adv 1. showing or asking the way in which something is done ○ How do you switch off the cooker? ○ Can you tell me how to get to the railway station from here? ○ I don’t know how he does it. 2. showing or asking about the extent or quantity of something ○ How big is their house? ○ How many people are there in your family? ○ She showed us how good she was at skiing. ○ How old is your little boy? ○ How far is it to the church? 3. showing surprise ○ How cold it is outside! ○ How different it is from what I remember! 4. □ how about? would you like? (informal.) ○ How about a swim before breakfast? ○ How about a cup of coffee? □ how come? why ○ How come you’re late? ○ How come the front door was left open? □ how do you mean? what do you mean? ○ How do you mean, the payment won’t be made until next week?
how
adv. [OE. how, hou, hu, hwu, AS. h, from the same root as hwa, hwaet, who, what, pron. interrog.; akin to OS. hwow, D. hoe, cf. G. wie how, Goth. hwe wherewith, hwaiwa how. rad.182. See Who, and cf. Why.]
1. In what manner or way; by what means or process. “How can a man be born when he is old?” John iii. 4.
2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. “O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” Ps. cxix. 97. “By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth.” Bentley.
3. For what reason; from what cause. “How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?” Shak.
4. In what state, condition, or plight. “How, and with what reproach, shall I return?” Dryden.
5. By what name, designation, or title. “How art thou called?” Shak.
6. At what price; how dear. [Obs.] “How a score of ewes now?” Shak. How is used in each sense, interrogatively, interjectionally, and relatively; it is also often employed to emphasize an interrogation or exclamation. ´How are the mighty fallen!´ 2 Sam. i. 27. Sometimes, also it is used as a noun; — as the how, the when, the wherefore. Shelley. “Let me beg you — don’t say ´How?´ for ´What?´” Holmes.
1. In what manner or way; by what means or process. “How can a man be born when he is old?” John iii. 4.
2. To what degree or extent, number or amount; in what proportion; by what measure or quality. “O, how love I thy law! it is my meditation all the day.” Ps. cxix. 97. “By how much they would diminish the present extent of the sea, so much they would impair the fertility, and fountains, and rivers of the earth.” Bentley.
3. For what reason; from what cause. “How now, my love! why is your cheek so pale?” Shak.
4. In what state, condition, or plight. “How, and with what reproach, shall I return?” Dryden.
5. By what name, designation, or title. “How art thou called?” Shak.
6. At what price; how dear. [Obs.] “How a score of ewes now?” Shak. How is used in each sense, interrogatively, interjectionally, and relatively; it is also often employed to emphasize an interrogation or exclamation. ´How are the mighty fallen!´ 2 Sam. i. 27. Sometimes, also it is used as a noun; — as the how, the when, the wherefore. Shelley. “Let me beg you — don’t say ´How?´ for ´What?´” Holmes.
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