WERE

Definition: WERE

WERE

1. The imperfect indicative plural, and imperfect subjunctive singular and plural, of the verb be. See Be.

Intransitive & transitive verb

1. To wear. See 3d Wear.

Noun

1. A fine for slaying a man; the money value set upon a man's life; weregild.

2. A man.

3. A weir. See Weir.

Transitive verb

1. To guard; to protect.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

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

Desire

Interjection: would that, would that it were! O for! esto perpetual

Guilt

Phrase: cui prodest scelus in fecit; culpam paena premit comes; "O would the deed were good!"; "responsibility prevents crimes" se judice nemo nocens absolvitur; "so many laws argues so many sins". -- p. --

Metaphor

Adverb: so to speak, so to say, so to express oneself; as it were.

Regression

Phrase: revenons a nos moutons, as you were.

Restoration

Adverb: in statu quo; as you were.

Similarity

Adverb: as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum.

Wind

Phrase: "lull'd by soft zephyrs"; "the storm is up and all is on the hazard"; "the winds were wither'd in the stagnant air"; "while mocking winds are piping loud"; "winged with red lightning and tempestuous rage".

Crosswords: WERE

Pidgin English (where).

I never had one. We were too poor (On the Town; writing credit: Adolph Green and Betty Comden)

Lucien, I thought you were dead (A Time to Kill; writing credit: Akiva Goldsman)

Your father and I were just discussing his day at work (American Beauty; writing credit: Alan Ball)

Have you ever had a dream, Neo, that you were so sure was real (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski; Larry Wachowski)

It's time we were on our way. I'm hungry, and the city awaits (Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles; writing credit: Anne Rice)

Were you in the yard with your wife and children (Where Were You (When The World Stopped Turning); performing artist: Alan Jackson)

Yeah, you were meant for me (You Were Meant For Me; performing artist: Jewel)

It shows that we were (Thank God I Found You; performing artist: 98 Degrees)

I fell asleep on the couch, I thought we were going out (We Need A Resolution; performing artist: Aaliyah)

'Cause the walls were shaking (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

My parents were neither very poor nor conspicuously honest. (references; author: Mark Twain)

I took an IQ test, and the results were negative. (references; author: unknown)

It is far better to be alone than to wish you were. (references; author: unknown)

If puns were outlawed, only outlaws would have puns. (references; author: unknown)

We were called to be witnesses, not lawyers or judges. (references; author: unknown)

If two witches were watching two watches, which witch would watch which watch? (references; author: unknown)

Three gray geese in the green grass grazing. Gray were the geese and green was the grass. (references; author: unknown)

While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash Washington's windows with warm washing water. (references; author: unknown)

Before They Were WWE Superstars 2 (2003)

And Then There Were None (1974)

If Ever Two Were One (1974)

Wish You Were Here...? (1974)

The Way We Were (1973)

If I Were Your Woman (performing artist: Gladys Knight & The Pips)

Wish You Were Here (performing artist: Incubus)

You Were Meant For Me (performing artist: Jewel)

Where Were You When I Was Falling in Love? (performing artist: Lobo)

Those Were the Days (performing artist: Mary Hopkins)

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

Books

• When We Were Gods: A Novel of Cleopatra (reference)

• Simply Organized: The Life You'Ve Always Searched For...but Were to Cluttered to Find (reference)

• The Amazing, Colossal Book of Horror Trivia: Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Scary Movies but Were Afraid to Ask (reference)

• Water, Come Down!: The Day You Were Baptized (reference)

• Which Side Were You On?: The American Communist Party During the Second World War (reference)

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Periodicals

• While You Were Sleeping (reference)

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Theater & Movies

• And Then There Were None (reference)

• Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex But Were Afraid to Ask (reference)

• The Way We Were - 25th Anniversary Edition (reference)

• I Wish I Were a Cheerleader (reference)

• Once Upon a Time...When We Were Colored (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• The Stars Were Shining (reference)

• There Were Wires (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• The Day You Were Born (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• When you Were Born 8" x 10" Photo Frame (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

Long-term cultured AIDS-KS (Kaposi's Sarcoma) cells were injected into a nude mouse. Within 5 days a subcutaneous lesion formed in the induced region with a marked angiogenic response. A cross-section of these new blood vessel formations appear as open spaces, where one can see dividing epithelial cells and some red blood cells. The cells were stained with a Wright-Gimsa stain and are seen at a magnification of 100x. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

PET scan on an 11-year-old boy with hemophilia and AIDS. Before treatment subject was confused and somnolent. These symptoms were resolved with AZT therapy. The increase in green and red areas after treatment denotes a rise in glucose metabolism, indicating an improvement in brain function. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

The ultraviolet pass box cabinet was used in Maximum Containment labs, through which possibly contaminated objects were passed in order to render any pathogens lifeless during transfer between laboratory rooms. Credit: CDC.

Bar graph showing that infectious and parasitic diseases were the leading cause of death worldwide in 1993.. Credit: CDC.

This movie depicts the airborne laser altimeter collecting data.  In 1993 and 1994, NASA researchers surveyed the Greenland ice sheet using an airborne laser altimeter. Ten flight lines flown in 1993 in southern Greenland were resurveyed in 1998. Sci. Credit: NASA.

For the past decade astronomers have looked for vast quantities of hydrogen that were cooked ... Credit: NASA.

In the year 1054 A.D., Chinese astronomers were startled by the appearance of a new star, so ... Credit: NASA.

Surface photographs from the Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft. The Soviet Venera 9 and 10 spacecraft were launched on 8 and 14 June 1975, respectively,to do the unprecedented: place a lander on the surface of Venus and return images.The two spacecraft successfully landed a descent craft on 16 and 23 October 1975.These images were obtained on 22 and 25 October 1975. Venera 9 landed on a slopeinclined by about 30 degrees to the horizontal whereas Venera 10 was only inclinedabout 8 degrees. The two spacecraft were separated by about 2100 km. Most of the rocks in the images are between about 0.3 and 1 meter. Credit: NASA.

Mosaic of the near side of the moon as taken by the Clementine star trackers. The images were taken on March 15, 1994. In this view, north is up. The bright crater near the bottom of the image is the Tycho. Credit: NASA.

Full view of the Earth, taken byGOES-8(Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) on 2 September 1994at 18:00 UT. The red and green channels represent visible data, while theblue channel represents inverted 11 micron infrared data.The north and south poles were were not actually observed by GOES-8. Toproduce this image, poles were taken from a GOES-7 image. Credit: NASA.

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

No village or individual shall be compelled to make bridges at river banks, except those who from of old were legally bound to do so. (reference)

He by his labour does, as it were, inclose it from the common. (Second Treatise of Government)

The small superior figures preceding the paragraphs designate Clauses, and were not in the original and have no reference to footnotes. (reference)

The District constituting the seat of Government of the United States shall appoint in such manner as Congress may direct: A number of electors of President and Vice President equal to the whole number of Senators and Representatives in Congress to which the District would be entitled if it were a State, but in no event more than the least populous State; they shall be in addition to those appointed by the States, but they shall be considered, for the purposes of the election of President and Vice President, to be electors appointed by a State; and they shall meet in the District and perform such duties as provided by the twelfth article of amendment. (reference)

How immoral to impose it on them, if they were to be used as the instruments, and the knowing instruments, for violating what they swear to support! (reference)

They had to be burst asunder; they were burst asunder. (reference)

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. (Abraham Lincoln)

They will be entitled to retain the immovable property which they own in the territory of the other State in which they were habitually resident before opting. (reference)

In those days there were high hopes and unbounded confidence that the wars were over, and that the League of Nations would become all-powerful. ("Iron Curtain" Speech)

Education of Negroes was almost nonexistent, and practically all of the race were illiterate. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

They were sneering and negligent

And she led him out of the room, unnoticed by the rest of the party, who were wholly absorbed in watching the old Beggar

Scrooge then remembered to have heard that ghosts in haunted houses were described as dragging chains

All eyes were on Ford

If sages were ever wise in their own behoof, I might have foreseen all this

Were this not so it would be superior to intelligence, and the beast would be in possession of a purer light than man.

His hands were cold and damp and his limbs ached with chill

Then say they were not slain

We were born on it, and we got killed on it, died on it.

The sailors were all in amazement, and asked me a thousand questions, which I had no inclination to answer

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

No humans were infected. (references)

No human infections were identified. (references)

Only the above questions were addressed. (references)

Business

Other perpetrators were apolitical. (references)

An additional 32 cases were pending. (references)

Of the remaining 88%, 35% were public. (references)

Children

Gambia

These laws generally were enforced. (references)

India

Not all of them were street children. (references)

Luxembourg

No such activities were reported during the year. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cote d'Ivoire

They never were charged. (references)

Chile

No injuries were reported. (references)

Chile

Fifteen protesters were arrested. (references)

Discrimination

Brazil

Eighteen persons were accused in the crime. (references)

Namibia

Nujoma also declared that homosexuals would not be allowed to enter the country; however, there were no reports of such incidents. (references)

Canada

These rights generally are respected in practice; however, there were some complaints of discrimination in this multicultural society. (references)

Economic History

Italy

Party changes were sweeping. (references)

Ecuador

Those talks were successful. (references)

Rwanda

Both presidents were killed. (references)

Human Rights

Congo

Female detainees were raped. (references)

Iran

The proceedings were closed. (references)

Pakistan

The two later were released. (references)

Indigenous People

Chile

CONADI offices were occupied on a number of occasions. (references)

Gabon

Pygmies who complained about their situations often were beaten. (references)

Chile

Fifty persons were injured in the confrontation, including 14 policemen. (references)

Minorities

Croatia

Two juveniles were arrested. (references)

Pakistan

Sixteen persons were killed. (references)

Croatia

Two clinic staff members were disciplined. (references)

Political Economy

Lesotho

Some worker rights were restricted. (references)

Madagascar

Textiles were another major export. (references)

MEXICO

In 1982, the banks were nationalized. (references)

Political Rights

Azerbaijan

Precinct vote totals were never reported. (references)

Paraguay

Gubernatorial elections were held in April. (references)

Burma

Even limited opposition views were ignored. (references)

Trade

Brazil

Computers and peripherals were not on the list. (references)

Vietnam

The audit was done but the results were not made public. (references)

Indonesia

Rates were also reduced for parts to a maximum 15 percent. (references)

Travel

Turkey

Most company executives were educated in western countries. (references)

Ghana

Electricity prices were increased by over 100% in April 2001. (references)

Nepal

Of the 4,500 traffic-related deaths in 1997, two-thirds were pedestrians. (references)

Women

Albania

Later statistics were not available. (references)

Zambia

Wife beating and rape were widespread. (references)

Somalia

A few rapes were prosecuted during the year. (references)

Worker Rights

Yemen

These demands were met. (references)

Morocco

Of those, 128 were in prison. (references)

Belarus

The accounts later were released. (references)

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

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

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "WERE": as it were ♦ as you were ♦ i would to god it were so! ♦ if he were anything of a gentleman ♦ if i were in your place ♦ if i were you ♦ if it were not for ♦ naked as the day you were born ♦ such were his words ♦ 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 odds were in his favor ♦ the odds were in his favour ♦ the police were called ♦ they were sentenced to death ♦ those were the days ♦ we were in hysterics ♦ we were treated to ♦ were it never so late ♦ were it not for ♦ were it not that ♦ were you counted ♦ who were you under? ♦ would i were younger! ♦ would to god it were so!. Additional references.

Beginning with "WERE": were-always, were-pale, were-wolf.

Ending with "WERE": channels-were, compliance-were, day-were, four-were, gps-were, japan-were, kept-were, killer-were, mining-were, once-were, open-were, powers-that-were, statements-were, syria-were, they-were.

Containing "WERE": things-were-just-getting-interesting, what-were-their-chances, wish-you-were-here.

Albanian

si të thuash (as it were), ashtu (as it were, so, such, thus). (various references)

Arabic 

‏يمكن أن نقول ذلك (as it were), ‏لو كنت في محلك (if I were you), ‏إذا جاز التعبير (as it were). (various references)

Basque

zirela (that they were). (various references)

Bulgarian 

така да се каже (as it were). (various references)

Catalan

eren. (various references)

Chinese 

是 (ARE, be, Be-, Been, Being, IS, Is-, Was, Yes). (various references)

Czech

takřka (as it were), svíjeli jsme se smíchy (we were in hysterics). (various references)

Danish

de styrkeoegende udskillelser af Cu blev ikke iagttaget (the hardening precipitates of CU were not found), forsoegene blev foretaget med fissionsprodukter, som befandt sig i ligevaegt med de respektive datterprodukter (the experiments were conducted with fission products which were in a state of equilibrium with their respective radioactive daughter products ( sometimes referred to simply as radioactive daughters )), for at studere de strukturaendringer,der fremkaldes ved en overfladeopkulning,blev proevestykker opkullet helt igennem til 0,3,0,6 og 0,9 % C,deres struktur er vist efter forskellige,tilsvarende varmebehandlinger (specimens were carburised and their structures were shown after both different and comparable heat treatments, to investigate the changes produced by surface carburising), for at iagttage strukturerne efter opkulning til forskellige kulstofindhold,blev stang-og pladeformede proevestykker gasopkullet i et industrielt ovnanlaeg og derefter luftkoelet (and subsequently air cooled, in order to observe the structures after carburising to different carbon contents, specimens as bars or plates were gas carburised in a commercial plant), en situation,hvor en dom,der endnu ikke har opnået retskraft,endnu kan ændres (to remedy the inconvenience which would result if a judgment which has not yet become res judicata were reversed), efter toerring blev svaertningen maalt ved hjaelp af et modificeret densitometer, som havde en lysplet med en diameter paa l mm (after drying, the optical densities were read using a modified densitometer that had a light spot l), efter normalisering optraeder der betydelige forskelle i kernematerialets baandstruktur (after normalising considerable differences were observed in the bands of the banded structure, in the centre of the bar), det baerbare ionkammer med ratemeter og friluft-ionkammeret blev skiftevis rettet ind i en bred roentgenstraale (the portable ionization chamber rate meter and the free-air ionization chamber were alternately aligned in a broad X-ray beam), der blev taget plastreplikaer af strukturerne af talrige proever,baade til direkte replikaer og til ekstraktionsreplikaer (plastic replicas of the structures of many samples were used both for the relief replicas as well as for the extraction replicas), den tekniske udvikling for hoetilberedningsmaskiner begyndte med maskiner,der kun udfoerte én enkelt arbejdsoperation (in the first stage of mechanical hay making the machines were single purpose machines), afskaermninger blev anbragt i roeret rundt om katoden (shields were placed in the tube around the cathode), de symptomer, som fejlagtigt blev bedoemt som symptomer pa cirrhosis, foraarsaget af polyvinylchlorid, var faktisk symptomer paa angiosarcomer (the symptoms mistaken for those of cirrhosis induced by polyvinyl chloride were in fact those of angiosarcomas), de opkullede proever blev afkoelet (the carburized specimens were cooled), de mekanisk sammenkoblede metalroer er blevet erstattet med flexible, selv-taettende roer med udvidelsesmulighed (expandable self-sealing tubes, the mechanically locked metal pressure tubes were replaced by flexible), de frie krystaller indeholder ofte oxidiske indeslutninger fordi disse enten har virket som faste og ved krystallisation af smelte er blevet tungere og sunket tilbunds eller fordi de,medens de sank,er blevet haengende i de forgrenede dendritter (and fell to the bottom of the ingot when their weight increased as a result ofthe metal solidifying around them, or else because the inclusions were entrapped by the branching during their fall, the free crystals often contain oxidized inclusions either because the latter acted as solid nuclei), de forskellige grader af gasudvikling opnaas ved stigende kulstoftilsaetning i kokillen (the different degrees of rimming were obtained by increasing additions of carbon to the mould), bundmoræne (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), borestoevet vandes kraftigt foer spraengningen (the drillings were wetted thoroughly with water before firing the shots), blev du talt (were you counted), blev De talt (were you counted), bestraalinger blev udfoert i bremsestraalingsomraadet med maksimumenergier mellem l00 keV og l7 MeV (irradiations were performed in the bremsstrahlung range between maximum energies of 1OO keV and 17 MeV), arbejdsstederne er blevet inddelt i klasserne 1 og 2 m.h.t. stoevbelastning (the workings were classified as of dustiness category I or II), partikelstoerrelsesfordelingen bestemtes ved hjaelp af filtre, som blev undersoegt ved hjaelp af et scanning elektron mikroskop (particle size analysis was carried out with the aid of filters which were examined under a scanning electron microscope), ved en haevning af temperaturen kan nogle af dislokationerne forsvinde og resten kan samle sig til dislokationsvaegge,saa at de danner underkorngraenser,der omgiver underkorn,der er mindre uregelmaessige end oprindelig (on raising the temperature some of the dislocations are annihilated and the remainder line up in dislocation walls to form sub-grain boundaries emClosing sub-grains ( or lattice blocks ) which are less distorted than they were initially), værdien før reparationen af reparerede reimporterede varer (the value before they were repaired of the re-imported repaired goods), trapperne bestaar af praefabrikerede vanger oplagt paa trappeafsatsene og praefabrikerede trin indstoebt i vangerne (the stairs were made up of prefabricated strings fixed to the landings and prefabricated treads fixed in the strings), tilbagesøgning af uberettiget oppebårne ydelser (recovery of benefits which were not due), tilbagesøgning af uberettiget modtagne ydelser (recovery of benefits which were not due), sygelige tilstande,som har at goere med en hypoxi hos chauffoererne (disorders in drivers were connected with hypoxaemia), slutpoleringen blev udfoert manuelt med aluminiumoxid-opslemning,foerst paa uldent klaede,derefter paa et meget bloedt klaede,idet der ind imellem aetses adskillige gange med alkoholisk pikrinsyre eller salpetersyreoploesning (the final polishing was done by hand at first on a wool cloth, then on a very soft haired cloth using alumina. Several intermediate etching treatments with alcoholic picric acid or nitric acid were used), slibene blev mekanisk vaadslebet (microsections were wet polished), sfaeriske og cylindriske kamre blev ogsaa anvendt, naar det var oenskeligt at foelsomhedens retningsafhaengighed skulle vaere minimal (spherical chambers and cylindrical chambers were also used when it was desirable to have minimum directional variation in sensitivity), roentgenstraalerne var semihomogene i et bredt, horisontalt baand (the X-rays were semihomogeneous in a broad horizontal band), forsoegene er udfoert med et Leitz-tyndalloscop, et Sartorius HS-konimeter, en Casella standard model termovaegt, et Gothe filter og et BAT-1-apparat (the Casella standard model, the devices tested were the Leitz tyndalloscope, the Gothe filter and the BAT I apparatus, the Sartorius HS-konimeter), proeverne blev taget med et stoevsamlingsapparat (the samples were taken with a dust collection apparatus), hoejtlegerede chrom-og chrom-nikkel-staal blev aetset med V2A-aetsemiddel,i regelen ved 50 grader C eller ved stuetemperatur (high alloyed chromium and chromium-nickel steel were etched by solution at 5OÖC or at room température), moraeneler (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), man har gennemfoert vandindsproejtningsforsoeg i kulminer, og dertil anvendt vand, der indeholdt radioaktiv lantan (blocks of coal were subjected to infusion trials using water containing radioactive lanthanum), maalingerne blev udfoert i et vand-fantom i l og 5 cm dybde, d.v.s. i middel-dybden for testikler og ovarier (measurements were made in water phantom at l and 5 cm, the average depths of the testes and ovaries), maaling af anodeemissionen blev foretaget paa alle roerene (reverse-emission readings were taken on the tubes), luftproever udtaget ved hjaelp af PVC-roer, er blevet analyseret enten kontinuerligt i et infraroedt spektroskop, eller enkeltvis ad kolorimetrisk vej (samples were taken of the atmosphere using P.V.C. piping and were analysed either continuously by an infra-red apparatus or discontinuously by means of colorimetric tubes), kuludvindingsmaskiners mulige og depraktisk opnaaelige hastigheder bliver maalt direkte ved hjaelp af uret (the theoretical and operational speeds of the winning machine were measured by direct clocking), kemisk analyse og roentgen diffraktometri udfoeres paa proever af stoev som er taget med en vindsigte i en luftstroem (chemical analyses and powder diagram studies were carried out on dust sampled with an air-current classifier), karbidfaserne blev bestemt ved elektrolytisk isolering (the carbide phases were 0etermined by electrolytic separation), i en aaraekke blev der taget boretidslogs ved at rotationsroeret blev maerket med én fods mellemrum,hvorefter den tid,det tog hvert maerke at naa rotationsroersboesningen,blev registreret (for many years drilling-time logs were made by marking the kelly in 1-ft intervals and recording the time when each mark reached the kelly bushing), resultaterne for Cu-Ni-legeringer i havvand blev fremskaffet ved paasproejtningsmetoden og ved kanalstroemning (the results obtained from exposing cu ni alloys to seawater were ascertained by the jet flow method and with the aid of channel flows). (various references)

Dutch

waren (goods, roam, wander, wares). (various references)

Estonian

varastati (were stolen). (various references)

Finnish

on (have, is). (various references)

Flemish

zijn (are). (various references)

French

sa, étions. (various references)

German

waren (commodities, goods, manufacture, merchandise, wares). (various references)

Greek 

αόρ. του be (was). (various references)

Hebrew 

אלמלא (if, if only, were it not for), כביכול (alleged, as it were, as though, so called, so to speak). (various references)

Hungarian

mondhatni (as it were), mintegy (as it were, quasi, some, something like), mind ott voltak rajtam kívül (they were all there except me), meg volt kötve a keze (his hands were forced), máshol járt az esze (his thoughts were elsewhere), kényszerhelyzetben volt (his hands were forced), hogy úgy mondjam (as it were, so to speak), fekete volt a keze (his hands were black), egyszerűen éheztek (they were just starving), azt mondhatni (as it were), az alakulat megbomlott (the ranks were broken), amit akart (have one's wish, his hands were forced). (various references)

Irish

raibh (may there be, was). (various references)

Italian

sua (be, her, hers, his, its, to be, to be at, your). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

誠しやかに (as if it were true, plausibly, with seeming truth), 謂わば (as it were, so to call it), 言い做す (to describe, to smooth over, to speak as though something were actually the case), 恰も (as if, as it were), 実しやかに (as if it were true, plausibly, with seeming truth), 姥捨て山 (mountain where old women were abandoned), 傍若無人 (arrogance, audacity, defiance, insolence, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まことしやかに (as if it were true, plausibly, with seeming truth), ぼうじゃくぶじん (arrogance, audacity, defiance, insolence, outrageously as though there were no one around, overbearing), うばすてやま (mountain where old women were abandoned), いいなす (to describe, to smooth over, to speak as though something were actually the case), いわば (as it were, rocky area, so to call it, so to speak), あたかも (as if, as it were). (various references)

Luganda

baakuzaala (you were born). (various references)

Manx

va (was), v' (was). (various references)

Norwegian

ble. (various references)

Pig Latin

ereway.(various references)

Portuguese

as experiências foram realizadas com produtos de fissão que se encontravam em equilíbrio com os respectivos descendentes radioactivos (the experiments were conducted with fission products which were in a state of equilibrium with their respective radioactive daughter products ( sometimes referred to simply as radioactive daughters )), em aquário lâmpadas fluorescentes operaram num ciclo on-off de 12 horas (in aquaria fluorescent lamps were operated on a l2 hour on-off cycle), efectuaram-se ensaios de injecção em blocos de carvão utilizando água contendo lantânio radioactivo (blocks of coal were subjected to infusion trials using water containing radioactive lanthanum), conglomerado de origem glaciária (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), carácter precário de uma decisão que não transitou em julgado (to remedy the inconvenience which would result if a judgment which has not yet become res judicata were reversed), através das equações de propagação correspondentes são calculadas as doses das diferentes vias de exposição para os casos extremos mais simples de uma descarga momentânea ou constante (by means of the corresponding propagation equations the relative doses of the different exposure paths were calculated for the simpler extreme cases of momentary or constant ( quasi-continuous ) release), as velocidades puras e comerciais da máquina de arranque foram determinadas por cronometragem directa (the theoretical and operational speeds of the winning machine were measured by direct clocking), as perturbaçães em condutores estão associadas à hipoxemia (disorders in drivers were connected with hypoxaemia), as medições foram efectuadas em espectro de água a 1 e 5 cm,ou seja,a profundidade média dos testículos e ovários (measurements were made in water phantom at l and 5 cm, the average depths of the testes and ovaries), a análise granulométrica das partículas foi efectuada com a ajuda de filtros,os quais foram examinados através de um microscópio electrónico (particle size analysis was carried out with the aid of filters which were examined under a scanning electron microscope), as manifestações tomadas como cirroses provocadas pelo cloreto de polivinilo eram na realidade angio-sarcomas (the symptoms mistaken for those of cirrhosis induced by polyvinyl chloride were in fact those of angiosarcomas), foram conduzidos estudos de campo em sistemas de rio reais utilizando materiais que decaem tais como estrôncio e césio (field studies were conducted in real river systems utilizing fallout materials such as strontium and cesium), as estruturas da maior parte das amostras foram reproduzidas,usando impressões a laca,tanto nas impressões directas como nas impressões do extracção (plastic replicas of the structures of many samples were used both for the relief replicas as well as for the extraction replicas), as condutas metálicas com ligação mecânica foram substituídas por condutas flexíveis dilatáveis autoligáveis (expandable self-sealing tubes, the mechanically locked metal pressure tubes were replaced by flexible), as colheitas de amostras de ar efectuadas por meio de colunas de cloreto de polivinilo foram analisadas quer de modo contínuo com aparelho de raios infravermelhos quer de modo descontínuo recorrendo a a tubos colorimétricos (samples were taken of the atmosphere using P.V.C. piping and were analysed either continuously by an infra-red apparatus or discontinuously by means of colorimetric tubes), as cargas de explosivo eram disparadas com escorvamento posterior no fundo dos furos e utilizavam-se detonadores microrretardados com intervalos de 30 milisegundos (the charges were fired with millisecond delays(30 millisec.interval)), as câmaras esféricas e as câmaras cilíndricas são utilizadas quando se pretende obter variações direccionais mínimas na sensibilidade (spherical chambers and cylindrical chambers were also used when it was desirable to have minimum directional variation in sensitivity), as amostras de radionúclidos foram submetidas a contagem num espectrómetro gama de multicanais (radionuclide samples were counted on a multi channel gamma spectrometer), após secagem,a densidade óptica do filme foi medida através de um densitómetro modificado,com uma mancha de luz de 1mm de diâmetro (after drying, O mm in diameter, the optical densities were read using a modified densitometer that had a light spot l), após recozimento de normalização,a zona central apresenta bandas que mostram diferenças estruturais importantes (after normalising considerable differences were observed in the bands of the banded structure, in the centre of the bar), a cementite apresenta-se em bandas curtas,elas mesmas constituídas por feixes de fibras paralelas umas às outras e muito próximas (arranged close together, the cementite formed short ribbons which themselves were composed of sets of single fibres), a análise química e debiegráfica foi realizada com poeira recolhida com classificador eólico (chemical analyses and powder diagram studies were carried out on dust sampled with an air-current classifier), as medições de contra-emissão são efectuadas em todos os tubos (reverse-emission readings were taken on the tubes), os dados ecológicos foram obtidos da taxinomia e da biomassa (ecological data were obtained from taxonomy and biomass), valiam (they were worth), sistemas fluviais foram simulados com o auxílio de canal ou modelo físico (river systems were simulated with the aid of a research flume or model river), recuperação de prestações indevidas (recovery of benefits which were not due), por assim dizer (as it were), os vinhos eram outrora armazenados em vasilhame exposto a contaminações de fungos,que lhes atribuia uma acção de maturação ou envelhecimento, (wines were formerly stocked in vats exposed to moulds and to which a maturing action or aging process was attributed), os raios-x ficam semi-homogéneos numa larga banda horizontal (the X-rays were semihomogeneous in a broad horizontal band), os levantamentos foram efectuados por meio de um dispositivo colector de poeiras (the samples were taken with a dust collection apparatus), os ensaios foram efectuados com o tindaloscópio Leitz,o conímetro Sartorius HS,o termoprecipitador Casella de modelo normal,o aparelho de filtro Gothe e o aparelho BAT I (the Casella standard model, the devices tested were the Leitz tyndalloscope, the Gothe filter and the BAT I apparatus, the Sartorius HS-konimeter), os diferentes graus de efervescência foram obtidos por adições crescentes de carbono na lingoteira (the different degrees of rimming were obtained by increasing additions of carbon to the mould), eram (they were), os desmontes foram considerados como tendo empoeiramento das classes I e II (the workings were classified as of dustiness category I or II), for (it were), os cristais livres contêm frequentemente inclusões oxidadas,ou porque foram utilizadas como germes sólidos e,tornadas mais pesadas devido à solidificação de metal à sua volta caiem no fundo do lingote,ou porque,ao afundarem-se,foram apanhadas pel (and fell to the bottom of the ingot when their weight increased as a result ofthe metal solidifying around them, or else because the inclusions were entrapped by the branching during their fall, the free crystals often contain oxidized inclusions either because the latter acted as solid nuclei), os aços fortemente ligados ao crómio ou ao crómio-níquel foram atacados pelo reagente V2A a 500 graus C ou à temperatura ambiente (high alloyed chromium and chromium-nickel steel were etched by solution at 5OÖC or at room température), o polimento final-acabamento-foi feito manualmente,primeiro com um tecido de lã e por último com um tecido de pêlo macio,fazendo-se vários ataques intermédios com uma solução alcoólica de ácido pícrico ou ácido nítrico (the final polishing was done by hand at first on a wool cloth, then on a very soft haired cloth using alumina. Several intermediate etching treatments with alcoholic picric acid or nitric acid were used), o medidor portátil da taxa de ionização e a câmara de ionização de ar livre são alternativamente alinhadas num feixe largo de raios-x (the portable ionization chamber rate meter and the free-air ionization chamber were alternately aligned in a broad X-ray beam), o desenvolvimento técnico das máquinas de secagem de feno ou do material de fenação começa com a utilização de máquinas específicas para uma única operação (in the first stage of mechanical hay making the machines were single purpose machines), nos operários que trabalham com o chumbo foram descobertas por várias vezes anomalias cromossómicas secundárias (secondary chromosome anomalies were repeatedly found among workers in the lead industry), na ausência de escoamento foram conduzidas experiências em aquário (non-flowing experiments were conducted in aquaria), moreia de fundo (an unstratified glacial deposit of clay, and boulders covering part of the rock surface in those regions which were glaciated during the ice age ;a moraine occurring at the bottom of a glacier, and pushed along over its bed.When the glacier melts, consisting of material frozen in the bottom, glacial drift, gravel, ground moraine, sand, silt, this material is usually deposited in a relatively thin sheet over the area occupied by the glacier, till, till sheet), foram preparadas amostras por rectificação mecânica com água (microsections were wet polished), valor antes de reparação dos bens reparados e reimportados (the value before they were repaired of the re-imported repaired goods), os detritos da perfuração eram abundantemente regados com água antes do rebentamento dos tiros (the drillings were wetted thoroughly with water before firing the shots). (various references)

Portuguese Brazilian

foram. (various references)

Romanian

trecut de la be (was). (various references)

Russian 

мн. ч. прош. вр. от be, быть быть. (various references)

Scottish

bu (is, 'twere, was, wert, would be), bha (was, wert), bh' (before vow., was, wert), b' (was, wert; would be), b (would be). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

takoreći (as it were). (various references)

Slovene

bili. (various references)

Spanish

suyo (be, hers, his, its, their, theirs, to be, to be at, yours), mercancias (goods). (various references)

Swedish

var (be, case, each, every, ichor, matter, pus, was, where). (various references)

Turkish

neydi o günler (those were the days), hey gidi günler (those were the days). (various references)

Turkmen 

hernд (always, as it were, sometimes), hamala (as if, as it were, as though). (various references)

Ukrainian

так би мовити (as it were). (various references)

Wolof

doon. (various references)

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

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

Derivations

Words beginning with "WERE": weregild, weregilds, werewolf, werewolves. (additional references)

Words containing "WERE": answered, answerer, answerers, beflowered, bowered, caulifloweret, cauliflowerets, cowered, deflowered, deflowerer, deflowerers, dowered, embowered, empowered, flowered, flowerer, flowerers, floweret, flowerets, flowerette, flowerettes, glowered, imbowered, impowered, lowered, multitowered, outpowered, outtowered, overpowered, powered, reflowered, repowered, sewered, showered, showerer, showerers, skewered, superpowered, towered, unanswered, underpowered. (additional references)

Misspellings

"WERE" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Dwejra, iere, Owerri, twere, waer, wara, warea, warec, warel, warey, wari, Warra, warrey, warri, warve, warze, wdr, wearel, webe, Webre, wece, wede, Weegee, weeh, weem, weeq, weer, weerd, weery, weew, wege, Wehr, weire, wele, welee, weme, weqe, wer, weran, werc, werd, werde, Werdel, wered, weren, weret, werey, werg, werge, werh, werl, werle, werm, Wern, Werne, werr, werra, werry, werve, wery, wese, wesr, wete, weve, wewe, wexe, weye, weze, Wier, wiree, wirey, wirge, wiri, wiro, wirq, Woevre, worce, worge, wre, wreb, wree, wreel, wreen, wrees, wrem, wreo, wreq, wrex, wrr, Wuer, wure, wwere, wyre, zere. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: ewer, weer.

-1 letter: ere, ewe, ree, wee.

-2 letters: er, re, we.

+1 letter: ewers, fewer, hewer, newer, renew, resew, rewed, rewet, sewer, sweer, weber, where.

+2 letters: beware, brewed, brewer, chewer, crewed, crewel, dewier, drawee, erenow, hewers, lewder, mewler, pewter, rechew, redrew, reflew, regrew, renews, resewn, resews, review, rewake, reweds, reweld, rewets, rewire, rewoke, rewove, sewers, shewer, skewer, spewer, swerve, viewer, weaker, weaner, wearer, weaver, webers, wedder, weeder, weeper, weever, weiner, welder, welter, wester, wether, wetter, wheres, wherve, wiener.