English dictionary, thesaurus, translations & etymology
FreeDict.com

отбели́ть — meaning in English

otbelit

Russian → English · translate English → Russian instead

English meaning

  • bleach noun A chemical used to whiten fabric or disinfect surfaces by removing colour or killing germs.
  • whiten verb (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

Senses

отбели́ть is used for these senses in English:

  • bleach (transitive) To treat with bleach, especially so as to whiten (fabric, paper, etc.) or lighten (hair).
  • whiten (ergative) (To cause) to become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

bleach — full definition

  1. noun A chemical used to whiten fabric or disinfect surfaces by removing colour or killing germs.
  2. verb To whiten or lighten something using bleach or sunlight.

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.

Related Russian words