Questions vs Question - What's the difference?
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A game in which players must only say questions, and if they don't they lose. Below is an example of how to play.
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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 nouns the difference between questions and question
is that questions is while 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.questions
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Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(head)- A: Do you know the time?
- B: Can you wait a second while I look for my watch?
- A: Can't you just look at the clock?
- B: Where's the clock?
- A: What clock?
- B: Do you mean the clock on the wall or the one by the door?
- A: What door?
- B: Can you turn around to see the door?
- A: Turn around like this?
- B: Are there any other ways to turn around?
- A: Can you tell me the time yet?
- B: Do you want it the 12-hour or 24-hour format?
- A: Do you think I care?
- B: What does this number on my watch say?
- A: Can't you read numbers?
- B: Do you want to know the time or not?
- A: Of course I do!
- B: Yes, I've just won!
- A: You've won what?
- B: I've won questions !
- A: Ha, that time I won. One all! Game on!
Verb
(head)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.