QUESTIONS
Noun
questions
plural of question
Noun
questions
A game in which players must only say questions, and if they don't they lose.
Verb
questions
Third-person singular simple present indicative form of question
Source: Wiktionary
QUESTION
Ques"tion, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. quaestio, fr. quaerere, quaesitum, to
seek for, ask, inquire. See Quest, n.]
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.
There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews
about purifying. John iii. 25.
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.
Bacon.
3. Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation;
specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination
under torture. Blackstone.
He that was in question for the robbery. Shak. The Scottish privy
council had power to put state prisoners to the question. Macaulay.
4. That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
But this question asked Puts me in doubt. Lives there who loves his
pain Milton.
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.[Obs.] Shak. In question, in
debate; in the course of examination or discussion; as, the matter or
point in question.
– Leading question. See under Leading.
– Out of question, unquestionably. "Out of question, 't is Maria's
hand." Shak.
– Out of the question. See under Out.
– Past question, beyond question; certainly; undoubtedly;
unquestionably.
– Previous question, a question put to a parliamentary assembly
upon the motion of a member, in order to ascertain whether it is the
will of the body to vote at once, without further debate, on the
subject under consideration.
Note: The form of the question is: "Shall the main question be now
put" If the vote is in the affirmative, the matter before the body
must be voted upon as it then stands, without further general debate
or the submission of new amendments. In the House of Representatives
of the United States, and generally in America, a negative decision
operates to keep the business before the body as if the motion had
not been made; but in the English Parliament, it operates to postpone
consideration for the day, and until the subject may be again
introduced. In American practice, the object of the motion is to
hasten action, and it is made by a friend of the measure. In English
practice, the object is to get rid of the subject for the time being,
and the motion is made with a purpose of voting against it. Cushing.
– To beg the question. See under Beg.
– To the question, to the point in dispute; to the real matter
under debate.
Syn.
– Point; topic; subject.
Ques"tion, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Questioned; p. pr. & vb. n.
Questioning.] Etym: [Cf. F. questionner. See Question, n.]
1. To ask questions; to inquire.
He that questioneth much shall lean much. Bacon.
2. To argue; to converse; to dispute. [Obs.]
I pray you, think you question with the Jew. Shak.
Ques"tion, v. t.
1. To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories;
as, to question a witness.
2. To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
And most we question what we most desire. Prior.
3. To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection
to. "But have power and right to question thy bold entrance on this
place." Milton.
4. To talk to; to converse with.
With many holiday and lady terms he questioned me. Shak.
Syn.
– To ask; interrogate; catechise; doubt; controvert; dispute.
– Question, Inquire, Interrogate. To inquire is merely to ask for
information, and implies no authority in the one who asks. To
interrogate is to put repeated questions in a formal or systematic
fashion to elicit some particular fact or facts. To question has a
wider sense than to interrogate, and often implies an attitude of
distrust or opposition on the part of the questioner.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition