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Definition of Question

Question

  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
  2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
  3. Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
  4. That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
  5. Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
  6. Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
  7. To ask questions; to inquire.
  8. To argue; to converse; to dispute.
  9. To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
  10. To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
  11. To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
  12. To talk to; to converse with.

Question Quotations

A question that sometimes drives me hazy: am I or are the others crazy?
Albert Einstein

Life's most persistent and urgent question is, 'What are you doing for others?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man, what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man, what will happen to him?'
Martin Luther King, Jr.

A wise man can learn more from a foolish question than a fool can learn from a wise answer.
Bruce Lee

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Question Translations

question in Afrikaans is kwessie, navraag, vraag
question in Dutch is kwestie, vraag, navraag
question in French is questionnent, questionnons, contester, disputer
question in German is Fragen, ausfragen
question in Portuguese is pergunta
question in Spanish is pregunta, preguntar

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