whiting
/ˈwaɪtɪŋ/
whiting noun: a fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. Also the present participle and gerund of white.
Noun (1)
whiting (usually uncountable, plural whitings)
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- 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.1918, Hannah Teresa Rowley, Mrs. Helen Louise (Wales) Farrell, Principles of Chemistry Applied to the Household
- Synonyms:
- whitening
Noun (2)
whiting (plural whitings or whiting)
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
- A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
- 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.1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times
- in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
- 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.
Proper noun capitalized: Whiting
Whiting (countable and uncountable, plural Whitings)
- A surname.
- A city in Lake County, Indiana.
- A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
- A minor city and township in Jackson County, Kansas.
- A town in Washington County, Maine.
- An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri.
- An unincorporated community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
- A township in Bowman County, North Dakota.
- A town in Addison County, Vermont.
- A village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
- A census-designated place in Platte County, Wyoming.
Also used as
whiting is also the present participle and gerund of white.
whiting meaning in Marathi, Urdu, Bengali and Kannada
whiting in Marathi
- व्हाइटिंग
whiting in Urdu
- وائٹنگ
whiting in Bengali
- হুইটিং
whiting in Kannada
- ವೈಟಿಂಗ್
More languagesFewer languages
- whiting in Nepali
- ह्वाइटिंङ
Synonyms of whiting
Forms of whiting
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | whitings |
| plural | whiting |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Whitings |
| alternative form | Witting |
Origin of whiting
From white + -ing.
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”).
Words formed from whiting
- 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
Phrases with whiting
Words that rhyme with whiting
Questions about whiting
- What does whiting mean?
- Whiting means a fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- What is whiting in Marathi?
- Whiting in Marathi is व्हाइटिंग. See Whiting meaning in Marathi.
- What part of speech is whiting?
- Whiting can be a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce whiting?
- Whiting is pronounced /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/.
- What is the plural of whiting?
- The plural of whiting is whitings.
Words near whiting in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: whiting (page history and authors); Whiting (page history and authors); whiting (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiting (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiting (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiting (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); whiting (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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