AS IF

Definition: AS IF

AS IF

1. Of the same kind, or in the same condition or manner, that it would be if.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Courtesy

Mind one's P's and Q's, behave oneself, be all things to all men, conciliate, speak one fair, take in good part; make the amiable, do the amiable; look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth; mend one's manners.

Similarity

Adverb: as if, so to speak; as it were, as if it were; quasi, just as, veluti in speculum.

Supposition

Adverb: if, if so be; an; on the supposition; Noun:ex hypothesi; in the case, in the event of; quasi, as if, provided; perhaps; (by possibility); for aught one knows.

Crosswords: AS IF

If we bring a little joy into your humdrum lives, it makes us feel as if our hard work ain't been in vain for nothing. (Singin' in the Rain; writing credit: Betty Comden; Adolph Green)

He's right, as if we're suddenly gonna have a run on Gatorade. (Clerks.; writing credit: Kevin Smith)

Dear step daughter You look as if you've seen a ghost! (Sleepy Hollow; writing credit: Kevin Yagher)

Dick York and Dick Sargeant. Yeah, right, as if we wouldn't notice! (Wayne's World; writing credit: Mike Myers)

It's as if I've taken love heroin, and now I can't ever have it again. (Notting Hill; writing credit: Richard Curtis)

It seems as if (Ugly; performing artist: Bubba Sparxxx)

I was acting as if you were lucky to have me (Hard Habit to Break; performing artist: Chicago)

Feelin' as if I've been cursed (Days Go By; performing artist: DIRTY VEGAS)

As if I'd forget tonight (New Moon on Monday; performing artist: Duran Duran)

I felt as if something somewhere (Clair; performing artist: Gilbert O'Sullivan)

Noise proves nothing, Often a hen who has laid an egg cackles as if she had laid an asteroid. (references; author: Mark Twain)

When no one is watching, live as if someone is. (references; author: unknown)

Pray as if everything depended on God; act as if everything depended on yourself! (references; author: unknown)

We occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of us pick ourselves up and hurry on as if nothing happened. (references; author: unknown)

Act As If (2002)

As If (2002)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• Living As If Your Life Depended On It! (reference)

• The Way of the (Modern) World: Or, Why It's Tempting to Live As If God Doesn't Exist (reference)

• You Can't Eat Gnp: Economics As If Ecology Mattered (reference)

• Gender, Development and Globalization: Economics As If People Mattered (reference)

• Managing As If Faith Mattered: Christian Social Principles in the Modern Organization (Catholic Social Tradition) (reference)

  (more book examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

"SP4 Ruediger Richter (Columbus, Georgia), 4th Bn., 503 Inf., 173 Abn Bde (Separate), lifts his battle weary eyes to the heavens, as if to ask why? SGT. Daniel E. Spencer (Bend, Oregon) stares down at their fallen comrade. The day's battle ended, they silently await the helicopter which will evacuate their comrade from the jungle covered hills in Long Khanh Province." By Pfc. L. Paul Epley, 1966. Credit: National Archives and Records Administration, Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.

Love as if your life depended on it. it does. : insist on condoms. Credit: National Library of Medicine.

Playing as if he owned the green. Credit: Library of Congress.

... And took so stately leave of me, as if we had been parting. Credit: Library of Congress.

What the fire of bullet does to the heart as if our fire / Ardeshir. Credit: Library of Congress.

That's it, young fellah, exactly! -- a kind of a thortful, sad look, as if money ... Credit: Library of Congress.

Nude youth with bow and arrow, arms raised as if to shoot arrow into the air. Credit: Library of Congress.

Warrior, possibly a Colombian, on horseback, holding javelin as if about to charge. Credit: Library of Congress.

Bud Abbott and Lou Costello, half-length portrait, posed as if performing a comedy routine. Credit: Library of Congress.

Portrait of Geoffrey Holder, in costume, posing as if dancing. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

If anyone holds of us by fee-farm, either by socage or by burage, or of any other land by knight's service, we will not (by reason of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage), have the wardship of the heir, or of such land of his as if of the fief of that other; nor shall we have wardship of that fee-farm, socage, or burgage, unless such fee-farm owes knight's service. (reference)

Where the laws cannot be executed, it is all one as if there were no laws; and a government without laws is, I suppose, a mystery in politics, unconceivable to human capacity, and inconsistent with human society. (Second Treatise of Government)

If any Bill shall not be returned by the President within ten Days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, the Same shall be a Law, in like Manner as if he had signed it, unless the Congress by their Adjournment prevent its Return, in which Case it shall not be a Law. (reference)

If an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is void, does it, notwithstanding its invalidity, bind the courts, and oblige them to give it effect? Or, in other words, though it be not law, does it constitute a rule as operative as if it was a law? (reference)

Society suddenly finds itself put back into a state of momentary barbarism; it appears as if a famine, a universal war of devastation had cut off the supply of every means of subsistence; industry and commerce seem to be destroyed; and why? Because there is too much civilisation, too much means of subsistence, too much industry, too much commerce. (reference)

Now, therefore, I, Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States, by virtue of the power in me vested as Commander-In-Chief of the Army and Navy of the United States in time of actual armed rebellion against the authority and government of the United States, and as a fit and necessary war measure for supressing said rebellion, do, on this 1st day of January, A.D. 1863, and in accordance with my purpose so to do, publicly proclaimed for the full period of one hundred days from the first day above mentioned, order and designate as the States and parts of States wherein the people thereof, respectively, are this day in rebellion against the United States the following, to wit: Arkansas, Texas, Louisiana (except the parishes of St. Bernard, Palquemines, Jefferson, St. John, St. Charles, St. James, Ascension, Assumption, Terrebone, Lafourche, St. Mary, St. Martin, and Orleans, including the city of New Orleans), Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, and Virginia (except the forty-eight counties designated as West Virginia, and also the counties of Berkeley, Accomac, Northhampton, Elizabeth City, York, Princess Anne, and Norfolk, including the cities of Norfolk and Portsmouth), and which excepted parts are for the present left precisely as if this proclamation were not issued. (Abraham Lincoln)

If in accordance with Article 389 the Conference refuses admission to a Delegate of one of the Members, the provisions of the present Article shall apply as if that Delegate had not been nominated. (reference)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

He did really look and speak as if in a state of no common enjoyment.

He looked at the Gryphon as if he thought it had some kind of authority over Alice.

But the ghost sat down on the opposite side of the fireplace, as if he were quite used to it.

How can you have the gall to stand there with two arms, two legs and a head as if you're a human being?

The spell survives, and just as powerfully as if the natal spot were an earthly paradise.

All the pieces of furniture on four legs behaved as if they had but three.

He shivered as if he had cold slimy water next his skin.

You speak as if that I had slain my cousins.

It looked as if ten thousand flashes of lightning were darting at the same time from every quarter of the sky.

Yet the Middlesex Cattle Show goes off here with eclat annually, as if all the joints of the agricultural machine were suent.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

This helps children feel as if they have some control. (references)

As stated earlier, your child will tolerate most infections as well as if he or she did not have cancer. (references)

Usually there is no pain, but it is common for the affected area to feel numb or prickly, as if it has fallen asleep. (references)

Business

There are some local universities specializing in the study of bioengineering, however, it seems as if there are not enough practicing engineers to work in the field. (references)

Economic History

Switzerland

This basically enables the branch to exist as if it were a separate legal entity in Switzerland. (references)

Japan

A company should conduct the same due diligence as if they were partnering with another U.S. firm. (references)

Bahrain

As if this were not enough, statisticians within the directorate of insurance project premiums to increase by 10 percent this year. (references)

Human Rights

Jordan

Human rights activists and family members believe that Smadi died as a result of beatings by police officers while in custody and subsequently was hanged to make it appear as if he had committed suicide. (references)

Political Economy

FINLAND

As a result, the trade of goods and services between the rest of Finland and Aland is now treated as if it were trade with a non-EU area. (references)

Trade

Turkey

The letter of guarantee should be prepared to reflect the value of the samples as if they were actually being imported. (references)

Women

Ethiopia

The Civil Code is based on a monarchical constitution that treated women as if they were children or disabled. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "AS IF": acting as if ♦ as if by chance ♦ as if by magic ♦ as if came out of a bandbox ♦ as if nothing was the matter ♦ as if to ♦ as if to do ♦ look as if butter would not melt in one's mouth ♦ make as if ♦ make as if to ♦ seem as if ♦ To make as if. Additional references.

Afrikaans

asof (as though, in a way). (various references)

Albanian

sikur (as though, like, ostensibly), gjoja (allegedly, as though, in a way, mock, ostensibly, professedly, quasi, seeming, supposing, would be). (various references)

Arabic 

‏كأنما (as though), ‏وكأن (as though). (various references)

Bulgarian 

като че ли (like, quasi). (various references)

Chinese 

猶 (eye socket, Jew, still, to scheme), 彷彿 (seem), 似乎 (apparently, seemingly, to appear, to seem). (various references)

Czech

jako by (as though). (various references)

Danish

varerne vil vaere at tarifere, som om de bestod af det materiale eller den bestanddel, der giver varen dens vaesentlige karakter (the goods are to be classified as if they consisted of the material or component which gives them their essential character), blandinger og sammensatte varer tariferes, som om de bestod af det materiale eller den bestanddel, der er karaktergivende (mixtures and composite goods shall be classified as if they consisted of the material or component which gives the goods their essential character). (various references)

Dutch

als het ware (as though, in a way), als (as, as though, how, if, in a way, like, nearly, provided that, such a, such as, what a, when), of alsof (as though, in a way). (various references)

Esperanto

kvazaŭ (as though, in a way). (various references)

Finnish

ikäänkuin (as it were, as though, in a way). (various references)

French

presque (as though). (various references)

Frisian

as (arbor, as, as though, axis, axle, how, if, in a way, like, provided that, shaft, spindle, such as), oft (as though, in a way), krekt as (as though, in a way). (various references)

German

als ob (as though, in a way), als (as, except, for, how, inasmuch, like, once, qua, such as, than, when). (various references)

Greek 

τάχα (allegedly, as though, supposedly). (various references)

Hawaiian

gjoja (as though, in a way). (various references)

Hebrew 

מעין (almost, fountain, kind of, like, sort of, source, spring, well), כאלו (as though, like). (various references)

Hungarian

mintha (an, and, as, as though, it seemed as though, to go through the motions, to go through the motions of sg, to play dead, to play possum, to rain cats and dogs, to simulate, you sound as if). (various references)

Indonesian

seakan-akan (as though), layaknya, bagaikan (as like, like, similar to), bagai (kind, type). (various references)

Italian

come se (as though, if, in a way, like, whether). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

恰も (as it were), 宛然 , 丸で (as though, at all, completely, entirely, quite, so to speak), 如し (like, the same as), 如き (like, the same as). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

まるで (as though, at all, completely, entirely, quite, so to speak), �"とし (like, the same as), �"とき (like, the same as), あたかも (as it were), え�"ぜ�" (charming, coast, far-sightedness, shore). (various references)

Manx

myr dy row. (various references)

Pig Latin

asay ifay

Polish

niby (as though, in a way), jakby (as though, in a way). (various references)

Portuguese

como se (as though, quasi). (various references)

Romanian

ca şi cum nu s-ar fi întâmplat nimic (as if nothing was the matter). (various references)

Russian 

как будто (as, as though, kind of, quasi), будто (as though, in a way). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

kao da (as though). (various references)

Spanish

como si (as though, in a way). (various references)

Sranan

netleki (as though, in a way), neleki (as though, in a way). (various references)

Swedish

som om (as though, like). (various references)

Turkish

sanki (as though, like, quasi, quasi-, so to say, so to speak), sankí (as though, in a way), sözde (alleged, allegedly, as though, nominal, nominally, of a sort, of sorts, ostensible, professed, professedly, quasi, quasi-, reputed, self-styled, so called, soi-disant, supposed, would be), -mış gibi (as though), güya (as though, like, professedly, quasi). (various references)

Turkmen 

hamala (as it were, as though), goяд (as though), gцzя. (various references)

Ukrainian

ніби (allegedly, like, so called), неначе (as though, like, quasi). (various references)

quasi. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: ais, fas, ifs.

-2 letters: ai, as, fa, if, is, si.

+1 letter: alifs, fails, fairs, fiars, fiats, hafis, kaifs, naifs, waifs.

+2 letters: afrits, basify, califs, facias, facies, fagins, faints, faiths, fakirs, falsie, famish, faqirs, fascia, favism, ferias, fiasco, fiesta, finals, fiscal, flails, flairs, frails, fraise, friars, fusain, gasify, kafirs, kalifs, mafias, massif, oafish, pilafs, safari, salify, sharif, sifaka, tafias.

+3 letters: affairs, affines, affirms, affixes, alfakis, baffies, batfish, bifaces, catfish, deafish, distaff, fabrics, facials, facings, faddish, faddism, faddist, fadeins, fadings, faeries, failles, fainest, fairest, fairies, fairish, fajitas, falsies, falsify, falsity, famines, fancies, fanions, fannies, fanwise, faquirs, farcies, farinas, farside, fasciae, fascial, fascias, fascine, fascism, fascist, fashing, fashion, fasting, fatties, fattish, fauvism, fauvist, favisms, feasing, fecials, feijoas, fetials, fiacres, fiances, fiaschi, fiascos, fibulas, fiestas, finales, finalis, finials, firmans, fiscals, fishway, fissate, fistula, fixates, flavins, fraises, frazils, freesia, fuchsia, funkias, fusains, fustian, garfish, haffits, hagfish, infalls, infants, infares, insofar, kaffirs, khalifs, maffias, mafiosi, mafioso, maftirs, massifs, mastiff, oarfish, panfish, piaffes, pilaffs, raffias, raffish, ratfish, safaris, salsify, satisfy, sawfish, scarify, sharifs, sifakas, suffari, taffias, taffies, tariffs, waffies, zaffirs.