What's the difference between enquire and enquiry?

Enquire


Definition:

  • (v. i. & t.) See Inquire.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) I started yelling at him to come back,” Brittany Nicely, of Dayton, told the Cincinnati Enquirer.
  • (2) All patients completed the same set of 29 linear analogue scales that enquired about the severity of health related problems and symptoms.
  • (3) The National Enquirer later published a picture of Rice in Hart’s lap aboard a yacht called Monkey Business.
  • (4) In a comparative study to enquire whether parents of twins, especially of dizygotic twins, have a higher frequency of sexual intercourse than parents of singleton infants, data on sociodemographic status, coital frequency and other variables were collected using a postal questionnaire.
  • (5) magazine to American Media, the publisher of titles including the National Enquirer, for an undisclosed sum.
  • (6) Having offloaded Jonjo Shelvey amid rumours that he was a disruptive, brooding influence, Swansea City have decided to enquire about bringing disruptive, brooding influence Ravel Morrison to the Liberty Stadium from Lazio.
  • (7) Three methods were used to investigate the presence of lower extremity arterial disease - enquiring about symptoms of intermittent claudication; clinical examination (and particularly the detection of arterial bruits); and pressure index calculations from measurements of the ankle and brachial systolic blood pressure using a Doppler ultrasound probe.
  • (8) For the patients in the physician reminder group the physician was reminded at an office visit to assess the patient's tetanus vaccination status and to recommend vaccination; those in the other two reminder groups received a telephone call or letter enquiring about their tetanus vaccination status and recommending a booster dose.
  • (9) Villarreal have informed Arsenal that they will have to meet the €20m buy-out clause in the centre-half Gabriel’s contract if he is to move to London, with the Spanish club one of a number of teams – including Real Sociedad – who have enquired after Joel Campbell’s availability at the Emirates stadium. ]
  • (10) The periodontists enquired about and advised on smoking significantly more frequently than did the other dentists; 71% of the periodontists often or always enquired about, and 62% advised their patients on smoking.
  • (11) The bottom one is smaller: "Please Enquire Within".
  • (12) Even so, a free society requires an independent press: turbulent …enquiring…bustling…and free.
  • (13) In Experiment I children tried to identify which of a set of unfamiliar targets had a given name (X), and after they had chosen, we enquired either whether they knew their chosen item was (X) or whether they were sure.
  • (14) * In Chancery, having noted My Lady Dedlock's interest, Mr Tulkinghorn is enquiring about the identity of the scrivener.
  • (15) And we enquire whether the body is bilaterally asymmetrical.
  • (16) Once there, Lomax - a trainspotter to the end - enquired about the gauge of tracking used for the dolly shot.
  • (17) Eighty-three patients who had been investigated by cholecystogram, barium meal and fibreoptic endoscopy more than two years previously were interviewed to enquire into their reactions to the investigations carried out, their present symptoms, and their present smoking and alcohol consumption.
  • (18) In this paper, Mr Thompson, one of the research fellows appointed to the Edinburgh Medical Group research project, seeks to define medical ethics in relation to traditional ethics in the philosophical sense of enquiring into right and wrong modes of thought and conduct, and to carry that study further into the field of moral decisions made by doctors and other professional people who care for the sick.
  • (19) The problem of why, on the one hand, people bring about death actively while in psychogenic death they "let themselves die" is enquired into.
  • (20) When I enquired about the scope of the study, Dr Sadaf Farooqi, Wellcome Trust senior clinical fellow and reader in human metabolism, explained: "We know that when you look at weight problems across populations, they usually stem from a combination of environmental factors that act upon genes.

Enquiry


Definition:

  • (n.) See Inquiry.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Specimen type, date of sampling, the sender's location and the reason for making the telephone enquiry were recorded.
  • (2) As newer brain imaging techniques that are sensitive to function are developed, this line of enquiry holds considerable promise for furthering our understanding of the anatomy and physiology of emotion.
  • (3) The immunoscintigraphy confirmed the presence of local relapses in seven patients, correlating positively with the results of conventional enquiries.
  • (4) The main areas of enquiry--neuropathological, neuroadiological and psychological - are considered in detail.
  • (5) On the day Fahmy met the Guardian, one of the committee's working groups had just decided to alter the "start date" of their enquiries – moving it from 14 January, the day the Tunisian president Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali was forced from office, back to June 2010 when the Alexandrian youth Khaled Said was killed in broad daylight by two police officers, an incident that mobilised many Egyptians against the Mubarak regime.
  • (6) "I and the [enquiry] panel were surprised that the level of preparation, for a weather event that was off the radar, was not much better than transpired," he said.
  • (7) The foundation espouses a method of urban planning called Enquiry by Design .
  • (8) The three major levels of enquiry regarding possible mechanisms for the transmission of alcoholism and the involvement of genes and gene products in its development are factors related to exposure, metabolism, or pharmacological effects of ethanol.
  • (9) We will continue to work with the police to assist them in this and any other enquiries they are making."
  • (10) This study used the age-sex register of a group medical practice as the population base for a postal and follow-up interview enquiry to locate handicapped people and examined the possibility of the combined use of a practice diagnostic index and the patients' medical records for the same purpose.
  • (11) The panels themselves follow strictly controlled lines of enquiry.
  • (12) The enquiry included 186 deaths during the period from 1948 to January 1, 1990.
  • (13) As the spine flexes and extends, this centre is expected to move; where it moves and the rationale for its motion is worthy of enquiry.
  • (14) These results should, however, be interpreted with caution because of the high proportion (34%) of cases in which the cause of death could not be determined with precision even after the complementary enquiry.
  • (15) Then, the biological requirements for pathogenicity: infection of mucous surfaces; penetration of those surfaces; multiplication in vivo; interference with host defence mechanisms; and damage to the host, are taken in turn, and an enquiry is made on how far studies have progressed toward identifying their molecular determinants and relating structure to biological action.
  • (16) All sides at the Vienna talks have agreed that the resolution of the IAEA’s enquiry into past weaponisation work will only be achieved at some later date over the lifetime of a comprehensive deal, when it will be tied to the lifting of the last sanctions on the country.
  • (17) Labour abandoned the enquiry after evidence was withdrawn by two key witnesses.
  • (18) A natural language, free enquiry patient simulation of high fidelity has been developed using low cost microcomputer technology.
  • (19) The situation changed during the enquiry and the incidence of paralytic cases decreased.
  • (20) Should there be an enquiry we would of course be happy to contribute, if asked."