Word Finder - question

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A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.

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What is your question?

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A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

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The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting.

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A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter.

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He obeyed without question.

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A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.

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I move that the question be put to a vote.

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(chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.

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Talk; conversation; speech.

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To ask questions about; to interrogate; to enquire for information.

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To raise doubts about; have doubts about.

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To argue; to converse; to dispute.

The big question was, would her confidence last?

It wasn't a question, but a flat statement.

The big question was how to end it.

It is a legitimate question that deserves a carefully reasoned answer.

But the critical question is, will they resort to war to resolve them?

So they were going to question her.

No matter how often she asked herself the question, the answer remained elusive.

I smelt the violets in her hand and asked, half in words, half in signs, a question which meant, "Is love the sweetness of flowers?"

That this democratization of information and opinion would lead to vigorous debate and encourage a young monk to question the church?

The director tried to question me but I cut him off, saying we possessed no ambitions beyond what we were doing.

Finally she answered with a question of her own.

Alondra was still a big question mark, but her gut said no to that idea too.

It was a question she'd have to ask Cade.

His question brought her to the present and she glanced up sharply, warmth crawling up her neck again.

Rephrasing the question would be nothing more than a distraction.

Frank wants to talk to you, but I've got a question first.

She sipped her coffee reflectively and finally found the courage ask him a question that had been nagging her since his offer.

This begs the question, "Is any of it any good, really?"

I remembered a question he'd asked.

He would simply evade the question - like he did in Texas.

Frustrating as it was - as he was - it would do no good to question him further.

But the Transvaal War of 1899-1902, to which Australia sent 6310 volunteers (principally mounted rifles), and the gradual increase of military sentiment, brought the question more to the front, and more and more attention was given to making Australian defence a matter of local concern.

Still, one would not dispute whether God existed; but what he was - that was the hard question.

In his speech Cicero briefly dismisses the charge of assassination, the main question being the distribution of the provinces, which was the real cause of the quarrels between DeIotarus and his relatives.

In 1907 he was principal German delegate in the Hague Conference, and was the exponent of Germany's resolute and successful opposition to any practical discussion of the question of restriction of armaments.

The question is further complicated by the account of Joshua's overthrow of Amalek apparently in the Sinaitic peninsula.

But the belief died hard; the synthesis of urea remained isolated for many years; and many explanations were attempted by the vitalists (as, for instance, that urea was halfway between the inorganic and organic kingdoms, or that the carbon, from which it was obtained, retained the essentials of this hypothetical vital force), but only to succumb at a later date to the indubitable fact that the same laws of chemical combination prevail in both the animate and inanimate kingdoms, and that the artificial or laboratory synthesis of any substance, either inorganic or organic, is but a question of time, once its constitution is determined.'.

The question that had perturbed Pierre on the Mozhaysk hill and all that day now seemed to him quite clear and completely solved.

He represented New Jersey in the first and second Continental Congresses (1774,1775-1776), but left Philadelphia in June 1776, probably to avoid voting on the question of adopting the Declaration of Independence, which he regarded as inexpedient.

Delcasse had come to a secret understanding with Spain on the Moroccan question, and had established an understanding with England.

The Stoics were not agreed upon the question.

The moral interest, which is so decisive on this question in the case of Kant, dominates Bishop Butler also.

Naval defence in any case remained primarily a question for the Imperial navy, and by agreement (1903, for ten years) between the British government and the governments of the Commonwealth (contributing an annual subsidy of £200,000) and of New Zealand (£40,000), an efficient fleet patrolled the Australasian waters, Sydney, its headquarters, being ranked as a first-class naval station.

In 1888 the last important conference on the Chinese question was held in Sydney and attended by delegates from all the states.

Provision was made for necessary alteration of the constitution of the Commonwealth, but so that no alteration could be effected unless the question had been directly submitted to, and the change accepted by the electorate in the states.

It was not long, however, before the party itself became divided on the fiscal question; and a Protectionist government coming into power, about half the Labour members gave it consistent support and enabled it to maintain office for about three years, the party as a political unit being thus destroyed.

In the latter year the government of the French Republic confided to him a mission to Rome at the moment when it was a question whether the expelled pope would return to the Vatican with or without bloodshed.

Modern mathematicians may find on reading this brilliant summary a good many dicta which they will call in question, but, whatever its defects may be, Peacock's report remains a work of permanent value.

Two burning questions at the outset confronted Margaret and Granvelle - the question of the new bishoprics and the question of the presence in the Netherlands of a number of Spanish troops.

To know the mind of the god was equivalent to knowing what the god in question proposed to do.

As for the Greeks, it is still an open question whether they perfected their method of hepatoscopy under Etruscan influence or through the Babylonians.

As early as the 3rd century B.C. Megasthenes makes mention of spices brought to the shores of the Ganges from " the southern parts of India," and the trade in question was probably one of the most ancient in the world.

New York protested against the Bennington grant in 1749, but the question did not become serious until the chief obstacle to settlement was removed by the conquest of Canada in 1760-61.

It was on this question that Bonner came into conflict with Edward's government.

The war being now over, the great question of the establishment of Presbyterianism or Independency had to be decided.

The disposal of the king was now the great question to be decided.

Far in advance of his contemporaries on this question, whenever his personal action is don.

Cromwell himself, however, seems to have regarded the question of title as of secondary importance, as merely (to use his own words) "a feather in the hat," "a shining bauble for crowds to gaze at or kneel to."

In September 1844 Calhoun, then secretary of state, sent Green to Texas ostensibly as consul at Galveston, but actually, it appears, to report to the administration, then considering the question of the annexation of Texas, concerning the political situation in Texas and Mexico.

The question of the origin of the Atlantic basin, like that of the other great divisions of the hydrosphere, is still unsettled.