Ivory vs. White
While drawing or painting something we select the colors of our choice, some of them seem vastly different from each other while others are similar with few variations, white color is such that many closely related types of that color have originated and it gets difficult to keep track of them. Ivory gets defined as a hard white substance that is creamy and substance composed of the main part of the tusks of an elephant. On the other hand, White gets defined mostly as of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light.
Key Differences
People who have brighter skin prefer to wear white color a lot whereas people that have paler skin prefer to wear ivory color a lot.
Harlon Moss
Mar 27, 2017
White gets considered as a natural color and one of the most abundant in nature. On the other hand, ivory gets considered as one variation of the white color.
Ivory gets defined as a hard white substance that is creamy and substance composed of the main part of the tusks of an elephant. On the other hand, White gets defined mostly as of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light.
White color comes from nature, mostly due to the sunlight whereas ivory comes from the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal, often used to make ornaments and other articles.
White color refers to something that gives the impression of coolness and calmness, whereas ivory color relates to something warm since it has a tinge of yellow and brown color.
Ivory mostly gets used as the cream color that has something paler, whereas white gets used as the pure color that has something pure.
Samantha Walker
Mar 27, 2017
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Some variations of white color include ghost white, cream, beige, linen, bone, vanilla, ecru, ivory, snow, white smoke, and others. Whereas ivory does not have any particular variations.
Samantha Walker
Mar 27, 2017
Comparison Chart
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A hard white substance that is creamy and substance composed of the main part of the tusks of an elephant.
Of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light
Type
One variation of the white color.
A natural color and one of the most abundant in nature
Source
Comes from the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal.
Comes from nature, mostly due to the sunlight.
Feeling
Something warm since it has a tinge of yellow and brown color.
something that gives the impression of coolness and calmness.
Variations
None.
Ghost white, Cream, Beige, Linen, Bone, Vanilla, Ecru, Ivory, Snow, White smoke.
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Ivory and White Definitions
Ivory
A hard, smooth, yellowish-white substance composed primarily of dentin that forms the tusks of the elephant.
White
The achromatic color of maximum lightness; the color of objects that reflect nearly all light of all visible wavelengths; the complement or antagonist of black, the other extreme of the neutral gray series. Although typically a response to maximum stimulation of the retina, the perception of white appears always to depend on contrast.
Ivory
A similar substance forming the tusks or teeth of certain other mammals, such as the walrus.
White
The albumen of an egg.
Ivory
A tusk, especially an elephant's tusk.
White
The white part of an eyeball.
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Ivory
An article made of ivory.
White
A blank or unprinted area, as of an advertisement.
Ivory
A substance resembling ivory.
White
Whites Pieces of laundry having a white or nearly white color.
Ivory
A pale or grayish yellow to yellowish white.
White
Whites White pants or a white outfit of a special nature
Tennis whites.
Ivory
(Music) Piano keys.
White
Whites The white dress uniform of the US Navy or Coast Guard.
Ivory
(Games) Dice.
White
A white wine.
Ivory
(Slang) The teeth.
White
A white pigment.
Ivory
Composed or constructed of ivory.
White
A white breed, species, or variety of animal.
Ivory
Of a pale or grayish yellow to yellowish white.
White
Any of various butterflies of the subfamily Pierinae, characteristically having chiefly white wings often with black markings.
Ivory
(uncountable) The hard white form of dentin which forms the tusks of elephants, walruses and other animals.
White
Also White A member of a racial group having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin.
Ivory
A creamy white color, the color of ivory.
White
Often whites Products of a white color, such as flour, salt, and sugar.
Ivory
Something made from or resembling ivory.
White
The white or light-colored pieces, as in chess.
Ivory
The teeth.
White
The player using these pieces.
Ivory
The keys of a piano.
To tickle the ivories
White
The outermost ring of an archery target.
Ivory
(slang) A white person.
White
A hit in this ring.
Ivory
(informal) A die object bearing numbers, thrown in games of chance.
White
Whites(Medicine) Leukorrhea.
Ivory
Made of ivory.
White
White A member of a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
Ivory
Resembling or having the colour of ivory.
White
Being of the color white; devoid of hue, as new snow.
Ivory
The hard, white, opaque, fine-grained substance constituting the tusks of the elephant. It is a variety of dentine, characterized by the minuteness and close arrangement of the tubes, as also by their double flexure. It is used in manufacturing articles of ornament or utility.
White
Weakly colored; almost colorless; pale
White wine.
Ivory
The tusks themselves of the elephant, etc.
White
Pale gray; silvery and lustrous
White hair.
Ivory
Any carving executed in ivory.
White
Bloodless; blanched.
Ivory
Teeth; as, to show one's ivories.
White
Light or whitish in color or having light or whitish parts. Used with animal and plant names.
Ivory
A hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses
White
Also White Of or belonging to a racial group of people having light-colored skin, especially when of European origin, and in some classifications also when of Middle Eastern or North African origin
Voting patterns within the white population.
Ivory
A shade of white the color of bleached bones
White
Habited in white
White nuns.
White
Accompanied by or mantled with snow
A white Christmas.
White
Incandescent
White flames.
White
Intensely heated; impassioned
White with fury.
White
White Of or relating to a conservative or counterrevolutionary faction, especially one opposing the Bolsheviks in the Russian civil war.
White
With milk added. Used of tea or coffee.
White
(Archaic) Unsullied; pure.
White
(Printing) To cover or make illegible with white coloring. Often used with out.
White
Bright and colourless; reflecting equal quantities of all frequencies of visible light.
Write in black ink on white paper.
White
(sometimes capitalized) Of or relating to Caucasians, people of European descent with light-coloured skin.
White
Designated for use by Caucasians.
White drinking fountain
White hospital
White
Relatively light or pale in colour.
White wine
White grapes
White birch
White
Pale or pallid, as from fear, illness, etc.
White
Lacking coloration (tan) from ultraviolet light; not tanned.
White
Affected by leucism.
White
(of coffee or tea) Containing cream, milk, or creamer.
White
The standard denomination of the playing pieces of a board game deemed to belong to the white set, no matter what the actual colour.
The white pieces in this set are in fact made of light green glass.
White
Pertaining to an ecclesiastical order whose adherents dress in white habits; Cistercian.
White
Honourable, fair; decent.
White
Grey, as from old age; having silvery hair; hoary.
White
(archaic) Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favourable.
White
(obsolete) Regarded with especial favour; favourite; darling.
White
(politics) Pertaining to constitutional or anti-revolutionary political parties or movements.
White
(of tea) Made from immature leaves and shoots.
White
(typography) Not containing characters; see white space.
White
(typography) Said of a symbol or character outline, not solid, not filled with color. Compare said of a character or symbol filled with color.
White
Characterised by the presence of snow.
A white Christmas
A white Easter
White
(of a set of armor) Alwhite, pertaining to white armor.
White
The color/colour of snow or milk; the colour of light containing equal amounts of all visible wavelengths.
White
A person of European descent with light-coloured skin.
White
Any butterfly of the subfamily Pierinae in the family Pieridae.
White
White wine.
White
White coffee
White
(countable) Any object or substance that is of the color white.
White
The albumen of bird eggs (egg white).
White
(anatomy) The sclera, white of the eye.
White
The cue ball in cue games.
White
Cocaine
White
The snow- or ice-covered "green" in snow golf.
White
A white pigment.
Venice white
White
A white bean
White
(archery) The central part of the butt, which was formerly painted white; the centre of a mark at which a missile is shot.
White
The enclosed part of a letter of the alphabet, especially when handwritten.
White
A feather, from the wing of the cock ostrich, that is of the palest possible shade.
White
(transitive) To make white; to whiten; to bleach.
White
Reflecting to the eye all the rays of the spectrum combined; not tinted with any of the proper colors or their mixtures; having the color of pure snow; snowy; - the opposite of black or dark; as, white paper; a white skin.
White as the whitest lily on a stream.
White
Destitute of color, as in the cheeks, or of the tinge of blood color; pale; pallid; as, white with fear.
Or whispering with white lips, "The foe!They come! they come!"
White
Having the color of purity; free from spot or blemish, or from guilt or pollution; innocent; pure.
White as thy fame, and as thy honor clear.
No whiter page than Addison's remains.
White
Gray, as from age; having silvery hair; hoary.
Your high engendered battles 'gainst a headSo old and white as this.
White
Characterized by freedom from that which disturbs, and the like; fortunate; happy; favorable.
On the whole, however, the dominie reckoned this as one of the white days of his life.
White
Regarded with especial favor; favorite; darling.
Come forth, my white spouse.
I am his white boy, and will not be gullet.
Driving their cattle continually with them, and feeding only upon their milk and white meats.
A pistol charged with white powder.
White
Something having the color of snow; something white, or nearly so; as, the white of the eye.
White
Specifically, the central part of the butt in archery, which was formerly painted white; the center of a mark at which a missile is shot.
'T was I won the wager, though you hit the white.
White
A person with a white skin; a member of the white, or Caucasian, races of men.
White
A white pigment; as, Venice white.
White
Any one of numerous species of butterflies belonging to Pieris, and allied genera in which the color is usually white. See Cabbage butterfly, under Cabbage.
White
To make white; to whiten; to whitewash; to bleach.
Whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of . . . uncleanness.
So as no fuller on earth can white them.
White
A member of the Caucasoid race
White
The quality or state of the achromatic color of greatest lightness (bearing the least resemblance to black)
White
Australian writer (1912-1990)
White
United States political journalist (1915-1986)
White
United States architect (1853-1906)
White
United States writer noted for his humorous essays (1899-1985)
White
United States educator who in 1865 (with Ezra Cornell) founded Cornell University and served as its first president (1832-1918)
White
A tributary of the Mississippi River that flows southeastward through northern Arkansas and southern Missouri
White
(board games) the lighter pieces
White
(usually in the plural) trousers
White
Turn white;
This detergent will whiten your laundry
White
Being of the achromatic color of maximum lightness; having little or no hue owing to reflection of almost all incident light;
As white as fresh snow
A bride's white dress
White
Of or belonging to a racial group having light skin coloration;
Voting patterns within the white population
White
Free from moral blemish or impurity; unsullied;
In shining white armor
White
Marked by the presence of snow;
A white Christmas
The white hills of a northern winter
White
Restricted to whites only;
Under segregation there were even white restrooms and white drinking fountains
A lily-white movement which would expel Negroes from the organization
White
Glowing white with heat;
White flames
A white-hot center of the fire
White
Benevolent; without malicious intent;
White magic
A white lie
That's white of you
White
Of a surface; not written or printed on;
Blank pages
Fill in the blank spaces
A clean page
Wide white margins
White
(of coffee) having cream or milk added
White
Dressed (or especially habited) in white;
White nuns
White
(of hair) having lost its color;
The white hairs of old age
White
Ash-colored or anemic looking from illness or emotion;
A face turned ashen
The invalid's blanched cheeks
Tried to speak with bloodless lips
A face livid with shock
Lips...livid with the hue of death
Lips white with terror
A face white with rage
White
Of summer nights in northern latitudes where the sun barely sets;
White nights
Ivory
Ivory gets defined as a hard white substance that is creamy and substance composed of the main part of the tusks of an elephant, walrus, or narwhal, often (especially formerly) used to make ornaments and other articles. Usually, it gets considered as a variation of white color but in some cases, gets categorized as a separate entity. This color becomes explicit for elephants since their teeth are the ones known for the same color. It is the origin from where the material and the color comes. Ivory tusks are substantially large teeth that project well beyond the mouths of elephants. Like our teeth and the ones of many mammals, these tusks are profoundly entrenched. Much of the tusk is made up of dentine which gets categorized as a hard, dense, bony tissue. And the whole tusk is enfolded in enamel, the firmest animal tissue and the part of the tooth that controls the most wear and tear. Ivory mostly has applications in arts and designing where the use of this color and material is one of the most varied fields. The word ivory originates from the ancient Egyptian âb, âbu that means elephant, with the actual meanings from the Latin ebor- or ebur. As explained earlier, because of the uses it has, since ancient times, Ivory has stayed an important and costly item to have. Although most of the countries ban the use of this material because of the decreasing amount of elephants, it gets produced artificially.
White
White gets defined mostly as of the color of milk or fresh snow, due to the reflection of all visible rays of light. And in some cases, as the opposite of black. It is one of the most used colors when it comes to human beings and has applications in all fields of life. The milk we drink is white in color, the copies and the pages used to write stuff also belong to the same range. Human teeth show as white whereas it also has a meaning of belonging to or denoting a human group having light-colored skin (chiefly used of peoples of European extraction). Because of the abundance, it gets considered as the color of nature. Even though we cannot see most of it, but the color of sunlight also falls in the white range. This color gets used in many other ways, for example, whenever someone has to finish the race, flag of the same field will become useful. Even if someone has to fight a war and want to end it, the same flag has its importance. In ancient Egypt and ancient Rome, celebrants wore white as a representation of purity, and Romans wore a white gown as a symbol of public spirit. In the Middle Ages, a white unicorn represented chastity, and a white lamb sacrifice and purity. In most eras, the widows of kings dressed in white to mourn the death of their husbands even though mostly black gets used for this purpose.
