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Wheezy
Wheezy is a fictional character in the Disney/Pixar film Toy Story 2. In the film he is shown to be a penguin-shaped squeak toy whose squeaker has become damaged. Andy was told by his Andy's Mom that she was taking Wheezy to be repaired, but she, in fact, left him on a high bookshelf.


Whelk
A whelk is a large marine gastropod found in temperate waters. Whelks are sometimes confused with conch. While both are gastropods, the shells of whelks are more slender. Whelks are scavengers and carnivores, equipped with an extensible proboscis that is tipped with a file-like radula.


Whimsy
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Whinchat
The Whinchat, Saxicola rubetra, is a small passerine bird that was formerly classed as a member of the Thrush family Turdidae, but is now more generally considered to be an Old World flycatcher, Muscicapidae. It, and similar small European species, are often called chats.


Whip
A whip is a tapered flexible length of either a single cord or plaited leather or other material, commonly with a stiff handle. Whips are traditionally used to produce a loud sharp sound—a "crack"—to drive or direct livestock or harnessed animals. When rapidly moved in a particular motion at the base, whips can approach and exceed 340 m/s producing a small sonic boom described as a "crack".


Whippet
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Whirl
Whirl is an esoteric programming language created by Sean Heber. Whirl has only two instructions: 0 and 1. These instructions rotate the Instructions Ring and Mathematicss Ring which both have 12 sectors. Thus the language actually has 24 commands.


Whirligig
A whirligig is an object that spins or whirls, or has at least one member that spins or whirls. The word, derived form the verb to whirl, is known in English since 1440, originally for various spinning toys. Since ancient times, a whirligig was a spinning punitive or torture contraption comprising a suspended cage-like device, see "Whirligig".


Whirligig beetle
The whirligig beetles are a family of water beetles that normally live on the surface of the water. They get their common name from their habit of swimming rapidly in circles when alarmed, and are also notable for their divided eyes which can see both above and below water. They are also known for their grouping behavior, a survival mechanism which helps them to avoid predation.


Whirlpool
A whirlpool is a large, swirling body of water produced by ocean tides. In popular imagination, but only rarely in reality, they can have the dangerous effect of destroying boats. In the 8th century, Paul the Deacon, who had lived among the Belgii, described tidal bores and the maelstrom for a Mediterranean audience, unused to such violent tidal surges:


Whisk
A whisk is a cooking utensil used in List of food preparation utensils to blend ingredients smooth, or to incorporate air into a mixture, in a process known as :wikt:whisk or :wikt:whipping. Most whisks consist of a long, narrow handle with a series of wire loops joined at the end.


Whisky
Whisky, or whiskey, refers to a broad category of alcoholic beverages that are distilled from grains and aged in oak casks. Different grains are used for different varieties, including barley, malted barley, rye, malted rye, wheat, and maize or corn.


Whispers
Whispers is a novel by the best-selling author Dean Koontz, released in 1980.


Whistle
A whistle is a one-note woodwind musical instrument which produces sound from a stream of forced air. Many types exist, from small police and sports whistles , to much larger train whistles, which are steam whistles specifically designed for use on locomotives and ships.


Whistle Stop
Whistle Stop is a 1946 movie starring George Raft and Ava Gardner. The film was shot in black and white and in the film noir style. The movie was directed by Lonide Moguy and based on a novel by Maritta M. Wolff. The screenplay is by Philip Yordan and the musical score is by Dimitri Tiomkin.


Whit
Whit, or, Isis amongst the unsaved is a novel by the Scotland writer Iain Banks, published in 1995.


White
White is a color that has high brightness but zero hue. The impression of white light can be created by mixing appropriate intensities of the primary color optical spectrum: red, green and blue, but it must be noted that the illumination provided by this technique has significant differences from that produced by incandescence .


White Admiral
The White Admiral is a butterfly of the Nymphalidae family. They are found in woodland throughout southern Britain and much of Europe and Asia, extending as far east as Japan. Adult white admirals have black wings with white bands. The contrasting colours help to break up the outline of the wing, camouflaging it from predators.


White Ash
The White Ash is one of the largest of the ash genus Fraxinus, growing to 35 m tall. It is native to eastern North American hardwood forests, found in mesophytic forests from Quebec to northern Florida. The wood is white, strong, and straight-grained. The name White Ash apparently derives from the glaucous undersides of the leaves.


White beer
White beer is a barley/wheat beer brewed mainly in Belgium, although there are also examples in the Netherlands and elsewhere. It gets its name due to suspended wheat proteins which cause the beer to look hazy, or white, when cold. It is a descendant from those Medieval beers which were not brewed with Hops, but instead flavoured and preserved with a blend of spices and other plants referred to as gruut.


White bread
White bread is bread made from wheat flour from which the bran and cereal germ have been removed, in contrast to whole wheat bread made from whole wheat flour, in which these parts are retained and contribute a brownish color. In addition, this white flour is generally bleached using potassium bromate or chlorine dioxide gas to remove any slight yellow color and make its baking properties more predictable.


White Campion
Silene latifolia, or White Campion, is a flowering plant in the family Caryophyllaceae, native to most of Europe, western Asia and north Africa. It is a herbaceous annual plant, occasionally biennial plant or a short-lived perennial plant, growing to between 40-80 cm tall.


White chocolate
White chocolate is an ivory-white confectionery based on cocoa butter without the cocoa solids. It also includes milk solids, sugar, lecithin, and flavorings. Cocoa butter is the ingredient used in other chocolates so that they remain solid at room temperature yet melt easily in the mouth.


White clover
White Clover is a species of clover native to Europe, North Africa, and West Asia. It has been widely introduced elsewhere in the world as a pasture crop. It is a herbaceous perennial plant. It is a low growing, with heads of whitish flowers, often with a tinge of pink or cream.


White croaker
White croaker is a species of croaker occurring in the Eastern Pacific. White croakers have been taken from Magdalena Bay, Baja California, to Vancouver Island, British Columbia, but are not abundant north of San Francisco. White croakers swim in loose schools at or near the bottom of sandy areas.


White feather
The single white feather as a symbol of cowardice derives from Cockfight and the belief that a rooster sporting a white feather in its tail is likely to be a poor fighter. Pure-breed gamecocks don't show white feathers, so its presence indicates that the cockerel is an inferior cross-breed.


White Fir
White Fir is a fir native to the mountains of western North America, occurring at altitudes of 900-3,400 m. It is a medium to large evergreen Pinophyta tree growing to 25-60 m tall and with a trunk diameter of up to 2 m. The leaf are needle-like, flattened, 2.5-6 cm long and 2 mm wide by 0.5-1 mm thick, green to glaucous blue-green above, and with two glaucous blue-white bands of stomata below, and slightly notched to bluntly pointed at the tip.


White flag
White flags have had different meanings throughout history and depending on the locale. The white flag is an international sign of truce or ceasefire, and request for negotiation. It is also used to symbolise Surrender, since it is often the weaker military party which requests negotiation.


White Horse
In this disambiguation page, White Horse is used as a proper noun. For information on white-colored horses, mammals with a white coat colour, see White, Gray, and Lipizzaner. White Horse may refer to:


White House
The White House is the official home and principal workplace of the President of the United States of America. The house is a white-painted, Neoclassical architecture mansion constructed of Aquia sandstone. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C. As the office of the U.S.


White marlin
The White Marlin is fish in the marlin family Istiophoridae. It is a large game fish, with a maximum recorded weight of 82.5 kg. It ranges across the central Atlantic ocean, where it feeds on fish and squid.


White Mulberry
The White Mulberry is a short-lived, fast-growing, small to medium sized tree to 15-20 m tall, native to eastern Asia. On young, vigorous shoots, White Mulberry leaf may be up to 20 cm long, and deeply and intricately lobed, with the lobes rounded. On older trees, the leaves are generally 8-15 cm long, entire, cordate at the base and acuminate at the tip, and serrated on the margin.


White Mustard
White mustard is an annual plant of the family Cruciferae. It is sometimes also referred to as Brassica alba or B hirta. Grown for its seeds, Culinary mustard, as fodder crop or as a green manure, it is now wide spread world wide although it probably originated in the Mediterranean region.


White Nile
The White Nile is a river of Africa, one of the two main tributaries of the Nile, the other being the Blue Nile. It rises from Lake Victoria as the Victoria Nile, then flows north and westwards through Uganda, Lake Kyoga, and Lake Albert. The stream exiting Lake Albert is known as the Albert Nile; it flows north to Nimule where it enters Sudan and becomes known as the Mountain Nile.


White noise
White noise is a random signal with a flat power spectral density. In other words, the signal's power spectral density has equal power in any band, at any centre frequency, having a given bandwidth. White noise is considered analogous to white light which contains all frequencies.


White oak
The White oak is one of the most magnificent of oaks. Normally not an hugely tall tree, typically 30m tall at maturity, it nonetheless becomes quite massive and its branches are apt to reach far out laterally parallel to the ground. It has been known to live over five hundred years, ranging to altitudes of 1,400 m although at this height it makes only a small bush.


White Pelican
The White Pelican is a bird in the pelican family. It breeds from southeastern Europe through Asia and in Africa in swamps and shallow lakes. The tree nest is a crude heap of vegetation. This is a large pelican, at 160cm length and with a 280cm wingspan. It differs from the Dalmatian Pelican by its pure white, rather than greyish-white, plumage, a bare pink facial patch around the eye and pinkish legs.


White People
White People is the second album by Handsome Boy Modeling School.


White perch
The white perch, Morone americana, is a fish of the temperate bass family Moronidae, notable as a food and game fish of eastern North America. Generally pale compared to similar types , it has been reported up to 49.5 cm in length and weighing 2.2 kg. Although favoring brackish waters, it is also found in fresh water and coastal areas from the St. Lawrence River and Lake Ontario system south to the Peedee River in South Carolina.


White Poplar
The White Poplar is a species of poplar, most closely related to the aspens. It is native from Spain and Morocco through central Europe to central Asia, growing to heights of up to 16-27 metres. It has a thick trunk topped with a broad rounded crown, and the bark is smooth and greyish-white, with characteristic diamond-shaped dark marks, but blackish and fissured at the base of old trees.


White Rhinoceros
The White Rhinoceros or Square-lipped rhinoceros is one of the five species of rhinoceros that still exists and is one of the few megafauna species left. Behind the elephants, this is probably the most massive remaining land animal. The average size range of a mature white rhino is a weight of 1800-3000 kg, a head-and-body length of 3.35-4.2 m and a shoulder height of 150-185 cm.


White Russia
White Russia is a name that was historically applied to different regions in Eastern Europe, most often to the region that roughly corresponds to the present-day Belarus. In English language the use of White Russia to refer to Belarus is dated, however many other languages continue to use a literal translation of White Russia to refer to Belarus.


White sage
White sage, also known as Sacred sage, is an evergreen perennial shrub of the genus Salvia, the sages. It is native to the southwestern United States and northwestern Mexico, being found mainly in the coastal sage scrub habitat of Southern California and Baja California, on the western edges of the Mojave Desert and Sonoran deserts.


White Sea
The White Sea is an inlet of the Barents Sea on the northwest coast of Russia. It is surrounded by Karelia to the west, the Kola peninsula to the north, and the Kanin Peninsula to the northeast. The important port of Arkhangelsk is located on the White Sea. For much of Russia's history this was Russia's main centre of international maritime trade, conducted by the so-called Pomors from Kholmogory.


White Snakeroot
White Snakeroot, also known as White Sanicle, is a poisonous perennial herb in the family Asteraceae, native to eastern North America. It can grow up to 1.5 meters tall, is found in woods and hedges. It contains the toxin tremetol. When the plant is consumed by cattle, and the meat or milk of that cattle is consumed by humans, the tremetol poisoning it causes is known as milk sickness.


White Spruce
The White Spruce is a medium-sized evergreen tree growing to 15-30 m tall, rarely to 40 m tall, and with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m. It is native to the north of North America, from central Alaska east to Newfoundland, and south to northern Montana, Michigan and Maine; there is also an isolated population in the Black Hills of South Dakota and Wyoming.


White Stork
The White Stork is a large wading Aves in the stork family Ciconiidae.


White tie
White tie is the most formal dress code that exists for civilians today in the United Kingdom.#Note There exists a less formal counterpart known as black tie and a formal day time equivalent known as morning dress. See Formal wear for a complete listing and definition of formal dress codes.


White Willow
The White Willow is a willow native to Europe, and western and central Asia. It is a large deciduous tree up to 20-30 m tall. The name derives from the leaves, which are paler than most other willows, due to a covering of very fine silky white hairs, particularly on the underside.


White-breasted Nuthatch
The White-breasted Nuthatch, Sitta carolinensis, is a small songbird. The adult birds are about 155 millimeters long. In the adult male the cap and a band on the upper mantle are black. The rest of the upper parts are a pale blue-gray. The wing coverts and flight feathers are blackish with paler fringes.


White-crowned Sparrow
The White-crowned Sparrow is a medium-sized American sparrow. Adults are 18 cm long and have black and white stripes on their head, a grey face, brown streaked upper parts and a long tail. The wings are brown with bars and the underparts are grey. Their bill is pink or yellow. They are similar in appearance to the White-throated Sparrow but do not have the white throat markings.


White-tailed Deer
The White-tailed deer, also known as the Virginia deer, is a medium-sized deer found throughout most of the continental United States, southern Canada, Mexico, Central America and northern portions of South America as far south as Peru. The species is most common east of the American cordillera, and is absent from much of the western United States, including Nevada, Utah and California.


White-tailed Jackrabbit
The White-tailed Jackrabbit, aka prairie hare and white jack, is a hare found in western North America. This animal is a member of Family Leporidae of Order Lagomorpha. This jackrabbit has two described subspecies: L. townsendii townsendii and L.


White-tailed Kite
The White-tailed Kite is an Elanus found in western North America and parts of South America. It was formerly known as the Black-shouldered Kite. The earliest name for this bird was the White-tailed Kite, and it was given the systematic name Elanus leucurus. However, it was argued that it was a subspecies of a European and African species, Elanus caeruleus, at the time known as the Black-shouldered Kite, and the recognised name was changed.


White-throated Sparrow
The White-throated Sparrow, Zonotrichia albicollis, is a passerine bird of the American sparrow family Emberizidae. It is a 17 cm long North American species, breeding in central Canada and New England. It nests either on the ground under shrubs or low in trees in deciduous or mixed forest areas and lays 3-5 brown-marked blue or green-white eggs.


Whitebark Pine
The Whitebark Pine is a species of pine tree that occurs in the mountains of the Western United States and Canada, specifically the subalpine areas of the Sierra Nevada, the Cascade Range, the Pacific Coast Ranges, and the Rocky Mountains. The Whitebark Pine is typically the highest-elevation pine tree of these mountains, marking the tree-line.


Whiteface
Whiteface


Whitefly
The whiteflies, comprising only the family Aleyrodidae, are small hemipterans which typically feed on the underside of plant leaves. While feeding damage can cause economic losses, it is the ability of whiteflies to transmit or spread viruses that has had the widest impact on global food production.


Whitehall
Whitehall is a road in Westminster in London, the capital of the United Kingdom. It is the main artery running north from Parliament Square, centre of national government, towards the traditional Charing Cross, now at the southern end of Trafalgar Square and marked by the statue of Charles I of England, which is often regarded as the heart of London for its residents and tourists.


Whitethroat
The Whitethroat, Sylvia communis, is a common and widespread Old World warbler which breeds throughout Europe and across much of temperate western Asia. This small passerine bird is strongly bird migration, and winters in tropical Africa, Arabian Peninsula and India.


Whitewater
Whitewater is formed in a rapid, when a river's Stream gradient drops enough to form a bubbly, or aerated and unstable current; the frothy water appears white. The term is also used loosely to refer to less-turbulent but still agitated flows. The term "whitewater" also has a broader meaning, applying to any river or creek itself that has a significant number of rapids.


Whitney Young
Whitney Moore Young Jr. was an American civil rights leader. He spent most of his career working to end employment discrimination in the Southern United States and turning the National Urban League from a relatively passive civil rights organization into one that aggressively fought for justice.


Whole note
In music, a whole note or semibreve is a note notated with a hollow oval note head, like a half note, and no note stem. Its length is typically equal to four beats in 4/4 time signature. Most other notes divide the whole note; half notes are played for one half the duration of the whole note, quarter notes are each played for one quarter the duration, etc.


Whooper Swan
The Whooper Swan is a large Northern Hemisphere swan. It is the Old World counterpart of the North American Trumpeter Swan.


Whooping Crane
The Whooping Crane is a very large Crane. It is the tallest North American bird and the only crane species found solely in North America. Adults are white; they have a red crown and a long, dark, pointed bill. They have long dark legs which trail behind in flight and a long neck that is kept straight in flight.


Whopper
The Whopper sandwich is the signature product sold by Burger King.


Whorl
Whorl is a type of spiral pattern. Other meanings of whorl include: * Whorl, a single, complete 360 turn in the spiral growth of a mollusc shell ** Body whorl, in a mollusc shell the most recently formed whorl of a spiral shell, terminating in the aperture * A whorl of sepals or petals in a flower of a flowering plant


Wicca
Wicca is a Neopaganism religion and a new religious movement found in many different countries. It was first publicised in 1954 by a British civil servant named Gerald Gardner after the United Kingdom Witchcraft Act was repealed. He claimed that the religion, of which he was an Initiation, was a modern survival of an old witchcraft cult, which had existed in secret for hundreds of years, originating in the pre-Christianity Paganism of Europe


Wicker
Wicker is any sort of hard woven plant fiber formed into a useful object. Wicker is usually used for baskets or furniture. Materials used can be any part of a plant, such as the cores or canes of rattan stalks, or the whole thickness, as with willow switches. Other popular materials include reed and bamboo.


Wicket
In the sport of cricket the word wicket has several distinct meanings:


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