How

Definitions of "how"

• In what manner or way; by what means: How does this machine work? adverb
• In what state or condition: How is she today? adverb
• To what extent, amount, or degree: How bad was it? adverb
• For what reason or purpose; why: How is it that he left early? adverb
• With what meaning: How should I take that remark? adverb
• By what name: How is she called? adverb
• By what measure; in what units: How do you sell this corn? adverb
• What. Usually used in requesting that something be said again: How's that again? adverb
• Used as an intensive: How we laughed! adverb
• The manner or way in which: forgot how it was done. conjunction
• That. conjunction
• In whatever way or manner; however: Cook it how you please. conjunction
• A manner or method of doing something: "The how of research is generated by the why of the world” ( Frederick Turner). noun
• and how Informal Most certainly; you bet: She's a good dancer, and how! idiom
• how about What is your thought, feeling, or desire regarding: How about a cup of tea? How about that storm last night? idiom
• how about that Informal Used rhetorically to express surprise or wonder at or approval for something. idiom
• how come Informal How is it that; why: How come you're so late? idiom
• how so How is it so: You say the answer is wrong. How so? idiom
• To what degree. adverb

The word "how" in example sentences

The organization is actually superb as it allows you to organize how YOU like to; and then that "search" allows you to find anything no matter *how* it's organized.. [Daily Record Of Events Makes Ubiquitous Capture A Snap | Lifehacker Australia]

I think a key feature of being familiar with common interaction patterns i.e. how to login, what is email, etc. is that one learns what can be ignored and we learn *how* to ignore things.. [The Cost of Interaction]

Every number carries stories of men who have in part-time or whole-time farming, in small shops, in backyard industries tried out Distributism and can tell us how it has worked and _how to work it_.. [The Distributist League and Distributism Part Two]

The irony here that political candidates has to register the money they receive and how much they spent on political commercials..how can this be fair when you have a 24 hours network is supporting one party over the other…free of charge 24 hours called Fox Network?. [Think Progress » Cavuto Battles Frank: ‘Congressman, Is It Always Incumbent Upon You To Be So Condescending?’]

When they consider that each of our remedies is a specific on which great labor has been expended for years to perfect it, and when they further consider how much better anything can be done which is exclusively followed with the facilities that large manufactories afford, then they may see not only that we do, but _how_ we make better medicines than have been produced before.. [The Continental Monthly, Vol III, Issue VI, June, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy]

Apparently, have the pupils been shown _how_ to study, i.e., how to prepare the work most advantageously?. [A Guide to Methods and Observation in History Studies in High School Observation]

She must use excellent English, must know how to dress quietly and suitably, and must not only _know how_ to keep herself in the background of family life, but must be. [Vocational Guidance for Girls]

As I rode along to-day thinkin '-- thinkin' -- thinkin '-- how can I save the children an' Cap'n Tom, _how can I get a little money to send Cap'n. [The Bishop of Cottontown A Story of the Southern Cotton Mills]

So I told him how wrong I had acted, and how sorry I felt for it, and then I asked him to tell me _how_ my life had been saved, and if any one was killed, and all about the accident.. [Continental Monthly, Vol. 4, No 3, September 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy]

It cannot show just how or when life or the various kinds of life did originate, it can only show _how it did not_.. [Q. E. D., or New Light on the Doctrine of Creation]

Distributism and can tell us how it has worked and _how to work it_.. [Gilbert Keith Chesterton]

“O how well it is that you have come near, ” each one sang, “how well it is that you have come near where I have awaited you, having all delight prepared for you!. [Part II. The Return to Greece. Chapter VI. In the Land of the Phæacians]

That he must educate himself over again, for objects quite new, in an air altogether hostile to his old educations, was the only certainty; but how he was to do it, —how he was to convert the idler in Rotten Row into the lobbyist of the Capital, —he had not an idea, and no one to teach him.. [The Press (1868)]

T.B. germs, but how can we make international solidarity seem practical to the dub average voters, _how_!. [The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life]

Oh, how stubbornly does love, —or even that cunning semblance of love which flourishes in the imagination, but strikes no depth of root into the heart, —how stubbornly does it hold its faith until the moment comes when it is doomed to vanish into thin mist!. [Rappaccini’s Daughter]

” It is very probable, too, that Katerina Ivanovna longed on this occasion, at the moment when she seemed to be abandoned by every one, to show those “wretched contemptible lodgers” that she knew “how to do things, how to entertain” and that she had been brought up “in a genteel, she might almost say aristocratic colonel’s family” and had not been meant for sweeping floors and washing the children’s rags at night.. [Chapter II. Part V]