whither

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. zarf To what place; where.

   “Whither wilt thou wander, wayfarer?”

2. zarf To what (future) cause, condition or state, reason, etc.; where, where next; also (obsolete) to what extent; how far.

   “VVhither at length vvilt thou abuſe our patience?”

3. zarf To which place; also (after a noun denoting a place) to which.

   “[W]e beſche thee, leaue vs not comfortles, but ſende to vs thine holy ghoſt to comfort vs, and exalte vs vnto thy ſame place, whither our ſauiour Chriſte is gone before: […]”

4. zarf To the place in or to which.

   “And with the same grave countenance he hurried through his breakfast and drove to the police station, whither the body had been carried.”

5. zarf In or to any place to which; to whatever place; wherever.

   “Ah foole, goe vvith thy ſoule vvhither it goes, / A borrovved title haſt thou bought too deare.”

6. isim A place to which someone or something goes; also, a condition to which someone or something moves.

   “To knovv the local beginnings of vvinds, is a thing vvhich requires a deep ſearch and Inquiſition, ſeeing that the VVhence and VVhither of vvinds, are things noted even in Scripture to be abſtruſe and hidden.”

7. fiil To cause (someone) to hurry; to hasten, to hurry.
8. fiil To throw (something) forcefully; to hurl; also, to beat, to thrash.
9. fiil To shake (vigorously); to tremble.
10. fiil To move quickly, to rush, to whiz; also, to make a rushing sound; to whizz.
11. fiil Of the wind: to blow loudly and vigorously; to bluster; also, of an animal, etc.: to make a loud noise; to bellow, to roar.
12. isim A state of rushed action; a haste, a hurry; also, a state of anger or excitement.
13. isim A forceful blow or hit.
14. isim An act of shaking (vigorously); a shiver, a tremble; also, a slight bout of discomfort or illness.
15. isim The sound of something moving quickly; a rush, a whiz.
16. isim A gust of wind; a bluster.

    “I felt sure now that I was in the pensionnat—sure by the beating rain on the easement; sure by the ‘wuther’ of wind amongst trees, denoting a garden outside; sure by the chill, the whiteness, the solitude, amidst which I lay.”