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enquire
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times" [syn: ask , inquire ] conduct an inquiry or investigation of; "The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities"; "inquire into ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context intransitive English) To make an enquiry. 2 (context transitive archaic English) To ask about (something).
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Inquire \In*quire"\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Inquired ; p. pr. & vb. n. Inquiring .] [OE. enqueren, inqueren, OF. enquerre, F. enqu['e]rir, L. inquirere, inquisitum; pref. in- in + quarere to seek. See Quest a seeking, and cf. Inquiry .] To ask a question; ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Enquire and similar may mean: ENQUIRE , the predecessor of the World Wide Web EnQuire - Grants Project & Contract Management , a web based software application
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
verb COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a brilliant/enquiring/logical etc mind ▪ a bright child with an enquiring mind apply/enquire within (= used on notices on the outside of buildings ) ▪ Baby rabbits for sale. Enquire within. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ...
Usage examples of enquire.
Professor Pearson has omitted to enquire in a single case whether the alcoholism or the offspring came first.
My excellent appetite astonished him, and he enquired whether I had dined.
During this time she was visited by physicians, attended by nurses, and received constant messages from her acquaintance to enquire after her health.
I did so I should have little liberty left me, I began by enquiring after all my old friends.
The aunt came to me as I was going out of the house, and after enquiring if I were satisfied begged me to come into the parlour.
My new mistress, after giving me an account of her health, requested me to enquire from my jeweller whether he had not by chance made a ring having on its bezel a St.
I could no longer resist the effect made upon my senses by this beautiful girl, who, at the break of day and scarcely dressed, ran gaily into my room, came to my bed enquiring how I had slept, bent familiarly her head towards me, and, so to speak, dropped her words on my lips.
A sailor, expecting to find in me a generous customer, came to enquire where my trunk was, and, hearing from me that I did not know, he, as well as Captain Alban, went to a great deal of trouble to find it, and I could hardly keep down my merriment when the captain called, begging to be excused for having left it behind, and assuring me that he would take care to forward it to me in less than three weeks.
An hour afterwards I had a delicious fish supper, and, before I retired to bed, a servant came to enquire whether I would take chocolate in the morning before or after mass.
While I was waiting for him, Marina came in with a dejected countenance, enquiring how she had deserved my contempt.
But at that very moment, a fine-looking elderly woman came out of a thicket, pronounced my name, and enquired what I wanted and how I had seen her.
I was gaping in the air and listlessly looking round, when a gentleman, splendidly dressed, and three times stouter than I, came up and enquired whether I was a foreigner.
A woman, blind of one eye, about forty years old, but with a remnant of beauty, came up, saluted us politely, and enquired whether we wished to have dinner.
The hostess came up to enquire whether we wanted anything, and she asked if we were not going to the opera, which everybody said was so beautiful.