{ "dictype": "WikiDicScrap", "error": false, "code": 200, "json": { "type": "wiki", "pronunciations": { "phonetic": [ "hˈwɛðər", "ˈwɛðər" ], "listenurl": [ { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/whether.ogg" }, { "lang": "Audio (US)", "url": "/var/www/html/blab/dic/audio/us/whether.mp3" } ] }, "meansorg": { "etymologies": [ "From Middle English whether, whather, from Old English hweþer, hwæþer, from Proto-West Germanic *hwaþar, from Proto-Germanic *hwaþeraz, comparative form of *hwaz (“who”). Cognate with English either, German weder (“neither”), Swedish var, Icelandic hvor (“each of two, which of two”)." ], "typelist": [ { "name": "Determiner", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Which of two.\na. 1587, Philippe Sidnei , “(please specify the page number)”, in Fulke Greville, Matthew Gwinne, and John Florio, editors, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia , London: for William Ponsonbie, published 1590, →OCLC; republished in Albert Feuillerat, editor, The Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (Cambridge English Classics: The Complete Works of Sir Philip Sidney; I), Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1912, →OCLC:But to whether side fortune would have been partial could not be determined.\n1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:Whilst thus the case in doubtfull ballance hong,Vnsure to whether side it would incline,\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Ecclesiastes 11:6:In the morning sowe thy seede, and in the euening withhold not thine hand: for thou knowest not whether shall prosper, either this or that, or whether they both shall be alike good.\n, George Herbert, “The Pearl”, in , editor, The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel; and are to be sold by Francis Green, , →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, , 1885, →OCLC:In vies of favours whether party gains..." } ] }, { "name": "Pronoun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Which of two. \n1526, , The Newe Testamẽt  (Tyndale Bible), , →OCLC, Matthew ]:The debite answered and sayde unto them: whether of the twayne will ye that I lett loosse unto you?\n1611, The Holy Bible,  (King James Version), London: Robert Barker, , →OCLC, Matthew 21:31:Whether of them twain did the will of his father?\n1720, , The Life, Adventures, and Pyracies, of the Famous Captain Singleton, London: J. Brotherton, , J. Graves , A. Dodd, , and T. Warner, , →OCLC:I told them we were in a country where we all knew there was a great deal of gold, and that all the world sent ships thither to get it; that we did not indeed know where it was, and so we might get a great deal, or a little, we did not know whether; \n1726 October 28, , Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.  , volume I, London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, part II (A Voyage to Brobdingnag):On the 17th, we came in full view of a great island, or continent (for we knew not whether;) on the south side whereof was a small neck of land jutting out into the sea, and a creek too shallow to hold a ship of above one hundred tons.\n1847, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Woodnotes II:\n\"Whether is better, the gift or the donor? / Come to me,\" / Quoth the pine tree, \"I am the giver of honor.\"" } ] }, { "name": "Conjunction", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "(obsolete) Introduces a direct question between alternatives (often with correlative or).\n1526, , The Newe Testamẽt  (Tyndale Bible), , →OCLC, (please specify the book of the Bible):\nc. 1596, William Shakespeare, “The Life and Death of King Iohn”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies  (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :Whether hadst thou rather be a Faulconbridge, Or the reputed sonne of Cordelion?" }, { "mean": "Indicates doubt between possibilities (usually with correlative or).\nHe chose the correct answer, but whether by luck or by skill I don't know.\n1915, G A. Birmingham , chapter I, in Gossamer, New York, N.Y.: George H. Doran Company, →OCLC:As a political system democracy seems to me extraordinarily foolish, . My servant is, so far as I am concerned, welcome to as many votes as he can get. I do not suppose that it matters much in reality whether laws are made by dukes or cornerboys, but I like, as far as possible, to associate with gentlemen in private life.\n2012 June 19, Phil McNulty, “England 1–0 Ukraine”, in BBC Sport:The incident immediately revived the debate about goal-line technology, with a final decision on whether it is introduced expected to be taken in Zurich on 5 July.\n2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845:Whether modern, industrial man is less or more warlike than his hunter-gatherer ancestors is impossible to determine. The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless. One thing that is true, though, is that murder rates have fallen over the centuries, as policing has spread and the routine carrying of weapons has diminished." }, { "mean": "Without a correlative, introduces a simple indirect question.\nDo you know whether he's coming?" }, { "mean": "Introduces a disjunctive adverbial clause qualifying the main clause (with correlative or).\nHe's coming, whether you like it or not.\nWhether or not you're successful, you can be sure you did your best.\n1931 April, Younghusband, Francis, “Preface”, in The Epic of Mount Everest‎, London: Edward Arnold & Co., →OCLC, →OL, page 5:The years have gone by and still we know not whether or no Mallory and Irvine reached the summit. 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