(adv.) To that point, end, or result; as, the argument tended thither.
(a.) Being on the farther side from the person speaking; farther; -- a correlative of hither; as, on the thither side of the water.
(a.) Applied to time: On the thither side of, older than; of more years than. See Hither, a.
Example Sentences:
(1) 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.
(2) 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.
(3) The organisers of the Fifa World Cup condemn these acts of violence and we will communicate further information and measures to be taken.” After the initial shock there was an air of farce as the fans, having run past the escalators that would have gained them entry to the stands, ran hither and thither seeking a way in, chased by security.
(4) If past experience is a guide, migrants resent being sent hither and thither, and quickly find ways to go to the places they wanted to go to in the first instance – places where they think conditions are better, where they feel more welcome, or where there are established communities from their countries of origin.
(5) The ferries are operated by men of a certain age who leap hither and thither, offering twinkly chivalrous winks to the ladies aboard.
(6) Spiralling galaxies of ignorance roll majestically against a backdrop of what looks like dark prejudice, dotted hither and thither with winking stars of snide innuendo.
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?