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inquiry

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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES an accident investigation/inquiry ▪ The two deaths are the subject of an accident inquiry. ▪ Accident investigations often take months. call for an inquiry/investigation ▪ Relatives have called for an inquiry into the ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Inquiry is a Canadian current affairs television series which aired on CBC Television from 1960 to 1964.

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning. 2 Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation; as, physical inquiries.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., enquery , from enquere (see inquire ). Respelled from mid-16c. to conform to Latin.

Usage examples of inquiry.

For example, an anion gap on the electrolyte panel combined with metabolic acidosis on arterial blood gases would prompt an inquiry into ASA, methanol, or ethylene glycol as potential etiologic agents.

Komel Sard, adjudicator, hereby order the unlocking of alibi receptacle 16,321, for just and appropriate legal inquiries.

And, although amid the ever-growing degeneracy of mankind, this primeval word of revelation was falsified by the admixture of various errors, and overlaid and obscured by numberless and manifold fictions, inextricably confused, and disfigured almost beyond the power of recognition, still a profound inquiry will discover in heathenism many luminous vestiges of primitive Truth.

There would never have been any inquiry without this adumbration, there would never have been any knowledge without it.

If your advertisement is in the business-to-business arena, it should gain inquiries and leads for the sales force by offering an incentive for a response.

What they wanted was not a limited, academic type of inquiry such as they expected to be made by the Condon team, but a country-wide effort involving the resources of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration.

After another few minutes of polite inquiries about Agatine, Orlin, the four boys, the charms of Roseguard and wishes for a safe return journey, Anniyas excused herself to talk with Kanen EHevit.

There is not simply an inquiry as to the value of classic culture, a certain jealousy of the schools where it is obtained, a rough popular contempt for the graces of learning, a failure to see any connection between the first aorist and the rolling of steel rails, but there is arising an angry protest against the conditions of a life which make one free of the serene heights of thought and give him range of all intellectual countries, and keep another at the spade and the loom, year after year, that he may earn food for the day and lodging for the night.

Looking down the list of Artesian authorities, a certain oddity--I had almost written absurdity--in your name attracted my attention, and I found upon inquiry that my young friend, Mr.

If Davies were once to know his good name had been attacked, and that his explanation of his failure to reach his men or give notice of their plight had been aspersed, somebody might put him up to demanding a court of inquiry.

A green light indicated that the avionics were talking to the weapons and getting the right answers to their electronic inquiries.

I made inquiries of an old man in that canoe, to pass the time away, Baas, as Issicore was at the other end and could not hear me.

Granger Bates, whose escort could not but expect to draw scrutiny and to provoke inquiry.

Having made this unsuccessful inquiry, she pretended to shed a flood of tears, bewailing her own fate, in being near the person of any lady who met with such a misfortune, by which, she observed, her character might be called in question.

He made the inquiry forcefully, demanding a response and quite indifferent as to whether or not the biped might find this line of inquiry offensive.