whereby
/wɛə(ɹ)ˈbaɪ/
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
18
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
6
Unique Chars
Meaning
adv
By which.
adv
Where, wherein, in which.
Example Sentences
- "Whereby goest thou?"
- "Shylock: Nay, take my life and all; pardon not that: You take my house when you do take the prop That doth sustain my house; you take my life When you do take the means whereby I live."
- "M. Sawrey […] devised a mechanical method whereby theatrical scenes could be changed in a simple way."
- "Other heads saw devolution as a whole new way of life and adopted an approach whereby the power of devolution was used to enable the school to drive the curriculum."
- "Because COBOL does not have a date type, some implementations rely instead on a system whereby all dates are coded to a reference point. The most commonly used is May 20, 1875, as this was the date of an international standards-setting conference held in Paris, known as the Convention du Mètre."
Etymology
From where + by.
Usage
Phrases
1. Scottish2. from Middle English mid3. old dialectal form