whiteout

countable uncountable slang

A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard. / 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.

Japanese Meaning

激しい吹雪（暴風雪）：大量の雪が降り、強風とともに視界が著しく悪化する天候状態。 / 視界消失状態：雪または砂によって地平線や地形の特徴が見えなくなる現象。

What is this buttons?

We had to turn back on the mountain road when a sudden whiteout reduced visibility to a few feet.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

突然の猛吹雪で視界が数メートルにまで悪化し、山道で引き返さざるを得ませんでした。

Details

Sense（1）

A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.

Sense（2）

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.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

Details

Sense（3）

Correction fluid (from the brand name Wite-Out).

Sense（4）

(sports, slang) A sporting event where all in attendance are urged to wear white apparel.

Sense（5）

(computing) The simulated erasure of a file, etc. on a read-only volume.

Sense（6）

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.

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