question
IPA: kwˈɛstʃʌn
noun
- A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
- A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
- A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
- A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
- (now archaic, historical, chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.
- (obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.
verb
- (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
- (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
- (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
- (intransitive, obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
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Examples of "question" in Sentences
- The man waffled as she asks the question.
- Ask the disabled nosy questions and stare.
- Peck also discussed the question of the devil.
- Asks questions of mechanism and teleology as well.
- The badger and the bear have been asking questions.
- The interrogative mood is used for asking questions.
- The question to ask is not if the columnist is human.
- He is known for asking nosy and impertinent questions.
- It's possible to ask the question without being insolent.
- The deadline for asking and answering questions is the end of the election.
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