Jackson6612 Posted 15 years ago
Grammar
Scrounge: to get as needed by
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1: In the following definition what does the phrase "as needed" mean? Does it mean the same as 'whenever needed'? Please help me with this.
2: Is "as" in the phrase a conjuction? I think the sense #5 fits here.
scrounge
1 : STEAL, SWIPE
2 a : to get as needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing scrounging enough money for a bus ticket b : FINAGLE, WHEEDLE — often used with up
intransitive verb : to search about and turn up something needed from whatever source is available; also : to actively seek money, work, or sustenance from any available source
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
as (conj.)
1 : AS IF looks as he had seen a ghost — S. T. Coleridge
2 : in or to the same degree in which soft as silk* — usually used as a correlative after an adjective or adverb modified by adverbial as or so *as cool as a cucumber
3 : in the way or manner that do as I do
4 : in accordance with what or the way in which quite good as boys go
5 : WHILE, WHEN spilled the milk as she got up
6 : regardless of the degree to which : THOUGH improbable as it seems, it's true
7 : for the reason that : BECAUSE, SINCE stayed home as she had no car
8 : that the result is so clearly guilty as to leave no doubt
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
1: In the following definition what does the phrase "as needed" mean? Does it mean the same as 'whenever needed'? Please help me with this.
2: Is "as" in the phrase a conjuction? I think the sense #5 fits here.
scrounge
1 : STEAL, SWIPE
2 a : to get as needed by or as if by foraging, scavenging, or borrowing scrounging enough money for a bus ticket b : FINAGLE, WHEEDLE — often used with up
intransitive verb : to search about and turn up something needed from whatever source is available; also : to actively seek money, work, or sustenance from any available source
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
as (conj.)
1 : AS IF looks as he had seen a ghost — S. T. Coleridge
2 : in or to the same degree in which soft as silk* — usually used as a correlative after an adjective or adverb modified by adverbial as or so *as cool as a cucumber
3 : in the way or manner that do as I do
4 : in accordance with what or the way in which quite good as boys go
5 : WHILE, WHEN spilled the milk as she got up
6 : regardless of the degree to which : THOUGH improbable as it seems, it's true
7 : for the reason that : BECAUSE, SINCE stayed home as she had no car
8 : that the result is so clearly guilty as to leave no doubt
[M-W's Col. Dic.]
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Jackson6612 1: In the following definition what does the phrase "as needed" mean? Does it mean the same as 'whenever needed'? Please help me with this.
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Jackson66121: In the following definition what does the phrase "as needed" mean? Does it mean the same as 'whenever needed'? Please help me with this.scrounge ... to get something when it is needed
Jackson66122: Is "as" in the phrase a conjunction? I think the sense #5 fits here.Yes.
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