تعريف a-question في الإنجليزية الإنجليزية القاموس.
- Question Period
- In Canadian federal and provincial parliaments, a period of regularly scheduled time in the lower chamber during which members of the official opposition party and other members may direct questions to the prime minister and to cabinet ministers concerning affairs of state
Opposition members blasted the Tory budget during Question Period on Wednesday, charging that it raises income taxes on the poorest Canadians.
- West Lothian question
- The anomaly whereby Scottish MPs can vote on issues affecting England, but English MPs cannot vote on Scottish issues
- ask the question
- To make an appeal to the umpire against the batsman
- beg the question
- To raise or prompt a question
Three people were hurt in the fire at the warehouse last night, which begs the question: what were they doing there in the first place?.
- beg the question
- To engage in the logical fallacy of begging the question (petitio principii)
The objection is that the argument begs the question, meaning that the premise, that God has all the virtues, assumes the conclusion, that God is benevolent.
- begging the question
- A logical fallacy in which a premise of an argument contains a direct or indirect assumption that the conclusion is true; offering a circular argument; circular reasoning
It is an instance of begging the question to argue that God can only do good deeds because God is good.
- chicken or egg question
- Alternative spelling of chicken-or-egg question
The apparent one-to-one correspondence between comets and meteor showers raised a chicken or egg question which was not fully resolved until the middle of the twentieth century.
- chicken-or-egg question
- A question to decide which of two interdependent things happened first
- cross-question
- to subject to close questioning
The good man, he looks on us so clear and cheery, and in his neighbourly soft-smiling eyes we see so well our own shadow, - we have a longing always to cross-question him.
- cross-question
- a question performed during a cross-examination
the best way to get things clear is if we gently cross-question this very statement.
- elimination question
- A tie-breaker question in a quiz bowl, or one of a set of such
- federal question
- : a cause of action brought in a court under the United States Constitution or a federal statutes. A federal question gives rise to federal question jurisdiction
- federal question jurisdiction
- : the authority that a United States federal court has to hear a cause of action brought under the United States Constitution or federal statutes
- in question
- Under consideration, under discussion
The topic in question is not something that can be easily addressed due to its sensitivity.
- in question
- Under suspicion; in doubt
The police officer told me the suspect in question was last seen on Swanston St.
- out of the question
- impossible to even contemplate
Redesigning the database at this stage is out of the question.
- polar question
- A question which has only two possible responses: yes (affirmative) or no (negative)
- pop the question
- to propose marriage
He took her to a fancy restaurant, bought her the most expensive thing on the menu, and popped the question.
- question
- A subject or topic for consideration or investigation
The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting.
- question
- To ask questions of; interrogate; enquire; ask for information
- question
- A doubt or challenge about the truth or accuracy of a matter
His claim to the property has come under question.
- question
- An unknown
There was a question of which material to use.
- question
- A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative
What is your question?.
- question
- A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation
I move that the question be put to a vote.
- question
- To raise doubts about; have doubts about
- question mark
- doubt or uncertainty
There’s a question mark over whether or not he’ll be fit for the next game.
- question mark
- The punctuation mark “?”, used at the end of a sentence to indicate a question
- question marks
- plural form of question mark
- question period
- Alternative form of Question Period
- question the question
- To ask that a proposed question’s presuppositions be explicitly justified, especially as a preliminary to answering it
To say that a question is fallacious is to say that it is objectionable to the answerer because it is constructed to force him to accept a proposition that he should not.¹⁰ This problem is compounded if the question is also semantically complex. A semantically complex question is one that contains a connective, ‘and’, ‘or’, or ‘if–then’ in its presupposition. Once again, the answerer must question the question by requesting that the propositions in the presupposition be separated into units that he can reasonable deal with.
- question-mark
- Attributive form of question mark
question-mark key.
- reverse question
- A cutaway scene in a television interview, of the interviewer asking a question, which was actually recorded after the interview took place. The technique is commonly used where only one camera was present at the interview, as a way of creating the appearance of multiple camera angles and showing a scene of the interviewer asking the question, rather than the interviewee listening to the question
- rhetorical question
- A question posed only for dramatic or persuasive effect
- rhetorical question
- A question to which the asker does not expect an answer
Are you nuts? Don't answer that - it's a rhetorical question.
- scaled question
- A question, usually part of a questionnaire, in which the response is chosen from a range of values
Example: Rate the usefullness of this product - from 0 to 10.
- tag question
- A question inviting the listener to indicate agreement, formed by adding a “tag” word or expression to a statement. For example “You love me, don’t you?”
- there are two sides to every question
- One should not make a judgement until one hears the other side
- toss-up question
- During a classroom quiz or game show, a question posed to two opponents where both are able to answer by signaling, and depending on the rules, the one that responds with a correct answer gets either control of the game or to advance to a subsequent round
- yes-no question
- A type of question that can only be answered by yes or no and so does not allow for elaboration or detail
To make it clear for the jury, I will ask you a simple yes-no question. Did you or did you not enter the house on the night of the 15th?.
- yes/no question
- Alternative form of yes-no question
- rhetorical question
- question whose answer is clear, question that was asked solely for the purpose of making an impression
- question
- {n} an interrogatory, inquiry, doubt
- question
- {v} to ask, inquire, examin, doubt
- beg the question
- (of a fact or action) invite an obvious question or point
- beg the question
- assume the truth of an argument or proposition to be proved, without arguing it
- dichotomous question
- (Pazarlama) A closed-ended question in a marketing research questionnaire in which the respondent must choose one of only two possible responses
- out of the question
- Impossible, impracticable, unfeasible, unworkable, inconceivable, unimaginable, unrealizable, unsuitable
- put someone into question
- Cause someone to be evaluated; to examine or reexamine the qualifications or value of someone
- put something into question
- 1. Cause something to be evaluated; to examine or reexamine the qualifications or value of something.2. Cause a feeling of doubt about something
- A question
- enquiry
