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(text messaging) A question.
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(dialectal, now chiefly West Africa, African-American Vernacular, MLE and Irish English) To ask.
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Obsolete spelling of answered; past tense of answer
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Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt”) [An act or instance of asking.]
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(idiomatic) To enquire about the health or progress (of someone).
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To increase the likelihood of something by persisting in some action; to invite.
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Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt; lizard”) [An act or instance of asking.]
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Somebody who is asked something.
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Alternative form of ask (“eft, newt”) [An act or instance of asking.]
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The act or process of posing a question or making a request.
adv
In an asking manner; so as to ask.
v
Pronunciation spelling of ask. [(transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).]
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(now nonstandard or dialectical, especially African-American Vernacular and Bermuda) Alternative form of ask [(transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).]
v
(transitive, proscribed) In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).
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(philosophy, logic, law) To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii).
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(idiomatic) An important and pertinent question that urgently requires an answer.
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(by extension) A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first.
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A questioning technique focused on the use of language, assumptions, metaphors, paradigms and sensations familiar to the person questioned.
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Collective inquiry into something
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(transitive) to subject to close questioning.
adj
Tending to ask questions, or to want to explore or investigate; inquisitive; (with a negative connotation) nosy, prying.
v
Obsolete spelling of demand [To request forcefully.]
v
Obsolete spelling of demand [To request forcefully.]
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(grammar) A question asked in a direct way, for example How old are you?
n
A methodical inquiry or investigation.
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Pertaining to disquisition; of the nature of disquisition.
adj
Relating to disquisition; fond of discussion or investigation; inquisitive.
adj
Of or pertaining to disquisition; disquisitive.
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Alternative form of domestic enquiry [(India, Malaysia, labour law) A formalized procedure on the part of the employer to verify allegations of misconduct before dismissing an employee or imposing any penalty or censure on him.]
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(rare) A question taking the form "did you know?".
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An instance of making an enquiry; an asking.
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(Britain, Australia, New Zealand) A question.
adj
Of or pertaining to questioning.
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Pronunciation spelling of is. [(now colloquial) Used in phrases with existential there when the semantic subject is a third-person plural.]
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(obsolete) To search into or out.
adj
Designed to determine factual information; investigative.
n
The questions who, what, when, where and why, useful in gathering information and solving problems.
v
(transitive, dialectal or obsolete) To ask, inquire.
n
(obsolete) A speaking against; opposition.
n
Information that was heard by one person about another that cannot be adequately substantiated.
adv
(interrogative) In what state or condition.
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(obsolete) Inquiry, investigation.
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(obsolete) Searching; exploring; investigating.
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(grammar) A question asked in an indirect way; either as a statement, for example I'd like to know how much I would earn; or enclosed in another question, for example Could you tell me how much I would earn?
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Obsolete form of enquire. [(intransitive) To make an enquiry.]
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(rare, obsolete) enquiry; quest; search
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(transitive, US) to ask about the health of someone.
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(transitive, US) to ask someone.
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(law) An authority to inquire.
adj
(obsolete) Making enquiry; questioning.
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(rare, obsolete) An inquirer, a questioner.
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The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
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One who is being questioned or interrogated.
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A member of an inquisition; an official questioner or interrogator.
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Eager to acquire knowledge.
adj
In a manner of inquisition or inquisitors.
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A system of criminal procedure resembling the Roman Inquisition.
adj
(obsolete) Making strict inquiry; inquisitorial.
adj
In the manner of an inquisition or inquiry.
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(politics) The act of interpellating (questioning); the period in which government officials are questioned about and explain an act, a policy or a point raised during a debate.
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So as to interrogate; with urgent or bullying questioning.
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The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
n
Alternative spelling of interrogation point [A question mark.]
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(rare) A question; an interrogation.
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an interrogative pronoun used as an adjective
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(typography, obsolete) Synonym of question mark ⟨?⟩.
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One who interrogates; a person who asks questions; a questioner.
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A question; an interrogation.
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One who undergoes interrogation.
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(obsolete) Information or intelligence about something; notice.
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(idiomatic) A final decision, or the right to make such a decision.
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(transitive) To ask or adapt a question so that it will be more likely to be answered in a certain way.
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(law, historical) A writ commanding a further enquiry into something.
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(chiefly US, law) a court order requested by a citizen to summon an individual for a psychiatric evaluation because of concerns regarding that individual's mental instability
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(obsolete) A question mark.
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(transitive) To surpass in questioning.
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A form of tenson in which a question is debated
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(formal, rare or obsolete) A question which cannot properly be given a one-word answer like “yes” or “no”.
adj
(obsolete) Given to or characterised by the asking of questions, especially open-ended ones (percontations).
adj
That investigates or explores deeply; that attempts to elicit information that is concealed.
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(palaeography) The medieval ancestor of the modern question mark (approximately ~̣).
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To ask or pose a question, or make a proposal or suggestion.
adj
(obsolete) questioning
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Alternative spelling of Q and A [A period of time in which questions are asked of a person; an interview.]
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A period of time in which questions are asked of a person; an interview.
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Alternative spelling of Q and A [A period of time in which questions are asked of a person; an interview.]
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(linguistics) A question word.
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Abbreviation of question. [A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.]
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(archaic) To ask or query; used imperatively to introduce a question or signify doubt.
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(law, historical) In ancient Rome, a commission to inquire into a criminal matter given to a citizen (the quaesitor) who then reported to whoever appointed him.
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(obsolete outside divination) An inquirer.
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(formal) A person who asks questions.
n
The act of making a query.
adv
With, or as, a question or query.
n
One who asks a question.
adj
Characterised or marked by inquiry, inquisitiveness, or inquisition
n
(astrology, divination) The object or goal that is sought in divination.
adj
questing; in search of something
n
The act of going in quest of something.
adv
So as to quest; with curiosity, desire to search, etc.
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(now archaic, historical, chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.
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(grammar) The "tag" at the end of a tag question
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To ask that a proposed question's presuppositions be explicitly justified, especially as a preliminary to answering it, for example a complex question or loaded question.
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A word used in forming questions.
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(chiefly attributive) begging the question; that which begs the question; logically circular.
adj
(obsolete) Inviting questions; inviting inquiry.
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(archaic) One who makes it his business to seek after relics and carry them about for sale.
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A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry.
adj
(rare, dated) questioning; full of questions
adv
In a questioning manner.
n
(obsolete) An inquisitive person, a questioner.
v
(US regional, colloquial) To ask questions of; to question.
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(historical) An old game similar to truth or dare.
adj
(India) In terms of or by means of questions.
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(obsolete) A seeker or pursuer.
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(archaic) One employed to collect profits.
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Alternative form of queest
n
The asking of questions; interrogation.
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(archaic or literary, now defective) simple past tense of quethe; said
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Obsolete form of quaere. [(archaic) A question or query.]
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Archaic spelling of query. [A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).]
n
Archaic spelling of question. [A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.]
n
Rare spelling of questionary. [A questionnaire.]
adj
(grammar, of a question) Asking for repetition (and sometimes expressing doubt or confusion).
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Abbreviation of request. [Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).]
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(obsolete) That which is asked for or requested.
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Obsolete spelling of request [Act of requesting (with the adposition at in the presence of possessives, and on in their absence).]
adj
(linguistics) Of, pertaining to, or for the purpose of making requests.
v
(obsolete) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
n
One who, or that which, makes requisition.
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Something that is asked for; the answer demanded by a problem.
v
(transitive) To quiz or interrogate again.
adj
Making researches; inquisitive.
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(colloquial) A question to which the asker does not expect an answer.
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(law) Seeking information or evidence, especially from a foreign court
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A warning given too late to be useful.
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(obsolete) The act of inquiring; inquiry; demand.
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A method of teaching through questions rather than lectures.
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(figuratively) Excessive questioning or interrogation.
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(obsolete) The body of squires, collectively; squirarchy. [14th–16th c.]
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(informal) Intensive rough interrogation in order to extract information or a confession
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One who tells the truth.
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(idiomatic) To ask (used as a dialogue marker or introductory statement).
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(chiefly linguistics) A question that is introduced by a wh-word (what, where, why, etc.) and cannot be answered by yes or no.
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(by extension) Any interrogative word from any language.
adv
(interrogative) In what way; to what extent.
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(pragmatics) An order or imperative phrased obliquely as a question, such as "would you mind closing the window?"
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A person under discussion; a question of which person.
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(idiomatic) retort to questioning about a person by a stranger, when one does not want to confirm or deny knowing or being the person.
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Introducing a complete question.
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(rhetoric) A question that presupposes some controversial premise, such that it cannot be directly answered without incriminating oneself or, at least, unintentionally conceding a point; a loaded question.
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(obsolete, rare) One who withsays; an opponent.
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A question that can only be answered by yes or no and does not allow for elaboration or detail.
v
Pronunciation spelling of say. (usually signifying a foreign accent, often French or German). [(transitive) To pronounce.]
adj
(rare) proceeding by inquiry or investigation
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