WHERE


Meaning of WHERE in English

adverb

COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES

pick up where...left off

We’ll meet again in the morning and we can pick up where we left off .

take up/pick up/continue (sth) etc where sb left off (= continue something that has stopped for a short time )

Barry took up the story where Justine had left off.

Where appropriate

Where appropriate , I delegate as much work as possible.

where are your manners? British English (= used for telling a child to stop behaving impolitely )

Jamie! Where are your manners?

where your loyalties lie (= who or what you are going to be loyal to )

Do your loyalties lie with your friends or your family?

where/how do things stand? (= used to ask what is happening in a situation )

Where do things stand in terms of the budget?

where/how/who etc the heck

Where the heck are we?

where/if/as applicable

Ms/Miss/Mrs/Mr Please delete as applicable.

where/wherever/whenever possible

Choose wholemeal varieties of flour and pasta, where possible.

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ ADJECTIVE

appropriate

Colleges submitting such proposals may, where appropriate , be invited to participate in the central development.

The law does not require all passengers to be restrained, only those where appropriate restraints are available.

Nineteenth- and twentieth-century examples may also be included where appropriate .

Invalidity benefit is paid according to the usual contribution conditions and dependants' benefits are added where appropriate .

Agents and exporters should therefore treat them as within the existing system, and include T2 documents where appropriate .

Wherever they are kept, they should be out of reach of children and, where appropriate , under lock and key.

To phase out zoos and, where appropriate , support conservation centres. 3.

To assist and encourage and supervise where appropriate junior staff in the proper performance of their duties.

necessary

This chapter overlaps the last and should, where necessary , be read in conjunction with it.

Patients are referred to the Medical Officer and to local hospitals where necessary .

They book orders, develop new business and sort out problems where necessary , earning commission from Courtaulds' supplying companies.

The Conservative leadership should show itself as compassionate and imaginative as well as tough where necessary .

A professional hypnotherapist should assess each potential patient carefully and advise against treatment where necessary .

Then redecorate where necessary , paying particular attention to the kitchen, bathroom and external window sills.

The method of assessment will rest on observing the trainee's performance at work with questions supplementing underpinning knowledge where necessary .

■ VERB

know

I knew where to look too.

Most public managers know where they could trim 10 to 15 percent of their budget.

I know where to get some sweet mickeys off the truck.

Judas knew where he would be.

They know where they fit in and what they have to do.

Now she would know where Benny went and studied; she would know the look of the place.

Anybody know where Earl Varney is these days?

PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

(give) credit where credit is due

I hate to think what/how/where etc

But take care of them, darling. I hate to think what we'd do if they had to be replaced.

be back where you started

If we lose tomorrow, we'll be back where we started .

And if you decide that they are not, then you are back where you started .

So my client and I are back where we started .

To a large extent we are back where we started .

be where it's at

Forget the business struggle: the busyness battle is where it's at .

This is where it's at .

fools rush in (where angels fear to tread)

from where I stand

Well from where I stand , it looks like you've found a good job.

But from where I stand , it is the wider issue of transparency that really counts.

Even from where I stood , I glimpsed Eadred's agitation.

He ambled over to the nearest tree - happily some metres from where I stood hidden, and turned towards the tower.

I can shake things up a little from where I stand .

I could smell its peppery, pungent scent from where I stood .

hit sb where it hurts

Instead of locking up drug offenders, hit them where it really hurts - in the wallet.

Tax day hits him hard, hits him where it hurts the most.

know where you stand (with sb)

But Catholic bishops have let both parties know where they stand .

Do you know where you stand ?

I am only ensuring we both know where we stand .

Imagine a man in public office that everybody knew where he stood .

My father died, I didn't know where I stood on the team, we lost a lot of games.

She knew where he stood over Grunte.

Well, now she knew where she stood .

You knew where you stood with the Cold War.

look what you're doing/look where you're going etc

not have a clue (where/why/how etc)

After nine years of marriage to her I did not have a clue myself.

not quite why/what/where etc

But it is not quite what it seems.

Only his shoes seemed to be a little too pointed - not quite what men one knew would wear.

So Feuerbach's sensuous anthropology, much praised even by Karl Barth, is not quite what it seems.

Somehow we get the feeling this is not quite what Tucson Mayor George Miller had in mind.

That is not quite what we suggested, which was that it should have regard to affordability.

The whole situation was very unusual and not quite what I expected it to be.

They are not quite what I should have expected from a man like Serafin.

This is not quite what was expected.

put your money where your mouth is

It's time for the governor to put his money where his mouth is.

tell sb where to get off

"Did you give him the money?" "No, I told him where to get off."

tell sb where to go/where to get off

what/how/where/who in God's name

What in God's name is that noise?

what/how/why/where etc the hell?

She admits there are no jobs and wonders what the hell she is doing.

What the hell does the reaction matter if you want to do it?

What the hell was he talking about?

What the hell was she playing at?

Where the hell have you been?

Why the hell couldn't you have told us?

Wondering what the hell he's up to.

what/who/where the dickens ...?

where do you draw the line?

Once you open the door to things that are not related to the Holocaust, where do you draw the line?

That obviously does not extend to the levels of awareness which human consciousness exhibits, but where do you draw the line?

Where do you draw the line?

where does sb/sth go from here?

He has just turned 25 years old and the question is: Where does he go from here?

So where does Dirk go from here?

The question now is, where does UMass go from here?

where sb is coming from

Growing churches should seek to identify where their growth is coming from.

I try to feel where he is coming from.

It's great for keeping tabs on where your money is coming from and going to and for tracking investments.

The ability to see where something is coming from and where it's going to.

where sb stands

Voters need to know where each candidate stands .

Where do the Democrats stand on the issue of sanctions?

where there's a will there's a way

where's the beef?

"Where's the beef ?" reporters asked Democratic leaders at a news conference.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.