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whiting (usually uncountable, plural whitings)
- A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc.
- Synonym: whitening
- Hyponyms: French white, Paris white, Spanish white
- 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.
fine white chalk
- Bulgarian: настърган тебешир m (nastǎrgan tebešir)
- Catalan: blanc d'Espanya m
- Chinese:
- Danish: please add this translation if you can
- Finnish: liitujauho
- German: Schlämmkreide f
- Greek: please add this translation if you can
- Irish: gealán m
- Polish: bielidło (pl) n
- Russian: побе́лка (ru) f (pobélka), бели́ла из ме́ла n pl (belíla iz méla) (because just бели́ла would likely be understood as white lead, zinc white or titanium white)
whiting
- present participle and gerund of white
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”).
whiting (plural whitings or whiting)
- A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
- Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:
- in family Gadidae:
- (US) Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake).
- (Canada) 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.
- 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.
- in family Gadidae:
- banded whiting (Sillago vittata)
- Bass Strait whiting (Sillago flindersi)
- bastard whiting (Sillago vittata)
- blue whiting (Micromesistius potassou)
- bullhead whiting (Menticirrus alburnus)
- Carolina whiting (Menticirrhus americanus)
- diver whiting (Sillago maculata)
- eastern school whiting (Sillago flindersi)
- false whiting (Malacanthus brevirostris)
- Flinders' sillago (Sillago flindersi)
- golden whiting (Sillago vittata)
- Japanese whiting (Sillago japonica)
- King George whiting (Sillaginodes punctatus)
- king whiting (Menticirrhus americanus)
- northern king whiting (Menticirrhus saxatilis)
- northern whiting (Sillago sihama)
- Pacific whiting (Merluccius productus)
- redspot whiting (Sillago flindersi)
- rock whiting (Odacidae spp.)
- sand whiting (Sillago ciliata)
- school whiting (Sillago spp.)
- silver whiting (Sillago sihama, Sillago bassensis.Sillago flindersi, Menticirrhus littoralis)
- southern school whiting (Sillago bassensis)
- spotted whiting (Sillago flindersi, Sillaginodes punctatus)
- surf whiting (Menticirrhus littoralis)
- trawl whiting (Sillago bassensis)
- trumpeter whiting (Sillago maculata)
- western school whiting (Sillago vittata)
- whiting-mop
- winter whiting (Sillago maculata)
fish, Merlangius merlangus
- Asturian: ferrete (ast), pexe llinia (ast)
- Basque: liba (eu)
- Bulgarian: меджит m (medžit)
- Catalan: merlà (ca) m
- Chinese:
- Danish: hvilling c
- Dutch: wijting (nl) m
- Esperanto: merlango
- Finnish: valkoturska (fi)
- French: merlan (fr) m
- Galician: bacalada (gl) f
- German: Wittling (de) m, Merlan (de) m
- Hungarian: vékonybajszú tőkehal
- Icelandic: lýsa f
- Irish: faoitín m
- Norman: lieu m
- Norwegian:
- Portuguese: badejo (pt) m, pescada (pt) f
- Russian: мерла́нг (ru) m (merláng)
- Scottish Gaelic: cùiteag f
- Spanish: merlán (es) m
- Swedish: vitling (sv)
- Turkish: bakalyaro (tr)
- Volapük: (♂♀) märlan, (♂) himärlan, (♀) jimärlan
- Whiting (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, pg 3631