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[ adverb ] to what extent or amount or degree
Examples "how tall is she?" Used in print (Orlin J. Scoville, Part-Time Farming...)No_matter how well work is planned , bad_weather or unexpected setbacks can cause extra work that must be caught_up . (Barry Goldwater, "A Foreign Policy for America"...)But dominant in the sense that every other objective , no_matter how worthy intrinsically , must defer to it . (Raymond J. Corsini et al., Roleplaying in Business...)Roleplaying was offered as a solution - and the procedure worked as_follows : all candidates were invited to a hotel conference_room , where the president explained the difficulty he had , and how unnecessary it seemed to him to hire people who just did not work_out . (Dolores Hitchens, Footsteps in the Night....)The two kids were together a_lot , they were having some kind of teen-age affair - God_knows how far that had gone - and the kid 's crippled . |
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[ adverb ] in what way or manner or by what means
Synonyms Examples "how did you catch the snake?" "he told us how he did it" (`however' is used as an intensive of `how' as in "however did you get here so soon?") Used in print (High Fidelity, 11:10...)On the basis of what they give us we can know how the young Caruso sang , appreciate the distinctive qualities of Parsifal under Karl_Muck 's baton , or sense the type of ensemble Toscanini created in his years with the New_York_Philharmonic . (Handbook of Federal Aids to Communities. U.S. Dep...)When suitable equipment is_located by the SBA representative , the small business_concern is contacted and advised on when , where , and how to bid on such property . (David Stacton, The Judges of the Secret Court....)He felt curiously sleepy , the world seemed far away ; he knew he should get to Cap , but he did n't know how . (Robert L. Duncan, The Voice of Strangers....)No_matter how devoted a man was , no_matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord , he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual . No_matter how devoted a man was , no_matter how fully he gave his life to the Lord , he could never extinguish that one spark of pride that gave him definition as an individual . Related terms |
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[ conjunction ] conjunction, illustrates the manner in which
Synonyms Examples "We don't know how he got the money." |
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[ pronoun ] pronoun
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