whiting

名词 n. 动词 v.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A fine white chalk used in paints, putty, whitewash etc. uncountable,usually
    — 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.
  2. A fish, Merlangius merlangus (family Gadidae), similar to cod, found in the North Atlantic; English whiting (US).
  3. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; Any of several marine fish found in North American coastal waters, including hakes (genus Merluccius), especially Merluccius bilinearis (silver hake). US
  4. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; Alaska pollock (Gadus chalcogrammus, syn. Theragra chalcogramma). Canada
  5. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; A blue whiting (Micromesistius poutassou), a marine fish of the Northern Hemisphere.
  6. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Gadidae:; A southern blue whiting (Micromesistius australis), a marine fish of the Southern Hemisphere.
    — 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.
  7. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; in family Sillaginidae, smelt-whitings, inhabiting Indo-Pacific marine coasts, many species of which are commercially important whitefish.
  8. Any fish of many species that resemble Merlangius merlangus:; 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.
动词 v.
  1. present participle and gerund of white form-of,gerund,participle,present

词形变化

whitings plural whitings plural whiting plural

词汇关系

衍生词
banded whiting Bass Strait whiting bastard whiting blue whiting bullhead whiting Carolina whiting diver whiting eastern school whiting false whiting Flinders' sillago golden whiting Japanese whiting King George whiting king whiting northern king whiting northern whiting Pacific whiting redspot whiting rock whiting sand whiting school whiting silver whiting southern school whiting spotted whiting surf whiting trawl whiting trumpeter whiting western school whiting whiting-mop winter whiting

词源

词源 1
Etymology tree
English white
English -ing
English whiting
From white + -ing.
词源 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”).
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