What's the difference between whereabouts and wherever?

Whereabouts


Definition:

  • (adv.) About where; near what or which place; -- used interrogatively and relatively; as, whereabouts did you meet him?
  • (adv.) Concerning which; about which.
  • (n.) The place where a person or thing is; as, they did not know his whereabouts.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Photograph: Met police The three girls were interviewed in December by detectives about the whereabouts of their friend but were not themselves considered at risk of fleeing Britain.
  • (2) • The US National Security Agency is reportedly collecting almost 5 billion mobile phone records a day under a programme that monitors and analyses highly personal data about the precise whereabouts of individuals, wherever they travel in the world, the Washington Post has revealed, based on documents provided by Edward Snowden .
  • (3) According to the NYPD commissioner, Bill Bratton, whose voice almost cracked with emotion as he addressed the media on Saturday evening , the “digital warning poster” featuring a picture of Brinsley and his whereabouts arrived at the data centre at 2.47pm.
  • (4) Instead, the situation has deteriorated: rehearsals for the piece began on the day the Russian authorities finally produced confirmation that Tolokonnikova had been admitted to the medical wing of a Siberian penal colony , following a three-week transit period during which her family and legal representatives were denied any information of her whereabouts.
  • (5) At least 100 Boko Haram militants killed by Cameroon army Read more Ibrahim Musa, a spokesman for the Shia Islamic Movement in Nigeria, said soldiers on Monday carried away about 200 bodies from around the home of the sect’s leader Ibraheem Zakzaky, who was himself badly wounded and whose whereabouts have not been disclosed by the authorities.
  • (6) Since then, his whereabouts have been a mystery, but this week his brother told Associated Press that he had received new and disturbing information from one of the policemen who took Gao away.
  • (7) One year later, and despite worldwide outrage, their whereabouts remains unknown.
  • (8) Also in the courts, the justice department has continued to argue that the US government doesn’t need a warrant to gather the cell phone location information of Americans – even though that type of information can give authorities your precise whereabouts 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
  • (9) The group also called on China to account for the whereabouts of Tohti, who has not been allowed to contact his family or see a lawyer since his arrest last month.
  • (10) While US officials have said they have met with Mobley, they have refused to confirm or disclose his whereabouts – or tell Islam much of anything.
  • (11) Another described how troops made a women squeeze “burning-red coals” in her hands to reveal the whereabouts of rebels or cattle.
  • (12) "But the fact is that the whereabouts and fate of Gao have been shrouded in mystery by the Chinese government for far too long.
  • (13) Nadine Dorries, Tory MP for Mid Bedfordshire, was cleared of allegations that she lied about which was her primary residence to maximise expense claims - only to face criticisms after the evidence revealed her admitting to lying on her blog about her whereabouts in order to persuade constituents of her commitment.
  • (14) We want the whereabouts of Mr Neklyayev to be known and for him to have medical attention and access to legal advice.
  • (15) Three others were snatched in another oil field on 3 February and their whereabouts also remain unknown.
  • (16) Inside the briefing room, relatives earlier had angrily confronted a Malaysia Airlines official over the lack of information on the flight's whereabouts.
  • (17) Separately, prosecutors in the western German city of Duisburg said on Thursday that they had opened a fraud investigation against Amri in April but shelved it in November because his whereabouts were unknown.
  • (18) Fonseka's whereabouts during the incident was also a matter of confusion.
  • (19) Analysis courtesy of the U.S. Committee for Human Rights in North Korea Copyright: Digital Globe The report says: "Their families are not informed of their fate or whereabouts.
  • (20) The option of quickly sending a message to my boyfriend and family with my whereabouts when I am in danger makes me feel much safer,” she says.

Wherever


Definition:

  • (adv.) At or in whatever place; wheresoever.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Wherever that figure falls is probably the lower end of the spectrum among the different possibilities the government will consider.
  • (2) A computer program, computer-readable model-file and computer-based 3D printer can (in theory) encapsulate the expertise of a skilled machinist and deploy it on demand wherever a 3D printer is to be found.
  • (3) Others seek shelter wherever they can – on rented farmland, and in empty houses and disused garages.
  • (4) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."
  • (5) The debit card doubles as a Clubcard, and customers will be able to earn points wherever they use it.
  • (6) • The US National Security Agency is reportedly collecting almost 5 billion mobile phone records a day under a programme that monitors and analyses highly personal data about the precise whereabouts of individuals, wherever they travel in the world, the Washington Post has revealed, based on documents provided by Edward Snowden .
  • (7) 7 MyVoucherCodes Works on: iPhone and Android Cost: Free The app from the website of the same name, MyVoucherCodes uses GPS to send you the best money-off deals for eating out, shopping, health and beauty, travel, entertainment etc, wherever you are.
  • (8) As the later Spark might have said, a mortal sin against the commandment to love beauty wherever one may find it.
  • (9) That's all for tonight - for all joined us tonight, tomorrow or wherever you are, thank you for reading.
  • (10) | Hugh Muir Read more Wherever Labour people gather to discuss how to break out of the vice tightening around the party, answers fail amid sighs of utter despair.
  • (11) The answers are sums of the influence or kernel functions of the integral wherever the sum is positive, and zero elsewhere.
  • (12) It would also authorise the use of US forces in situations where ground combat operations are not expected or intended, such as intelligence collection and sharing, missions to enable kinetic strikes, or the provision of operational planning and other forms of advice and assistance to partner forces.” The White House insists the AUMF does not confer authority for “long-term, large-scale ground combat operations”, but the language has already raised concerns among Democrats that it gives the White House another “blank cheque” for open-ended war wherever it chooses.
  • (13) "From there, we will extend the interviewing programme further across all routes to Britain, wherever the evidence takes us.
  • (14) Wherever there are buskers, there's probably money.
  • (15) Packs of motorcyclists circled the area wherever roads remained open, revving their engines.
  • (16) A high yield from brush smears was obtained due to their preparation from caseous material wherever visible in the bronchi.
  • (17) "First, it is clearly economically inefficient not to tap into talent wherever it exists.
  • (18) But wherever they go polio workers must still counter the damaging, and widely believed, rumours about the polio drops.
  • (19) Hence stray voltage may threaten farm animal health and production wherever modern animal housing is applied.
  • (20) But the Depp dog furore is a perfect example of the different approach Joyce will take to leading the Nationals – the rural-based minor party in the governing Coalition that has in recent years had a series of gentlemanly leaders who, wherever possible, have settled differences with their Coalition parties quietly, created public fusses only rarely, and international incidents never.