English Dictionary

whiteout

名詞

可算名詞 不可算名詞 俗語

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.

日本語の意味

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。

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

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。

意味（1）

A heavy snowstorm; a blizzard.

意味（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.

意味（3）

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

意味（4）

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

意味（5）

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

意味（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.

意味（7）

The silencing of voices and perspectives other than those of white men.

While it represented a symbolic break from the “whiteout” on the US presidency, it was also, obviously, the most racialized campaign in American history.

whiteouts （ plural ）