What's the difference between how and which?

How


Definition:

  • (adv.) In what manner or way; by what means or process.
  • (adv.) To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality.
  • (adv.) For what reason; from what cause.
  • (adv.) In what state, condition, or plight.
  • (adv.) By what name, designation, or title.
  • (adv.) At what price; how dear.

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Which


Definition:

  • (a.) Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who.
  • (a.) A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1.
  • (pron.) A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons.
  • (pron.) A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will.

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