n.
Function: conjunction
Date: 12th century
1 : AS IF <looks as he had seen a ghost ― S. T. Coleridge>
2 : in or to the same degree in which <soft as silk> ― usually used as a correlative after an adjective or adverb modified by adverbial as or so <as cool as a cucumber>
3 : in the way or manner that <do as I do>
4 : in accordance with what or the way in which <quite good as boys go>
5 : WHILE , WHEN <spilled the milk as she got up>
6 : regardless of the degree to which : THOUGH <improbable as it seems, it's true>
7 : for the reason that : BECAUSE , SINCE <stayed home as she had no car>
8 : that the result is <so clearly guilty as to leave no doubt>
usage see LIKE
– as is : in the presently existing condition without modification <bought the clock at an auction as is >
– as it were : as if it were so : in a manner of speaking