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Similar words: but whatsomewhatwhatsoeverwhat is morewhalehatthatand thatMeaning: [wɒt]  pron.1. (used interrogatively as a request for specific information): What is the matter? 2. (used interrogatively to inquire about the character, occupation, etc., of a person): What does he do? 3. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the origin, identity, etc., of something): What are those birds? 4. (used interrogatively to inquire as to the worth, usefulness, force, or importance of something): What is wealth without friends? 5. (used interrogatively to request a repetition of words or information not fully understood, usually used in elliptical constructions): You need what? 6. (used interrogatively to inquire the reason or purpose of something, usually used in elliptical constructions): What of it? 7. how much?: What does it cost? 8. (used relatively to indicate that which): I will send what was promised. 9. whatever; anything that: Say what you please. Come what may. 10. the kind of thing or person that: He said what everyone expected he would. They are just what I was expecting. 11. as much as; as many as: We should each give what we can. 12. the thing or fact that (used in parenthetic clauses): He went to the meeting and, what was worse, insisted on speaking. 13. (used to indicate more to follow, additional possibilities, alternatives, etc.): You know what? Shall we go or what? 14. (used as an intensifier in exclamatory phrases, often fol. by an indefinite article): What luck! What an idea! 15. Brit. don't you agree?: An unusual chap, what? 16. Nonstandard. that; which; who: She's the one what told me. 17. Say what? Slang. (used esp. among teenagers) What's that you say? Would you repeat that? 18. So what? Informal. (an expression of disinterest, disinclination, or contempt.) 19. what have you, other things of the same kind; so forth: money, jewels, stocks, and what have you. 20. what for, why: What are you doing that for? a punishment or scolding. 21. what if, what would be the outcome if; suppose that: What if everyone who was invited comes? 22. what it takes, something that enables one to achieve success or attain a desired end, as good looks, ability, or money: There's a young woman who has what it takes to get along in the world. 23. what's what, Informal. the true situation; all the facts: It's high time you told him what's what. n.24. the true nature or identity of something, or the sum of its characteristics: a lecture on the whats and hows of crop rotation. adj.25. (used interrogatively before nouns): What news? What clothes shall I pack? 26. whatever: Take what supplies you need. adv.27. to what extent or degree? how much?: What does it matter? 28. (used to introduce a prepositional phrase beginning with with): What with storms and all, their return was delayed. 29. Obs. for what reason or purpose? why? interj.30. (used in exclamatory expressions, often fol. by a question): What, no salt? conj.31. Older Use. as much as; as far as: He helps me what he can. 32. but what, Informal. but that; but who; who or that ... not: Who knows but what the sun may still shine.. 
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(1) What is not wisdom is danger. 
(2) We see not what is in the wallet behind. 
(3) What makes life dreary is the want of motive. 
(4) What I have done is due to patient thought. 
(5) Never trust another what you should do yourself. 
(6) What goes up must come down. Isaac Newton 
(7) Sickness shows us what we are. 
(8) What the king wills, that the law wills. 
(9) Reap as (or what) one has sown. 
(10) What is known to three is known to everybody. 
(11) What is done cannot be undone. 
(12) You must reap what you have sown. 
(13) What the eye sees not, the heart craves not. 
(14) Come what may, heaven won't fall. 
(15) You cannot lose what you never had. 
(16) What we learn with pleasure we never forget. 
(17) What is done by night appears by day. 
(18) What is wealth good for, if it brings melancholy? 
(19) Conversation makes one what he is. 
(20) What youth is used to, age remembers. 
(21) What we are ignorant of is immense. 
(22) What can’t be cured must be endured. 
(23) Things are seldom what they seem. 
(24) What is one man's cloud is another man's sunshine. 
(25) What is soon learnt is soon forgotten. Sentencedict.com 
(26) Misfortunes tell us what fortune is. 
(27) Children are what the mothers are. 
(28) What we do willingly is easy. 
(29) Speech shows what a man is. 
(30) Do what you ought, and come what can. 
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