verb
definition
To ask (about something).
definition
To make an inquiry or an investigation.
definition
To call; to name.
noun
definition
Inquiry
adjective
definition
Inquisitive
Examples of inquiring in a Sentence
He cleared his throat and met her inquiring gaze.
The three sat, Sarah inquiring about their day.
Gerasim gazed at the officer with an alarmed and inquiring look.
Come on, inquiring minds want to know.
He fixed inquiring eyes on Bordeaux.
I can't help you through the authorities; they'll ask me why I'm inquiring and I don't have an answer.
They were simply inquiring about the current ownership.
In the first two hours at his desk, 20 people came up to Dean inquiring about poor Fred O'Connor.
Pierre gave her an inquiring look.
Not only does a good army commander not need any special qualities, on the contrary he needs the absence of the highest and best human attributes--love, poetry, tenderness, and philosophic inquiring doubt.
It is probable that from an early age his inquiring disposition led him to engage in travels, both in Greece and in foreign countries.
Natasha without saying anything stepped up to her father and looked at him with surprised inquiring eyes.
At Jonathan's inquiring look, she merely said, "Something doesn't feel right."
If we go back to the first instance cited, the embryo in the seed and its development during germination, we can ascertain what is necessary for its life by inquiring what are the materials which are deposited in the seed, and which become exhausted by consumption as growth and development proceed.
The time had come for deliberate reconstruction, for inquiring whether the existence of many admitted evils was, as it was said to be, unavoidable; for proving that the needs of society may be classified and provided for by contrivances which shall not clash --?
It seems now surprising that vague counting by generations should so long have prevailed and satisfied the wants of inquiring men, and that so simple, precise and seemingly obvious a plan as counting by years, the largest natural division of time, did not occur to any investigator before Eratosthenes.
They all gazed with the same dissatisfied and inquiring expression at this stout man in a white hat, who for some unknown reason threatened to trample them under his horse's hoofs.
Corday asked the question as casually as if he was inquiring about the weather.
It was not till 1840 that his Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit, by far his most seminal work, was posthumously published.
The victorious huntsman rode off to join the field, and there, surrounded by inquiring sympathizers, recounted his exploits.
The great object of 17th-century moralists had been to find some general principle from which the whole of ethics could be deduced; common-sense, by turning its back on abstract principles of every kind, forced the philosophers to come down to the solid earth, and start by inquiring how the world does make up its mind in fact.
His inquiring and philosophical mind gradually led him to wider studies.
Keeping clearly in view his premises - the existence of God and the limited nature of knowledge - Butler begins by inquiring into the fundamental pre-requisite of all natural religion - the immortality of the soul.
He did so at first, probably, in a humble way; but a school, not of boys to be taught the elements of learning, but of young and inquiring spirits who wished to be instructed in the principles of right conduct and government, gradually gathered round him.
It is characteristic of the two men that the latter, a transcendental dreamer, appears to have thought little of his visitor, while Confucius, an inquiring thinker, was profoundly impressed with him.
Isn't that friendship? remarked the count in an inquiring tone.
Prince Bagration was thanking the individual commanders and inquiring into details of the action and our losses.
Only when footsteps or voices were heard did they look at one another, the princess anxious and inquiring, the nurse encouraging.
In Petersburg they were provincials, and the very people they had entertained in Moscow without inquiring to what set they belonged, here looked down on them.
Moreover we commonly find the logician assuming that the process of thought has advanced a certain length before his examination of it begins; he takes his material full-formed from perception, without, as a rule, inquiring into the nature of the conceptions which are involved in our perceptive experience.
Disraeli studied too, no doubt, reading and inquiring and applying set thought, but such means were insufficient to put into his mind all that he found there.
The motto that he adopted for use with the arms emblazoned for him as cardinal - Co p ad cor loquitur, and that which he directed to be engraved on his memorial tablet at Edgbaston - Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem - together seem to disclose as much as can be disclosed of the secret of a life which, both to contemporaries and to later students, has been one of almost fascinating interest, at once devout and inquiring, affectionate and yet sternly self-restrained.
In an era where citizens are better informed and more inquiring doing doing doings to people will no longer work.
He was always reading, learning, inquiring.
Anna Mikhaylovna looked attentively at the sick man's eyes, trying to guess what he wanted; she pointed first to Pierre, then to some drink, then named Prince Vasili in an inquiring whisper, then pointed to the quilt.
She looked at her niece, as if inquiring what she was to do with these people.
She took the liberty of inquiring whether it was long since Anatole had left Paris and how he had liked that city.
I would not be silly and afraid of things, I would simply embrace him, cling to him, and make him look at me with those searching inquiring eyes with which he has so often looked at me, and then I would make him laugh as he used to laugh.
You can also leave a notice on the community board at your local thrift store inquiring about any used wooden swingsets.
When inquiring about a used trailer, ask if it possible to have it hooked to a truck when you get there or-if that isn't possible from the seller-if you can bring your own truck to hook the trailer to.
Some applications for gas cards delve a little further into the creditworthiness of an applicant by asking about previous bankruptcies and delinquencies as well as inquiring about income.
While there doesn't appear to be a national summer program in place, contacting a local office and inquiring about what type of help is needed and what you would like to do could generate an internship.
However, if you are planning a family reunion on an Alaskan cruise, then you might consider inquiring about a group rate.
While you could certainly download and print the PDF version of the DROID owner's manual, you may also have some luck inquiring with your local Verizon retailer.
The pediatrician will continue in the same manner as before-doing a physical exam and noting changes, asking questions about development, and inquiring about feeding and sleeping habits.
Before scheduling an appointment, prospective clients are urged to learn more about hair salons by contacting them directly and inquiring about the services they offer for everyone's individual needs.
On one occasion, for instance, Heraclea was afflicted with famine, and the Pythian priestess at Delphi, bribed by Heraclides, assured his inquiring townsmen that the dearth would be stayed if they granted a golden crown to that philosopher.
The French mathematicians, Coulomb, Biot, Poisson and Ampere, had been content to accept the fact that electric charges or currents in conductors could exert forces on other charges or conductors at a distance without inquiring into the means by which this action at a distance was produced.
Meet other homeschoolers by inquiring at local school supply stores that sell products to teachers and homeschoolers.
However, keep in mind that employers can't ask questions about your health, other that inquiring if there are any reasons that you can't perform the essential functions of the job you are applying for.