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English Idioms :: whether --- or whether[
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wheten.html - 1. {coord. conj.} Used to introduce an indirect question. * /You must decide whether you should go or stay./ * /I don't know whether Jack or Bill is a better player./ Compare: EITHER --- OR(2). Used to show a choice of things, or that different things are possible. * /Whether the bicycle was blue or red, it didn't matter to Frank./ |
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English Idioms :: whether one is coming or going
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wheten.html - See: KNOW IF ONE IS COMING OR GOING. |
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Traditional English :: whet
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wheten.html - v. & n. --v.tr. (whetted, whetting)
1 sharpen (a scythe or other tool) by grinding.
2 stimulate (the appetite or a desire, interest, etc.). --n. 1 the act or an instance of whetting.
2 a small quantity stimulating one's appetite for more. whetter n. (also in comb.). [OE hwettan f. Gmc] |
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Traditional English :: whether
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wheten.html - conj. introducing the first or both of alternative possibilities (I doubt whether it matters; I do not know whether they have arrived or not). whether or no see NO(2) ). [OE hwóther, hwether f. Gmc] |
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Traditional English :: whetstone
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wheten.html - n. 1 a tapered stone used with water to sharpen curved tools, e.g. sickles, hooks (cf. OILSTONE). 2 a thing that sharpens the senses etc. |
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English Idioms :: wheel
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wheten.html - See: BIG CHEESE or BIG WHEEL, GREASE THE WHEELS, PUT ONE'S SHOULDER TO THE WHEEL. |
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