Difference between Whiten and White

What is the difference between Whiten and White?

Whiten as a verb is to make white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. while White as an adjective is bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.

Whiten

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To make white or whiter; to bleach or blanch. To become white or whiter; to bleach or blanch.

White

Part of speech: adjective

Definition: Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.Of Caucasian race.Containing cream, milk or creamer.The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.

Part of speech: noun

Definition: The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.A Caucasian person.A European person.Street name for cocaine.The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).The sclera, white of the eye.A common name for the Pieris genus of butterflies.The cue ball in cue games.

Example sentence: There's so much grey to every story - nothing is so black and white.

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