how
如何,怎样,怎么,怎
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Definitions
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- : in what way or manner; by what means?: How did the accident happen?
- : to what extent, degree, etc.?: How damaged is the car?
- : in what state or condition?: How are you?
- : for what reason; why?: How can you talk such nonsense?
- : to what effect; with what meaning?: How is one to interpret his action?
- : what?: How do you mean? If they don't have vanilla, how about chocolate?
- : : How seldom I go there!
- : by what title or name?: How does one address the president?
- : at what price: How are the new cars going, cheaper than last year's models?
- : by what amount or in what measure or quantity?: How do you sell these tomatoes?
- : in what form or shape?: How does the demon appear in the first act of the opera? How does the medication come?
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- : the manner or way in which: He couldn't figure out how to solve the problem.
- : about the manner, condition, or way in which: I don't care how you leave your desk when you go. Be careful how you act.
- : in whatever manner or way; however: You can travel how you please.
- : Informal. that: He told us how he was honest and could be trusted.
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- : a question concerning the way or manner in which something is done, achieved, etc.: a child's unending whys and hows.
- : a way or manner of doing something: to consider all the hows and wherefores.
- : a word formerly used in communications to represent the letter H.
Phrases
- how about
- how about that?
- how are you?
- how come?
- how does that grab you?
- how do you do?
- how goes it
- howling success
- how so?
- how the land lies
- how the wind blows
- and how
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
She tried the direct, how-do-you-do handshake approach, but was blocked by a burly aide-de-camp.
In March, popular beauty site Into the Gloss even published a how-to on getting blue-tinted hair.
The “Operation Trojan Horse” letter was a how-to guide for Islamic fundamentalists wanting to take over local schools.
Once again, Apple has all the know-how to enter, and dominate, this market without making an acquisition.
An email allegedly written by David Newman, an employee of the Cheyenne VA, reads like a how-to manual for cooking the books.
Consequently, while the direction of the what-not-how-now line is definitely fixed, their actual positions remain unestablished.
I'm plumb tired, an' there ain't no use tryin' to be respectable, no-how.
How lovers rashGot mittens at the spelling school!How many a mute, inglorious fool Wrote rhymes and sighed and died—mustache!
I guess I didn't think much what I was a-doin' of, no-how. '
But in that other heart how was it?how with the sweet saint that was talking to herself in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs?