Define the word where

“In a world, where LifeAlert has failed…..where the fallen simply can not..get…up” ❋ Unknown (2008)

My one was watching Leaving Las Vegas at the cinema with my sister — particularly the scene where Elizabeth Shue’s character is explaining to her customers what they can and can’t do… or more precisely *where*… ❋ Unknown (2007)

I don’t know where the spec ops soldier gets off on saying the Canadians don’t dismount on foot patrol..this is patently untrue,and if you have seen the combat videos,Canadas’ mantra has been/will be aggressive patrolling..always has been..where has this greener beaner been? ❋ Unknown (2007)

“Resisting Reasonable Atrocity” says we must speak out, but speaking out is hard to do and takes practice, and our church community should be a place where we can get such practice, “where we can speak our minds and be taken seriously. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Just watch, Karr will not have done anything Eg false confession, however if anyone bothers to investigate where the last few deposits in his bank account came from it will be traced to sham corporation funded by republicans…..where? what NSA ruling? ❋ Unknown (2006)

I started out as a wee little brat in Los Altos for 6 years where we were accustomed to NON-white Christmases, then moved to Connecticut where we lived in quintessential New England suburbia..where we OFTEN had white Christmases. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Picking up her guitar, she removed herself to the far side of the glade, sitting down at an equal distance from where Kieran sat and ~where the wolf had vanished. ❋ De Lint, Charles, 1951- (1990)

How different _this table_ from many others! where genteel sprightly conversations are shut out; _where_ such as cannot feast their senses on the genius of a _cook_, must rise unsatisfied. ❋ Susannah Minific Gunning (N/A)

For her, freedom meant the right to «go where she pleased»; but her love knew no _where_ but my father’s roof and her darling’s crib, nor anything so wrong as that right. ❋ Various (N/A)

Give me one like this, where they’ve all got cards, _where they’ve all got cards that’ll win if they play them right_, and then watch me. ❋ Cain, James (1934)

The absence of any deposits of importance containing recent shells in Chili, or anywhere on the western coast of South America, naturally led Mr. Darwin to the conclusion that ‘where the bed of the sea is either stationary or rising, circumstances are far less favourable than where the level is sinking to the accumulation of conchiferous strata of sufficient thickness and extension to resist the average vast amount of denudation. ❋ Unknown (1909)

«I do not doubt that there will come a day when we’ll walk over the plains of the sun — the flesh of our body then as gauze, moved at will where we please and swift as thought — inner and outer motion keeping time with the beat and rhythm of that _where we are_ —» ❋ Mary Johnston (1903)

To understand the cause of appendicitis we must go back to the beginning, and when we do we find that it starts just where all diseases start, namely, _where health leaves off! ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

_Etiology: _To understand the cause of appendicitis we must go back to the beginning, and when we do we find that it starts just where all diseases start, namely, _where health leaves off! ❋ John Henry Tilden (1895)

She went a-whizzing right to the office of the big man, where maybe I’ll work; I guess I’ll go see him tomorrow, I got a hankering for knowing what I’m going to _do_, and _where_ I’m going to be paid for it. ❋ Gene Stratton-Porter (1893)

However well preserved the monuments might be, they could only show who had been buried, but not where he had been buried, and the _where_, as many maintained, was everything. ❋ Kuno Francke (1892)

«For my part, I have built my heart in the courses of the wall» — (cheers) — and nothing short of this impelled us to that dire necessity of leaping in the dark, to go we did not know where, and when we found the _where_, not knowing who would follow us. ❋ John Huntley Skrine (1885)

Everywhere else the young men live _where_ they please and _as_ they please; necessarily distributed amongst the towns — people; in any case, therefore, liable to no control or supervision whatever; and in those cases where the university forms but a small part of a vast capital city, as it does in Paris, Edinburgh, Madrid, ❋ Thomas De Quincey (1822)

_ I should like to know _where_ our life _is_ safe, either here or any where else? ❋ Thomas Moore (1815)

[crewmate] 1: i found a [body] in na-
[imposter]: WHERE ❋ TopHatCatWUT (2020)

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Blue: wherePink: whereBlack: whereRed: at [electrical]
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Orange: where2.
A: Hey, where is the bathroom?
B: On the end of the hall, [to the right] ❋ Kacper531 (2020)

[Where you at] [the party] [last night]?
We where there! ❋ DifferentialmassblackHOULE (2012)

Person 1: where is it
Person 2: there
Person 1: WHERE
Person2: THERE
After [five] years they kept of saying where and there, they died doing it, [some say] their still [fighting] to this day ❋ Mr.Bruhman (2019)

«to where«: The shift supervisor is never satisfied with our production numbers no matter how much we exceed target. It’s gotten to where we’re asking ourselves why we even try anymore…
«to where (it’s)»: Sure, [the Mustang] still runs like a [raped ape], but sometimes the transmission sticks to where it’s nearly impossible to short-shift [on the drag] strip. ❋ Bozo McScrotus (2017)

Where is [Pete] to, or where is [the club] to ❋ Chris Tough (2004)

«[Simple Plan]? No way, they suck big cock. [The Rasmus] is [where it’s at] now.» ❋ Comrade Karl (2006)

[Hey], where [are you] from?
[No where]. ❋ Mandy McCoy (2008)

WHERE [THE FUCK] AM I BEING [SHOT] FROM?
WHERE? WHEEEERE ❋ Tobisalter (2020)

[Prosecutor]: «Where’s it at?» (meaning the missing 10 million dollars in question)
[Indicted] guy: «Between the ‘is’ and the ‘at’.»
Prosecutor: «Isn’t that not an incomplete sentence and rather literal and evasive?»
Indicted guy: «Oh, you’re good! Touché! [Next question].» ❋ Herr Doktor Grauwolf (2009)

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Where is most commonly used as an adverb to define a location or position. It can also be used informally as a conjunction in place of the words “that” or “whereas.” As such, “where” is commonly used to ask questions like “Where are my socks?” or make positional statements like, “Home is where the heart is.”

What is the difference between were and where?

“Were” (rhymes with “fur”) is a past form of the verb “to be.” “We’re” (rhymes with “fear”) is a contraction of “we are.” The adverb and conjunction “where” (rhymes with “hair”) refers to a place.

Where the is used in sentence?

Use “the” with any noun when the meaning is specific; for example, when the noun names the only one (or one) of a kind. Adam was the first man (the only ‘first man’). New York is the largest city in the United States (only one city can be ‘the largest’). We live on the earth (the only Earth we know).

What type of word is where?

As detailed above, ‘where’ can be an adverb, a conjunction, a noun or a pronoun.

Where in a sentence as a conjunction?

Starting a Sentence with a Conjunction
As mentioned above, a subordinating conjunction can begin a sentence if the dependent clause comes before the independent clause. It’s also correct to begin a sentence with a coordinating conjunction. Often, it’s a good way to add emphasis.

What is an example of where?

The definition of where is the place in, what or which place. An example of where is someone saying that he lives close to the house of his mother; He lives next door to where his mother lives.

What is another word for where?

In this page you can discover 28 synonyms, antonyms, idiomatic expressions, and related words for where, like: in which, anywhere, in what place?, at which place?, at which point, in what direction?, wherever, in whatever place, whither, to-what-end and at which.

Where do we use the articles?

Articles are used before nouns or noun equivalents and are a type of adjective. The definite article (the) is used before a noun to indicate that the identity of the noun is known to the reader. The indefinite article (a, an) is used before a noun that is general or when its identity is not known.

Where should you not use?

Here are some situations in which you don’t need to use the.

1. Things in general. You don’t need an article when you talk about things in general.
2. Names. Names of holidays, countries, companies, languages, etc.
3. Places, locations, streets.
4. Sports.
5. Noun + number.
6. Acronyms.

What does wher mean?

1. Whether. Men must enquire (this is mine assent), Wher she be wise or sober or dronkelewe. – Chaucer.

Can Where be an adverb?

Where can be used in the following ways: as a question adverb (introducing a direct or indirect question): Where are you going? I wonder where she lives. as a relative adverb (referring back to a noun and introducing a relative clause): I know a place where you can hide.

Were VS where VS wear?

Just remember that “we’re” is a contraction (the apostrophe is a giveaway), while “where” is a location, “were” is the past of “to be” (in some cases), and “wear” covers everything else (sometimes literally).

What are the 10 examples of conjunctions?

Subordinating Conjunctions

What are the 7 conjunctions?

The seven coordinating conjunctions are for, and, nor, but, or, yet, and so.

Were there or where there?

Were is the past tense of be when used as a verb. Where means in a specific place when used as an adverb or conjunction. A good way to remember the difference is that where has an “h” for “home”, and home is a place. Out of the two words, “were” is the most common.

Where were you meaning?

“Where were you?” = “Where were you at a specific point in time (in the past)?” “Where have you been?” = “Where were you over a period of time (in the past)?”

What is the opposite of where?

▲ Opposite of the place, area or space occupied by, or intended for, an event, activity or purpose. there. here.

Is where a homophone?

The homophone for ‘where’ is ‘wear‘. ‘Where’ is a question referring to a place, such as, ‘Where in the world is Carmen Sandiego?’

Are determiners?

A determiner is a word placed in front of a noun to specify quantity (e.g., “one dog,” “many dogs”) or to clarify what the noun refers to (e.g., “my dog,” “that dog,” “the dog”). All determiners can be classified as one of the following: An Article (a/an, the) A Demonstrative (this, that, these, those)

Where do you use at and in?

Deciding which word you should be using comes down to a question of where. “At” is used when you are at the top, bottom or end of something; at a specific address; at a general location; and at a point. “In” is used in a space, small vehicle, water, neighborhood, city and country.

What are preposition words list?

List of Prepositions

• A aboard, about, above, according to, across, after, against, ahead of, along, amid, amidst, among, around, as, as far as, as of, aside from, at, athwart, atop.
• B barring, because of, before, behind, below, beneath, beside, besides, between, beyond, but (when it means except), by, by means of.