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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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(31) Life is what you make it. 
(32) What cannot be cured must be endured. 
(33) A little of what you fancy does you good. 
(34) We soon believe what we desire. 
(35) What the heart thinks the tongue speaks. 
(36) Be careful what you wish for. 
(37) Don’t put off what you can do today till tomorrow. 
(38) He knows not what love is that has no children. 
(39) Never put off till tomorrow what can [may] be done today. 
(40) What you lose on the swings you gain (or get back) on the roundabouts. 
(41) What is in a name?That which we call a rose by any other name would smell and sweet. 
(42) Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough always proves little enough. 
(43) He who has not tasted bitter knows not what sweet is. 
(44) Educaton does not mean teaching people to kow what they do not know ; it means teachng them to behave as they do not behave. 
(45) What we lose in hake we shall have in herring. 
(46) I don'nt know who my grandfather was. I' m much more concerned to know what his grandson will be. 
(47) My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world ; ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man. 
(48) Resolve to perform what you ought; perform without fail what you resolve. 
(49) What is sauce for the goose is sauce for the gander. 
(50) I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it. 
(51) What is learned in the cradle lasts [is carried] till [to] the grave [tomb]. 
(52) Do not to others what you do not wish them to do to you. 
(53) What we acquire without sweat we give away without regret. 
(54) We should so live and labor in our time that what came to us as seed may go to the next generation as blossom, and what came to us as blossom may go to them as fruit. This is what we mean by progress. 
(55) God is Love, I dare say, but what a mischievous devil Love is. 
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(56) What sculpture is to a block of marble, education is to the soul. 
(57) Nothing comes out of the sack but what was in it. 
(58) True wisdom is know what is best worth knowing, and to do what is best worth doing. 
(59) A man's own manner and character is what most becomes. 
(60) We know not what is good until we have lost it. 
More similar words: but whatsomewhatwhatsoeverwhat is morewhalehatthatand thatall thatin thatat thatthat isnow thatso thatsee thatlaugh atonly thatand all thatseeing thatin order thatthat is to sayat that time
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