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Definitions for Whiting

[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] of the color of pure snow, of the margins of this page, etc.; reflecting nearly all the rays of sunlight or a similar light.
[6] light or comparatively light in color.
[7] (of human beings) belonging to a group marked by slight pigmentation of the skin, often of European descent.
[8] for, limited to, or predominantly made up of white people: a white neighborhood.
[9] pallid or pale, as from fear or other strong emotion: white with rage.
[10] silvery, gray, or hoary: white hair.
[11] snowy: a white Christmas.
[12] lacking color; transparent.
[13] (politically) ultraconservative.
[14] blank, as an unoccupied space in printed matter: Fill in the white space below.
[15] Armor . composed entirely of polished steel plates without fabric or other covering; alwite.
[16] wearing white clothing: a white monk.
[17] Older Use : Offensive . decent, honorable, or dependable: That's mighty white of you.
[18] auspicious or fortunate.
[19] morally pure; innocent.
[20] without malice; harmless: white magic.
[21] (of wines) light-colored or yellowish, as opposed to red.
[22] British . (of coffee) containing milk.
[23] 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) .
[24] a hue completely desaturated by admixture with white, the highest value possible.
[25] quality or state of being white.
[26] lightness of skin pigment.
[27] a person with light-colored skin, often of European descent.
[28] a white material or substance.
[29] the white part of something.
[30] Biology . a pellucid viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of an egg; albumen.
[31] the white part of the eyeball: He has a speck in the white of his eye.
[32] whites, white or nearly white clothing, as in tennis whites . top-grade white flour.
[33] white wine: Graves is a good white.
[34] a type or breed that is white in color.
[35] Usually whites. a blank space in printing.
[36] (initial capital letter ) a hog of any of several breeds having a white coat, as a Chester White.
[37] Entomology . any of several white-winged butterflies of the family Pieridae, as the common cabbage butterflies.
[38] white fabric.
[39] 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.
[40] Chess , Checkers . the men or pieces that are light-colored.
[41] (often initial capital letter ) a member of a royalist, conservative, or reactionary political party.
[42] 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 ).
[43] Archaic . to make white; whiten.
[44] white out , to cover (errors in copy) with a white correction fluid. to censor, as by obliterating words or passages with white ink.
[45] an important gadoid food fish, Merlangius (or Gadus ) merlangus, of European seas, having a dark back with silvery sides and underparts
[46] 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
[47] Australian any of several marine food fishes of the genus Sillago
[48] whiting pout another name for bib (def. 3)
[49] white chalk that has been ground and washed, used in making whitewash, metal polish, etc Also called: whitening
[50] a person, esp one of European ancestry, from a human population having light pigmentation of the skin
[51] denoting or relating to a White person or White people
[52] Gilbert. 1720–93, English clergyman and naturalist, noted for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne (1789)
[53] Jimmy. born 1962, English snooker player
[54] Marco Pierre. born 1961, British chef and restaurateur
[55] Patrick (Victor Martindale ). 1912–90, Australian novelist: his works include Voss (1957), The Eye of the Storm (1973), and A Fringe of Leaves (1976): Nobel prize for literature 1973
[56] T (erence ) H (anbury ). 1906–64, British novelist: author of the Arthurian sequence The Once and Future King (1939–58)
[57] Willard (Wentworth ) (ˈwɪlɑːd). born 1946, British operatic bass, born in Jamaica
[58] having no hue due to the reflection of all or almost all incident light Compare black (def. 1)
[59] (of light, such as sunlight) consisting of all the colours of the spectrum or produced by certain mixtures of three additive primary colours, such as red, green, and blue
[60] comparatively white or whitish-grey in colour or having parts of this colour white clover
[61] (of an animal) having pale-coloured or white skin, fur, or feathers
[62] bloodless or pale, as from pain, emotion, etc
[63] (of hair, a beard, etc) silvery or grey, usually from age
[64] benevolent or without malicious intent white magic
[65] colourless or transparent white glass
[66] capped with or accompanied by snow a white Christmas
[67] (sometimes capital) counterrevolutionary, very conservative, or royalist Compare Red (def. 2)
[68] blank, as an unprinted area of a page
[69] (of wine) made from pale grapes or from black grapes separated from their skins
[70] (of coffee or tea) with milk or cream (of bread) made with white flour
[71] physics having or characterized by a continuous distribution of energy, wavelength, or frequency white noise
[72] informal honourable or generous
[73] (of armour) made completely of iron or steel (esp in the phrase white harness )
[74] rare morally unblemished
[75] rare (of times, seasons, etc) auspicious; favourable
[76] poetic , or archaic having a fair complexion; blond
[77] bleed white to deprive slowly of resources
[78] whiter than white extremely clean and white informal very pure, honest, and moral
[79] a white colour
[80] the condition or quality of being white; whiteness
[81] the white or lightly coloured part or area of something
[82] the white the viscous fluid that surrounds the yolk of a bird's egg, esp a hen's egg; albumen
[83] anatomy the white part (sclera) of the eyeball
[84] any of various butterflies of the family Pieridae See large white, small white, cabbage white
[85] chess draughts a white or light-coloured piece or square (usually capital) the player playing with such pieces
[86] anything that has or is characterized by a white colour, such as a white paint or pigment, a white cloth, a white ball in billiards
[87] an unprinted area of a page
[88] archery the outer ring of the target, having the lowest score a shot or arrow hitting this ring
[89] poetic fairness of complexion
[90] in the white (of wood or furniture) left unpainted or unvarnished
[91] (usually foll by out) to create or leave white spaces in (printed or other matter)
[92] obsolete to make or become white

Words related to Whiting

bleach, soft-pedal, lessen, relieve, soften, soothe, disguise, whiten, allay, varnish, ease, hide, sugarcoat, assuage, mask, camouflage, mollify, white, moderate, screen

Words nearby Whiting

whitgift, whither, whither thou goest, i will go, whithersoever, whitherward, whiting, whitish, whitlam, whitleather, whitley bay, whitley council

Origin of Whiting

ebefore 900; Middle English whit(e ), Old English hwīt; cognate with German weiss, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hweits; akin to wheat

Other words from Whiting

half-white , adjective
un·white , adjective

Word origin for Whiting

eOld English hwīt; related to Old Frisian hwīt, Old Saxon hwīt, Old Norse hvītr, Gothic hveits, Old High German hwīz (German weiss )

Synonyms for Whiting

abate, allay, alleviate, assuage, camouflage, cloak, conceal, condone, cover, diminish, disguise, dissemble, ease, exculpate, excuse, extenuate, hide, justify, lessen, lighten, mask, minimize, mitigate, moderate, mollify, prettify, qualify, relieve, screen, soften, soothe, sugarcoat, temper, varnish, veil, veneer, vindicate, white, whiten, whitewash, apologize for, gloze, hush up, make light of, put on a Band-Aid, quick fix