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What does as mean?
Definitions in simple English
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What other words have the same or similar meaning as as?
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Topics as topics
What do people use as to talk about?
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What words indicate that something will probably happen?
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What words indicate that something is probably true?
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What words indicate that something happens or is done in a similar way?
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What words indicate that something happens at the same time as something else?
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What pronouns are used to emphasize the people or things being spoken about, especially when you are emphasizing that one person does something and not someone else?
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What words describe something that is less than another thing in number or amount?
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What words indicate that something is less in some quality than another thing?
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What words indicate that something happens less or is done less?
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What words indicate that something has almost reached a particular state?
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What words indicate that something is almost finished?
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What words indicate that two things are the same in some way?
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What do you say when you think something is true, but you are not sure?
Grammar Connected with, related Discourse markers
Markers of identificational and explanatory clauses
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What words are used to introduce an example?
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What words mark a digression?
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What words describe the color of a person's skin when they are sick or afraid?
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What words describe something that is black in color?
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What words indicate that something seems to be a certain way, but you are unsure?
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What words indicate that something seems to be happening, or something seems to be true?
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What words indicate the result of something?
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What words indicate that a phrase or sentence is important?then indeed surely so certainly in fact actually how you know really sure just you know don't you that how much more emphatically absolutely without question no way of course obviously you've got to be kidding it is just that the only thing is one thing that in reality only that as it were just as you can see as you know without a doubt don't you remember I am convinced that
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What words describe someone who cannot see well?
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What words describe someone who is totally deaf?
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What words refer to becoming old?
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What words describe someone who is stubborn?stubborn adamant bull-headed conservative dogged enduring hardened hardheaded headstrong immovable impenitent incorrigible indomitable inflexible intractable mulish obdurate obstinate persistent pig-headed recalcitrant relentless stiff-necked strong-willed stubborn as stubborn as a mule tenacious unbending uncompromising ungovernable unmanageable unrepentant unyielding willful
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What words do people use when suggesting something?
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What words do people use to begin a saying?
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What words indicate that something is two times the amount of something else?
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What words indicate that something is two or three times the amount of something else?
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What words indicate an amount that is more than an amount already mentioned?
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What words indicate an approximate number when the actual number is possibly less?
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What words refer to moving nearer to someone or something?
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What words describe a person or animal that is old?
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What words describe something that is old, but has been made to look new?
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What words describe something that is very old?
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What words indicate that a situation happened at the same place as another situation?
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What words indicate that something must happen or cannot happen because of the situation?
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What words refer to a marked extent?
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What words indicate that something is done in a particular way?
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What words describe something that is dry?
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What words refer to animals moving in a group?
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What words describe something that can be seen through?
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What words describe a woman who is pregnant?
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What words describe someone who is dead?
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What words refer to causing someone to feel shocked?
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What words refer to feeling suddenly afraid because of something that happens?
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What words describe an unlucky situation or event?
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What words indicate someone who is representing another person?
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What words refer to trying hard to do something?
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What words refer to moving straight?
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What words refer to the distance between two things?
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What words describe something that is very light?
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What words indicate that something has less of a quality than another thing?
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What words describe something that is straight?
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What words describe something that is flat?
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What words indicate that something starts to happen after a particular time and then continues?
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What words indicate that you are adding another thought to a previous one?
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What words indicate that the opposite of something is true?
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What words indicate the specific area or topic that is being talked about?
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What words indicate that one thing corresponds to another?
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What words are used to indicate a person's name?
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What words are used to indicate the name of something?
Examples as examples
How do I use as in a sentence?
Simple sentences
You look as healthy as ever.
You are free to do as you please with your money.
You must take things as they are.
You don't get up as early as your sister.
As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.
I'll phone you as soon as I get to the airport.
I'll go with you as far as the bridge.
Without his glasses, he is as blind as a bat.
We must learn to live together as brothers, or we will perish together as fools.
In the 1950's, the Finns were cited as having one of the least healthy diets in the world.
And yet, the contrary is always true as well.
We don't see things as they are, but as we are.
Not wanting is the same as having.
When the body is touched, receptors in the skin send messages to the brain causing the release of chemicals such as endorphins.
Liberty consists of being able to make everything as harmless as possible.
Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.
Even people who don't believe in the Catholic church venerate the Pope as a symbolic leader.
As the plane was approaching turbulence, the pilot asked the passengers aboard the plane to fasten their seat belts.
When both girls told John they had feelings for him, he was in a quandary as to which girl he should be with.
His father would never sanction his engagement to a girl who did not share the same religious beliefs as their family.
I am against using death as a punishment. I am also against using it as a reward.
There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.
Movie subtitles
Is it wrong if you think of love as a game too?
I marked this place as my territory.
What a weird person I meet as I live. Ugh, disgusting.
When other people say something, you act as if nothing happened but when I say something..
Some cannibals attacked us and we fled as children.
As I thought, you're.
As expected, you're an interesting person.
It's quite an inconvenience for us as well.
Saying that he does not remember anything. it's the same excuse as Patre!
I'm okay as long as I'm within the school grounds.
As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
There is no such thing as exercising too much discretion.
Don't fight amongst yourselves as Britannians!
Aw. As I thought, they won't use the RG's against Elevens.
As I thought. the Imperial Princess.
Just as you lost your father, I have lost my older brother, Clovis.
As I am to you.
Did you accept Euphy's future from the standpoint of a public official as well?
This concession came as a result of our resistance activities.
For the Egyptians it was Isis' wheat, the Incas saw it as golden star dust, for the Eskimos it was a band of snow and the Christians thought of it as the road to Rome.
Kids can get pretty much anything they want in the yard, as long as they can afford it.
As long as it's not too lumpy and shit.
Pff! And he was already pretty fucking dumb as it was.
I sat back and waited for him to get busted, as I knew he would.
And since you won't take responsibility, as of today, I'm taking over the peanut racket, and I guarantee every sandwich I sell.
As usual, I guess you're right.
The north africans are as pissed off as ever, and so is Frankie's crew.
Yeah, but couldn't you pretend to care as a favour to me?
It was as hot as a hot dog, and Frankie's team looked like they were running out of steam.
As long as they want.
News and current affairs
But if real interest rates rise significantly, as well they might someday, gold prices could plummet.
If you are a high-net-worth investor, a sovereign wealth fund, or a central bank, it makes perfect sense to hold a modest proportion of your portfolio in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
PARIS - As the economic crisis deepens and widens, the world has been searching for historical analogies to help us understand what has been happening.
Today, the mood is much grimmer, with references to 1929 and 1931 beginning to abound, even if some governments continue to behave as if the crisis was more classical than exceptional.
As a visiting professor at Harvard and MIT, I am getting a good preview of what the world could look like when the crisis finally passes.
But if the human capacity for destruction knows few limits, the ability to start over again is just as remarkable.
There was talk of revolution in countries such as France, Italy, and Greece.
Social democracy, with its promise of greater equality and opportunities for all, served as an ideological antidote.
In 1989, it looked as if the dark legacy of World War II, the enslavement of Eastern Europe, was finally over.
All forms of leftist ideology - indeed, everything that smacked of collective idealism - came to be viewed as misguided utopianism that could lead only to the Gulag.
It cannot be the same as the 1945 consensus, but we would do well, on this anniversary, to remember why that consensus was forged in the first place.
It has entered the history books as the beginning of something new, a new era perhaps, but in any case a time of change.
This is neither a correct description nor a useful terminology for terrorist acts, which are more correctly described as criminal.
The problem exists in all countries affected by the threat of terrorism, though in many it has not become quite as specific.
As legions of new consumers gain purchasing power, demand inevitably rises, driving up the price of scarce commodities.
Second, whereas democracy and market capitalism appeared as clear - if more fragile than expected - winners in 1989, it is difficult in 2009, with the spread of the global crisis, to distinguish winners from losers.
What, for example, will happen to a country as central and vulnerable as Egypt when hundred of thousands of Egyptians working in the Gulf are forced to return to their homeland as a result of the crisis in the oil-producing countries?
With the euro looking less appetizing as a diversification play away from the dollar, gold's appeal has naturally grown.