"whitening" meaning in English

See whitening in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈwaɪtnɪŋ/, /ˈhwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/ (note: without the wine–whine merger), /ˈhwaɪtnɪŋ/ (note: without the wine–whine merger) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-whitening.wav Forms: whitenings [plural]
Rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} whitening (countable and uncountable, plural whitenings)
  1. A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter. Tags: countable, uncountable
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  2. A substance, such as a bleach, used to make something white or whiter.
    Whiting, a kind of fine white chalk.
    Tags: countable, uncountable
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  3. The process of making something white or whiter. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (the process of making something white or whiter): избелване (izbelvane) [neuter] (Bulgarian), blanchissement [masculine] (French), blanchiment [masculine] (French), branqueamento [masculine] (Galician), scialbatura [feminine] (Italian), branqueamento [masculine] (Portuguese), blanqueamiento [masculine] (Spanish), blanqueo [masculine] (Spanish), ağartma (Turkish), beyazlatma (Turkish), gwyneiddiad [feminine] (Welsh), gwynhad [feminine] (Welsh)
    Sense id: en-whitening-en-noun-HNuazNXe Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, Entries with translation boxes Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 30 31 30 9 Disambiguation of Entries with translation boxes: 31 37 22 9 Disambiguation of 'the process of making something white or whiter': 10 10 81

Verb

IPA: /ˈwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈwaɪtnɪŋ/, /ˈhwaɪtn̩ɪŋ/ (note: without the wine–whine merger), /ˈhwaɪtnɪŋ/ (note: without the wine–whine merger) Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Persent101-whitening.wav
Rhymes: -aɪtnɪŋ Head templates: {{head|en|verb form}} whitening
  1. present participle and gerund of whiten Tags: form-of, gerund, participle, present Form of: whiten
    Sense id: en-whitening-en-verb-gbMSU1eQ

Inflected forms

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-01-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-01-01 using wiktextract (eaedd02 and 8fbd9e8). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.