Meaning of Whitehead | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A type of comedo, manifesting as a small whitish bump of the skin due to retention of sebum and dead skin cells in a skin pore blocked by a thin layer of epithelium.
2. A surname.
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3. A form of self-propelling torpedo.
4. A species of passerine bird, endemic to New Zealand (Mohoua albicilla).
5. A place name:
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6. A small coastal town in County Antrim, Northern Ireland; a headland there is named White Head (Irish grid ref J 4791).
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7. The blue-winged snow goose, Anser caerulescens caerulescens.
8. A rural municipality in south-west Manitoba, Canada; in full, the Rural Municipality of Whitehead.
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9. The surf scoter duck.
10. A community in Guysborough County, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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11. A domestic pigeon of a particular breed; a white-tailed monk.
12. An unincorporated community in Tallahatchie County, Mississippi, United States.
    countable, uncountable
13. A township in Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States.
    countable, uncountable

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Examples

“Ruth knew that the whiteheads of her teenage acne were a temporary state of affairs, but that did nothing to quell her distress when an eruption hit just before prom.”

“Ma was taking a sterilized needle to a whitehead on my chin.”

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