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• whitehead
  whitehead

  noun

  a small pimple having a white or yellowish head; milium.
• Whitehead
  Whitehead

  noun

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

whitehead

¹ American  

[hwahyt-hed, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌhɛd, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

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

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Whitehead ² American  

[hwahyt-hed, wahyt-] / ˈʰwaɪtˌhɛd, ˈwaɪt- /

noun

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

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Whitehead British  

/ ˈwaɪtˌhɛd /

noun

1. 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)

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Etymology

Origin of whitehead

First recorded in 1930–35; white + head

Example Sentences

In the winter of 1984, I began to get subsurface lumps on my back without even going through the blackhead or whitehead phase.

From The Guardian • Dec. 27, 2018

The patch uses it’s very adhesive hydrocolloid properties to pull the whitehead off your skin.

From Slate • Sep. 20, 2018

And though these cysts are sometimes unassuming—pink but no whitehead, usually not too raised—they are very painful.

From Slate • Mar. 10, 2018

Thou snow-bearded, silent, winter-sky, thou round-eyed whitehead above me!

From Thus Spake Zarathustra A book for all and none by Nietzsche, Friedrich Wilhelm

We killed a whitehead and a grey eagle, and three grey partridges; we also saw two otters in the river, and several beaver lodges along it.

From Voyages from Montreal Through the Continent of North America to the Frozen and Pacific Oceans in 1789 and 1793 Vol. II by Mackenzie, Alexander

Related Words

• blot
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