📖 W — The English dictionary · page 16

wheelbarrow — Everyday, meaning 1: A wheelbarrow is a small cart with one wheel at the front, two handles and two legs at the back, used for carrying loads such as soil, sand or bricks in a garden or on a building site.↗ Example: We moved the soil in a wheelbarrow.↗ · Grandpa pushed the wheelbarrow full of leaves.↗ · The wheelbarrow is a kind of lever.↗ · We had a wheelbarrow race on sports day.↗ · The builder filled the wheelbarrow with bricks.↗ · Don't overload the wheelbarrow or it will tip.↗ · The wheel acts as the pivot.↗ · But presently, as nothing happened, he came out, and climbed upon a wheelbarrow and peeped over.↗

wheelchair — Everyday, meaning 1: A wheelchair is a chair with large wheels used by people who cannot walk or find walking hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Some wheelchairs are pushed by the user's arms, some by another person, and some have electric motors.↗ Example: My friend uses a wheelchair and is great at basketball.↗ · The library has a ramp for wheelchair access.↗ · Always ask before you push someone's wheelchair.↗ · Wheelchair racers are very fast.↗ · The lift helps wheelchair users get upstairs.↗ · Don't leave your bike blocking the wheelchair ramp.↗ · She has an electric wheelchair that she controls with a joystick.↗ · Many Paralympic athletes compete in wheelchairs.↗

wheelwork — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The wheels of a machine taken together; the whole set of wheels.↗ Example: As for the wheels, they were called in my hearing The wheelwork.↗ (Prophets EZK.10.13, JPS 1917)↗ · And it came to pass, when He commanded the man clothed in linen, saying: 'Take fire from between the wheelwork, from between the cherubim', that he went in, and stood beside a wheel.↗ (Prophets EZK.10.6, JPS 1917)↗

wheelwright — Everyday, meaning 1: A person whose job is to make and repair wooden wheels, for carts, wagons and carriages.↗ Example: The wheelwright fixed the broken cart wheel.↗ · The village once had a wheelwright and a blacksmith.↗ · A wheelwright shaped the wooden spokes.↗ · We watched a wheelwright at the heritage museum.↗ · His great-great-grandfather was a wheelwright.↗ · The wheelwright and the smith fitted the iron rim.↗

wheeze — Everyday, meaning 1: To wheeze is to breathe with a whistling or rattling sound in your chest, because breathing is hard.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A wheeze is that sound.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In old British talk, a wheeze is a clever trick or plan.↗ Example: My sister wheezes when she has an asthma attack.↗ · He used his inhaler when he started to wheeze.↗ · The old bus wheezed up the hill.↗ · I heard a wheeze in Grandpa's chest.↗ · If a friend is wheezing badly, get an adult quickly.↗ · Running in the cold air made me wheeze.↗

wheezy — Everyday, meaning 1: Wheezy means breathing with a whistling or rattling sound, because the airways in the chest are narrow, often due to asthma, a cold or an allergy.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Wheezy can describe any old machine or instrument that makes a breathy, whistling sound: «a wheezy old organ».↗ Example: My chest was wheezy after running in the cold.↗ · She used her inhaler because she felt wheezy.↗ · The old dog gave a wheezy bark.↗ · The doctor listened to his wheezy breathing.↗ · The wheezy old bus climbed the hill.↗ · Dust makes my asthma wheezy.↗ · If a friend is wheezy and can't breathe, tell an adult straight away.↗

whelp — Everyday, meaning 1: A whelp is a young animal, especially a puppy, cub or wolf cub.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) To whelp is to give birth to young.↗ Example: A wolf came out with her whelps.↗ · The two whelps were brothers.↗ · The whelps played in the den.↗ · Judah is a lion's whelp; from the prey, my son, thou art gone up.↗ (Torah GEN.49.9, JPS 1917)↗ · And of Dan he said: Dan is a lion's whelp, that leapeth forth from Bashan.↗ (Torah DEU.33.22, JPS 1917)↗ · They shall roar together like young lions; they shall growl as lions' whelps.↗ (Prophets JER.51.38, JPS 1917)↗ · The old lion perisheth for lack of prey, and the whelps of the lioness are scattered abroad.↗ (Writings JOB.4.11, JPS 1917)↗ · Let a bear robbed of her whelps meet a man, rather than a fool in his folly.↗ (Writings PRO.17.12, JPS 1917)↗

when — Everyday, meaning 1: When asks at what time something happens: «When is lunch?».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: When tells the time or the case in which something happens: «When it rains, we stay in».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: When can mean «as soon as»: «Call me when you get home».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: When can mean «although» or «since»: «Why walk when you can ride?».↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (casual) «Say when» means tell me when to stop pouring; «since when?» shows surprise or doubt.↗ Everyday, meaning 6: (formal) Exams say «at which time», «upon», «in the event that», «whereupon» and «at what point».↗ Example: When we put two groups together, we add.↗ · When Tom came home, he had 3 cards left.↗ · When does the film end?↗ · When water freezes, it turns into ice.↗ · Call Mum when you get to school.↗ · When is your birthday?↗ · Wash your hands when you come in from outside.↗ · when's the bus, 8:40? its 8:25 now↗ · Say when… stop, that's 3 spoonfuls!↗ · When I get my hands on whoever took my last 2 biscuits…↗ · Upon the subsequent arrival of 5 passengers, ascertain the total number on board.↗ · Why walk when you can take the bus?↗ · But when was that to be?↗ · And Isaac was threescore years old when she bore them.↗ (Torah GEN.25.26, JPS 1917)↗ · And Rebekah heard when Isaac spoke to Esau his son.↗ (Torah GEN.27.5, JPS 1917)↗ · And when Moses heard it, he fell upon his face.↗ (Torah NUM.16.4, JPS 1917)↗ · My soul failed me when he spoke.↗ (Writings SNG.5.6, JPS 1917)↗ · When thou doest evil, then thou rejoicest.↗ (Prophets JER.11.15, JPS 1917)↗ · And who shall stand when he appeareth?↗ (Prophets MAL.3.2, JPS 1917)↗

whence — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) From where: «Whence did he come?» means «Where did he come from?».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (formal) From which place or reason: «the town whence she came».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Which is why: «He was late, whence the trouble.».↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: From what place or source.↗ Example: «Whence came you, stranger?» asked the old king.↗ · The river flows back to the mountains whence it came.↗ · In the old poem the knight returned to the land whence he had set out.↗ · «From whence cometh my help?» we read in the psalm.↗ · Nobody knew whence the strange noise came.↗ · Today we would say «Where did you come from?» instead of «Whence came you?»↗ · "Whence do you come?" asked the mother.↗ · and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.↗ (Torah GEN.10.14, JPS 1917)↗ · And Jacob said unto them: 'My brethren, whence are ye?'↗ And they said: 'Of Haran are we.'↗ (Torah GEN.29.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore the LORD God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken.↗ (Torah GEN.3.23, JPS 1917)↗ · and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — from whence came the Philistines — and Caphtorim.↗ (Writings 1CH.1.12, JPS 1917)↗ · I will lift up mine eyes unto the mountains: from whence shall my help come?↗ (Writings PSA.121.1, JPS 1917)↗ · And Elisha said unto him: 'Whence comest thou, Gehazi?'↗ And he said: 'Thy servant went no whither.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.5.25, JPS 1917)↗ · and Pathrusim, and Casluhim — whence went forth the Philistines — and Caphtorim.↗ (Torah GEN.10.14, JPS 1917) · Whence do you come?" she asked.↗ (Indian Fairy Tales) · In usual Hebrew grammatical terminology, the term ‘mothers’ is reserved for the אִמּוֹת קְרִיאָה immot qeriʼah, ‘mothers of reading’ (whence Latin matres lectionis), the letters אהו״י Alef-Heh-Waw-Yod which can serve to represent either consonants or vowels.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Sefaria community translation)

whereabouts — Everyday, meaning 1: (noun) The place where someone or something is.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adverb, question) In or near what place: «Whereabouts do you live?».↗ Example: The whereabouts of the missing cat are still unknown.↗ · Always tell your parents your whereabouts.↗ · Whereabouts did you leave your coat?↗ · The detective found out the thief's whereabouts.↗ · Whereabouts in Ireland is your gran from?↗ · His whereabouts remain a mystery.↗ · "Whereabouts is your death, O Koshchei?"↗

whereby — Early Modern English, meaning 1: By what means or by which thing.↗ Example: And he said: 'O Lord GOD, whereby shall I know that I shall inherit it?'↗ (Torah GEN.15.8, JPS 1917) · And now I have something to give you whereby to remember me when I am gone.”↗ (Japanese Fairy Tales) · Is not this it in which my lord drinketh, and whereby he indeed divineth? ye have done evil in so doing.'↗ (Torah GEN.44.5, JPS 1917)

wherefore — Everyday, meaning 1: (old-fashioned) Why; for what reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old-fashioned) Therefore; for that reason.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The whys and wherefores: all the reasons and details.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: For what reason; in the Torah sometimes it means "therefore".↗ Example: «Wherefore art thou Romeo?» asks why he is Romeo, not where he is.↗ · I don't need all the whys and wherefores, just tell me what happened.↗ · Wherefore do you weep?↗ (old)↗ · The teacher explained the whys and wherefores of the rule.↗ · In old plays, wherefore means why.↗ · (old) He was tired, wherefore he went to bed.↗ · "Wherefore did ye tarry so long?"↗ · Wherefore say: Behold, I give unto him My covenant of peace; (Torah NUM.25.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'↗ (Torah DEU.19.7, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore the well was called 'Beer-lahai-roi; behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered.↗ (Torah GEN.16.14, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore will ye contend with Me?↗ (Prophets JER.2.29, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore they came back, and told him.↗ (Prophets 2KI.9.36, JPS 1917)↗ · And wherefore the breasts, that I should suck?↗ (Writings JOB.3.12, JPS 1917)↗ · Wherefore say: Behold, I give unto him My covenant of peace;↗ (Torah NUM.25.12, JPS 1917) · "Wherefore did ye tarry so long?"↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · Wherefore I command thee, saying: 'Thou shalt separate three cities for thee.'↗ (Torah DEU.19.7, JPS 1917)

wherein — Early Modern English, meaning 1: In what place, thing or way.↗ Example: And all their cities in the places wherein they dwelt, and all their encampments, they burnt with fire.↗ (Torah NUM.31.10, JPS 1917) · Presently he finds himself in a different world, wherein he meets a beauteous maiden who explains everything to him.↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And they went in unto Noah into the ark, two and two of all flesh wherein is the breath of life.↗ (Torah GEN.7.15, JPS 1917)

whereof — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Of what, or of which thing.↗ Example: Hast thou eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldest not eat?'↗ (Torah GEN.3.11, JPS 1917) · A fine collation was served up, whereof the young Prince ate not a morsel, so intently was he busied in gazing on her.↗ (The Fairy Tales of Charles Perrault) · And from thence to Beer; that is the well whereof the LORD said unto Moses: 'Gather the people together, and I will give them water.'↗ (Torah NUM.21.16, JPS 1917)

whereon — Early Modern English, meaning 1: On what, or on which thing.↗ Example: The land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.↗ (Torah GEN.28.13, JPS 1917) · Cursed be the hearth whereon it was heated!↗ (Celtic Fairy Tales) · Every bed whereon he that hath the issue lieth shall be unclean; and every thing whereon he sitteth shall be unclean.↗ (Torah LEV.15.4, JPS 1917)

wheresoever — Everyday, meaning 1: Wheresoever means wherever, in any place (old-fashioned, formal).↗ Example: Wheresoever you go, I will follow.↗ · The Lord is with you wheresoever you are.↗ · Wheresoever he travelled, he made friends.↗ · Search wheresoever you like.↗ · The king's law reached wheresoever his people lived.↗ · He bade them go one by one wheresoever they would, while he himself waited by the door till his brothers passed through.↗ · Only to the land of the children of Ammon thou camest not near; all the side of the river Jabbok, and the cities of the hill-country, and wheresoever the LORD our God forbade us.↗ (Torah DEU.2.37, JPS 1917)↗ · let the priests take it to them, every man from him that bestoweth it upon him; and they shall repair the breaches of the house, wheresoever any breach shall be found.'↗ (Prophets 2KI.12.6, JPS 1917)↗ · and wheresoever the children of men, the beasts of the field, and the fowls of the heaven dwell, hath He given them into thy hand, and hath made thee to rule over them all; thou art the head of gold.↗ (Writings DAN.2.38, JPS 1917)↗

whereupon — Early Modern English, meaning 1: Immediately after which thing happened.↗ Example: And every thing whereupon any part of their carcass falleth shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces; they are unclean, and shall be unclean unto you.↗ (Torah LEV.11.35, JPS 1917) · Whereupon he went off indoors, whistling cheerfully.↗ (The Brown Fairy Book) · Whereupon the bone dropped and fell out.↗ (Indian Fairy Tales)

wherever — Everyday, meaning 1: In any place or every place: sit wherever you like.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: No matter where: wherever you go, I will find you.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In a question, it shows surprise: wherever did you find that?↗ Example: Sit wherever you like.↗ · Wherever I go, my little sister follows me.↗ · Wildflowers grow wherever there is sun and rain.↗ · Wherever did you find that old map?↗ · Recycle wherever possible.↗ · We can have the picnic wherever there is shade.↗ · Wherever you are in the world, the sun rises in the east.↗ · Put the books wherever there is space on the shelf.↗ · "Don't you go wherever you please?"↗

wherewith — Early Modern English, meaning 1: With what thing; with which.↗ Example: And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him.↗ (Torah GEN.27.41, JPS 1917) · I have not even wherewith to buy oil, so as to light the lamp before the image[440] for the festival!"↗ (Russian Fairy Tales: A Choice Collection of Muscovite Folk-lore) · And thou shalt take in thy hand this rod, wherewith thou shalt do the signs.'↗ (Torah EXO.4.17, JPS 1917)