# whiting
## English
### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈwaɪtɪŋ/, /ˈʍaɪtɪŋ/
* Audio (General Australian):(file)
* Rhymes: -aɪtɪŋ

### Etymology 1

From white +‎ -ing.

#### Noun

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.

##### Translations
#### Verb

whiting
* present participle and gerund of white

##### Derived terms

* whiting event
* whiting-time

### Etymology 2

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”).

#### Noun

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.
**** 1995 December 26, William J. Broad, “Creatures of the Deep Find Their Way to the Table”, in The New York Times‎: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.
** 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.

##### Derived terms

* 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)

##### Translations
### References

* Whiting (fish) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary, pg 3631

### Anagrams

* withing