"a mo' di" meaning in All languages combined

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "a modo di"
      },
      "expansion": "a modo di",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of a modo di.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "a mo' di",
      "name": "it-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa [The Depressed Person]”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men], Einaudi",
          "text": "I genitori della persona depressa, ad esempio, che avevano divorziato quando lei era bambina, l'avevano usata a mo' di pedina nei loro giochi perversi, come quando la persona depressa aveva avuto bisogno di ortodonzia e ciascun genitore aveva dichiarato ─ non senza ragione, aggiungeva sempre la persona depressa, viste le ambiguità medico-legali degli accordi di divorzio ─ che doveva essere l'altro a pagarne le spese.\nThe depressed person's parents, for example, who had divorced when she was a child, had used her as a pawn in the sick games they played, as in when the depressed person had required orthodontics and each parent had claimed ─ not without some cause, the depressed person always inserted, given the medical-legal ambiguities of the divorce settlement ─ that the other should pay for it.\n(literally, “The depressed person's parents, for example, who had divorced when she was a child, had used her as a pawn in their perverse games, like when the depressed person had needed orthodontics and each parent had declared ─ not without reason, the depressed person always added, seeing the medical-legal ambiguities of the divorce accords ─ that it had to be the other to pay for its expenses.”)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like, as, by way of"
      ],
      "id": "en-a_mo'_di-it-adv-7N0HLIj7",
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "as",
          "as"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "come"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a‿mˈmɔ di/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a mo' di"
}

{
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "it",
        "2": "a modo di"
      },
      "expansion": "a modo di",
      "name": "m"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Contraction of a modo di.",
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "a mo' di",
      "name": "it-adv"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Italian",
  "lang_code": "it",
  "pos": "adv",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Italian adverbs",
        "Italian entries with incorrect language header",
        "Italian lemmas",
        "Italian multiword terms",
        "Italian terms with IPA pronunciation",
        "Italian terms with quotations"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, David Foster Wallace, “La persona depressa [The Depressed Person]”, in Ottavio Fatica, Giovanna Granato, transl., Brevi interviste con uomini schifosi [Brief Interviews with Hideous Men], Einaudi",
          "text": "I genitori della persona depressa, ad esempio, che avevano divorziato quando lei era bambina, l'avevano usata a mo' di pedina nei loro giochi perversi, come quando la persona depressa aveva avuto bisogno di ortodonzia e ciascun genitore aveva dichiarato ─ non senza ragione, aggiungeva sempre la persona depressa, viste le ambiguità medico-legali degli accordi di divorzio ─ che doveva essere l'altro a pagarne le spese.\nThe depressed person's parents, for example, who had divorced when she was a child, had used her as a pawn in the sick games they played, as in when the depressed person had required orthodontics and each parent had claimed ─ not without some cause, the depressed person always inserted, given the medical-legal ambiguities of the divorce settlement ─ that the other should pay for it.\n(literally, “The depressed person's parents, for example, who had divorced when she was a child, had used her as a pawn in their perverse games, like when the depressed person had needed orthodontics and each parent had declared ─ not without reason, the depressed person always added, seeing the medical-legal ambiguities of the divorce accords ─ that it had to be the other to pay for its expenses.”)",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "like, as, by way of"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ],
        [
          "as",
          "as"
        ],
        [
          "way",
          "way"
        ]
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "come"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/a‿mˈmɔ di/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "a mo' di"
}