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what it is
noun as in actuality
noun as in terms
Example Sentences
Lyons told The Nolan Show that "we need to tease out what it is exactly that is required and what is reasonable as well".
"That is what it is to play against Rafa in Spain. He is probably the biggest sportsman in Spain to have ever lived."
Being sure that two people seeing what they each call ‘red’ have the same experience when they of it, Nagel effectively argues, is ultimately as impossible as it would be for us to know what it is like to be a bat, having an entire sensory apparatus we lack.
“We have a short memory of what it is like to hold a child that has been paralyzed with polio, or to comfort a mom who has lost her kid from measles. It wasn’t that many generations ago,” she said.
“It’s just misogyny, is what it is. It’s like, I don’t like the fact that this woman is making a living doing this, so I want to degrade her by giving it away.”
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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