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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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(61) What is learned in the cradle is carried to the grave [tomb]. 
(62) Never embark on what comes after without having mastered what goes before. 
(63) If you cannot have the best, make the best of what you have. 
(64) Life is ten percent what you make it and ninety percent how you take it. 
(65) He that doth what he will doth not what he ought. 
(66) Never put off until tomorrow what you can do today. 
(67) Experience is what you get when you don't get what you want. 
(68) He that would know what shall be must consider what has been. 
(69) Expericence is not what happens to a man ; it is what a man does with what happens to him. 
(70) A man is only as good as what he loves. 
(71) Preachers can talk but never teach, Unless they practise what they preach. 
(72) Tell me thy company and I will tell thee what thou art. 
(73) You never know what you can do till you try. 
(74) Reading is to the mind what exercise is to the body. Joseph Addison 
(75) A wise man will make tools of what comes to hand. 
(76) Witiout philosopher man cannot know what he makes ;without religion he cannot know why. 
(77) He that has no children knows not what is love. 
(78) Never put off till tomorrow what may be done today. 
(79) Never say of another what you would not have him hear. 
(80) Man will become better only when you will make him see what he is like. 
(81) He who buys what he does not need will often need what he cannot buy. 
(82) What is a man's first duty? The answer is brief ; to be himself. 
(83) Propagada is the art of persuading others of what one does not beliver oneself. 
(84) Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. 
(85) What is sculpture is to a block of marble,(http://sentencedict.com/what.html) education is to the soul. 
(86) If we cannot get what we like, we have to like what we can get. 
(87) Men of courage, men of sense, and menof letters are frequent: but a true gentleman is what one seldom seen. 
(88) Really, what we want now, is not laws, against crime, but a law a -gainst insaity. 
(89) He who says what he likes shall hear what he does not like. 
(90) What is there sadder under the sun than a day that is gone and notyhing done. 
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