What's the difference between whiling and whiting?
Whiling
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of While
Example Sentences:
(1) For all that it might suggest seaside breaks and afternoons whiled away on the pier, the Norfolk town of Great Yarmouth does not feel like a happy place.
(2) Any such levity, however, is leavened by the tacit acknowledgment that existence is futile, and we are all just bags of flesh and bones whiling away the days before death and putrefaction sets in.
(3) In Le Bistro cafe in the converted waiting room of Rüschlikon station, from where the village's rich residents can be whisked to downtown Zurich in 15 minutes, none of the clientele whiling away the afternoon have met Glasenberg but all are happy to chat about his impact on the community.
(4) Whiling away their time in the stylish cafes of Tunis's northern suburbs, some former ministers are ready to defend their records, arguing that they were unaware of the level of human rights abuses taking place in Ben Ali's jails, and that their skills could now be put to good use to "serve their country".
(5) Now he whiles away his hours crossing off the administrative chores from his to-do list.
(6) But his friends say that this is where he has whiled away his afternoons after college since arriving in the UK, sometimes having tea or playing dominoes at the Middle East Shisha, a traditional tea house off London Road.
(7) It was one of many potential hurdles to navigate as we whiled away the hours before their show.
(8) 7.38pm BST While we're whiling away the minutes before the big game, I've uploaded four pretty pictures of classics past.
(9) In the next few days, while his colleague Steve McManaman whiles away the time watching films and Nicolas Anelka and Geremi are busy on their Playstations, Redondo and Raúl will be reading bound volumes of paper known as books.
(10) Last Friday, having spent a long night at a count in Falkirk, I whiled away a bleary-eyed afternoon on George Square in Glasgow.
(11) Mary S Lovell's group portrait, The Mitford Girls, has gone through eight reprints in two years, and the Hons Cupboard, where the girls whiled away winter afternoons in the family house, is as much a part of upper-class English literary folklore as Brideshead Revisited or Anthony Powell's Kenneth Widmerpool.
(12) While Koum survived a tough schooling in a village outside Kiev and dropped out of San Jose State University, Acton, a Stanford computer science graduate, whiled away his time playing golf in suburban Florida.
(13) Much of it may, though, be down to gallons of early-morning coffee, and the fact she was unable to sleep after winning the prize, so had whiled away the time playing computer games.
(14) And it's spawned a sub-category of Panini chat that, to the initiated, whiles away the countdown to the desperately-anticipated start of the World Cup.
(15) As a result of these differences Inglis faces a minimum of nine years in prison, whiles Gilderdale was given a 12 month non-custodial sentence.
(16) I had a lot of training in personnel and management issues, whiling away many hours investigating theories of team building and leadership, which stood me in good stead for leading a team of teachers.
Whiting
Definition:
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of White
(n.) A common European food fish (Melangus vulgaris) of the Codfish family; -- called also fittin.
(n.) A North American fish (Merlucius vulgaris) allied to the preceding; -- called also silver hake.
(n.) Any one of several species of North American marine sciaenoid food fishes belonging to genus Menticirrhus, especially M. Americanus, found from Maryland to Brazil, and M. littoralis, common from Virginia to Texas; -- called also silver whiting, and surf whiting.
(n.) Chalk prepared in an impalpable powder by pulverizing and repeated washing, used as a pigment, as an ingredient in putty, for cleaning silver, etc.
Example Sentences:
(1) This study compares the mortality of U.S. white males with that of Swedish males who have had the highest reported male life expectancies in the world since the early 1960s.
(2) Cranial MRI revealed delayed myelination in the white matter but no brain malformation.
(3) Positivity was not correlated with current residence census tract socioeconomic indicators in black or white females.
(4) The urine compositions of the European mole Talpa europaea and of the white rat Rattus norvegicus (albino) kept on a carnivore's diet were compared.
(5) Fluttering in the background was a black flag adorned with white script, the “black flag of jihad”.
(6) The vulvar white keratotic lesions which have been subjected to histological examination in Himeji National Hospital (1973-1987) included 13 cases in benign dermatoses, 4 cases in vulvar epithelial hyperplasia, 3 cases in lichen sclerosus, and 3 cases in lichen sclerosus with foci of epithelial hyperplasia.
(7) Instead, the White House opted for a low-key approach, publishing a blogpost profiling Trinace Edwards, a brain-tumour victim who recently discovered she was eligible for Medicaid coverage.
(8) The flow properties of white cells were tested after myocardial infarction, by measuring the filtration rates of cell suspensions through 8 microns pore filters.
(9) The findings confirm and quantitate the severe atrophy of the neostriatum, in addition to demonstrating a severe loss of cerebral cortex and subcortical white matter in HD.
(10) Tottenham Hotspur’s £400m redevelopment of White Hart Lane could include a retractable grass pitch as the club explores the possibility of hosting a new NFL franchise.
(11) We identified four distinct clinical patterns in the 244 patients with true positive MAI infections: (a) pulmonary nodules ("tuberculomas") indistinguishable from pulmonary neoplasms (78 patients); (b) chronic bronchitis or bronchiectasis with sputum repeatedly positive for MAI or granulomas on biopsy (58 patients, virtually all older white women); (c) cavitary lung disease and scattered pulmonary nodules mimicking M. tuberculosis infection (12 patients); (d) diffuse pulmonary infiltrations in immunocompromised hosts, primarily patients with AIDS (96 patients).
(12) In 60 rhesus monkeys with experimental renovascular malignant arterial hypertension (25 one-kidney and 35 two-kidney model animals), we studied the so-called 'hard exudates' or white retinal deposits in detail (by ophthalmoscopy, and stereoscopic color fundus photography and fluorescein fundus angiography, on long-term follow-up).
(13) African Americans also have more outpatient episodes than whites.
(14) As a Native American I am pretty sensitive to charges of racism and white supremacy,” the Oklahoma congressman added.
(15) The White House denied there had been an agreement, but said it was open in principle to such negotations.
(16) The charges against Harrison were filed just after two white men were accused of fatally shooting three black people in Tulsa in what prosecutors said were racially motivated attacks.
(17) Today, she wears an elegant salmon-pink blouse with white trousers and a long, pale pink coat.
(18) The relative effect of the intramammary infections and of different factors related to the cow (parity, stage of lactation, milk yield) on the individual cell counts, were studied for 30 months on the 62 black-and-white Holstein cows of an experimental herd.
(19) The administration of stable analogue of the leu-enkephalin did not alter the concentration of cortisole and aldosterone in the blood of white male rats whereas this concentration increased after administration of the parathormone.
(20) The patient, a 12 year-old boy, showed a soft white yellowish mycotic excrescence with clear borders which had followed the introduction of a small piece of straw into the cornea.