What's the difference between inquire and inquired?
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.
Inquired
Definition:
(imp. & p. p.) of Inquire
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.