(adv.) To this place; -- used with verbs signifying motion, and implying motion toward the speaker; correlate of hence and thither; as, to come or bring hither.
(adv.) To this point, source, conclusion, design, etc.; -- in a sense not physical.
(a.) Being on the side next or toward the person speaking; nearer; -- correlate of thither and farther; as, on the hither side of a hill.
(a.) Applied to time: On the hither side of, younger than; of fewer years than.
Example Sentences:
(1) A Panel Discussion at the "Hither neurology" Symposium included neurologists, a speech therapist, a geriatrician and a sociologist.
(2) "When little girls say they like it because it's more sparkly, that's all fine and good but, subconsciously, they are soaking in the sexy 'come-hither' look and the skinny aspect of the new version.
(3) 8.40pm BST 39 min: Scotland give the old tiki-taka a go, passing it hither and yon across the back like, and pinging a couple of little triangles down either flank.
(4) On Bedloe’s Island, the centre of attraction, a large platform decorated with bunting in which the tricolour was conspicuous, was erected, and hither after the parade was over President Cleveland and the most distinguished American and French representatives were conducted.
(5) Common indications for antibiotic prophylaxis are: operations involving a high chance of contamination and those that have hither to be clean but in which the implications of infections would be highly threatening.
(6) We conclude that tobacco 19S particles represent small cytoplasmic complexes, possessing biochemical and structural characteristics similar to the hither-to known prosomes of animal cells.
(7) With a second injection a much shorter but usually hither monophasic response was produced.
(8) Everyone knows the best players stand for the entire match in the centre circle dictating play, walking no more than five yards hither and yon, with a massive beer belly hanging over the belt of their shorts.
(9) This case report demonstrates the problems and shortcomings in the management of DV and documents a hither to unreported cause.
(10) Concentrations of Ca, P and activity of ALP hither on young animals are related to the needs of bone growth.
(11) Contrary to hitheric common "mapping" of electric activity of the brain, it is thus easier to detect pathological changes in the EEG frequency spectra.
(12) These determinants can be recognized by serology, and evidence is presented that some of them are coded for by a hither to unrecognized locus Ag, which is very closely linked to the MLC determinants of the D locus can be recognized with the help of the MLC test using unprimed cells, homozygous for the MLC determinants, so-called typing cells primed against one MLC determinant in the PLT test.
(13) ER content in myoma tended to be hither than that in myometrium, but the difference was not significant.
(14) From this study and data in the literature we conclude that hither-to a thymic precursor cell carrying the interleukin-2 receptor as is the case for the murine thymus has not been found in man.
(15) A long throw is hoiked in towards Huth, who flings himself through the air and barges into various defenders, sending them scattering hither and thither, before Shawcross prods the ball home from the resulting carnage.
(16) Step forward, then, Charlotte Lucas, you magnificently clear-eyed, steel‑spined, iron-willed creature who, while everyone else is mooning over dance partners, parsing glances and bobbing curls hither and thither, is taking a cold, hard, dispassionate look at her situation and making a reckoning of the fates to come.
(17) It was used for all patients discharged from the acute psychiatric ward in Hither Green Hospital over a 10 month period.
(18) The hither to wellknown movable fixateur such as that from Cleyburn have the disadvantage that the mounting of the apparatus can first be carried out after the reduction of the radius-fracture.
(19) For services to Young People through Guiding in Hither Green, Bexley and Sidcup, London.
(20) In the clinic for paediatrics of the Medical Academy of Dresden malformations of respiratory organs, situated below the larynx, were demonstrated in 18 per cent of patients who had been referred hither in the course of 20 years for bronchopulmonary diagnostics.
Whither
Definition:
(adv.) To what place; -- used interrogatively; as, whither goest thou?
(adv.) To what or which place; -- used relatively.
(adv.) To what point, degree, end, conclusion, or design; whereunto; whereto; -- used in a sense not physical.
Example Sentences:
(1) (It belonged to Iain Watters , and he presented his ruined pudding to the judges from the murky depths of a fliptop bin, whither he had cast it in a fury; this event was even more scandalous than the custard theft of 2013 – don’t ask.)
(2) But whither North Carolina goes, so goes the rest of the nation.
(3) Even at a time when other aspects of foreign policy – such as over Iran – are breaking with blind whither-thou-goest Atlanticism, the ossified Orwellian terms of the nuclear discussion go unchallenged by government and opposition alike.
(4) Retrospective analysis of clinical cases observed for three years with respect to the appearance of the fundus and visual acuity was conducted to evaluate the effect of photocoagulation therapy on macular edema in relation to whither diabetic retinopathy was accompanied by, focal or cystoid, macular edema.
(5) There has been some uncertainty in relation to my title 'Whither the professions?'
(6) Whither Mr Whicher Paddy Considine’s return for the first of a brace of two-part stories in ITV’s The Suspicions of Mr Whicher could only draw 2.6 million viewers, a 13.7% share, between 9.05pm and 11pm.
(7) Effective pumping requires that the active transporter binds the pumped substrate, at high affinity, realized at the "whence side" (from which pumping takes place) and, at low affinity, at the "whither side" (to which pumping takes place).
(8) It was called “Whither B’Tselem?” “They thought about all the possible things B’Tselem could do once Israel doesn’t control the West Bank.
(9) They certainly shouldn’t be subjected to policies that will see them whither and die.
(10) However, the concreteness of the phone worker was not correlated with whither the scheduled appointment was kept by the caller.
(11) I am not by nature,” he wrote, “a ‘Whither America?’ man.” Only once did he try to encapsulate his own attitude to life, in a magazine called Living Philosophy.
(12) Yet if we strip the language down to what there is a "real need" for, whither poetry?