Значение слова "AS IT WERE" найдено в 9 источниках

AS IT WERE

найдено в "Dictionary of American idioms"
as it were: translation

as it were
as one might say; as could be said. (Sometimes used to qualify an assertion that may not sound reasonable.) •

He carefully constructed, as it were, a huge submarine sandwich.

The Franklins live in a small and, as it were, exquisite house.

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{adv. phr.} As it might be said to be; as if it really were; seemingly. - Used with a statement that might seem silly or unreasonable, to show that it is just a way of saying it. * /In many ways children live, as it were, in a different world from adults./ * /The sunlight on the icy branches made, as it were, delicate lacy cobwebs from tree to tree./ Compare: SO TO SPEAK.

найдено в "Dictionary of American idioms"
as it were: translation

as it were
as one might say; as could be said. (Sometimes used to qualify an assertion that may not sound reasonable.) •

He carefully constructed, as it were, a huge submarine sandwich.

The Franklins live in a small and, as it were, exquisite house.

* * *
{adv. phr.} As it might be said to be; as if it really were; seemingly. - Used with a statement that might seem silly or unreasonable, to show that it is just a way of saying it. * /In many ways children live, as it were, in a different world from adults./ * /The sunlight on the icy branches made, as it were, delicate lacy cobwebs from tree to tree./ Compare: SO TO SPEAK.

найдено в "Moby Thesaurus"
as it were: translation

Synonyms and related words:
assumably, assumedly, assumptively, figuratively, figuratively speaking, in a manner, in a way, in seeming, kind of, metaphorically, presumably, presumedly, presumptively, quasi, reputedly, seemingly, so to say, so to speak, sort of, supposably, supposedly, suppositionally, supposititiously, symbolically


найдено в "Новом большом англо-русском словаре под общим руководством акад. Ю.Д. Апресяна"


{͵æzıtʹwɜ:}

так сказать; некоторым образом

he became, ~, a man without a country - он стал, если можно так выразиться, человеком без родины



найдено в "Новом большом англо-русском словаре"
[͵æzıtʹwɜ:]
так сказать; некоторым образом

he became, as it were, a man without a country - он стал, если можно так выразиться, человеком без родины



найдено в "Новом большом англо-русском словаре"
as it were
[͵æzıtʹwɜ:] так сказать; некоторым образом
he became, ~, a man without a country - он стал, если можно так выразиться, человеком без родины



найдено в "Англо-русском дополнительном словаре"
так сказать, как бы то ни было
найдено в "Англо-русском словаре редакции bed"
так сказать, как бы то ни было
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