- 1（暴風雪造成的）白矇天、白視現象——雪或雲濃到眼前一片白、完全看不見方向；另一義為（英式）修正液、立可白
Noun. Weather in which falling snow, blowing snow or thick cloud fills the air so completely that you can see nothing — no ground, no sky, no horizon, no shadows. It is not simply 'a lot of snow'. The part is that everything is the same shade of white, so your eyes have nothing to hold on to: people in a whiteout cannot tell up from down, walk in circles, or step off a cliff edge they never saw. , pilots and drivers treat it as a serious danger, and roads are closed for it. Usually countable — "we were caught in a whiteout", "whiteout conditions on the mountain".
There is a second, very different meaning worth knowing. In British English, whiteout (or the brand name ) is the white liquid you paint over a mistake on paper so you can write again — Americans call it white-out, Wite-Out or correction fluid. Same spelling, completely unrelated situation, and context always makes it clear.
Sports fans use it a third way: a 'whiteout' is when a whole crowd wears white to a game.
組成從動詞片語 white out（把某物塗白、蓋掉）變成名詞。英文常這樣把「動詞+介副詞」直接當名詞用，重音移到前面。
原始詞典資料7 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
whiteoutnoun/ˈwaɪtˌaʊt/
- 1
A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.
- 2
Any weather condition in which visibility and contrast are severely reduced by snow or sand causing the horizon and physical features of the terrain to disappear.
- A whiteout can best be described as a paradoxical combination of being partially blind, but also being able to see illusions of things. It is like floundering in a sea of cotton; everything looks blurred and white.
- 3
Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).
- 4
slanghobbieslifestylesportsA sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.
- 5
computingengineeringmathematicsThe simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.
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The suppression of a story by the media, analogously to deleting information with correction fluid.
- Despite the media whiteout, we believe our weapon flashing had communicated the important political message that the nuclear mentality and the masculine mentality are intimately connected.
- The slightest reference to national security is accepted as excuse enough for a news whiteout.
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The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white people.
- While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.
- Closer to home, I thought about how that same “whiteout” existed in U.S. scholarship on television production and viewership and their cultural flows.
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