A whiting is a black and silver fish that lives in the sea.
...fishing boats which normally catch a mix of cod, haddock and whiting.
Whiting is this fish eaten as food.
He ordered stuffed whiting.
whiting in British English1
(ˈwaɪtɪŋ)
noun
1.
an important gadoid food fish, Merlangius (or Gadus) merlangus, of European seas, having a dark back with silvery sides and underparts
2.
any of various similar fishes, such as Merluccius bilinearis, a hake of American Atlantic waters, and any of several Atlantic sciaenid fishes of the genus Menticirrhus
3. Australian
any of several marine food fishes of the genus Sillago
4. whiting pout
Word origin
C15: perhaps from Old English hwītling; related to Middle Dutch wijting. See white, -ing3
whiting in British English2
(ˈwaɪtɪŋ)
noun
white chalk that has been ground and washed, used in making whitewash, metal polish, etc
Also called: whitening
whiting in American English1
(ˈhwaɪtɪŋ; ˈwaɪtɪŋ)
nounWord forms: pluralˈwhitings or ˈwhiting
any of various edible marine fishes, including the silver hake, the corvina of the California coast, and various kingfishes
Word origin
ME < MDu wijting < wit, white
whiting in American English2
(ˈhwaɪtɪŋ; ˈwaɪtɪŋ)
noun
powdered chalk used in making paints, inks, etc.
Word origin
ME hwiting: see , white verb transitive + -ing
Examples of 'whiting' in a sentence
whiting
They would eat nothing but lightly cooked liver, and lightly boiled whiting; which fact I concealed from their potential owners.
Doris Lessing ON CATS (2002)
His mother set a plate of fried whiting, bread-and-butter and tea before him.
Sillitoe, Alan THE OPEN DOOR (2002)
She never, not once, ate anything but lightly cooked calves ' liver, and lightly boiled whiting.
Doris Lessing ON CATS (2002)
Word lists with
whiting
collective nouns, Types of fish
In other languages
whiting
British English: whiting /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/ NOUN
A whiting is a black and silver fish that lives in the sea.
...fishing boats which normally catch a mix of cod, haddock, and whiting.
American English: whiting
Arabic: أَبْيَض
Brazilian Portuguese: badejo
Chinese: 牙鳕
Croatian: pišmolj
Czech: treska
Danish: hvilling
Dutch: witsel
European Spanish: pescadilla
Finnish: valkoturska
French: merlan
German: Weißfisch
Greek: ασβεστόχρωμα
Italian: merlano
Japanese: 大口魚 魚
Korean: 대구과의 식용 물고기
Norwegian: kalkmaling
Polish: bielidło
European Portuguese: pescada
Romanian: merlan
Russian: мел
Latin American Spanish: pescadilla
Swedish: vitling
Thai: ปลาของยุโรปตระกูลปลาคอด
Turkish: mezgit
Ukrainian: срібляста мерлуза
Vietnamese: cá tuyết
All related terms of 'whiting'
white
Something that is white is the colour of snow or milk.
blue whiting
a fish of the cod family, Micromesistius poutassou
whiting pout
→ another name for bib (sense 3 )
white out
to lose or lack daylight visibility owing to snow or fog
white list
a list of countries considered to pose an insignificant threat to human rights, from which applications for political asylum are presumed to be unfounded
bib
A bib is a piece of cloth or plastic which is worn by very young children to protect their clothes while they are eating.
bibbed
a piece of cloth or plastic worn, esp by babies , to protect their clothes while eating
bibbing
a piece of cloth or plastic worn, esp by babies , to protect their clothes while eating
flint
Flint is a very hard greyish-black stone that was used in former times for making tools.
turpentine
Turpentine is a colourless liquid used, for example , for cleaning paint off brushes .
turpentine substitute
any of various viscous oleoresins obtained from various coniferous trees, esp from the longleaf pine , and used as the main source of commercial turpentine
white flint
an impure opaque microcrystalline greyish-black form of quartz that occurs in chalk . It produces sparks when struck with steel and is used in the manufacture of pottery , flint glass, and road-construction materials. Formula: SiO 2