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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.

Inquirer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) During the interview process, nurse applicants frequently inquire about the availability of such a program and have been very favorably impressed when we have been able to offer them this approach to orientation.
  • (2) It was suggested that death registrations for those under 1 year of age could be improved if the health visitors would specifically inquire 1) about the health status of each newborn at every visit during the 1st year and 2) about the outcome of each pregnancy observed by the visitors.
  • (3) "Amazingly my mobile number was on it, so they were inquiring where they should deliver the parcel," they added.
  • (4) Therefore, even given the existence of concordant cases, without inquiring precisely into the quality or degree of anorexia nervosa, it is not possible to conclude that hereditary factors play a determining role in the etiology of anorexia nervosa.
  • (5) A total of 324 subjects, aged from 16 to 90, with 320 prostheses were inquired according to various indices.
  • (6) Had they bothered to inquire of a veteran from the ranks, they might have heard how exasperating it is to see the dainty long-range patriots of Labour thrashing it out with the staunch gutter jingoists of the Conservative party – and barely a non-commissioned vet among them.
  • (7) Before undergoing a polysomnographic examination, 123 patients filled in a questionnaire inquiring about fatigue and sleepiness while driving a vehicle as well as accidents during the past three years.
  • (8) Under improvement of technology of the cobalt-base-alloy "Gisadent KCM 83", the influence of different mould temperatures to the alloy surface was inquired with help of comparism.
  • (9) The purpose of this investigation was to simultaneously inquire into several aspects of verbal learning and memory function that have been reported or hypothesized to be compromised in individuals with CPS of left temporal lobe origin.
  • (10) Their condemnation of inquiring journalism is age old, almost ritualistic.
  • (11) Unstructured speech samples from 20 institutionalized and 20 noninstitutionalized retarded children were employed using the computerized General Inquirer System and the Harvard III Psychosociological Dictionary.
  • (12) One hundred and ten infants were followed up from birth to 1 year of age by alternate day home visits, to inquire about the type of food, and frequency of consuming it.
  • (13) Sixty percent of inquiring physicians were consultants to primary physicians.
  • (14) After the war, Auerbach notes mournfully, the standardisation of ideas, and greater and greater specialisation of knowledge gradually narrowed the opportunities for the kind of investigative and everlastingly inquiring kind of philological work that he had represented; and, alas, it's an even more depressing fact that since Auerbach's death in 1957 both the idea and practice of humanistic research have shrunk in scope as well as in centrality.
  • (15) The data are analyzed using INQUIRE, an original data retrieval system.
  • (16) The investigators ascertained the family history, inquired and examined patients, referred the patients' relatives for ECG and echocardiographic investigations.
  • (17) Tottenham inquired about taking the forward Kevin Mirallas from Everton but they were told he was not for sale.
  • (18) The high number of responses (356 for 1,353 questionnaires) indicates the credibility of the inquiring organizations and the extreme sensitivity of the medical profession to AIDS.
  • (19) Psychiater and anthropologist, the author tries to inquire into the secret of traditional practitioners.
  • (20) This paper summarizes a research study inquiring into the attitudes of qualified nursing staff and nursing auxiliaries towards stroke patients in general medical wards.