Beast vs Question - What's the difference?
beast | question |
Any animal other than a human; usually only applied to land vertebrates, especially large or dangerous four-footed ones.
(more specific) A domestic animal, especially a bovine farm animal.
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*{{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=7 A person who behaves in a violent, antisocial or uncivilized manner.
(slang) A large and impressive automobile.
(slang, prisons) A sex offender.
* 1994 , Elaine Player, Michael Jenkins, Prisons After Woolf: Reform Through Riot (page 190)
* 1994 , Adam Sampson, Acts of Abuse: Sex Offenders And the Criminal Justice System (page 83)
(figuratively) Something unpleasant and difficult.
* 2000 , Tom Clancy, The Bear and the Dragon , Berkley (2001), ISBN 9780425180969,
* 2006 , Heather Burt, Adam's Peak , Dundurn Press (2006), ISBN 9781550026467,
* 2011 , :
(British, military) to impose arduous exercises, either as training or as punishment.
(slang) great; excellent; powerful
* 1999 , "Jason Chue", AMD K6-2 350mhz, FIC VA503+, LGS 64mb PC100 sdram'' (on newsgroup ''jaring.pcbase )
* 2012 , Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits (page 37)
A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
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, title= A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter.
* Bible, John iii. 25
* Francis Bacon
A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
interrogation by torture
* Macaulay
(obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.
To ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information.
* Francis Bacon
To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
(obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
* Shakespeare
As a proper noun beast
is (biblical) a figure in the book of revelation (apocalypse), often identified with satan or the antichrist.As a noun question is
a sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.As a verb question is
to ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information.beast
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(wikipedia beast)Noun
(en noun)- Boxer was an enormous beast , nearly eighteen hands high, and as strong as any two ordinary horses put together.
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared. […]’}}
- Shouts had been heard: 'We're coming to kill you, beasts .' In desperation, Rule 43s had tried to barricade their doors
- For many prisoners and in many prisons, antipathy towards 'nonces' or 'beasts' is little more than an idea
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- Even unopposed, the natural obstacles are formidable, and defending his line of advance will be a beast of a problem."
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- He'd be in the hospital a few days — broken collarbone, a cast on his arm, a beast of a headache — but fine.
- And, oh, poor Atlas / The world's a beast of a burden / You've been holding up a long time
Derived terms
* beastly * saddle beastSee also
* belluine (suppletive adjective)Derived terms
* beast fable * beast of burden * beast of draft * beast of prey * beastie * beastly * beastmaster * beauty and the beast * king of beasts * lobola-beast * belly of the beastVerb
(en verb)Adjective
(en adjective)- There is another type from Siemens which is the HYB 39S64XXX(AT/ATL) -8B version (notice the "B" and the end) which is totally beast altogether.
- Translation: a piece of crap, but the rest of the car was totally beast .
Anagrams
*question
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(wikipedia question)Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(en noun)Mr. Pratt's Patients, passage=I told him about everything I could think of; and what I couldn't think of he did. He asked about six questions' during my yarn, but every ' question had a point to it. At the end he bowed and thanked me once more. As a thanker he was main-truck high; I never see anybody so polite.}}
- The story is true beyond question .
- He obeyed without question .
- There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
- It is to be to question , whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith.
- The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question .
- Made she no verbal question ? Shakespeare King Lear ca. 1606
Synonyms
* inquiry, enquiry, query, subject, topic, problem, issue, consideration, interrogation, doubt, motion, proposition, proposalDerived terms
* a question of * begging the question * beyond question * bonus question * call into question * chicken-or-egg question * closed-ended question * cross-question * essay question * federal question * in question * indirect question * frequently asked questions/FAQ * leading question * loaded question * multiple-choice question * no questions asked * open question * open-ended question * out of the question * pop the question * previous question * questionable * questionist * questionless * questionnaire * question mark * question-master * question sheet * question time * reverse question * rhetorical question * scaled question * tag question * toss-up question * West Lothian question * yes-no questionVerb
- He that questioneth much shall learn much.
- I pray you, think you question with the Jew.