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So

adverb
1.
To a very great extent or degree.  "Never been so happy" , "I love you so" , "My head aches so!"
2.
In a manner that facilitates.  "He stooped down so he could pick up his hat"
3.
In such a condition or manner, especially as expressed or implied.  "So live your life that old age will bring no regrets"
4.
To a certain unspecified extent or degree.  "Can do only so much in a day"
5.
In the same way; also.  "Worked hard and so did she"
6.
In the way indicated.  Synonyms: thus, thusly.  "Set up the pieces thus"
7.
(usually followed by 'that') to an extent or degree as expressed.  "So dirty that it smells"
8.
Subsequently or soon afterward (often used as sentence connectors).  Synonyms: and so, and then, then.  "Go left first, then right" , "First came lightning, then thunder" , "We watched the late movie and then went to bed" , "And so home and to bed"
9.
(used to introduce a logical conclusion) from that fact or reason or as a result.  Synonyms: hence, thence, therefore, thus.  "The eggs were fresh and hence satisfactory" , "We were young and thence optimistic" , "It is late and thus we must go" , "The witness is biased and so cannot be trusted"
10.
In truth (often tends to intensify).  Synonym: indeed.  "It is very cold indeed" , "Was indeed grateful" , "Indeed, the rain may still come" , "He did so do it!"
noun
1.
The syllable naming the fifth (dominant) note of any musical scale in solmization.  Synonyms: soh, sol.



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"So" Quotes from Famous Books



... which one's good breeding is so much in evidence as at the table. For that reason, mothers should begin to train their children in infancy to correct usage. As soon as a child is able to hold a spoon and fork, he should be taught how to hold them properly, ...
— Mother's Remedies - Over One Thousand Tried and Tested Remedies from Mothers - of the United States and Canada • T. J. Ritter
... heaven has been effected by the opening of their spiritual mind; while this second kind of profanation those fall into in whom the spiritual mind has not been opened, or communication with heaven effected through it. For so long as the delight of the love of ruling resides in man, that mind cannot be opened, and communication with heaven is ...
— Spiritual Life and the Word of God • Emanuel Swedenborg
... ran up, and took Ramses' horse by the bridle on the other side. And so all advanced in silence, astonished at the bearing of the priest, though they felt that something ...
— The Pharaoh and the Priest - An Historical Novel of Ancient Egypt • Boleslaw Prus
... in. One end of the copper tube is bent around so it will point directly into the reamed-out hole in the end of the brass tube, A. A nipple, N, is made by drilling a 1/8-in. hole halfway through a piece of brass and tapping to screw on the end of the 1/8-in. copper pipe. A 1/64-in. ...
— The Boy Mechanic: Volume 1 - 700 Things For Boys To Do • Popular Mechanics
... reverse of this is, shall I say too much if I say, most commonly the case? It seems to be so. Who of us has not at times been conscious of some failure that cut keenly into the very tissue of the heart! And even when no such break may have come there is ever a heart-yearning for more than has yet been experienced. ...
— Quiet Talks on Power • S.D. Gordon


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