weißen — meaning in English

English meaning

• whiten verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
• whitewash noun A cheap white paint made from lime or chalk mixed with water, used to coat walls and fences.

Senses

weißen is used for these senses in English:

• whiten (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

whiten — full definition

1. verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.
2. verb To increase the security of an iterated block cipher by steps that combine the data with portions of the key.
3. verb To normalize data so that the covariance matrix becomes the identity matrix; i.e., to remove correlations so each variable has unit variance.

whitewash — full definition

1. noun A cheap white paint made from lime or chalk mixed with water, used to coat walls and fences.
2. noun An attempt to cover up mistakes or wrongdoing and make something look better than it is.
3. verb To paint something with whitewash.
4. verb To conceal unpleasant facts or wrongdoing in order to protect someone's reputation.
5. noun A total, one-sided victory in which the losing side fails to score at all.

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