Found 2 items, similar to here and there.
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: here and there
here and there
adv : in or to various places; first this place and then that;
“he
worked here and there but never for long in one town”;
“we drove here and there in the darkness”
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Here and there
Here
\Here\ (h[=e]r), adv. [OE. her, AS. h[=e]r; akin to OS.
h[=e]r, D. hier, OHG. hiar, G. hier, Icel. & Goth. h[=e]r,
Dan. her, Sw. h["a]r; fr. root of E. he. See
He.]
1. In this place; in the place where the speaker is; --
opposed to
there.
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He is not here, for he is risen. --Matt.
xxviii. 6.
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2. In the present life or state.
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Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon.
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3. To or into this place; hither. [Colloq.] See
Thither.
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Here comes Virgil. --B. Jonson.
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Thou led'st me here. --Byron.
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4. At this point of time, or of an argument; now.
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The prisoner here made violent efforts to rise.
--Warren.
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Note: Here, in the last sense, is sometimes used before a
verb without subject; as, Here goes, for Now (something
or somebody) goes; -- especially occurring thus in
drinking healths. ``Here's [a health] to thee, Dick.''
--Cowley.
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Here and there, in one place and another; in a dispersed
manner; irregularly.
“Footsteps here and there.”
--Longfellow.
It is neither, here nor there, it is neither in this place
nor in that, neither in one place nor in another; hence,
it is to no purpose, irrelevant, nonsense. --Shak.
There
\There\, adv. [OE. ther, AS. [eth][=ae]r; akin to D. daar,
G. da, OHG. d[=a]r, Sw. & Dan. der, Icel. & Goth. [thorn]ar,
Skr. tarhi then, and E. that. [root]184. See
That, pron.]
1. In or at that place. ``[They] there left me and my man,
both bound together.'' --Shak.
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The Lord God planted a garden eastward in Eden; and
there he put the man whom he had formed. --Ge. ii.
8.
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Note: In distinction from here, there usually signifies a
place farther off.
“Darkness there might well seem
twilight here.” --Milton.
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2. In that matter, relation, etc.; at that point, stage,
etc., regarded as a distinct place; as, he did not stop
there, but continued his speech.
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The law that theaten'd death becomes thy friend
And turns it to exile; there art thou happy. --Shak.
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3. To or into that place; thither.
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The rarest that e'er came there. --Shak.
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Note: There is sometimes used by way of exclamation, calling
the attention to something, especially to something
distant; as, there, there! see there! look there! There
is often used as an expletive, and in this use, when it
introduces a sentence or clause, the verb precedes its
subject.
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A knight there was, and that a worthy man.
--Chaucer.
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There is a path which no fowl knoweth. --Job
xxviii. 7.
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Wherever there is a sense or perception, there
some idea is actually produced. --Locke.
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There have been that have delivered themselves
from their ills by their good fortune or virtue.
--Suckling.
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Note: There is much used in composition, and often has the
sense of a pronoun. See
Thereabout,
Thereafter,
Therefrom, etc.
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Note: There was formerly used in the sense of where.
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Spend their good there it is reasonable.
--Chaucer.
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Here and there, in one place and another.
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Syn: See
Thither.
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