What's the difference between thereabout and whereof?

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.

Whereof


Definition:

  • (adv.) Of which; of whom; formerly, also, with which; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) Of what; -- used interrogatively.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Whereof one cannot speak thereof we must pass over in silence and all that.
  • (2) In token whereof I have hereunto set my hand this tenth day of December, 1936, in the presence of the witnesses whose signatures are subscribed.
  • (3) The amendment’s first section reads: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States, or any place subject to their jurisdiction.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Donald Trump during a campaign rally in Warren, Michigan, March 2016.
  • (4) The effect of 21 chemical substances was investigated whereof 7 compounds was determined as effective fading-inhibitors.
  • (5) Consequently, we conclude, that a policy followed in the serodiagnostic Western-Blot of human AIDS should also be adopted for the interpretation of the EIA Western-Blot, namely to declare as positive merely horse sera which evidence more than one single band, whereof at least one band should represent a viral glycoprotein.
  • (6) Serwotka, 46, who grew up in the South Wales valleys, knows whereof he speaks: he left school at 16, with five painfully acquired O-levels, and went to work for a benefit office in Aberdare.
  • (7) The Cainguá (Mbŷá) have preserved a singular theology whereof the comprehension makes possible an approach to the real being within that culture.
  • (8) Pancreatic enzyme substitution may principally be used in few indications, whereof most of them are only relative.
  • (9) Treatment was required in 39 cases whereof 18 were placed under observation only.
  • (10) Consequently, a prospective study of symptoms and endoscopy and biopsy interpretation was undertaken in 200 patients consecutively submitted to upper endoscopy, whereof 12 were excluded.
  • (11) Stone removal was successful in 82% of the cases whereof the stones were pushed back into the renal pelvis and subsequently managed with percutaneous nephrolithotomy or extracorporeal shock wave lithotripsy in 24%.
  • (12) Bobbitt, we can assume, knows whereof he speaks: he has shot all three of McQueen's features – Hunger, Shame and now 12 Years a Slave – as well as five of McQueen's gallery shorts, dating back to 2002's Western Deep , shot in South Africa inside the world's deepest gold mine.
  • (13) Four patients had misalignments of up to 15 degrees, whereof three of them had combined varus-recurvation-angulations without functional or cosmetic sequelae.
  • (14) The total of 1154 identified samples consisted mainly of ruminants (37%, whereof bushbuck represented 57%), hippopotamus (34%), and monitor lizard (19%).
  • (15) The title refers to the 13th Amendment to the US Constitution: “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the United States.” For the new British black film-making hope, Adesunloye, access to funds and exposure remain the key issues, even with a voguish new transatlantic interest in telling the story of the African diaspora.
  • (16) Report on 370 dyslexics, whereof 281 can be evaluated.
  • (17) Iscoms containing the fusion protein of measles virus induced T cell clones in mice whereof one, after adoptive transfer, protected mice against intracerebral challenge infection.
  • (18) Gillen's character, Petyr Baelish, certainly knows whereof he speaks.