name
Meaning 1
A surname.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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Standard Lemma guide
whiting
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Sound
Pronunciation
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/ˈwaɪtɪŋ/
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rhymes with -aɪtɪŋ
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CMU ARPABET: W AY1 T IH0 NG Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
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name
Meaning 2
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Lake County, Indiana.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 3
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city in Monona County, Iowa.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 4
A number of places in the United States:
A minor city and township in Jackson County, Kansas.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 5
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Washington County, Maine.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 6
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Mississippi County, Missouri.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 7
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Manchester Township, Ocean County, New Jersey.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 8
A number of places in the United States:
A township in Bowman County, North Dakota.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 9
A number of places in the United States:
A town in Addison County, Vermont.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 10
A number of places in the United States:
A village in Portage County, Wisconsin.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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name
Meaning 11
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Platte County, Wyoming.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
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noun
Meaning 12
A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: uncountable, usually
Examples
- 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: whitening
Antonyms: none provided
Narrower terms: French white, Paris white, Spanish white
noun
Meaning 13
A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
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Broader terms: gadid, gadiform, fish, vertebrate, animal, organism, creature
noun
Meaning 14
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).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: US
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noun
Meaning 15
Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
in family Gadidae:
Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: Canada
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noun
Meaning 16
Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
in family Gadidae:
A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
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noun
Meaning 17
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.
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noun
Meaning 18
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.
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noun
Meaning 19
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.
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verb
Meaning 20
present participle and gerund of white
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Usage: form-of, gerund, participle, present
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noun
Meaning 21
a food fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe resembling the cod; sometimes placed in genus Gadus
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Synonyms: Merlangus merlangus, Gadus merlangus
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Broader terms: gadoid, gadoid fish
noun
Meaning 22
found off Atlantic coast of North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: silver hake, Merluccius bilinearis
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Broader terms: hake
noun
Meaning 23
any of several food fishes of North American coastal waters
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: sciaenid fish, sciaenid
Narrower terms: kingfish, king whiting, Menticirrhus americanus, northern whiting, Menticirrhus saxatilis, corbina, Menticirrhus undulatus, silver whiting, Menticirrhus littoralis
noun
Meaning 24
a small fish of the genus Sillago; excellent food fish
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: percoid fish, percoid, percoidean
noun
Meaning 25
flesh of any of a number of slender food fishes especially of Atlantic coasts of North America
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: saltwater fish
noun
Meaning 26
flesh of a cod-like fish of the Atlantic waters of Europe
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Broader terms: saltwater fish
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱweyt- Proto-Germanic *hwītaz Proto-West Germanic *hwīt Old English hwīt Middle English whit English white English -ing English 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”).
Across languages
Translations
45 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Bulgarian: настърган тебешир (nastǎrgan tebešir) — fine white chalk
- Catalan: blanc d'Espanya — fine white chalk
- Chinese Mandarin: 白粉 (báifěn) — fine white chalk
- Chinese Mandarin: 白堊 /白垩 (bái'è) — fine white chalk
- Chinese Mandarin: 大白 (dàbái) — fine white chalk
- Finnish: liitujauho — fine white chalk
- German: Schlämmkreide — fine white chalk
- Irish: gealán — fine white chalk
- Polish: bielidło — fine white chalk
- Russian: побе́лка (pobélka) — fine white chalk
- Russian: бели́ла из ме́ла (belíla iz méla) — fine white chalk
- Asturian: ferrete — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Asturian: pexe llinia — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Basque: liba — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Bulgarian: меджит (medžit) — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Catalan: merlà — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Chinese Mandarin: 雪魚 /雪鱼 (xuěyú) — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Chinese Mandarin: 牙鱈 /牙鳕 (yáxuě) — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Chinese Mandarin: 鳕鱼 (xuěyú) — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Danish: hvilling — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Dutch: wijting — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Esperanto: merlango — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Finnish: valkoturska — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- French: merlan — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Galician: bacalada — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- German: Wittling — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- German: Merlan — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Hungarian: vékonybajszú tőkehal — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Icelandic: lýsa — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Irish: faoitín — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Norman: lieu — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Norwegian Bokmål: hvitting — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kviting — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Portuguese: badejo — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Portuguese: pescada — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Russian: мерла́нг (merláng) — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Scottish Gaelic: cùiteag — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Spanish: merlán — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Swedish: vitling — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Turkish: mezgit — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Turkish: tavuk balığı — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Volapük: märlan — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Volapük: himärlan — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Volapük: jimärlan — fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Japanese: 鱚 (kisu) — fish of the family Sillaginidae