Here and there
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
here and there
adv 1: in or to various places; first this place and then that;
"he worked here and there but never for long in one
town"; "we drove here and there in the darkness"
from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
There \There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar,
G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar,
Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]184. See {That}, pron.]
1. In or at that place. "[They] there left me and my man,
both bound together." --Shak.
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The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. --Ge. ii.
8.
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Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a
place farther off. "Darkness there might well seem
twilight here." --Milton.
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2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage,
etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop
there, but continued his speech.
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The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. --Shak.
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3. To or into that place; thither.
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The rarest that e'er came there. --Shak.
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Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling
the attention to something, especially to something
distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There
is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it
introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its
subject.
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A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
--Chaucer.
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There is a path which no fowl knoweth. --Job
xxviii. 7.
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Wherever there is a sense or perception, there
some idea is actually produced. --Locke.
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There have been that have delivered themselves
from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
--Suckling.
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Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the
sense of a pronoun. See {Thereabout}, {Thereafter},
{Therefrom}, etc.
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Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where.
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Spend their good there it is reasonable.
--Chaucer.
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{Here and there}, in one place and another.
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Syn: See {Thither}.
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from
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Here \Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS.
h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r,
Dan. her, Sw. h[aum]r; fr. root of E. he. See {He}.]
1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; --
opposed to {there}.
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He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt.
xxviii. 6.
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2. In the present life or state.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
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3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See {Thither}.
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Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.
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Thou led'st me here. --Byron.
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4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
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The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
--Warren.
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Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a
verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something
or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in
drinking healths. "Here's [a health] to thee, Dick."
--Cowley.
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{Here and there}, in one place and another; in a dispersed
manner; irregularly. "Footsteps here and there."
--Longfellow.
{It is neither, here nor there}, it is neither in this place
nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence,
it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak.
Herea-bout
from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
48 Moby Thesaurus words for "here and there":
at intervals, at large, at times, betimes, brokenly, by catches,
by fits, by jerks, by skips, by snatches, diffusely,
disconnectedly, discontinuously, dispersedly, ever and again,
ever and anon, everywhere, exiguously, fitfully, haphazardly,
in all quarters, in places, in spots, in various places,
infrequently, intermittently, meagerly, now, now and again,
occasionally, passim, per saltum, piddlingly, randomly, rarely,
scantily, scarcely, scrimpily, skimpily, skippingly, sparsely,
sparsim, sporadically, spottily, stingily, throughout,
wherever you look, willy-nilly
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