-citrus and a viroid-like RNA isolated from plum trees affected by plum dapple fruit disease.
  • (14) Her opening week at the helm ended with a rousing welcome from the party faithful at the nationalists' spring conference on a sun-dappled racecourse in west Wales.
  • (15) On a computer screen, a bald, muddy seam on the woodland floor is being sown over with green, and the sunny dapple is being added (filming was completed in October 2006, after six months of lightning strikes, flash floods and oak blight).
  • (16) Chord lengths of air spaces from cranial and caudal lobes of lungs were acquired using a Dapple Systems image analyzer, and a two-population frequency distribution was generated for analysis with an IBM PC.
  • (17) Dappled apple trees and "perfect" lives riddled with curtain-twitching darknesses, great social humour, heartache, industrial-strength bitchiness and, at their best, plotlines that somehow managed to marry Twin Peaks to The Simpsons , and Marcia Cross as the ever-magnificent Bree.
  • (18) We have studied the detection of apple scar skin, dapple apple, and pear rusty skin viroids in nucleic acid extracts of infected pome fruit tissues by reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) with viroid cDNA-specific primers.
  • (19) Trees (in fact, the pillars that support the gallery ceiling) loom, their geometric aluminium leaves dappling the light that is cast over the space.
  • (20) Even the actress Carol White's hair seems to mirror her character's inexorable pitch into poverty, first a gleaming golden halo as she promenades with her fiance Reg in a dappled park, then the neat bob of a housewife and mother, initially flourishing in a posh maisonette with double glazing, then struggling with vermin and bailiffs in a series of increasingly overcrowded and dingy abodes following her husband's sudden unemployment.

White


Definition:

  • (superl.) Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; -- the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
  • (superl.) Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
  • (superl.) Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
  • (superl.) Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
  • (superl.) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
  • (superl.) Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
  • (n.) The color of pure snow; one of the natural colors of bodies, yet not strictly a color, but a composition of all colors; the opposite of black; whiteness. See the Note under Color, n., 1.
  • (n.) Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
  • (n.) Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
  • (n.) A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
  • (n.) A white pigment; as, Venice white.
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
  • (v. t.) To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
  • (2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
  • (3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
  • (4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
  • (5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
  • (6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
  • (7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
  • (8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
  • (9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
  • (10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
  • (11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
  • (12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
  • (13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
  • (14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
  • (15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
  • (16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
  • (17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
  • (18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
  • (19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
  • (20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.

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