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• AsDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (adv. & conj.) Than.
2. (adv. & conj.) As if; as though.
3. (n.) An ace.
4. (adv. & conj.) Expressing concession. (Often approaching though in meaning).
5. (adv. & conj.) Expressing a wish.
6. (adv. & conj.) 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.
7. (adv. & conj.) For instance; by way of example; thus; -- used to introduce illustrative phrases, sentences, or citations.
8. (adv. & conj.) While; during or at the same time that; when; as, he trembled as he spoke.
9. (adv. & conj.) Because; since; it being the case that.
10. (adv. & conj.) That, introducing or expressing a result or consequence, after the correlatives so and such.
11. (n.) 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.
12. (n.) A Roman weight, answering to the libra or pound, equal to nearly eleven ounces Troy weight. It was divided into twelve ounces.
13. (adv. & conj.) 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.

• ADefinition & Meaning in English

1. () The first letter of the English and of many other alphabets. The capital A of the alphabets of Middle and Western Europe, as also the small letter (a), besides the forms in Italic, black letter, etc., are all descended from the old Latin A, which was borrowed from the Greek Alpha, of the same form; and this was made from the first letter (/) of the Phoenician alphabet, the equivalent of the Hebrew Aleph, and itself from the Egyptian origin. The Aleph was a consonant letter, with a guttural breath sound that was not an element of Greek articulation; and the Greeks took it to represent their vowel Alpha with the a sound, the Phoenician alphabet having no vowel symbols.
2. () The name of the sixth tone in the model major scale (that in C), or the first tone of the minor scale, which is named after it the scale in A minor. The second string of the violin is tuned to the A in the treble staff. -- A sharp (A/) is the name of a musical tone intermediate between A and B. -- A flat (A/) is the name of a tone intermediate between A and G.
3. () An adjective, commonly called the indefinite article, and signifying one or any, but less emphatically.
4. () In each; to or for each; as, "twenty leagues a day", "a hundred pounds a year", "a dollar a yard", etc.
5. (prep.) In; on; at; by.
6. (prep.) In process of; in the act of; into; to; -- used with verbal substantives in -ing which begin with a consonant. This is a shortened form of the preposition an (which was used before the vowel sound); as in a hunting, a building, a begging.
7. () Of.
8. () A barbarous corruption of have, of he, and sometimes of it and of they.
9. () An expletive, void of sense, to fill up the meter

• AsbestineDefinition & Meaning in English

1. (a.) Of or pertaining to asbestus, or partaking of its nature; incombustible; asbestic.