inquiry [subject of inquiry. question]

Roget-categorie 461

4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties
› 4.2. Precursory conditions and operations
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#461. Inquiry [Subject of Inquiry. Question]

zelfstandig naamwoord

inquiry — request etc. 765 — search, research, quest, pursuit etc. 622.
examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation^† — perquisition^†, perscrutation^†, pervestigation^† — inquest, inquisition — exploration — exploitation, ventilation.
sifting — calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction — Baconian method^†.
strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry — narrow search, strict search — study etc. (consideration) 451.
scire facias [Lat.], ad referendum — trial.
questioning etc. v. — interrogation, interrogatory — interpellation — challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism — feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy^† — leading question — discussion etc. (reasoning) 476.
reconnoitering, reconnaissance — prying etc. v. — espionage, espionnage [Fr.] — domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain — lantern of Diogenes.
question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism^† — subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy — point in dispute, matter in dispute — moot point — issue, question at issue — bone of contention etc. (discord) 713 — plain question, fair question, open question — enigma etc. (secret) 533 — knotty point etc. (difficulty) 704 — quodlibet — threshold of an inquiry.
[person who questions] inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist^†, examiner, catechist — scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer^† — analyst — quidnunc [Lat.] etc. (curiosity) 455.

werkwoord

make inquiry etc. n. — inquire, ask, seek, search.
look for, look about for, look out for — scan, reconnoiter, explore, sound, rummage, ransack, pry, peer, look round — look over, go over, look through, go through — spy, overhaul.
[object is a topic] ask about, inquire about.
scratch the head, slap the forehead.
look into every hole and corner, peer into every hole and corner, pry into every hole and corner — nose — trace up — search out, hunt down, hunt out, fish out, ferret out — unearth — leave no stone unturned.
seek a clue, seek a clew — hunt, track, trail, mouse, dodge, trace — follow the trail, follow the scent — pursue etc. 662 — beat up one's quarters — fish for — feel for etc. (experiment) 463.
investigate — take up an inquiry, institute an inquiry, pursue an inquiry, follow up an inquiry, conduct an inquiry, carry on an inquiry, carry out an inquiry, prosecute an inquiry etc. n. — look at, look into — preexamine — discuss, canvass, agitate.
[inquire into a topic] examine, study, consider, calculate — dip into, dive into, delve into, go deep into — make sure of, probe, sound, fathom — probe to the bottom, probe to the quick — scrutinize, analyze, anatomize, dissect, parse, resolve, sift, winnow — view in all its phases, try in all its phases — thresh out.
bring in question, bring into question, subject to examination — put to the proof etc. (experiment) 463 — audit, tax, pass in review — take into consideration etc. (think over) 451 — take counsel etc. 695.
question, demand — put the question, pop the question, propose the question, propound the question, moot the question, start the question, raise the question, stir the question, suggest the question, put forth the question, ventilate the question, grapple with the question, go into a question.
[human object], question, put to the question, interrogate, pump — subject to interrogation, subject to examination — cross-question, cross-examine — press for an answer — give the third degree — put to the inquisition — dodge^†.
catechize.
require an answer — pick the brains of, suck the brains of — feel the pulse.
get the lay of the land — see how the wind is blowing — put one's ear to the ground.
be in question etc. adj. — undergo examination.

bijvoeglijk naamwoord

inquiry etc. v. — inquisitive etc. (curious) 455 — requisitive^†, requisitory^† — catechetical^†, inquisitorial, analytic — in search of, in quest of — on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic^† — all searching.
undetermined, untried, undecided — in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry — under discussion, under consideration, under investigation etc. n. — sub judice [Lat.], moot, proposed — doubtful etc. (uncertain) 475.

bijwoord

quaere [Lat.],? what,? why,? wherefore,? whence,? whither,? where,? how comes it,? how happens it,? how is it,? what is the reason,? what's the matter,? nicht wahr [G.],? what's in the wind,? what on earth,? when,? who.
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