Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word THAT

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Definitions of THAT

1. (archaic or poetic) Introducing a premise or supposition for consideration: seeing as; inasmuch as; given that; as would appear from the fact that.
2. (archaic or poetic) Introducing an exclamation expressing a desire or wish.
3. Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
4. (dated) Introducing a subordinate clause that expresses an aim, purpose or goal ("final"), and usually contains the auxiliaries may, might or should: so, so that.
5. Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence or effect.
6. Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
7. Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
8. (demonstrative) The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction. [from 9^thc.]
9. The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
10. (demonstrative) The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
11. (relative) (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition. [from 9^thc.]
12. (colloquial) Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
13. (Northern England, Manchester, Liverpool) Clipping of that is; used to reinforce the preceding assertion or statement.
14. (degree) To a given extent or degree.
15. (degree) To a great extent or degree; very, particularly (in negative constructions).
16. (informal, Britain, Australia) To such an extent; so. (in positive constructions).
17. (philosophy) Something being indicated that is there; one of those.
18. Introducing a clause that is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.

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Examples of Using THAT in a Sentence

• Anarchism is a political philosophy and movement that is against all forms of authority and seeks to abolish the institutions it claims maintain unnecessary coercion and hierarchy, typically including the state and capitalism.
• It is measured on a scale from 0 (corresponding to a black body that absorbs all incident radiation) to 1 (corresponding to a body that reflects all incident radiation).
• As the founder of the Peripatetic school of philosophy in the Lyceum in Athens, he began the wider Aristotelian tradition that followed, which set the groundwork for the development of modern science.
• It was inspired by the time that Gershwin had spent in Paris and evokes the sights and energy of the French capital during the.
• Altruism is the principle and practice of concern for the well-being and/or happiness of other humans or animals largely independent of that person's opinion of or reaction to oneself.
• After two early novels that were initially unsuccessful and two Broadway plays, Rand achieved fame with her 1943 novel The Fountainhead.
• Agricultural science (or agriscience for short) is a broad multidisciplinary field of biology that encompasses the parts of exact, natural, economic and social sciences that are used in the practice and understanding of agriculture.
• Amphibians are ectothermic, anamniotic, four-limbed vertebrate animals that constitute the class Amphibia.
• Agriculture was a key factor in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities.
• Most algae are aquatic organisms and lack many of the distinct cell and tissue types, such as stomata, xylem and phloem that are found in land plants.
• In organic chemistry, an alkane, or paraffin (a historical trivial name that also has other meanings), is an acyclic saturated hydrocarbon.
• An appellate court, commonly called a court of appeal(s), appeal court, court of second instance or second instance court, is any court of law that is empowered to hear a case upon appeal from a trial court or other lower tribunal.
• Aqueous Arrhenius acids have characteristic properties that provide a practical description of an acid.
• Depending on its exact composition it can be a sticky, black liquid or an apparently solid mass that behaves as a liquid over very large time scales.
• ANSI accredits standards that are developed by representatives of other standards organizations, government agencies, consumer groups, companies, and others.
• The essay suggests that poor people in Ireland could ease their economic troubles by selling their children as food to the elite.
• Specifically, letters largely correspond to phonemes as the smallest sound segments that can distinguish one word from another in a given language.
• Anatomy is a branch of natural science that deals with the structural organization of living things.
• Ambiguity is the type of meaning in which a phrase, statement, or resolution is not explicitly defined, making for several interpretations; others describe it as a concept or statement that has no real reference.
• They are found over much of the southern two-thirds of the African continent, avoiding areas that are mainly rocky.
• Adobe bricks are rectangular prisms small enough that they can quickly air dry individually without cracking.
• Adventures are often undertaken to create psychological arousal or in order to achieve a greater goal, such as the pursuit of knowledge that can only be obtained by such activities.
• The Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union was an agreement among the 13 states of the United States, formerly the Thirteen Colonies, that served as the nation's first frame of government.
• Building on the transcendental idealism of Immanuel Kant (1724–1804), Schopenhauer developed an atheistic metaphysical and ethical system that rejected the contemporaneous ideas of German idealism.
• The President of the Republic, together with the parliament, appoints the majority of the members of the two highest bodies of the judiciary, that is, the Constitutional Court and the Supreme Court.

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