What's the difference between enquiry and inquire?

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."

Inquire


Definition:

  • (v. i.) To ask a question; to seek for truth or information by putting queries.
  • (v. i.) To seek to learn anything by recourse to the proper means of knoledge; to make examination.
  • (v. t.) To ask about; to seek to know by asking; to make examination or inquiry respecting.
  • (v. t.) To call or name.

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.