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Whiting

//ˈwaɪtɪŋ// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname. countable, uncountable
  2. 2
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Lake County, Indiana. countable, uncountable
  3. 3
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city in Monona County, Iowa. countable, uncountable
  4. 4
    A number of places in the United States:; A minor city and township in Jackson County, Kansas. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Washington County, Maine. countable, uncountable
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri. countable, uncountable
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A township in Bowman County, North Dakota. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Addison County, Vermont. countable, uncountable
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A village in Portage County, Wisconsin. countable, uncountable
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Platte County, Wyoming. countable, uncountable
Noun
  1. 1
    A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. uncountable, usually

    "1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household Precipitated calcium carbonate, a very fine powdery form, is used as a basis for many tooth powders and pastes. As whiting it finds a wide use in cleaning metals of their tarnishes."

  2. 2
    A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
  3. 3
    a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus wordnet
  4. 4
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake). US
  5. 5
    found off Atlantic coast of North America wordnet
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  1. 6
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma). Canada
  2. 7
    any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters wordnet
  3. 8
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
  4. 9
    a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish wordnet
  5. 10
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.

    "Other deep creatures now being harvested or targeted as seafood include rattails, skates, squid, red crabs, orange roughy, black oreos, smooth oreos, hoki, blue ling, southern blue whiting, sablefish, black scabbard fish and spiny dogfish."

  6. 11
    flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America wordnet
  7. 12
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
  8. 13
    flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe wordnet
  9. 14
    Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Sciaenidae, Menticirrhus americanus (Carolina whiting, king whiting, southern kingcroaker, and southern kingfish) found along the Atlantic and Gulf Coasts of the United States.
Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of white form-of, gerund, participle, present

Etymology

Etymology 1

From white + -ing.

Etymology 2

From white + -ing.

Etymology 3

From Middle English whityng, whytyng, perhaps an alteration of Old English hwītling (“whiting”), remodelled after white + -ing (diminutive suffix). Related to the colour white. Cognate with Dutch wijting (“whiting”), Old Norse hvítingr (“a kind of whale”).

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