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WHOSE

Definition: WHOSE

WHOSE

Pronoun

1. The possessive case of who or which. See Who, and Which.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "WHOSE" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

 

Synonyms within Context: WHOSE

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Conformity

Phrase: cela va sans dire; ex pede Herculem; noscitur a sociis; ne e quovis ligno Mercurius fiat; "they are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations". "The nail that sticks up will get hammered down"; "Stick your neck out and it may get cut off."

Unconformity

Phoenix, chimera, hydra, sphinx, minotaur; griffin, griffon; centaur; saggittary; kraken, wyvern, roc, dragon, sea serpent; mermaid, merman, merfolk; unicorn; Cyclops, "men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders"; teratology.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: WHOSE

Specialty definitions using "WHOSE": Happy the People whose Annals are Tiresome. (references)
Etymologies containing "WHOSE": Who. (references)

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Modern Usage: WHOSE

DomainUsage

Screenplays

We are predators, Whose all seeing eyes were meant to give them detachment (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Then whose toe is it, Walter (The Big Lebowski; writing credit: Ethan Coen; Joel Coen)

A free man at the start of a long journey, whose conclusion is uncertain (The Shawshank Redemption; writing credit: Frank Darabont)

Whose side are you on, son (Full Metal Jacket; writing credit: Gustav Hasford; Michael Herr)

My story starts at sea a perilous voyage to an unknown land a shipwreck the wild waters roar and heave the brave vessel is dashed all to pieces, and all the helpless souls within her drowned all save one a lady whose soul is greater than the ocean and her spirit stronger than the sea's embrace not for her a watery end, but a new life beginning on a stranger shore (Shakespeare in Love; writing credit: Marc Norman; Tom Stoppard)

Lyrics

Or tell your brother Cliff whose fist can tell my lip, ("Achy Breaky Heart"; performing artist: Billy Ray Cyrus)

Whose heart is achin’ for breakin’ each vow ("Who's Sorry Now"; performing artist: Connie Francis)

'Cause then there was this boy whose (Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm; performing artist: Crash Test Dummies)

And the papers want to know whose shirts you wear (Space Oddity; performing artist: David Bowie)

Whose worst fear is a child with dyed hair and who likes earrings (Sing For The Moment; performing artist: EMINEM)

Clever

Archeologist: Someone whose carrier lies in ruins. (references; author: unknown)

Maine is the only state whose name is just one syllable. (references; author: unknown)

A happy person is one whose arithmetic is at its best when he is counting his blessings. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Whose Child Am I? (1974)

Portrait: A Man Whose Name Was John (1973)

Whose Life Is It Anyway? (1972)

Who's Whose (1951)

Whose Baby Are You (1936)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: WHOSE

DomainTitle

Books

  • The Innocent Man Script: Cui Bono-To Whose Advantage? (reference)

  • The Mentally Ill Chemical Abuser: Whose Client? (reference)

  • Whose German?: The Ach/Ich Alternation and Related Phenomena in Standard and Colloquial (Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science. Series iV, Current Issues in Linguistic Theory, V. 208) (reference)

  • Alabaster Doves: True Stories of Women Whose Lives Were Characterized by Strength and Gentleness (reference)

  • Whose German?: The Ach/Ich Alternation and Related Phenomena in Standard and Colloquial (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Photo Album: WHOSE

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Using recombinant DNA technology, a transgenic mouse has been engineered whose bone marrow is protected from the toxic effects of chemotherapy by expression of the MDR 1 gene. This animal system allows rapid screening of drugs which inhibit the multidrug transporter and heralds a new era of using transgenic animals for pharmacologic screening. Multidrug resistance resulting from expression of an energy-dependent drug efflux pump encoded by the human MDR gene is a major impediment to effective cancer therapy. Credit: Jeannie Kelly (artist).

Secretary of the treasury, Henry Morgenthau wields the trowel during the cornerstone laying for NCI's building 6 on June 24, 1939. Mrs. Luke Wilson, whose husband, a cancer victim, donated the land for the building, and Dr. Thomas Parron, the Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service, look on. The PHS was then a part of the Treasury Department. See also ar000175. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Physician examing pediatric patient whose is receiving chemotherapy. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Historical marker of Convent of Mary Immaculate (1878), whose Sisters nursed yellow fever victims. Key West, Florida. Credit: CDC.

"Spheres" by David Sjöstrand. From inside DPGraph, use Edit to see the equation. It is a 54th order polynomial in x, y, and z whose roots are 27 spheres.

Figure 37. Bucknill-Casella manometric sounder, invented by Lieutenant John T. Bucknill of the Royal Engineers of the Royal Navy in 1870 to mitigate problems with existing sounding systems. This sounder was based on Bourdon's tube, whose curvature varied as a function of the pressure difference between the interior and the fluid in which it was immersed. Louis P. Casella made the final product. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

The lighthouse at Cabo Cruz- site locality of very rare lizard whose total range is approximately four acres. Credit: Small World.

A soldier comforts a grief-stricken American infantryman whose buddy had been killed in action. In the background, a corpsman methodically fills out casualty forms in the Haktong-ni area, Korea, Aug. 28, 1950. (P.; photo by Army Sgt. 1st Class Al Chang)..

More nutritious rice could come from descendants of these plants, whose ancestors were grown by Gideon Schaeffer from tissue-cultured cells specially selected for their high lysine content. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer..

Outline of the subtractive RNA hybridization process to isolate and identify genes whose expression is increased by alcohol. The technique uses cultured cells (e.g., neural cells) grown in the presence or absence of alcohol. Credit: NIAA.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

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Digital Photo Gallery: WHOSE
 

"Fatima Sanctuary" by Luis Alves
Commentary: "On 13 May 1917, three children were pasturing their little flock in the Cova da Iria, parish of Fatima, town of Vila Nova de Ourém. today the diocese of Leiria-Fatima. They were called: Lucia de Jesus, aged 10, and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto,"

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Familiar Quotations: WHOSE

AuthorQuotation

Aeschylus

Every ruler is harsh whose laws is new.
The man whose authority is recent is always stern.

Anthony Trollope

They are best dressed, whose dress no one observes.

George Herbert

Whose house is of glass, must not throw stones at another.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Weed -- a plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

Samuel Pepys

Whose red nose makes me ashamed to be seen with him.

Virgil

How happy those whose walls already rise!

William Blake

He whose face gives no light, shall never become a star.

William Cowper

Nature is a good name for an effect whose cause is God.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Historic Usage: WHOSE

AuthorDateQuotation

John Locke

1690

And the reason of all, he gives in these words, Because he betrayed or forced his people, whose liberty he ought carefully to have preserved. (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

Clause 2: He shall have Power, by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, to make Treaties, provided two thirds of the Senators present concur; and he shall nominate, and by and with the Advice and Consent of the Senate, shall appoint Ambassadors, other public Ministers and Consuls, Judges of the supreme Court, and all other Officers of the United States, whose Appointments are not herein otherwise provided for, and which shall be established by Law: but the Congress may by Law vest the Appointment of such inferior Officers, as they think proper, in the President alone, in the Courts of Law, or in the Heads of Departments. (reference)

Communist Manifesto

1848

The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by their revolutionary combination, due to association. (reference)

Treaty of Versailles

1919

For those whose application is rejected, the privilege will terminate at the date of the refusal. (reference)

Winston S. Churchill

1946

Eventually there may come - I feel eventually there will come - the principle of common citizenship, but that we may be content to leave to destiny, whose outstretched arm many of us can already clearly see. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

John F. Kennedy

1961

To those old allies whose cultural and spiritual origins we share, we pledge the loyalty of faithful friends. (reference)

Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

1963

Five score years ago, a great American, in whose symbolic shadow we stand signed the Emancipation Proclamation. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1890)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: WHOSE

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

Mr. Elton was the only one whose assistance she asked

After Three Days

Carroll, Lewis

Surely within his mind Strange thoughts are born, until he doubts the lore Of those old men, blind leaders of the blind, Whose kingdom is no more

A Christmas Carol

Dickens, Charles

In came the six young followers whose hearts they broke

Scarlet Letter

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

I have not known the man, to whose innate kindliness I would more confidently make an appeal

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

Love was not made to cower and crouch like an English housemaid whose knees are callused with scrubbing

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

But no other sound was in the air and the swallows whose flight he had followed with idle eyes were sleeping

King Richard III

Shakespeare, William

Alas! for whose sake did I that ill deed

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

That man whose mind had been bound with acres lived with narrow concrete miles

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

Among the rest there was one person whose case appeared a little singular

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

It certainly is fair to look at that class by whose labor the works which distinguish this generation are accomplished

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: WHOSE

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Moreover, it is not limited to people whose families have a history of Alzheimer's. (references)

For patients whose disease is very advanced, lung transplantation may be an option. (references)

Second, it may enhance immunity in persons whose postexposure therapy might be delayed. (references)

Business

Another indoor sport whose popularity is also growing is bowling. (references)

Payments should be directed through one of the banks whose guaranties are reliable. (references)

Consignments whose FOB value is over US$2,000 must be cleared by a private Custom Broker. (references)

Children

Bangladesh

Few facilities exist for children whose parents are incarcerated. (references)

Malawi

The problem of street children worsened as the number of orphans whose parents died from HIV/AIDS increased. (references)

South Africa

Society is increasingly open to the concept of persons with disabilities as a minority whose civil rights must be protected. (references)

Civil Liberties

Liechtenstein

AT year's end, 117 Kosovars, whose asylum requests were not approved, remained in the country. (references)

Syria

Jews also are the only religious minority group whose passports and identity cards note their religion. (references)

Libya

Islamic groups whose beliefs and practices are at variance with the state-approved teaching of Islam are banned. (references)

Economic History

Costa Rica

Investors whose top priority is low cost labor go elsewhere in the region. (references)

Chad

Mining is a sector whose potential has hardly been explored by foreign firms. (references)

Poland

Frequently these involve state-owned enterprises, whose numbers continue to decline. (references)

Human Rights

Ghana

The district assembly agreed to help resettle those whose houses were burnt. (references)

China

Families whose first child is disabled also are allowed to have another child. (references)

Somalia

The militiamen, whose motive was unknown, took the vehicle with the dead bodies still inside. (references)

Indigenous People

El Salvador

There are a few very small communities whose members still wear traditional dress and maintain traditional customs to a recognizable degree; they do so without repression or interference. (references)

Minorities

Bahrain

Many are second-generation or third-generation residents whose ancestors emigrated from Iran. (references)

Ghana

The Permanent Peace Negotiating Team (PPNT) is a facilitative body whose primary purpose is to mediate disputes. (references)

Political Economy

Kuwait

The Labor Law does not protect domestic workers, whose situation remains poor. (references)

Trinidad and Tobago

Parliament elects a president, whose office is largely ceremonial but does have some appointive power. (references)

Indonesia

The President and the appointed Cabinet are accountable to the MPR, the majority of whose members are elected. (references)

Political Rights

Tuvalu

Citizens freely and directly elect a 15-member unicameral Parliament whose normal term is 4 years. (references)

Turkey

The case to close HADEP, whose predecessor parties were also closed by the Government, was pending at year's end. (references)

Israel and the occupied territories

Relatively small parties, including those whose primary support is among Israeli Arabs, regularly win seats in the Knesset. (references)

Trade

Mexico

They are used for products whose production takes a long time. (references)

Singapore

The agent must register in the name of the non-resident exporter whose turnover exceeds S$1.0 million. (references)

Mexico

This method of payment is used mainly to pay for consumer products or for products whose price is relatively low. (references)

Travel

Chile

Large-scale business is conducted through local corporations whose shares are quoted on the stock market. (references)

Korea

Single women generally receive less respect than married women whose ties to their husband oftentimes establish their position in society. (references)

Nigeria

The most important precaution for business visitors is to be met on arrival at the airport by a known and trusted associate, or other person whose identity can be verified. (references)

Women

Afghanistan

In Kabul and elsewhere women found in public who were not wearing the burqa, or whose burqas did not cover their ankles, were beaten by Taliban militiamen. (references)

Philippines

Public attention on domestic violence increased in December, with the suicide of a famous actress whose husband, a former governor and congressman, reportedly had abused her for years. (references)

Tunisia

A 1998 presidential decree created a national fund to protect the rights of divorced women, ensuring that the State would provide financial support to women whose former husbands refused to make child support and alimony payments regularly. (references)

Worker Rights

Canada

A family whose only employed member earns the minimum wage would be considered below the poverty line. (references)

Burkina Faso

Appeals may be pursued through the Court of Appeal to the Supreme Court, whose decision is binding on both parties. (references)

Korea

Extensive collective bargaining is practiced, even with unions whose federations are not recognized legally by the Government. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

SCRIBBLER, n. A professional writer whose views are antagonistic to one's own.

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Spoken Usage: WHOSE

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Dennis Miller

We need to let those who repulse us have their say alongside those whose speeches make us rise to our feet in applause.

Rush Limbaugh

The smokers are to be joined by restaurateurs, waiters, and bartenders whose livelihood will be damaged by the ban being pushed by anti-smoking Nazis.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Speeches: WHOSE

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

John Adams

1797-1801For this purpose he selected from among his fellow citizens a character whose integrity, talents, experience, and services had placed him in the rank of the most esteemed and respected in the nation.

Thomas Jefferson

1801-1809An animal whose body is at rest, and who does not reflect, must be disposed to sleep of course.

Andrew Jackson

1829-1837Separated by wide seas from all those Governments whose power we might have reason to dread, we have nothing to apprehend from attempts at conquest.

Martin van Buren

1837-1841Distinct sovereignties were in actual existence, whose cordial union was essential to the welfare and happiness of all.

Herbert C. Hoover

1929-1933Abroad, to west and east, are nations whose sons mingled their blood with the blood of our sons on the battlefields.

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I am proud to be among my colleagues of the Congress whose legacy to their trust is their loyalty to their Nation.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981Our allies continue to cooperate actively with us in this important joint endeavor, whose purpose is to demonstrate convincingly to the Soviet Union the potential costs of a nuclear conflict in Europe.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989At the end of this open mall are those shrines to the giants on whose shoulders we stand.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Congressman Frank Tejeda was buried yesterday, a proud American whose family came from Mexico.

George W. Bush

2001-2005We have a place, all of us, in a long story--a story we continue, but whose end we will not see.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: WHOSE

"WHOSE" is generally used as a determiner (wh-) -- approximately 99.99% of the time. "WHOSE" is used about 19,813 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Determiner (wh-)99.99%19,812450
                    Total100.00%19,813N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: WHOSE

Expressions using "WHOSE": for whose benefit? on whose account whose fault is it? whose friend is he? whose turn is it?. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "WHOSE": whose-ancient, whose-been-sleeping-with-whom, whose-main, whose-tum-bum-or-thighs-would-you-rather-have.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: WHOSE

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

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155

from it line song whose

4

whose life is it anyway

142

debut film george gone in main whose wind

4

line whose

90

anyway clip it line whose

4

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26

anyway fan fiction it line whose

4

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23

boss whose

4

boob whose

22

anyway it line richard simmons whose

4

it line whose

20

anyway dvd it line whose

3

who whose

14

dime face whose

3

anyway it line ticket whose

11

anyway brian clark it life whose

3

anyway line whose

9

florida whose

3

abc anyway it line whose

9

american among high school student who whose

3

number phone whose

9

destructive line toddler whose

3

anyway game it line whose

8

coming dinner guess whose

3

number phone this whose

8

whose line is it anyway video

3

whose on first

8

anyway cast it line whose

3

family values whose

7

it number phone whose

3

daddy whose

7

whose calling

3

come friend has nothing whose work

6

attempt can contains defined form form function get open property query recordsetclone set t that underlying user whose

3

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6

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3

breaking close hearts lord those whose

5

afraid review virginia whose wolfe

3

bed been boot have under whose

5

number this whose

3
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: WHOSE

Language Translations for "WHOSE"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

wie se (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

i kujt, i cilit. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏لمن, ‏اللواتي (who), ‏التي (which, who, whom), ‏الذين, ‏الذي (that, what, which, who, whom). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

чий, който (deteriorative, that, which, whichever, who), кой (what, which, who, whom), на кого. (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

(Who, Whoever, Whom). (various references)

   

Czech

  

koho (whom), jehož, čí, èí. (various references)

   

Danish

  

den institution,hvis undladelse er erklaeret stridende mod denne Traktat (the institution whose failure to act has been declared contrary to this Treaty), andele i selskaber med begrænset ansvar bortset fra aktieselskaber og anpartsselskaber (equity in limited liability companies whose owners are partners and not shareholders), menneskehedens vaesentligste problemer,hvis loesning kraever en faelles indstilling og et bredere internationalt samarbejde (those major problems of mankind whose solution calls for a common approach and wider international co-operation), markedsregulerende organisationer,hvis eneste eller primære opgave det er at opkøbe,oplagre og sælge landbrugsprodukter og fødevarer (hold and sell agricultural and other food products, market regulatory agencies whose sole or principal activity is to buy), koldseje kvaliteter med garanterede slagsejhedsvaerdier ved lave temperaturer (qualities whose low-temperature toughness is guaranteed), indskudsbeviser og kasseobligationer med fast løbetid,som ikke er omsættelige,eller hvis omsættelighed er meget begrænset og teoretisk (fixed term deposit certificates, is very restricted, or whose negotiability, saving certificates or savings bonds which are not negotiable, while theoretically possible), indlaansbeviser er et middel til at anerkende kortfristet gaeld,hvis tekniske karakteristika varierer temmelig meget fra land til land (deposit certificates are means of acknowledging a short term debt whose technical characteristics vary somewhat from one country to another), idet de tager passende hensyn til film fra lande,hvis filmproduktion er mindre kendt (giving due consideration to films from countries whose cinematographic works are less well known), område,der er bagefter i udvikling (region whose development is lagging behind), der har ubekendt opholdssted (official whose whereabouts are unknown), områder der er bagefter i udvikling (less-developed regions, regions whose development is lagging behind), den institution,fra hvilken en annulleret retsakt hidroerer (the institution whose act has been declared void), den generaladvokat,der afgaar efter forloebet af de foerste tre aar,udpeges ved lodtraekning (the Advocate-General whose term of office is to expire at the end of the first three years shall be chosen by lot), den afgoerelse,paa grundlag af hvilken fuldbyrdelsen ivaerksaettes,paalaegger skyldner at betale beloeb,der efter dommens afsigelse delvis er betalt (part of which has been paid since the judgment was given, the judgment whose enforcement is sought orders the payment of a sum of money), delsektoren det lokale offentlige omfatter de typer af offentlig forvaltning,hvis kompetence kun omfatter en del af det oekonomiske omraade,eksklusive de sociale kasser og fondes lokale myndigheder (apart from local agencies of the social security funds, the sub-sector local government includes those types of public administration whose competence extends to only part of the economic territory), Bilag I-Udstationerede ledende konsulenter og konsulenter (Annex I-Chief adviser and adviser posts whose holders are seconded), belaegninger af toplagsfyldt makadam bestaar af et nyt indbygget skaervelag,som topfyldes med smaaskaerver,og som derefter bindes sammen ved impraegnering med bindemiddel (bitumen grouted macadam surfacings(penetration surfacings)are composed of a layer of coarse aggregate whose voids/interstices/ are immediately filled/choked/ with chippings(see note to 265)), børsmæglere og vekselerere,hvis vigtigste aktivitet består i at formidle kontakt mellem købere og sælgere af værdipapirer og ikke i sig selv at være modpart (stockbrokers whose principal activity consists in the selling of a service as an intermediary between buyers and sellers of securities and not in acting as the other party in the transaction), at vaelge en form for understoettelse, hvor mulighed for hoejdeindstilling inddaekker aendringer i lagtykkelse (to select a support whose range of height amply covers variations in seam thickness), ferritkornstoerrelsen maales normalt i ulegerede staal med kulstofinhold op til 0,25 %. Findes der perlitoeer of omtrent samme stoerrelse som ferrietkornene, medregnes de som ferritkorn (the ferritic grain size is generally determinded for non-alloy steels whose carbon content is 0.25 %. In the presence of small pearlitic islands of the same size as those of the ferrite grains, the islands are then counted as ferrite grains), rubrikken kortfristede vaerdipapirer omfatter fordringer med kort loebetid,normalt 12 maaneder og maksimalt 2 aar.Disse fordringer udgoeres af vaerdipapirer,der er beregnet til at blive sat i omloeb,og hvis nominelle vaerdi,der fastsaettes ved udstedelsen (and which bear interest, but with a maximum of 2 years, determined on issue, fixed at the time of issue, generally paid in advance.They are repayable at their nominal value at a date, is expressed as some round figure, or starting from a date, represented by securities intended to circulate, the heading bills and short term bonds groups together assets with a short maturity, usually up to 12 months, whose nominal value), ved ikke-finansielle selskaber forstaas alle foretagender,der er juridiske personer,og hvis hovedfunktion bestaar i at producere ikke-finansielle markedsmaessige varer og tjenester (the term non-financial corporate enterprises denotes all bodies recognized as independent legal entities, whose main activity is the production of goods and non-financial market services), værdipapirer,hvis omsættelighed er meget begrænset og teoretisk (is very restricted in practice, securities whose negotiability, while theoretically possible), udbyttebeviser udstedt af aktie-eller anpartsselskaber er vaerdipapirer,hvis nominelle paalydende er blevet tilbagebetalt,og hvis ihaendehavere bevarer deres status af medejere af selskabet.Disse vaerdipapirer giver ret til andel i det overskud,der er til (these are shares whose capital has been repaid but which are retained by the holders who continue to be joint owners and to be entitled to a share in the profits left after dividends have been paid on the remaining registered capital and also to a share i), tjenester,der ydes til enkeltpersoner,er tjenester,hvor konsumenterne eller modtagerne kan identificeres individuelt.Konsumet af disse tjenester kraever en personlig handling fra den paagaeldende person (services provided to individuals are services whose consumers or beneficiaries are individually identifiable;consumption of these services requires individual initiative on the part of those concerned), tjenestemand (official whose whereabouts are unknown), tilbagestående regioner (regions whose development is lagging behind), skibe,fly og flydende platforme,til hvilke ejendomsretten er overgået fra hjemmehørende til ikke-hjemmehørende enheder (aircraft and floating platforms whose ownership has passed from resident to non-resident units, boats), ni medlemmer,hvis uafhaengighed er uomtvistelig (nine members whose independence is beyond doubt), rubrikken mellem-og langfristede laan og kreditter omfatter de kreditter,som ikke er indlaan,og hvis loebetid ved udstedelsen normalt er paa mindst ét aar og i saerlige tilfaelde mindst to aar (agreed by contract, and in exceptional cases 2 years at the minimum, is normally one year at the minimum, the heading medium and long term loans covers all credits which are not in the form of deposits, whose original maturity), veksler,trasserede veksler og egenveksler er papirer,hvis tekniske,juridiske og oekonomiske karakteristika udviser visse forskelle fra det ene land til det andet (bills(bills of exchange and promissory notes)are financial claims whose technical, legal and economic characteristics vary somewhat from one country to another), rubrikken kortfristede laan og kreditter omfatter de laan og kreditter,som ikke er indskud,og hvis loebetid ved udstedelsen normalt er paa maksimalt ét aar og undtagelsesvis maksimalt to aar (agreed by contract, is normally one year at the maximum, or in exceptional cases 2 years at the maximum, the heading short term loans covers all credits which are not in the form of deposits and whose original maturity), retsakt hvis offentliggørelse er obligatorisk (act whose publication is obligatory), regioner med udviklingsefterslæb (regions whose development is lagging behind), realkapitalgoder,hvis produktion strækker sig over flere perioder (equipment whose production extends over several periods), produktion af varer,hvis fremstilling strækker sig over flere perioder (output of goods whose production extends over several periods of time), personer hvis årlig løn ikke overstiger et vist beløb (people whose annual income does not exceed a certain amount), person,hvis uafhængighed er uomtvistelig (person whose independence is beyond doubt), person,der er tilmeldt folkeregistret i et land (person whose name is entered in the official population registers), sektoren ikke-finansielle selskaber og selskabslignende foretagender omfatter foretagender,som er institutionelle enheder-dvs.foretagender,hvis fordelingstransaktioner og finansielle transaktioner er adskilt fra deres ejeres-og hvis hovedfunktion bestaar (the sector non-financial corporate and quasi-corporate enterprises consists of enterprises which are institutional units-i.e.enterprises whose distributive and financial transactions are distinct from those of their owners-and which are principally engage). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

wie z'n (of which, which one's), wie d'r (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

kies (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

hvørs (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

مال چه کسی , مال کی , مال او (Her, Its). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

kenen (of which, which one's), jonka (of which), joiden (of which). (various references)

   

French

  

de qui. (various references)

   

Frisian

  

waans (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

German

  

wessen (of which, which one's), deren (of those, of which, of whom, that one's, their, which one's), dessen (his, its, of which, that one's, which one's). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ποιανού. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

של מי, את מה, אשר לו. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

kiknek ... a, kié, akié. (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

punya (have, of, own, possess). (various references)

   

Italian

  

la cui, il cui, di questo (of which), di chi, di che (whereof). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

認証官 (official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement), 雨男 (man whose presence seems to cause rain), 雨女 (woman whose presence seems to cause rain), 人情話 (story whose theme is warm human relationships), フランス窓 (FC, flamberge, flannel, flick, franchise, franchise chain, freak, free, free agent, free dial, free kick, free sex, free skating, free talking, free tax, free throw, free time, free trade, free weights, freedom, freesia, free-software, freestyle, freeware, freeway, freeze, freeze-dry, freezer, French, French window, frieze, one size fits all, one whose livelihood is provided by part-time work, refrigerator, toll-free number, young people subsisting on part-time work), ワープロ馬鹿 (business shirt, dead silence after a joke falls flat, food wagon service, multi-national enterprise, news program, shirt, someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer, table-side service, talk and varietyshow, vaccine, vagina, vaseline, wacoal, Wagner, wagon, wagon sale, Waikiki, warlock, washer, Washington, Washington Post, WASP, watt, wax, wide, wide-angle lens, wide-band, wife, wild, wild pitch, windshield wipers, windup, wine, wine color, wine glass, wine list, wine red, winecooler, winery, wipe, wipe in, wipe out, wire, wire glass, wired, wireless, wireless mike, wire-wrapping, wise, wivern, working holiday, workshop, World, world class, World Cup, world enterprise, World Games, World Series, worm, wow, wow and flutter, Wyoming, wyvern), 指南車 (ancient Chinese vehicle with a compass whose needle always pointed south), 御先棒 (a person whose services are at the disposal of another), 余計者 (a fifth wheel, person whose presence is unwelcome or a nuisance). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

おさきぼう (a person whose services are at the disposal of another), フリーター (one whose livelihood is provided by part-time work, young people subsisting on part-time work), ワープロばか (someone whose kanji-writing ability has suffered due to overreliance on the kana->kanji conversion systems used to input Japanese text on a computer), しなんしゃ (ancient Chinese vehicle with a compass whose needle always pointed south), にんしょうかん (official whose appointment and dismissal requires Imperial acknowledgement), にんじょうばなし (love story, real-life story, story whose theme is warm human relationships), あめおんな (woman whose presence seems to cause rain), あめおとこ (man whose presence seems to cause rain), よけいもの (a fifth wheel, person whose presence is unwelcome or a nuisance). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

누구의 것 까. (various references)

   

Manx

  

quoi s'lesh. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

osewhay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

czyj (of which, which one's), którego (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

de quem (of who, whereof). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

cui (cotter, nail, peg, pin, rough, Spike, sprig, stud), al cui. (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чья, чье, чей. (various references)

   

Scottish

  

(a woman, nf.ind. an individual person or thing whose name is of the). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

čiji. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

cuyo (of which, whereof, which). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

vems (whosever, whosoever), vars (of which, which one's). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kimin, ki onun (whereof). (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

якого, якой, яких, чиє, чиї, чия, чий. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

pwy (that, which, which one's, who). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: WHOSE

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Latin500 BCE-Modern

cuius, cuiusque. (various references)

Avestan200-600

... ýenghê. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: WHOSE

LanguageDateSourceProverbs Chapter 17, Verse 20
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintO de sklhrokardioV ou sunanta agaqoiV anhr eumetaboloV glwssh empeseitai eiV kaka
Latin405VulgateQui perversi cordis est non inveniet bonum et qui vertit linguam incidet in malum
Middle English1395WyclifWho is of peruertid herte, findeth not good; and who turneth the tunge, shal falle in to euel.
Jacobean English1611King JamesHe that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Victorian English1833WebsterHe that hath a froward heart findeth no good: and he that hath a perverse tongue falleth into mischief.
Basic English1964OgdenNothing good comes to him whose heart is fixed on evil purposes: and he who has an evil tongue will come to trouble.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Matched Bible Translations: WHOSE

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LanguageProverbs Chapter 17, Verse 20
Cebuano&para; Kadtong may masalaagon nga kasingkasing dili makakaplag sa maayo; Ug kadtong may usa ka masukihon nga dila mahulog sa kadautan.
Chinese心 存 邪 僻 的 、 尋 不 著 好 處 . 舌 弄 是 非 的 、 陷 在 禍 患 中 。
CroatianOpak srcem ne nalazi sreæe, i komu je jezik zao, zapada u nesreæu.
DanishEj finder man Lykke, når Hjertet er vrangt, man falder i Våde, når Tungen er falsk.
DutchWie verdraaid is van hart, zal het goede niet vinden; en die verkeerd is met zijn tong, zal in het kwaad vallen.
FinnishVäärämielinen ei onnea löydä, ja kavalakielinen suistuu onnettomuuteen.
FrenchUn coeur faux ne trouve pas le bonheur, Et celui dont la langue est perverse tombe dans le malheur.
GermanEin verkehrtes Herz findet nichts Gutes; und der verkehrter Zunge ist, wird in Unglück fallen.
Haitian Creole¶ Yon moun ki pa gen bon lide nan tèt li p'ap janm gen kè kontan. Moun ki gen move lang ap toujou nan traka.