as
To such an extent or degree; to the same extent or degree.
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry. His wooing had been brief but incisive.
Considered to be, in relation to something else; in the relation (specified).
(formal, somewhat dated) For example; for instance.
The floor of the chamber was tesselated, of marble and green tourmaline, and on every square of tourmaline was carven the image of a fish: as the dolphin, the conger, the cat-fish, the salmon, the tunny, the squid, and other wonders of the deep.
In the (same) way or manner that; to the (same) degree that.
Used after "so" or "as" to introduce a comparison.
Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is; as to.
(Expressing concession): though.
At the time that; during the time when.
At the same instant or moment that: when.
At the same time that, during the same time when: while.
Varying through time in the same proportion that.
Being that, considering that, because, since.
(dated) (Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state): as though, as if.
(law) (Used before a preposition to clarify that the prepositional phrase restricts the meaning of the sentence); specifically.
(Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun): that, which, who.
(rare, now England, Midland US and Southern US, possibly obsolete) Than.
(Introducing a basis of comparison, with an object in the objective case.)
She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
In the role of.
In the form of.
(unit of weight) A libra.
(numismatics, Ancient Rome) Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.
(especially New Zealand, slang) (Used to intensify an adjective); very much; extremely
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