whitehead

¹

[ hwahyt-hed, wahyt- ]

noun

1. a small pimple having a white or yellowish head; heads; milium.

Whitehead

²

[ hwahyt-hed, wahyt- ]

noun

1. Alfred North, 1861–1947, English philosopher and mathematician, in the U.S. after 1924.

Whitehead

/ ˈwaɪtˌhɛd /

noun

1. WhiteheadAlfred North18611947MEnglishSCIENCE: mathematicianPHILOSOPHY: philosopher Alfred North. 1861–1947, English mathematician and philosopher, who collaborated with Bertrand Russell in writing Principia Mathematica (1910–13), and developed a holistic philosophy of science, chiefly in Process and Reality (1929)

Word History and Origins

Origin of whitehead¹

First recorded in 1930–35; white + head

Example Sentences

In early May, after waiting several weeks for Uber Eats to resolve his issue, Whitehead applied to work for Grubhub and began driving for the company a few weeks later.

From Eater

Whitehead’s tome won the Pulitzer Prize in 2017, the same year that Jenkins’s “Moonlight” won the Oscar for best picture.

From Washington Post

Commercial whalers were, Whitehead says, “the Exxon of that era.”

From Popular-Science

The last thing Whitehead did in February 2020, before locking down at home, was visit the set in Georgia.

From Time

For Whitehead, all actual entities, including electrons, atoms, and molecules, are “drops of experience” in that they enjoy at least a little bit of experience, a little bit of awareness.

From Nautilus

“Yes, I do,” he says with a Cockney accent so thick Judge Whitehead asks him to deliver his testimony while facing him.

From The Daily Beast

Vivian Lynch felt Whitehead was wrong in construing this as an invasion-of-privacy case.

From The Daily Beast

The tweets of Salman Rushdie or Colson Whitehead—who has even released fiction via Twitter—might someday find a home in books.

From The Daily Beast

“They all have baggage, but he just makes sense,” a retiree named Byron Whitehead told me.

From The Daily Beast

Whitehead, again true to the genre, relishes gore and describes it with gruesome vividness.

From The Daily Beast

We kept on down the shore as far as a promontory called Whitehead, that we might see more of the Cohasset Rocks.

From Project Gutenberg

In the second year of Mr. Whitehead's labours the present Meeting House was erected.

From Project Gutenberg

The next pastor was Mr. Joseph Whitehead, who came to Creaton in 1793, and continued his labours here for twenty-three years.

From Project Gutenberg

Compare this with the ease with which the Whitehead torpedo is just slipped into the water and then left to itself.

From Project Gutenberg

This introduces Mr. Whitehead, for whom I was to paint Balaclava.

From Project Gutenberg

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