What is the difference between whereas and where?
whereas | where |
(obsolete) Where (that).
* 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , I.iii:
In contrast; whilst on the contrary.
It being the fact that; inasmuch as
* United States Articles of Confederation
A clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas.
* 1883 , The Insurance Law Journal
* 1908 , United States Congress, Hearings beginning March 9, 1908-April 30, 1908
* 1961 , Aluminum Workers' International Union, Biennial Convention
* 1973 , Canadian Fellowship of Catholic Scholars, Proceedings
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.
Where is a conjunction of whereas.
Where is a derived term of whereas.
As adverbs the difference between whereas and where
is that whereas is where (that) while where is used interrogatively, in either a direct or indirect question At what place; to what place; what place.As conjunctions the difference between whereas and where
is that whereas is in contrast; whilst on the contrary while where is while on the contrary; although; whereas.As nouns the difference between whereas and where
is that whereas is a clause, as in legal documents, stating whereas while where is the place in which something happens.As a pronoun where is
the place in which.whereas
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Alternative forms
* (rare)Adverb
(-)- And home she came, whereas her mother blynd / Sate in eternall night [...].
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- He came first in the race whereas his brother came last.
- And Whereas it hath pleased the Great Governor of the World to incline the hearts of the legislatures we respectively represent in Congress, to approve of, and to authorize us to ratify the said Articles of Confederation and perpetual Union.
Usage notes
* Whereas is used in the second sense principally in legal documents, formal resolutions of corporate bodies, and the like.See also
* thereabout, thereafter, thereagainst, thereat, thereby, therefor, therefore, therefrom, therein, thereinafter, thereof, thereon, thereto, theretofore, thereunder, thereunto, thereupon, therewith, therewithal * hereabout, hereafter, hereat, hereby, herein, hereinafter, hereinbefore, hereinto, hereof, hereon, hereto, heretofore, hereunto, hereunder, hereupon, herewith * whereabouts, whereas, whereafter, whereat, whereby, wherefore, wherefrom, wherein, whereinto, whereof, whereon, whereto, whereunder, whereupon, wherever, wherewith, wherewithalNoun
(es)- ...the promise is stated after a whereas , though the promise is the very gist of the action, yet, such a count so framed, will be held good on demurrer.
- It had a page or so of whereases .
- I feel it is most unfortunate that some of the preambles, prefaces, whereases or whatever you want to call it, are put before motions or before resolutions...
- If it is the desire of any Lodge on the floor that the whereases that were listed in their original Resolution be quoted by the Chairman or by the Secretary...
where
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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.