When
adverb
At what time.
When is the meeting?
Often appears as...
- when is...
- when was...
conjunction
At the time that.
I was there when the incident happened.
Often appears as...
- when i...
- when he...
pronoun
The time at which.
I'll never forget the moment when I first saw her.
Often appears as...
- the day when...
- the moment when...
conjunction
Considering that.
Why make a trip when you can make a call?
Often appears as...
- why...when
- how...when
conjunction
As soon as.
She starts to sing when she gets in the shower.
Often appears as...
- starts...when
- ends...when
adverb
At what time.
When is the meeting?
Often appears as...
- when is...
- when was...
conjunction
At the time that.
I was there when the incident happened.
Often appears as...
- when i...
- when he...
pronoun
The time at which.
I'll never forget the moment when I first saw her.
Often appears as...
- the day when...
- the moment when...
conjunction
Considering that.
Why make a trip when you can make a call?
Often appears as...
- why...when
- how...when
conjunction
As soon as.
She starts to sing when she gets in the shower.
Often appears as...
- starts...when
- ends...when
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Question Timing
Use 'when' to ask about the specific time of an event.
When do you leave for work?
Pro Tip 2/2Past Events
Use 'when' to inquire about the time of past events.
When did the concert end?
Pro Tip 1/2Question Timing
Use 'when' to ask about the specific time of an event.
When do you leave for work?
Pro Tip 2/2Past Events
Use 'when' to inquire about the time of past events.
When did the concert end?
Pro Tip 1/2Question Timing
Use 'when' to ask about the specific time of an event.
When do you leave for work?
Pro Tip 2/2Past Events
Use 'when' to inquire about the time of past events.
When did the concert end?
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Your body language may...
and they go like this when they raise their hand. I notice a couple of things about this. One, you're not going to be surprised. It seems to be related to gender. So women are much more likely to do this kind of thing than men. Women feel chronically less powerful than men, so this is not surprising. But the other thing I noticed
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What makes muscles grow?...
in the form of amino acids. Adequate protein intake, along with naturally occurring hormones, like insulin-like growth factor and testosterone, help shift the body into a state where tissue is repaired and grown. This vital repair process mainly occurs when we're resting, especially at night while sleeping.
Video examples
How playing an...
each have corresponding areas of the brain where activity can be observed. But when researchers got the participants to listen to music, they saw fireworks. Multiple areas of their brains were lighting up at once, as they processed the sound, took it apart to understand elements like melody and rhythm,
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What game theory teaches...
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Some of these are even visible, such as higher density of the grey matter that contains most of your brain's neurons and synapses, and more activity in certain regions when engaging a second language. The heightened workout a bilingual brain receives throughout its life
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and results in a different pattern of language use. A technology known as linguistic text analysis has helped to identify four such common patterns in the subconscious language of deception. First, liars reference themselves less, when making deceptive statements.
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How sugar affects the...
across several different regions of the brain. It's a complicated network, but it helps answer a single, subconscious should I do that again? That warm, fuzzy feeling you get when you taste Grandma's chocolate cake? That's your reward system saying,
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Rethinking infidelity...
but the pressure for women is to hide, minimize and deny, which isn't surprising when you consider that there are still nine countries where women can be killed for straying. Now, monogamy used to be one person for life.
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How Do Cartels Get Their...
CARTEL MARIANA VAN Here's where things get interesting. Remember when I said that you never ask what cartel someone belongs to? I didn't. This guy just decided to tell me that he works for one
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Just How BIG are...
It's important to respect their personal space. Elephant seals rarely cross paths with people. But when they do, they can really throw their weight around.
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I had little or no opportunity when I started out in life.
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Life is something to do when you can't get to sleep.
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