asses

Variant of as

as definition

as (az; unstressed əz)

adverb

  1. to the same amount or degree; equally I'm just as happy at home
  2. for instance; thus a card game, as bridge
  3. when set off or related in a specified way romanticism as contrasted with classicism

Etymology: weakened form of also; ME as, ase < OE eallswa (see also); lit., wholly so, just as

conjunction

  1. in the same amount in which or to the same degree to which it flew straight as an arrow
  2. in the same manner that; according to the way that do as you are told
  3. at the same time that; while she laughed as she spoke
  4. because; since as you object, we won't go
  5. that the consequence is the question is so obvious as to need no reply
  6. though tall as he was, he couldn't reach it
  7. Informal that I don't know as I should

pronoun

  1. a fact that we are tired, as anyone can see
  2. that: preceded by such or the same the same color as yours is

  1. in the role, function, capacity, or sense of he poses as a friend
  2. like the risk is as nothing compared to the gain
as Idioms

as ... as

a correlative construction used to indicate the equality or sameness of two things as large as, as heavy as, as many as, etc.

as for

with reference to; concerning

as if

  1. as it (or one) would if
  2. that it seems as if you're never happy

as is

☆
Informal just as it is; without any changes: said of damaged goods being sold

as it were

as if it were so; so to speak

as of

☆
up to, on, or from (a specified time)

as though

as if

as to

  1. with reference to
  2. as if to

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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