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Is as a Scrabble word?
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Definition
adv (English)
1. (formal, somewhat dated) For example; for instance. (Compare such as.)Examples: "Likewise many other indulgences were by virtue hereof granted; as, to have a portatile altar, to receive the Sacrament privately; […]"; "First; original; indigenous; primitive; native; as, the aboriginal tribes of America."; "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."datedformalnot-comparable
conj (English)
1. (dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if.Examples: "And sodenly there cam a sounde from heven as it had bene the commynge off a myghty wynde […]"; "Oft haue I ſeene the haughty Cardinall, More like a Souldier then a man o' th' Church, As ſtout and proud as he were Lord of all […]"; "And then he flue on hir as he were wood, / And on hir breeche did hack and foyne a-good."dated
2. (law) used before a preposition to clarify that the prepositional phrase restricts the meaning of the sentence; specifically.Examples: "The case is dismissed as between Jones and Smith."; "The case is dismissed as against Smith."
3. (rare, now England, Midland US and Southern US, possibly obsolete) Than.Examples: "The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors."; "Darkness itself is no more opposite to light as their actions were diametricall to their words."Englandobsoletepossiblyrare
noun (English)
1. (unit of weight) A libra.
2. (numismatics, Ancient Rome) Any of several coins of Rome, coined in bronze or later copper; or the equivalent value.Synonyms: assarion, assariusAncient-Rome
noun (English)
1. (rare) Alternative form of a's.alt-ofalternativerare
adv (English)
1. (Australia, especially New Zealand, slang) Used to intensify an adjective; very much; extremelyExamples: "sweet as"; "It also appears in other positions in the sentence: his big as car could hardly fit. It's pretty scratched, and dented as."AustraliaNew-Zealandespeciallyslang
noun (English)
1. (education, UK, historical) Initialism of Advanced Supplementary.UKabbreviationalt-ofhistoricalinitialism
2. (education, UK) Initialism of Advanced Subsidiary.Examples: "AS-level"UKabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
3. (cardiology) Initialism of aortic stenosis.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
4. (neurology) Initialism of Asperger's syndrome.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
5. (medicine) Initialism of ankylosing spondylitis.abbreviationalt-ofinitialism
6. (Internet) Initialism of autonomous system.Internetabbreviationalt-ofinitialism
Definition source: Wiktionary