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Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A number of Actinopterygiian fish have been given the common name whiting .
Gazetteer
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Population (2000): 5137 Housing Units (2000): 2313 Land area (2000): 1.762779 sq. miles (4.565576 sq. km) Water area (2000): 1.518733 sq. miles (3.933499 sq. km) Total area (2000): 3.281512 sq. miles (8.499075 sq. km) FIPS code: 84122 Located within: Indiana ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Kingfish \King"fish`\ (k[i^]ng"f[i^]sh`), n. (Zo["o]l.) An American marine food fish of the genus Menticirrus , especially Menticirrus saxatilis , or Menticirrus nebulosos , of the Atlantic coast; -- called also whiting , surf whiting , and barb . The opah. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. Etymology 2 n. 1 A fish, (taxlink Merlangius merlangus species noshow=1), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic. 2 Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Chesil Beach gave dabs, pout and small whiting during daylight with odd dogfish at night. ▪ Dabs and flounder from the stem of Southend Pier, with undersized whiting a nuisance from the extension. ▪ For the primer I use gesso ...
Usage examples of whiting.
The first rushes were in the promised hieratic manner and made Grandison Whiting seem even more Grandisonian than he did off-screen.
A political appointee whose last four weeks in the country had been very tense and frightening indeed, Whiting noted first of all that the guard detail around the embassy was cut by half.
And Kells Whiting was cleaning up money with his hair straightener, because he told the negroes they wouldn’.
When I find out that she's a mature student and she worked as a secretary for some left-wing publishing company, I try to correct the impression I must have given without whiting it out altogether, if you see what I mean, and I make a bit of a hash of it.
Flicker imaged, whiting out the world except the trail in front of them, as if they were nowhere in the universe but this small patch that was real.
For Miles the pain pulsed in and out, at one moment detached and distant, the next flooding his body and whiting out his mind like a burst of static.
The second missile vaporized in a bright flash, the camera whiting out a moment from the light.
It blazed up instantly, whiting out the heavens overhead with its glare, turning the windows of the towers to sheets of white fire, washing all color out of the world and leaving only stark white light and black shadow.
Then one volcanic eruption of fire and light blew the entire ship apart, whiting out one half of the split window.
My hand was cramped a little from painting in those numbers up there, whiting out those canvases.
Heart bumping, she rubbed her hands over the gooseflesh on her arms and stared at familiar walls that the glare turned strange, whiting out shadows, bringing cracks and stains into startling prominence.
And the pod was still running, the mag-levs whiting out anything but the loudest sounds.
Lightning flashed overhead, whiting out detail, glancing off the puddle.
Presumably the man has need of milk and vegetables and joints of meat and occasional whitings just like everybody else, but none of the people who make it their business to supply these things seem to have acquired any information.
Presumably the man has milk and vegetables and joints of meat and occasional whitings just like everybody else, but none of the people who make it their business to supply these things seem to have acquired any information.