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Definition: WHICH |
WHICHAdjective1. A interrogative pronoun, used both substantively and adjectively, and in direct and indirect questions, to ask for, or refer to, an individual person or thing among several of a class; as, which man is it? which woman was it? which is the house? he asked which route he should take; which is best, to live or to die? See the Note under What, pron., 1. 2. Of what sort or kind; what; what a; who. Pronoun1. A compound relative or indefinite pronoun, standing for any one which, whichever, that which, those which, the . . . which, and the like; as, take which you will. 2. A relative pronoun, used esp. in referring to an antecedent noun or clause, but sometimes with reference to what is specified or implied in a sentence, or to a following noun or clause (generally involving a reference, however, to something which has preceded). It is used in all numbers and genders, and was formerly used of persons. |
Date "WHICH" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references) |
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Tips from 1870 | Much diversity of usage exists and some difference of opinion prevails concerning the proper expression to use when you are addressed, and fail to understand just what has been said. Such interrogative rejoinders as "What?" "How?" "Which?" "Hey?" are plainly objectionable. "Sir?" and "Madam!" once common, are no longer tolerated in society. The English expression "Beg pardon" has found favor, but it is not wholly acceptable. "Excuse me" is suggested by a writer on the subject. It has no more syllables than "Beg pardon," and is nearly equivalent in signification, but it is also subject to the objection that it is often used to imply a difference of opinion, as when a person makes a statement to which you take exception, you begin your reply with the expression, "Excuse me." Whatever is adopted will doubtless be a convenient contraction, like "Beg pardon," which is a short way of saying, "I beg your pardon for failing to understand what you said;" or "Excuse me," which is a condensation of "Excuse me for not fully grasping your meaning." Usage: Which, Who. "Those which say so are mistaken." Who is applied to persons; which, to the lower animals and to inanimate things. "He has some friends which I know." Whom, the objective case form of the pronoun who, should here be used. "The dog, who was called Rover, went mad." Use which. Source: Slips of Speech. |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
This article is not about the legal concept of a restrictive covenant.
Should one use "that" or "which"? In syntax, the concepts of restrictive clause and non-restrictive clause can perhaps most easily be explained by contrasting two examples:
The clause "which is 555 feet tall", does not distinguish this "Washington Monument" from other "Washington Monuments", but the clause "that was recently built" does distinguish this house from other houses. That is what it means to say that the latter clause is restrictive and the former is not. Omitting a non-restrictive clause results in a meaningful and correct sentence; that is not true of restrictive clauses.
- The Washington Monument, which is 555 feet tall, is the tallest building in Washington.
- The house that was recently built is Senator Smith's house.
Some writers follow a normative rule that "which" should be used in non-restrictive clauses and "that" should be used in restrictive clauses. In this usage, the phrase
does not mean the same thing as
- the house that is green
The former says which house is being referred to, the latter presupposes that that is already established.
- the house, which is green.
Most writers do not adhere to this rule, perhaps considering it unnecessary to be explicit about the distinction.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Restrictive clause."
(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
The Snowball Earth, also known as the Varangian glaciation, is a recent hypothesis which proposes that the Ice Age which took place in the Precambrian was so severe that the Earth's oceans froze over completely, with only heat from the planetary core causing some liquid water to exist under ice more than a kilometer thick.Since the 1960s, it has been known that the Earth's continents were subjected to glacial action between about 750 million and 580 million years ago. Paleontologist W. Brian Harland pointed out that contemporary glacial till deposits can be found on all continents, and first proposed that the Earth must have been in an ice age at this time. The problem is that they are found on all continents; even during the worst of the Ice Age just past, ice was still uncommon in equatorial continents. At first the then-new theory of plate tectonics seemed to offer an out, but in fact made the situation worse: studies of the magnetic orientations of the rocks of the period showed that the continents were clustered around the equator rather than being near the poles as might have been hoped.
The Snowball Earth theory argues backwards from the documented existence of tillites dropped by these glaciers, to suggest that the Earth must have frozen over. The mechanism by which it did so is still mysterious, but one suggestion is that the presence of the at-first ice free continents at the poles enhanced the natural process of carbon dioxide reabsorption through the erosion of silicate rocks, reducing the greenhouse effect and making the Earth colder until it reached a runaway point. However, the mechanism by which the Earth would unfreeze (as obviously it has to have done if it did freeze at one point in the past) would leave distinctive traces.
Geological formations which "Snowball Earth" proponents point to as evidence of the hypothesis are:
- Iron-rich rocks: In the Earth's oxygen atmosphere, iron naturally rusts. Iron-rich rocks can only form in the absence of that oxygen, and these deposits are seen at the supposed time of the worst glaciation. Proponents of the theory point out that oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere is not naturally stable, and must receive continuous maintenance from the biosphere. A tremendous glaciation would obviously curtail life on Earth, thus allowing the atmospheric oxygen to disappear, and iron-rich rocks to form. Detractors argue that this kind of glaciation would have made life extinct entirely, which obviously did not happen. Proponents counter that it may have been possible for reservoirs of anaerobic and low-oxygen life powered by deep oceanic vents to have survived such an event within Earth's deep oceans and crust.
- Carbonate cap rocks. The carbon dioxide levels necessary to unfreeze the Earth have been estimated as being 350 times what they are today, but would be able to accumulate due to the opposite of the effect mentioned earlier as a possible mechanism triggering the freeze in the first place; if the Earth was completely covered with ice, silicate rocks would not be exposed to erosion, and carbon dioxide would not then be removed from the atmosphere.
Eventually enough CO2 would accumulate from volcanic eruption that the oceans around the equator would finally melt, which would produce a band of open ice-free water, much darker than highly-reflective ice, with a characteristically lower albedo, which would absorb more energy from the sun. This would in turn heat the Earth more, melting more water to absorb more light, and so on. This positive feedback loop would melt the ice in geological short order, perhaps less than a millennium.
However, the carbon dioxide levels would still be two orders of magnitude higher than usual. Rain would wash it out of the atmosphere as a weak solution of carbonic acid, which would turn exposed silicate rock to carbonate rock, which would then erode easily, wash into the ocean and form deep layers of carbonate sedimentary rock. Thick layers of exactly this abiotic carbonate sediment can be found on top of the glacial till that first suggested the Snowball Earth.
Proponents of this theory also point out that the frozen period may have ended only a few million years or so before the beginning of the Cambrian Explosion, at the beginning of the Vendian period. While not evidence per se, they consider the apparent sudden appearance of multicellular life suggestive of the removal of some great environmental stress holding life back, and propose that the deep freeze was the stressor.
Another Snowball Earth has also been proposed for the first known ice age, 2.3 billion years ago. There the proposed mechanism is the first appearance of atmospheric oxygen, which would have absorbed any methane in the air. As methane is a powerful greenhouse gas, and as the Sun was notably weaker at the time, temperatures plunged. The evidence here is weaker, but a layer of iron-rich rock can also be found from this time.
One competing, less-radical theory to explain the presence of ice on the equatorial continents was that the Earth's axial tilt was quite high, in the vicinity of 60°, which would place the Earth's land in high "latitudes". An even less severe possibility would be that it was merely the Earth's magnetic pole that wandered to this inclination, as the magnetic readings which suggested ice-filled continents depends on the magnetic and rotational poles being relatively similar (to be fair, there is some evidence to believe that this is the case). In either of these two situations, the freeze over would be limited to relatively small areas, as is the case today, and severe changes to the Earth's climate are not necessary.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Snowball Earth."
Crosswords: WHICH |
| Specialty definitions using "WHICH": a contract which is governed by English law ♦ college which elects ♦ Images which fell from Heaven ♦ Knows which Side his Bread is Buttered ♦ Under which King, Bezonian? ♦ Which Stands For Nothing. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "WHICH" is also a word in the following language with the English translation in parentheses. Pidgin English (which). |
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Screenplays | Which one of you did it (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice) Michael was the most sexually experienced of us, which means he had kissed a girl on more than two occasions (Sleepers; writing credit: Barry Levinson) Yes, sir. As requested, it's full of bugs, which means people will be forced to upgrade for years (Tomorrow Never Dies; writing credit: Bruce Feirstein) Every search for a hero must begin with something which every hero requires, a villain (Mission: Impossible II; writing credit: Bruce Geller; Ronald D. Moore) Which side are you with (On the Waterfront; writing credit: Budd Schulberg.) | |
Lyrics | Which to jump beyond myself what was wrong with me (Unsent; performing artist: Alanis Morissette) Which has a will of it's own (JESSE; performing artist: Carly Simon) Well I hope you know which way to go you're on your own again, (We Don't Talk Anymore; performing artist: Cliff Richard) Which road shall you choose (Choose; performing artist: Color Me Badd) And I think my spaceship knows which way to go (Space Oddity; performing artist: David Bowie) | |
Clever | There are German songs which can make a stranger to the language cry. (references; author: Mark Twain) Horse sense is the thing a horse has which keeps it from betting on people. (references; author: W.C. Fields) Being young is a fault which improves daily. (references; author: Swedish Proverb) Every man goes down to his death bearing in his hands only that which he has given away. (references; author: Persian Proverb) That which was hard to endure is sweet to remember. (references; author: unknown) | |
Tongue Twisters | If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? (references; author: unknown) Of all the felt I ever felt, I never felt a piece of felt which felt as fine as that felt felt, when first I felt that felt hat's felt. (references; author: unknown) Which rich wicked witch wished the wicked wish? (references; author: unknown) Which wristwatches are Swiss wristwatches? (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Which Way to the Front? (1970) The House in Which They Live (1916) Which Is Which? (1915) For Which It Stands (2003) Which Way to Oz (1996) | |
Song Titles | Which Way You Goin' Billy (performing artist: The Poppy Family) | |
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 | Seen are two physicians using a bronchoscope which is a flexible tube with a light inside and is inserted into the patient's trachea. Doctors can view inside the body through the tube allowing easier access to removal of tumors. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |  | Position emission tomography (PET) of cerebral glucose utilization in a normal individual. This tomogram is through the upper part of the cerebral hemisphere. Note discrimination between gray matter (yellow-red color) and white matter (green-blue color) which uses less glucose. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist. |
 | Note the fusion of the former scales of which the protective shell is composed, as well as the small, hair-like projections emerging from pores within this mantle. Credit: CDC. |  | This patient has a primary syphilitic chancre located in the urethral meatus. A chancre is a primary skin lesion of syphilis which begins at the site of infection after an interval of 10-30 days as a papule or red ulcerated skin lesion. Credit: CDC. |
 | This series of images, which spans more than five days beginning at 5:33 p.m. EDT on July 16, ... Credit: NASA. |  | Imagine turning your home computer into the equivalent of a professional telescope which can ... Credit: NASA. |
 | This image was taken by Voyager as it left the Earth-Moon system and looked back. It was the first picture taken by a spacecraft which included both the Earth and Moon. Credit: NASA. |  | Photopolarimeter-radiometer (PPR) thermal map of Ganymede's surface. Compare to the SSI image release on 08/16/96 (above) which shows nearly the same view. (The PPR map is rotated about 30 degrees to the west of the SSI image.) (Released 09/25/96). Credit: NASA. |
 | Brazil's Araca River is a tributary of the Negro River, which feeds into the Amazon. Credit: NASA. |  | These are the Anti-Atlas Mountains, part of the Atlas Mountain range in southern Morocco, Africa. The region contains some of the world's largest and most diverse mineral resources, most of which are still untouched. Credit: NASA. |
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| "Notepad" by Alexandre S. S. Commentary: "That´s my notepad . it´s a nice and useful texture. <br>make some fixes and go on! --> Please forward a copy of any final work which uses this image. <br>." | "Rushing Past" by Laura Kennedy Commentary: "Rushing past is part of the blurry photo series which I had been working on. Its a drive by shooting! :)." |
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 | An excerpt for piano which modulates in a style reflective of the Romantic era. | | A very stiff and square style of playing in which the emphasis is on the beat. |
| Short piece which may have been heard on television shows like Miami Vice circa 1980's. | | Footsteps walking down a cement hallway and the sound of the closing of a metal cell door which finally clangs shut. |
| Restaurant background noise in which the voices are audible but unintelligibly jumbled together. | | Clown sound effect for pretending to drop something which is connected to a string and recovered. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Alexander Hamilton | Our real disease -- which is Democracy. |
Benjamin Franklin | The things which hurt, instruct. |
Francis Bacon | Time, which is the author of authors. |
| God's first creature, which was light. | |
Friedrich Schlegel | Virtue is reason which has become energy. |
Henry David Thoreau | We hate the kindness which we understand. |
John Milton | Which if not victory is yet revenge. |
Miguel De Cervantes | That which costs little is less valued. |
MoliFre | Grammar, which can govern even Kings. |
Soren Kierkegaard | Be that self which one truly is. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Magna Carta | 1215 | The writ which is called praecipe shall not for the future be issued to anyone, regarding any tenement whereby a freeman may lose his court. (reference) |
John Locke | 1690 | To which I answer, Not so. (Second Treatise of Government) |
US Declaration of Independence | 1776 | A Prince whose character is thus marked by every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a free people. (reference) |
US Constitution | 1791 | And the Congress may by general Laws prescribe the Manner in which such Acts, Records and Proceedings shall be proved, and the Effect thereof. (reference) |
US Bill of Rights | 1795 | Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. (reference) |
Amendment to US Constitution | 1795-1995 | But this Article shall not apply to any person holding the office of President when this Article was proposed by Congress, and shall not prevent any person who may be holding the office of President, or acting as President, during the term within which this Article becomes operative from holding the office of President or acting as President during the remainder of such term. (reference) |
Marbury v. Madison | 1803 | He is entitled to the remedy for which he applies. (reference) |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | Modern industry has established the world-market, for which the discovery of America paved the way. (reference) |
The Emancipation Proclamation | 1862 | "That the executive will on the 1st day of January aforesaid, by proclamation, designate the States and parts of States, if any, in which the people thereof, respectively, shall then be in rebellion against the United States; and the fact that any State or the people thereof shall on that day be in good faith represented in the Congress of the United States by members chosen thereto at elections wherein a majority of the qualified voters of such States shall have participated shall, in the absence of strong countervailing testimony, be deemed conclusive evidence that such State and the people thereof are not then in rebellion against the United States." (Abraham Lincoln) |
Abraham Lincoln | 1863 | It is for us the living rather to be dedicated here to the unfinished work which they who fought here have thus far so nobly advanced. (The Gettysburg Address) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Emma | Austen, Jane | She disapproved them, which ought to have been enough |
Sylvie and Bruno | Carroll, Lewis | And we followed him obediently to the Ivory Door, which he threw open, and signed to me to go through first |
A Christmas Carol | Dickens, Charles | We have never had any quarrel, to which I have been a party |
Life, the Universe and Everything | Douglas Adams | Arthur had adopted his normal crisis role, which was to stand with his mouth hanging open and let it all wash over him. |
Scarlet Letter | Hawthorne, Nathaniel | The minister had inquired of Hester, with no little interest, the precise time at which the vessel might be expected to depart |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In our days, a philosophy which is almost an official has entered into its service, wears its livery, and waits in its antechamber |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | But he drank off the hot weak tea which the clumsy scullion, girt with a white apron, poured into his cup. |
Time Enough for Love | Robert Heinlein | A generation which ignores history has no past and no future |
King Richard III | Shakespeare, William | He hath no friends but what are friends for fear, Which in his dearest need will fly from him. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The four motorcycles turned and sped back in the direction from which they had come |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Know which noises can cause damage. (references) | |
Gently brush your tongue, which can trap germs. (references) | ||
Renin (REE-nin), which regulates blood pressure. (references) | ||
Business | Bank in the UAE which offers full banking services. (references) | |
The GOP favors purchases which entail such agreements. (references) | ||
Analyzing equipment, which is primarily all, imported. (references) | ||
Children | Swaziland | Most students reach grade 7, which is the last year in primary school. (references) |
Congo | This provoked a riot during which police arrested dozens of street children. (references) | |
Chile | Of the cases, 70 percent came to trial, of which 80 percent resulted in convictions. (references) | |
Civil Liberties | Solomon Islands | Demonstrators must obtain permits, which generally are granted. (references) |
Uzbekistan | Urgench newspaper, which was closed in 2000, remained closed at year's end. (references) | |
Indonesia | Other IDP's from Maluku are located in Papua, which has a total of 16,870 IDP's. (references) | |
Discrimination | Bhutan | It also committed many abuses against the ethnic Nepalese, which led to the departure of tens of thousands of them. (references) |
Bhutan | It claims that ethnic Nepalese fill 22 percent of government jobs, which is slightly less than their proportion of the total population. (references) | |
Tunisia | Legal discrimination is not pervasive, apart from that experienced by women in certain areas, such as inheritance, which is governed by Shari'a. (references) | |
Economic History | Somalia | Arable land--13%, of which 2% is cultivated. (references) |
Israel | Israeli consumers enjoy shopping which is a popular pastime. (references) | |
Turkmenistan | Cable TV, which existed in the late 1980s, has been shut down. (references) | |
Human Rights | Belize | Courts throw out cases in which police have violated these rules. (references) |
Uzbekistan | The invitation, which had been mailed on May 28, was delivered opened. (references) | |
Nigeria | The nature of the case usually determines which court has jurisdiction. (references) | |
Indigenous People | Peru | Many indigenous persons do not have title to the land on which they live. (references) |
Colombia | It is buying back much of this land, which was settled by mestizo peasants, and returning it to indigenous groups. (references) | |
Guyana | The Amerindian population, which consists of nine tribal groups, constitutes an estimated 8 percent of the population. (references) | |
Minorities | India | Sikhs protested the killings, which led to violent clashes with police. (references) |
Netherlands | Various NGO's, some of which are funded by the Government, monitor violations. (references) | |
Liberia | Many Mandingos were unable to reoccupy their homes, which had been taken over by squatters. (references) | |
Political Economy | Canada | Tories, which holds 12 seats in the House. (references) |
OMAN | Oman has a trademark law, which it enforces. (references) | |
URUGUAY | It is followed by the World Bank, which has one-fourth. (references) | |
Political Rights | Antigua and Barbuda | Two women are senators, which are appointed positions. (references) |
South Africa | In 2000 local government elections were held, which were generally peaceful. (references) | |
Taiwan | The KMT, which lost the legislative majority for the first time, won 68 seats. (references) | |
Trade | Hong Kong | The newest member is Turkmenistan, which joined in 2000. (references) |
Moldova | Exceptions are materials which are detrimental to public morals. (references) | |
Uruguay | Freight which arrives by the national airline is exempt from the tax. (references) | |
Travel | Ireland | AT&T has a local office which can assist the U.S. visitor. (references) |
Ghana | Areas, which are not well illuminated at night, should be avoided. (references) | |
France | France's climate is temperate which varies somewhat from north to south. (references) | |
Women | Saudi Arabia | Most workplaces in which women are present are segregated by gender. (references) |
Barbados | Victims may request restraining orders, which the courts often issue. (references) | |
New Zealand | The influx of persons from countries in which FGM is prevalent has slowed. (references) | |
Worker Rights | Cuba | The CETSS sets the minimum wage, which varies by occupation. (references) |
Nigeria | The law sets a minimum wage, which is reviewed infrequently. (references) | |
Albania | Many workers look for second jobs, which are difficult to find. (references) | |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | POLYGAMY, n. A house of atonement, or expiatory chapel, fitted with several stools of repentance, as distinguished from monogamy, which has but one. |
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| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Bill Maher | Right. That was one of my new rules. Lay off France. At least they're standing up to the Bush administration, which is more than I can say for the Democrats. |
Dennis Miller | Confidence affects every aspect of our lives because it is the looking glass through which we view ourselves. |
Don Rickles | Yeah, because I don't do jokes, per se. I do situations and make fun of authority and life. And I make fun of you, which is always a scream, you know. |
Jodie Foster | Literature, which I think is really helpful because it's about reading and about reading the text and interpreting it. |
Lynne Cheney | Oh, Laura Bush is just wonderful. I think everyone knows the way in which she's wonderful. She's kind and she's thoughtful. |
Mark Shields | Mr. Secretary, a year ago, you were the chairman of the Bush-Cheney committee, which won the White House. And next Tuesday is election day. |
Rudy Giuliani | Terrible mistake. Until you know that you're going to succeed and the level at which you're going to succeed, don't promise mass success. |
Rush Limbaugh | We're nowhere near the earth's capacity, which is yet another myth. |
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| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
George Washington | 1789-1797 | Europe has a set of primary interests which to use have none or a very remote relation. |
Thomas Jefferson | 1801-1809 | Peace and intercourse with the other powers on the same coast continue on the footing on which they are established by treaty. |
Abraham Lincoln | 1861-1865 | Neither party expected for the war the magnitude or the duration which it has already attained. |
Herbert C. Hoover | 1929-1933 | Its acceptance should pave the way to greater limitation of armament, the offer of which we sincerely extend to the world. |
Harry S. Truman | 1945-1953 | Recruitment standards, which had to be relaxed during the war, are now being tightened. |
Dwight Eisenhower | 1953-1961 | This, nothing less, is the labor to which we are called and our strength dedicated. |
John F. Kennedy | 1961-1963 | Then the motives which induced us to render assistance of such a kind to Cuba disappear. |
Ronald Reagan | 1981-1989 | Well, the results are something of which we can all be proud. |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Good tests will show us who needs help, what changes in teaching to make, and which schools need to improve. |
George W. Bush | 2001-2005 | We've given law enforcement better tools to detect and disrupt terrorist cells which might be hiding in our own country. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "WHICH" is generally used as a determiner (wh-) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "WHICH" is used about 371,640 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Determiner (wh-) | 100% | 371,637 | 31 |
| Total | 100.00% | 371,640 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "WHICH". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Cilicia | N/A | Biblical | Which rolls or overturns |
| Corinth | N/A | Biblical | Which is satisfied |
| Jabal | N/A | Biblical | Which glides away |
| Palestina | N/A | Biblical | Which is covered |
| Paphos | N/A | Biblical | Which boils |
| Togarmah | N/A | Biblical | Which is all bone |
| Zephath | N/A | Biblical | Which beholds |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Netherlands | Ceteco Holding NV, which | Turkey | Demirbank, which |
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
Expressions using "WHICH": a contract which is governed by English law ♦ about which ♦ after which ♦ against which ♦ amaurotic cat's eye blindness of one eye due to various intraocular conditions in which a bright reflection is observed at the pupil as it would appear from the tapetum lucidum of a cat ♦ among which ♦ animal which gives milk ♦ at which platform ♦ before which ♦ besides which ♦ by which ♦ college which elects ♦ every which way ♦ for which ♦ for which reason ♦ from which ♦ he knows on which side his bread is buttered ♦ in which ♦ income from investment in and loans to undertaking in which the business has a participating interest or joint ventures ♦ know on which side one's bread is buttered ♦ know which is which ♦ mail route to which dispatched ♦ of which ♦ out of which ♦ over which ♦ passenger car which correspond to a model withing the contract programme ♦ period during which the subscription lists are open ♦ road making machine which vibrates concrete ♦ see which way the cat jumps ♦ see which way the wind blows ♦ share which is not fully paid up ♦ that which is desired ♦ the Denticete including the dolphins and sperm whale which have teeth Another suborder Zeuglodontia is extinct The Sirenia were formerly included in the Cetacea but are now made a separate order ♦ the Mysticete or whalebone whales having no true teeth after birth but with a series of plates of whalebone see Baleen hanging down from the upper jaw on each side thus making a strainer through which they receive the small animals upon which they feed ♦ through which ♦ to which ♦ under which ♦ upon which ♦ wait to see which way the cat jumps ♦ which do you mean? ♦ which is the nearest way? ♦ which is why ♦ which of you ♦ which of you? ♦ which one ♦ which one? ♦ which originally meant simply misbeliever ♦ which road shall i take? ♦ which Stands For Nothing ♦ which way? ♦ with which. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "WHICH": which-emphasised, which-is, Which-mosca, which-no, which-was, which-yew. | |
Ending with "WHICH": Austria--which, banks-which, churchgoer-which, compromise-which, country-tunisia-which, day--which, fence-which, gift-which, gruppi-which, initiative-which, meant-which, mile'-which, networks-which, occurred-which, out-which, part-which, person-which, pneumonia-which, property-which, reformation-which, road-which, shells-which, tiles-which, unrest-which, word-which. | |
Containing "WHICH": every-which-way, that-which-dwells-in-darkness, who-got-what-in-which-treaty. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "WHICH"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | watter (that, which one, who), wie (that, which one, who), welke (that, who), wat (that, what, which one, who). (various references) | |
Albanian | cili (that, who), kush (that, who, whoever). (various references) | |
Arabic | ذلك (that), ذاك (that), التي (who, whom, whose), الذي (that, what, who, whom, whose), أيهما, أي (any, namely, viz, what). (various references) | |
Basque | zein (is, which one). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | който (deteriorative, that, whichever, who, whose), кой (what, who, whom, whose), което. (various references) | |
Catalan | quina, quin. (various references) | |
Chinese | 哪些 (what, who). (various references) | |
Croatian | koji, koje, koja. (various references) | |
Czech | jaký (what). (various references) | |
Danish | som (who), hvilken (that, who), der (there). (various references) | |
Dutch | welke (that, who), wie (that, who, whom), welk (that, who), hetwelk (that, who), die (that, that ... over there, that one, that one over there, those, who, yonder), dat (that, that ... over there, that one, that one over there, that over there, those, what, who, yonder). (various references) | |
Esperanto | kiuj (that, which ones, who). (various references) | |
Estonian |
