As and when

Definition

as /ǝz; strong form æz/ prep ၁။ ဟန္။ ကဲ့သို႔။ dressed as a policeman ❍ They entered the building disguised as cleaners. ၂။ အေနျဖင့္။ လို။ have a job as a packer ❍ work as a courier ❍ Treat me as a friend. ❍ They accepted her as an equal. ❍ I respect him as a writer and as a man. ❍ use a water jug as a vase ❍ The redundancy notice came as a real shock. ၃။ (က) ျဖစ္သည့္အားေလ်ာ္စြာ။ အေန ႏွင့္။ As her private secretary he has access to all her correspondence. (ခ) …တုန္းက။ …စဥ္က။ As a child she was sent to six different schools. adv ၁။ as …as (က) မွ်။ ေလာက္။ တမွ်။ သေလာက္။ as tall as his father ❍ This dress is twice as expensive as the blue one. ❍ Her face went as white as a sheet. ❍ He doesn't play half as well as his sister. ❍ I haven't known him as long as you (ie as you have known him). ❍ As often as not he's drunk. တစ္ခ်ိန္လံုးလိုလို မူးေနတာပဲ။ ❍ As likely as not ( ie Very probably), it will rain. မိုးရြာမွာ က်ိန္းေသသေလာက္ပဲ။ (ခ) အတိုင္း။ သေလာက္။ He looks as ill as he sounded on the phone. ❍ His eyes aren't quite as blue as they look in the film. ❍ Run as fast as you can. ❍ He recited as much of the poem as he could remember. ❍ She's as good an actress as she is a singer. ၂။ လိုပဲ။ လိုပင္။ the same as usual ❍ As before, he remained unmoved. ❍ The 'h' in ‘honest’ is silent, as in ‘hour’. conj ၁။ …ေနစဥ္။ …ေနတုန္း။ ေသာအခါ။ ေသာ္။ I watched her as she combed her hair. ❍ As he grew older he lost interest in everything except gardening. ❍ Use it as the need arises. ၂။ ေသာေၾကာင့္။ သည့္အတြက္။ As you weren't there I left a message. ❍ As she's been ill perhaps she'll need some help. ၃။ ျဖစ္ေစကာမူ။ လင့္ကစား။ ေပမင့္လည္း။ Talented as he is, he is not yet ready to turn professional. ❍ Much as I like you, I couldn't live with you. ❍ Try as he would/ might, he couldn't open the door. ၄။ သည့္အတိုင္း။ သလို။ Do as I say and sit down. ❍ Just as she had warned me, the shop was shut. ❍ Leave the table as it is (ie Do not disturb the things on it). ❍ Why didn't you take the bus as I told you to? ❍ He became hysterical, as had happened before. ၅။ သည့္အတိုင္း။ Cyprus, as you know, is an island in the Mediterranean. ❍ The Beatles, as many of you are old enough to remember, came from Liver pool. ၆။ လိုပဲ။ She's unusually tall, as are both her parents. ❍ He works in advertising, as does his wife. ❏ as against sth [ IDM ] ႏွင့္ေျပာင္းျပန္။ ႏွင့္ဆန္႔က်င္ လ်က္။ she gets Saturdays off in her new job as against working alternate weekends in her last one. ❍ We had twelve hours of sunshine yesterday; as against a forecast of continuous rain. ❏ as and when [ IDM ] ၁။ …သည့္အခါ။ …သလို။ We'll decide on our team as and when we qualify for the competition. Compare IF AND WHEN (IF) ၂။ ( infml ) အေျခအေနေပးလွ်င္ေပးခ်င္း။ ေနာက္ဆံုးတစ္ေန႔။ I'll tell you more as and when (ie as soon as I can). ❏ as for sb/ sth [ IDM ] အေနႏွင့္။ As for you, you ought to be ashamed of yourself. ❍ As for the hotel, it was very uncomfortable and miles from the sea. ❏ as from; ( esp US ) as of [ IDM ] မွစ၍။ As from next Monday you can use my office. ❍ We will have a new address as of May 12. ❏ as if/ as though [ IDM ] ကဲ့သို႔။ သလို။ He behaved as if nothing had happened. ❍ As if unsure of where she was, she hesitated and looked around. ❍ He rubbed his eyes and yawned as though waking up after a long sleep. ❍ As if you didn't know! (ie You are pretending not to know. ) ❏ as it is [ IDM ] လက္ရိွအေျခအေနအတိုင္း၊ အရ။ We were hoping to have a few days off next week—as it is, we may not be able to get away. ❍ I thought I might be transferred but as it is I'll have to look for a new job. ❏ as it were [ IDM ] (အထင္မွ်သာျဖစ္ေၾကာင္း၊ အတိအက် မဟုတ္ေၾကာင္း ၫႊန္းဆိုေသာစကား)။ She seemed very relaxed—in her natural setting as it were. ❍ He'd been watching the water rising for two hours—preparing to meet his destiny, as it were—before help arrived. ❏ as to sth; as regards sth [ IDM ] ႏွင့္စပ္လ်ဥ္း၍။ As to correcting our homework, the teacher always makes us do it ourselves. ❍ There are no special rules as regards what clothes you should wear. ❏ as you were [ IDM ] ေနၿမဲ။

Examples

1. [as...as] : Simon isn’t as tall as his brother.
2. I don’t play football as much as I used to.
3. I can’t run as fast as you.
4. [just as] : We all need regular exercise
5. but a healthy diet is just as important.
6. [half/twice/three times etc as much] : A house in London costs twice as much as a similar house in Liverpool.
7. [the same as] : Barbara’s suggestion was almost exactly the same as mine.
8. Her skin was white as snow.
9. As tough as old boots
10. As I was saying
11. we expect next year to be a good year.
12. As everyone knows
13. the farming industry is in serious difficulties.
14. I invested the money as you suggested.
15. Leave everything just as you found it.
16. [as usual] : Judith was late
17. as usual.
18. As managing director
19. I am expected to provide effective leadership.
20. A portrait of the princess as a child
21. An electric drill can also be used as a screwdriver.
22. Van Dyck was regarded as the greatest painter of his time.
23. The result of the vote is being seen as a personal victory for the Prime Minister.
24. [as being/having] : Madeira is described as having the best climate in the world.
25. As we were sitting down to dinner
26. the phone rang.
27. [just as] : We got to the check-in desk just as they were about to close.
28. As it was getting late
29. we decided to go home.
30. We chose Calvert to lead us as he said he knew the way.
31. Strange as it may seem
32. I never really wanted to be rich.
33. Much as I sympathize with your difficulties
34. there is little I can do to help you.