Definitions for whitings

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whitings whit·ing

Spelling: [hwahy-ting, wahy-]

IPA: /ˈʰwaɪ tɪŋ, ˈwaɪ-/

Whitings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 154 anagrams from letters in whitings (ghiinstw).

Definitions for whitings

noun

1. a slender food fish of the genus Menticirrhus, of the croaker family, inhabiting waters along the Atlantic coast of North America.
2. the hake, Merluccius bilinearis.
3. any of several European fishes of the cod family, especially Merlangus merlangus.
4. pure-white chalk (calcium carbonate) that has been ground and washed, used in making putty, whitewash, silver polish, etc.
5. a color without hue at one extreme end of the scale of grays, opposite to black. A white surface reflects light of all hues completely and diffusely. Most so-called whites are very light grays: fresh snow, for example, reflects about 80 percent of the incident light, but to be strictly white, snow would have to reflect 100 percent of the incident light. It is the ultimate limit of a series of shades of any color. Compare black (def 20).
6. a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
7. quality or state of being white.
8. lightness of skin pigment.
9. a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent.
10. a white material or substance.
11. the white part of something.
12. Biology. a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen.
13. the white part of the eyeball:
14. whites. white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites. top-grade white flour.
15. white wine:
16. a type or breed that is white in color.
17. Usually, whites. a blank space in printing.
18. (initial capital letter) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.
19. Entomology. any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.
20. white fabric.
21. Archery. the outermost ring of the butt. an arrow that hits this portion of the butt. the central part of the butt or target, formerly painted white but now painted gold or yellow. Archaic. a target painted white.
22. Chess, Checkers. the men or pieces that are light-colored.
23. (often initial capital letter) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.

Idioms

1. bleed white, Informal. to be or cause to be deprived of all one's resources:
2. in the white, in an unfinished state or condition, as furniture wood that has not been stained or varnished.

adjective

1. of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
2. light or comparatively light in color.
3. (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
4. for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people:
5. pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion:
6. silvery, gray, or hoary:
7. snowy:
8. lacking color; transparent.
9. (politically) ultraconservative.
10. blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter:
11. Armor. composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite.
12. wearing white clothing:
13. Older Use: Offensive. decent, honorable, or dependable:
14. auspicious or fortunate.
15. morally pure; innocent.
16. without malice; harmless:
17. (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
18. British. (of coffee) containing milk.

Verb phrases

1. white out, to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.

verb (used with object)

1. Printing. to make white by leaving blank spaces (often followed by out). to whiten (areas of artwork) in retouching preparatory to photoengraving (often followed by out).
2. Archaic. to make white; whiten.

Origin of whitings

1400-50; late Middle English, perhaps alteration of Old English hwītling kind of fish; compare Middle Dutch witinc, of which the E may be a translation

Examples for whitings

A whiting or a cutlet—that was all the cooking there was to be done.

A name in the Scottish isles for the Morhua barbata, or whiting pout.

She succeeded in making all of the whiting family her very devoted friends.

They went back to Dr. whiting who was chained across the anvil.

No more the death kiss of whiting Awards and Pew Fellowships.

Could Dr. whiting actually decrease his size and become a dwarf?

With this explanation she introduced Eileen to Mrs. whiting.

I have an order from General whiting authorizing me to impress horses.

The whitest meat is not the most juicy, having been made so by frequent bleeding, and giving the calf some whiting to lick.

Capt. Benjamin Ashby says that they feed on mackerel, herring, whiting, and menhaden.