Cause vs How - What's the difference?
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The source of, or reason for, an event or action; that which produces or effects a result.
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, title= A goal, aim or principle, especially one which transcends purely selfish ends.
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* Burke
(obsolete) Sake; interest; advantage.
* Bible, 2 Corinthians vii. 12
(obsolete) Any subject of discussion or debate; a matter; an affair.
* Shakespeare
(legal) A suit or action in court; any legal process by which a party endeavors to obtain his claim, or what he regards as his right; case; ground of action.
To set off an event or action.
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To actively produce as a result, by means of force or authority.
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, title= To assign or show cause; to give a reason; to make excuse.
To what degree.
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In what manner.
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In what state.
The means by which something is accomplished.
* 1924 , Joseph Rickaby, Studies on God and His Creatures? , p. 102:
In which way; in such way.
That, the fact that, the way that.
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(dialectal) An artificial barrow or tumulus.
(dialectal) A small hill in northern England. (Usage preserved mainly in place names.)
As a verb cause
is .As an adverb how is
to what degree.As a noun how is
the means by which something is accomplished or how can be (dialectal) an artificial barrow or tumulus.As a conjunction how is
in which way; in such way.As an interjection how is
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English
Noun
(en noun)- Her wedding will be cause for celebration.
- They identified a burst pipe as the cause of the flooding.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=He was thinking; but the glory of the song, the swell from the great organ, the clustered lights, […], the height and vastness of this noble fane, its antiquity and its strength—all these things seemed to have their part as causes of the thrilling emotion that accompanied his thoughts.}}
- God befriend us, as our cause is just.
- The part they take against me is from zeal to the cause .
- I did it not for his cause .
- What counsel give you in this weighty cause ?
Synonyms
* (source or reason) reason, sourceDerived terms
* because * causal * causality * causative * cause celebre * efficient cause * final cause * for cause (law) * formal cause * material causeSee also
* effectVerb
(caus)- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
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- I will cause it to rain upon the earth forty days.
The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes. He said that if you wanted to do anything for them, you must rule them, not pamper them. Soft heartedness caused more harm than good.}}
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Derived terms
* causationStatistics
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* English control verbs ----how
English
(wikipedia how)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), (m), (m), (etyl) . /hw/ > /h/ due to in (etyl); compare (m), which underwent this change later, and thus is spelt ''wh ((etyl) spelling of /hw/) but pronounced /h/ (it previously had a different vowel, hence avoided the spelling and sound change in Old English). Vowel change per Great Vowel Shift. Akin to (etyl) (m) ((etyl) (m)), . See (m) and compare (m).Adverb
(-)Boundary problems, passage=Economics is a messy discipline: too fluid to be a science, too rigorous to be an art. Perhaps it is fitting that economists’ most-used metric, gross domestic product (GDP), is a tangle too.
- How are you?
- How was your vacation?
Usage notes
* See usage notes on else. * How good is it?'' means "To what extent is it good?", whereas ''How is it good?'' means "In what manner is it good?". Likewise, ''I know how good it is'' means "I know the extent to which it is good", whereas ''I know how it is good means "I know the manner in which it is good".Derived terms
* how many * how much * how come * how so * know-howNoun
(en noun)- I am not interested in the why, but in the how .
- It is an a posteriori argument, evincing the fact, but not the how .
Conjunction
(English Conjunctions)- I remember how to solve this puzzle.
Don’t Call It ‘Pot’ in This Circle; It’s a Profession]”, in [[w:The New York Times, The New York Times], page A1:
- “There’s this real Al Capone fear that they’re going to get our guys, not on marijuana, but on something else,” Mr. Edson said, referring to how Capone was eventually charged with tax evasion rather than criminal activity.