Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A list of people or organizations that have been approved to receive special considerations or privileges.
- transitive verb To place on a whitelist.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
list or collection ofpeople orentities that are known, trusted, or explicitly permitted. - verb To place on a whitelist; to mark or note a person or entity as trustworthy or acceptable.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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Make Android syncing selective: By default, your Android phone syncs your entire “My Contacts” group — great if you’ve kept it tidy, annoying if you only want a certain whitelist of friends and contacts to show up.
The Complete Guide To Fixing Google Contacts | Lifehacker Australia 2010
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Plus, nitpicking about terms like blacklist and whitelist is to me like people screaming about banning violent video games and saying nothing about addressing problems of class, race, sexism, and religious discrimination; it’s like trying to bail the Atlantic with a thimble.
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They don't just ignore your messages if they think you are a spammer (which is good if your emails look like spam but aren't) filters - you can create an unlimited number of filters to do things like auto archive, mark as read, star, label, forward, delete it, and the newer "never send to spam" (aka a whitelist).
unknown title 2008
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I found that I can "whitelist" users even while I leave the moderation on.
Regarding Comments Moderation Suzanne 2010
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The court said that adding the courts to an approved "whitelist" to circumvent a filter is easy to do, and should be done by lawyers as a matter of course.
August 2nd, 2007 2007
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Whilst Twitter do offer the opportunity to be placed on a 'whitelist' that allows you 20,000 requests per hour, "...we only approve developers for the whitelist", and seemingly by their negative response they mean the distinctly commercial type of developer.
Archive 2009-02-01 David 2009
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TeleFlip then had me build a "whitelist" of contacts, by importing my address book or manually adding email addresses.
No BlackBerry? 2008
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If you're being prompted for captcha & you're not a splogger, & your blog will stand a manual review to prove it, you can request a review / get in line for the "whitelist" as follows: Blogger Help: Click the "?"
Archive 2005-10-01 2005
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If I agree they should access the site, I can click a link in the email to "whitelist" (allow) that site.
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If I agree they should access the site, I can click a link in the email to "whitelist" (allow) that site.
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