here

1. not comparablelocationIn, on, or at this place (a place perceived to be close to the speaker); compare there.

   The air here is foul.

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   You wait here while I fetch my coat.

   Ms. Doe is not here at the moment.

   It says here that he died in 1970.

   The view up here is better than the view down there!

   Here is the report that you asked for.

   Synonyms: right here

   1. abstractnot comparablelocationAt this point or stage (in a process, argument, narration, etc.)

      Here endeth the lesson.

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      I've had enough of peeling potatoes. I'm stopping here.

      Here, perhaps I ought to stop.

      1796, George Washington, Washington's Farewell Address

      “And drove away—away.” Sophia broke down here. Even at this moment she was subconsciously comparing her rendering of the part of the forlorn bride with Miss Marie Lohr's.

      1921, Ben Travers, chapter 6, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC

      Synonyms: right here

   2. abstractnot comparablelocationIn this matter.

      You say that all men are born equal, but here I must disagree with you.

      Synonyms: right here

   3. not comparablelocationNotionally at the speaker's location by virtue of happening now.

      Flu season is here.

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      Christmas will soon be here.

      Synonyms: right here

   4. abstractnot comparablelocationIn this context.

      Derivatives can refer to anything that is derived from something else, but here they refer specifically to functions that give the slope of the tangent line to a curve.

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      The two great generalizations which the veteran Belgian astronomer has brought to bear on physiological and mental science, and which it is proposed to describe popularly here, may be briefly defined:

      1872 May, Edward Burnett Tylor, “Quetelet on the Science of Man”, in Popular Science Monthly, volume 1

      The briefest characterization is all that will be attempted here.

      1904 January 15, William James, “The Chicago School”, in Psychological Bulletin, 1.1, pages 1-5

      Synonyms: right here

   5. informalnot comparablelocationAfter the name of a person perceived as located close to the speaker, used familiarly to indicate that person.

      Jim here has been with the company for twenty years.

      Synonyms: right here

   6. dialectalinformalnot comparablelocationAfter certain determiners, especially 'this' and 'these', used to emphasise demonstrative sense; see also this here.

      This here orange is too sour.

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      Both 'ere buckets 'ave 'oles in 'em.

      Synonyms: right here

2. not comparablelocationTo this place; used in place of the literary or archaic hither.

   Please come here.

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   He said we came here solely on my account, that I was to have perfect rest and all the air I could get.

   1891, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, The Yellow Wall-Paper

1. not comparableAlive

   I'm not dead yet! I'm still here!

plural heres

1. uncountableusuallyThis place; this location.

   Here is where I met my spouse twelve years ago.

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   An Alzheimer patient's here may in his mind be anywhere he called home in the time he presently re-lives.

   For time and extension seem continuous elements; the here is one space with the other heres round it

   1922, Francis Herbert Bradley, The Principles of Logic, page 52

   More than ever, the here is porous.

   2001, Kauhiko Yatabe, “Objects, city and wandering: the invisibility of the Japanese in France”, in Harumi Befu, Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, editors, Globalizing Japan: Ethnography of the Japanese Presence in Asia, Europe, and America, page 28

   We can't see it because it is an aspect of our seeing, it is a function of our gaze: the field of the here is established in — and by — our presence.

   2004, Denis Wood, Five Billion Years of Global Change: A History of the Land, page 20

   1. figurativelyuncountableusuallyThis point or stage in time, conceptualised as a location.

      I'd like to continue my story, but here is where I must stop.

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      I've done as much as I can; you'll have to take it from here.

2. abstractuncountableusuallyThis time, the present situation.

1. slangUsed semi-assertively to offer something to the listener.

   Here, now I'm giving it to you.

2. IrelandUKslangUsed for emphasis at the beginning of a sentence when expressing an opinion or want.

   Here, I'm tired and I want a drink.

3. informalUsed to attract someone's attention, often in a hostile way.

   Here! You! Stop doing that!

4. Said in response to one's name being called during a roll call, indicating that one is present.

   Smith ... Here! ... Jones ... Here! ... Walters ... ... Anyone seen Walters?

5. Said to command a person or higher animal to come to the speaker.

   "Fido! Here!" — "Woof! Woof!"