that is meaning
EN- Adverb
- (conjunctive) In other words; that is to say. Used to introduce a clarification or explanation.
- (conjunctive) In other words; that is to say. Used to introduce a clarification or explanation.
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- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- It’s an apt metaphor for the music, a collision of African dance genres such as kuduro, kizomba and tarraxinha with house and techno that is unique to Lisbon’s ghettos.
- Although more gracile, it is clearly homologous to the orbitocerebral vein that is present in some sauropods like Diplodocus longus ([42 ]: fig. 6.9) and Camarasaurus lentus ([42 ]: fig. 6.8).
- The stereocontrol that is possible with this type of chemistry is illustrated in the case of cis- and trans-piperylene.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- That is the slough of a rattler; we must be careful.
- That is so. You are responsible for this, is that not so?
- That is the fourth time this week my neighbor's barking dog has woken me up. I'm going to go give her a piece of my mind about it.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of that is in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adverbs
- Conjunctive adverbs
- Uncomparable adverbs
- Conjunctive adverbs
- Adverbs
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this idiom "that is" is an adverb, more specifically, a conjunctive adverb and an uncomparable adverb.