What's the difference between where and whither?

Where


Definition:

  • (pron. & conj.) Whether.
  • (adv.) At or in what place; hence, in what situation, position, or circumstances; -- used interrogatively.
  • (adv.) At or in which place; at the place in which; hence, in the case or instance in which; -- used relatively.
  • (adv.) To what or which place; hence, to what goal, result, or issue; whither; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, where are you going?
  • (conj.) Whereas.
  • (n.) Place; situation.

Example Sentences:

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?