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whether

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Word definitions for whether in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Old English hwæðer , hweðer "which of two, whether," from Proto-Germanic *gihwatharaz (cognates Old Saxon hwedar , Old Norse hvarr , Gothic huaþar , Old High German hwedar "which of the two," German weder "neither"), from interrogative base *khwa- "who" ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whether \Wheth"er\, pron. [OE. whether, AS. hw[ae]?er; akin to OS. hwe?ar, OFries. hweder, OHG. hwedar, wedar, G. weder, conj., neither, Icel. hv[=a]rr whether, Goth. hwa?ar, Lith. katras, L. uter, Gr. ?, ?, Skr. katara, from the interrogatively pronoun, ...

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
conjunction COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES doubt if/whether ▪ You can complain, but I doubt if it’ll make any difference. it is debatable whether/how etc ▪ It’s debatable whether this book is as good as her last. ▪ Whether the object was used for rituals ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
conj. 1 (lb en obsolete) {{non-gloss definition|Introducing a direct interrogative question (often with correlative (term: or)) which indicates doubt between alternatives.}} 2 {{non-gloss definition|Used to introduce an indirect interrogative question that ...

Usage examples of whether.

I have made up my mind, you must be good enough to decide now, and to tell me whether I am to accompany you or to remain here.

They noted the date, time, day of the week, bank location, amount stolen, and whether he had brought an accomplice into the bank.

Fritigern was doubtful whether he could accomplish the conclusion of the treaty, unless he found himself supported by the presence and terrors of an Imperial army.

The question presented was whether a judgment rendered by a New York court under a statute which provided that, when joint debtors were sued and one of them was brought into court on a process, a judgment in favor of the plaintiff would entitle him to execute against all, and so must be accorded full faith and credit in Louisiana when offered as the basis of an action in debt against a resident of that State who had not been served by process in the New York action.

Yet it may be doubted whether in any quarter of the world, sedimentary deposits, including fossil remains, have gone on accumulating within the same area during the whole of this period.

Over all these causes of Change I am convinced that the accumulative action of Selection, whether applied methodically and more quickly, or unconsciously and more slowly, but more efficiently, is by far the predominant Power.

She wrenched her own hand free from his and struck it backward against him, as Lester had struck at Richard, one gesture whether accurst or blest.

Doctor Gozzi, who was attached to me, called me privately one day into his study, and asked me whether I would feel disposed to carry out the advice he would give me in order to bring about my removal from the house of the Sclavonian woman, and my admission in his own family.

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Only Thyra was once affrighted when a night-jar flew up shrieking, for she was divided in her thoughts whether the old gods or the new were the more powerful and this bird might have been the shape-shifting Odin in one of his avatars.

Whether the legend and history of this Degree are historically true, or but an allegory, containing in itself a deeper truth and a profounder meaning, we shall not now debate.

Whether it is that bears make such a row when wounded, or Whether there be anything in the smell, I know not, but I have heard many sportsmen allude to the fact.

He hardly knew whether to be angry with Donovan Farrant for alluding to matters which brought a look of sadness to her eyes, or to thank him for the story which made her face light up with indignation and look, if possible, more beautiful than before.

Although the Pathfinder did not dare to look at Mabel while he made this direct allusion to his change of life, he would have given the world to know whether she was listening, and what was the expression of her countenance.

Whether or not she realized it, she was an invaluable source of information, Ambrose thought, turning a page of the newspaper.