What is the difference between wherealong and where?
wherealong | where | Derived terms |
(rare) Along which.
* 1842 , Abraham Tucker & Henry Paulet St. John Mildmay, The Light of Nature Pursued , page 80:
* 1912 , William H. Kersey, The Darksome Maids of Bagleere: A Somerset Tale , page 237:
* 1916 , William A. Churchill, Sissano: Movements of Migration Within and Through Melanesia , page 169:
While on the contrary; although; whereas.
* (William Shakespeare)
* July 18 2012 , Scott Tobias, AV Club The Dark Knight Rises [http://www.avclub.com/articles/the-dark-knight-rises-review-batman,82624/]
* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-06-14, author=(Jonathan Freedland)
, volume=189, issue=1, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly)
, title= At or in which place or situation.
* {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author=(Henry Petroski)
, title= To which place or situation.
Wherever.
(legal) In a position, case, etc., in which.
At what place; to what place; what place.
In what situation.
The place in which something happens.
Wherealong is a derived term of where.
As conjunctions the difference between wherealong and where
is that wherealong is (rare) along which while where is while on the contrary; although; whereas.As a adverb where is
at what place; to what place; what place.As a pronoun where is
the place in which.As a noun where is
the place in which something happens.wherealong
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- Magnitude, figure, and motion, are reputed both by learned and vulgar to reside in the bodies wherein we observe them : yet it cannot be denied, that the suffer alterations in their conveyance to the mind, whether that be made through the sight, or the touch; they being all motion in the rays of light, the organs or other channels wherealong they pass, and that a different kind of motion from any in the bodies themselves.
- At the closing afternoon, when there was a certain cessation of household cares and a frequent solitariness at teatime in the kitchen, those sea-bordering and empurpled heights would fix her attention, and she would project an inner vision beyond them to desolate sands wherealong her spirit had lamented, and their soleful hush had been borne back to her ears amid the melancholy wave-sounds which traversed watery distances.
- On this assumption of the independent migration stream eastward through Torres Strait we find our difficulties reduced to a minimum; we find confirmation in the line of affiliation wherealong quality is maintained — a line clearly marked from the Gulf Coast province to Suau, to Sariba, to Tubetube, to Panaieti with almost unimpared weight.
where
English
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- And flight and die is death destroying death; / Where fearing dying pays death servile breath.
- Where the Joker preys on our fears of random, irrational acts of terror, Bane has an all-consuming, dictatorial agenda that’s more stable and permanent, a New World Order that’s been planned out with the precision of a military coup.
Obama's once hip brand is now tainted, passage=Now we are liberal with our innermost secrets, spraying them into the public ether with a generosity our forebears could not have imagined. Where we once sent love letters in a sealed envelope, or stuck photographs of our children in a family album, now such private material is despatched to servers and clouds operated by people we don't know and will never meet.}}
Geothermal Energy, volume=101, issue=4, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Energy has seldom been found where we need it when we want it. Ancient nomads, wishing to ward off the evening chill and enjoy a meal around a campfire, had to collect wood and then spend time and effort coaxing the heat of friction out from between sticks to kindle a flame. With more settled people, animals were harnessed to capstans or caged in treadmills to turn grist into meal.}}
Adverb
(-)- Where are you?
- Where are you going?
- Where did you come from?
- Where would we be without our parents?
Noun
(-)- A good article will cover the who, the what, the when, the where , the why and the how.
- Finding the nymph asleep in secret where . — Spenser.