English Dictionary

as

/æz/

conj

Used after so or as to introduce a comparison. / Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is. / Expressing concession: though. / At the same instant or moment that: when.

She runs as fast as a cheetah.

意味（1）

Used after so or as to introduce a comparison.

She's twice as strong as I was two years ago.

意味（2）

Used to introduce a result: with the result that it is.

… that the Board of Regents had fallen into disrepute; that intelligent men inquired what the board was; he said that it was a quiet body, and kept out of the newspapers — and so quiet as to lead many to suppose tho board had ceased to exist.

意味（3）

Expressing concession: though.

We wish, however, to avail ourselves of the interest, transient as it may be, which this work has excited.

意味（4）

At the same instant or moment that: when.

As I came in, she fled.

意味（5）

At the same time that, during the same time when: while.

He sleeps as the rain falls.

意味（6）

Varying through time in the same proportion that.

As my fear grew, so did my legs become heavy.

意味（7）

Being that, considering that, because, since.

As it’s too late, I quit.

意味（8）

(dated) Introducing a comparison with a hypothetical state (+ subjunctive, or with the verb elided): as though, as if.

I start as from some dreadful dream.

意味（9）

(law) used before a preposition to clarify that the prepositional phrase restricts the meaning of the sentence; specifically.

The case is dismissed as between Jones and Smith.

The case is dismissed as between Jones and Smith. (makes explicit that the case is continued between other parties to the litigation)

意味（10）

Functioning as a relative conjunction, and sometimes like a relative pronoun: that, which, who. (See usage notes.)

He had the same problem as she did getting the lock open.

意味（11）

(rare, now England, Midland US and Southern US, possibly obsolete) Than.

The king was not more forward to bestow favours on them as they free to deal affronts to others their superiors.