What's the difference between thereabout and whereby?

Thereabout


Definition:

  • (adv.) Alt. of Thereabouts

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Though they remained there or thereabouts for a few weeks, a 5-2 home defeat to Arsenal on 26 September was seen as the shape of things to come.
  • (2) Its continued existence seems like a minor miracle once you've read Rakoff's book, which is set in 1996, or thereabouts.
  • (3) The US still have question marks about some of the soft goals they can concede, and Gonzalez, for all his promise, tends to be there or thereabouts when crucial mistakes are happening.
  • (4) "[Police] were in Rebekah's office for two days, thereabouts, when there were three executives in there with them," he said.
  • (5) The overall loss of iron during the first twelve days or thereabouts is probably not sufficient to require nutritional supplements over this period.
  • (6) Simon Hopkinson first met Elizabeth David in 1984, or thereabouts, at Hilaire, the Chelsea restaurant of which he was chef.
  • (7) Beyond the political huffing and puffing, the debate about what Pfizer would have to pay to bag AstraZeneca always seemed straightforward: a bid of £60 a share or thereabouts would be a knockout; anything less and Pfizer would struggle to get an agreement.
  • (8) On the second leg of my south-north train journey, another 400 miles or thereabouts from London to Edinburgh, once again there was no missing the proliferation of Day-Glo yellow plantations.
  • (9) I was written about by the Guardian in 1993 or thereabouts,” she replies, “and it wasn’t a positive experience.” The phrase “character assassination” is mentioned.
  • (10) "3D printing in general has been around since 1986 or thereabouts," says Jake Durrant, senior lecturer at Ravensbourne digital design college.
  • (11) This approach of isotopic substitution on nitrogen or carbon atoms is of general utility and should allow virtually any proton on a protein of molecular weight 20 000 or thereabout to be selectively observed.
  • (12) I do need to make sure we are there or thereabouts and that is all I'm asking for," he said.
  • (13) This year, we will be there or thereabouts financially, but next year will be very challenging.
  • (14) I think once we get that, we will be there or thereabouts."
  • (15) I’ve always been there or thereabouts in the squad, but it’s been a big learning curve for myself over the last four or five years,” Hardaker said.
  • (16) I suggest the hypothesis that bancroftian filariasis, endemic since the early days of slavery in Charleston, South Carolina, disappeared around 1930 by virtue of the long-term effects of a municipal sewerage-water system begun in the 1890s or thereabouts.
  • (17) We've always been there or thereabouts but we've always had dips.
  • (18) "You don't really notice him much but he has always been there or thereabouts working his way to the top.
  • (19) "I can remember one or two in particular where there was no evidence at all against the defendant – the prosecutor couldn't point to anything other than he was there or thereabouts – and I bailed him.
  • (20) Always search for items under "Newly listed", not "Ending soonest", and try to check eBay with some frequency: bi-hourly, seven days a week or thereabouts.

Whereby


Definition:

  • (adv.) By which; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) By what; how; -- used interrogatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Together these observations suggest that cytotactin is an endogenous cell surface modulatory protein and provide a possible mechanism whereby cytotactin may contribute to pattern formation during development, regeneration, tumorigenesis, and wound healing.
  • (2) The method described uses film DOT-I and DOT-II by Dupont, whereby the exposure of the step wedge takes place on a linear accelerator with a photo energy of 10 MeV.
  • (3) The present data support the hypothesis whereby weakly oncogenic B-ecotropic viruses similar to those activated by radiation might be involved in the development of TL.
  • (4) Indications of precautions to be taken are defined and suggestions are drawn up whereby residual laxity in extension may be limited.
  • (5) Mechanisms are suggested whereby rudimentary appetitive programs already encoded along facing dendrite membrane pairs within the specialized intrafascicular milieu, may trigger and control nipple search and suckling in the still blind and only primitively mobile neonate.
  • (6) Because the mechanism whereby Shigella dysenteriae I enterotoxin induces intestinal secretion is unclear, the effect of this toxin on adenylate cyclase activity in rabbit ileal mucosa was studied under various in vitro and in vivo conditions.
  • (7) Completely unknown is the mechanism whereby NADH oxidation and growth or growth control may be coupled.
  • (8) Possible mechanisms whereby proteolytic cleavage of VP2 may enhance the infectivity and HA activity of BTV 20 are discussed.
  • (9) A simplified procedure is described whereby tissue is removed via a posterior eyelid approach so that the eyelid may be tightened both horizontally and vertically, thus inverting the punctum and fixating it in the lacrimal lake.
  • (10) The authors describe several recent court cases in which judges have ignored or distorted acceptable clinical practices, conceivably creating a new liability standard whereby a tragic outcome is considered the result of failure to apply appropriate judgment.
  • (11) Since the temperature of the monkey was unchanged as long as the physiological ratio of sodium to calcium in the perfusion fluid remained constant, we conclude that the balance between these two essential cations within the brain stem could determine the neural mechanism whereby the set-point for body temperature of the primate is established.
  • (12) Physical disruption of the gut mucosal barrier appears to be the primary mechanism whereby endotoxin promotes bacterial translocation.
  • (13) That does not translate magically into a conflict of interest whereby the interests of these lawyers is suddenly contrary to those of the defendants,” Ryan argued to Pohl.
  • (14) Our aim was to determine the mechanism whereby oligohydroamnios causes reduced fetal lung expansion and eventual lung hypoplasia.
  • (15) This requires multiple insulin injections, whereby 60 to 70% of the total daily insulin amount are administered as preprandial boli of short or intermediate acting insulin.
  • (16) That would mark a controversial break from its existing policy, whereby the ECB offsets bond purchases by draining liquidity from the system in separate operations.
  • (17) Chilcot has now embarked on the “Maxwellisation process”, whereby those the inquiry intends to criticise will be sent draft passages of the report for comment.
  • (18) The mechanism whereby deferoxamine (DF) inhibits the growth of malaria parasites was studied in rats infected with Plasmodium berghei.
  • (19) K+ release from 2-10 min minus initial K+ uptake) increased from 0.1 to 2.2 mumol X g-1 liver, whereby simultaneously the alanine tissue level rose from 6.8 to 13.3 mumol X g-1 (corresponding to an increase of the intracellular alanine concentration from about 12 to 25 mM) in presence of aminooxyacetate.
  • (20) Ultrastructural investigations involved a novel method whereby thick sections of gluteraldehyde-fixed material were cut on a vibratome and then labelled using slight modifications of a standard unlabelled antibody-enzyme (PAP) technique, before further processing.