Dictionary Entry
as
as is a 2-letter English word with 16 senses as adjectivedverb & conjunction, noun, and adverb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden. Face value is 2 in Scrabble and 2 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
2 letters · Scrabble 2 · Words With Friends 2 · 16 senses
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- 1adjectivedverb & conjunction
Denoting equality or likeness in kind, degree, or manner; like; similar to; in the same manner with or in which; in accordance with; in proportion to; to the extent or degree in which or to which; equally; no less than; as, ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil; you will reap as you sow; do as you are bidden.
- 2adjectivedverb & conjunction
In the idea, character, or condition of, -- limiting the view to certain attributes or relations; as, virtue considered as virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet.
- 3adjectivedverb & conjunction
While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
- 4adjectivedverb & conjunction
Because; since; it being the case that.
- 5adjectivedverb & conjunction
Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
- 6adjectivedverb & conjunction
That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
- 7adjectivedverb & conjunction
As if; as though.
- 8adjectivedverb & conjunction
For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
- 9adjectivedverb & conjunction
Than.
- 10adjectivedverb & conjunction
Expressing a wish.
- 11noun
An ace.
- 12noun
A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
- 13noun
A Roman copper coin, originally of a pound weight (12 oz.); but reduced, after the first Punic war, to two ounces; in the second Punic war, to one ounce; and afterwards to half an ounce.
- 14noun
a United States territory on the eastern part of the island of Samoa
- 15noun
a very poisonous metallic element that has three allotropic forms; arsenic and arsenic compounds are used as herbicides and insecticides and various alloys; found in arsenopyrite and orpiment and realgar
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- 16adverb
to the same degree (often followed by `as')
"they were equally beautiful"
"birds were singing and the child sang as sweetly"
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