English Explanatory Dictionary

whiting

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
verb
  1. present participle and gerund of white
noun
  1. A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
  2. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
  3. in family Gadidae:
  4. Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
  5. Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
  6. A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
  7. A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
  8. in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
  9. 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.
name
  1. A surname.
  2. A number of places in the United States:
  3. A city in Lake County, Indiana.
  4. A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
  5. A minor city and township in Jackson County, Kansas.
  6. A town in Washington County, Maine.
  7. An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri.
  8. An unincorporated community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
  9. A township in Bowman County, North Dakota.
  10. A town in Addison County, Vermont.
  11. A village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
  12. A census-designated place in Platte County, Wyoming.

Pronunciation

/ˈwaɪtɪŋ/ /ˈʍaɪtɪŋ/ en-au-whiting.ogg

Word forms

whiting whitings Witting

Etymology

From white + -ing.

Synonyms

whitening

Derived words

whiting event whiting-time banded whiting Bass Strait whiting bastard whiting blue whiting bullhead whiting Carolina whiting diver whiting eastern school whiting false whiting Flinders' sillago golden whiting Japanese whiting King George whiting king whiting northern king whiting northern whiting Pacific whiting redspot whiting rock whiting sand whiting school whiting silver whiting southern school whiting spotted whiting surf whiting trawl whiting trumpeter whiting western school whiting whiting-mop winter whiting

Translations

Asturian: ferrete Asturian: pexe llinia Basque: liba Bulgarian: меджит Catalan: merlà Chinese Mandarin: 雪魚 /雪鱼 Chinese Mandarin: 牙鱈 /牙鳕 Chinese Mandarin: 鳕鱼 Danish: hvilling Dutch: wijting Esperanto: merlango Finnish: valkoturska French: merlan Galician: bacalada German: Wittling German: Merlan Hungarian: vékonybajszú tőkehal Icelandic: lýsa Irish: faoitín Norman: lieu Norwegian Bokmål: hvitting Norwegian Nynorsk: kviting Portuguese: badejo Portuguese: pescada Russian: мерла́нг Scottish Gaelic: cùiteag Spanish: merlán Swedish: vitling Turkish: mezgit Turkish: tavuk balığı Volapük: märlan Volapük: himärlan Volapük: jimärlan
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