What's the difference between interrogation and interrogatory?

Interrogation


Definition:

  • (n.) The act of interrogating or questioning; examination by questions; inquiry.
  • (n.) A question put; an inquiry.
  • (n.) A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Called also interrogation point.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) On 9 January 2002, a few hours after Blair became the first western leader to visit Afghanistan's new post-Taliban leader, Hamid Karzai, an aircraft carrying the first group of MI5 interrogators touched down at Bagram airfield, 32 miles north of Kabul.
  • (2) Hayden had argued that the harsher interrogation techniques had provided valuable information and said that the techniques did not amount to torture.
  • (3) This time, as a journalist covering the event, I was arrested on the high seas, briefly imprisoned and interrogated on Mururoa itself while the tests continued.
  • (4) The day it opened in the US, three senators – senate select committee on intelligence chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, Carl Levin and John McCain – released a letter of protest to Sony Pictures's CEO, citing their committee's 6,000-page classified report on interrogation tactics and calling on him "to state that the role of torture in the hunt for Osama bin Laden is not based on the facts, but rather part of the film's fictional narrative".
  • (5) A former senior CIA official said the secretary of state at the time, Colin Powell, eventually was informed about the program and sat in meetings in which harsh interrogation techniques were discussed.
  • (6) Others say they were tortured in places such as Egypt, Dubai, Morocco and Syria, while being interrogated on the basis of information that could only have been supplied by the UK.
  • (7) Office interrogation of the AICDs revealed 12 of the 20 patients (60%) had received AICD discharges, with 5 of these 12 patients unaware of this occurring.
  • (8) Zhang Gaoping, 47, told state media that he and his nephew were subject to seven days of brutal interrogation before trial – sleep deprivation, starvation, cigarette burns.
  • (9) The method involves saturating all spins outside a plane, selectively exciting individual lines, phase encoding along each line, sampling the FID without gradients, and interleaving interrogation of multiple lines.
  • (10) However, in documents submitted to the Appeal Court, the prosecutor states she has “continually, over the past two years, tested the conditions and the practical possibility for conducting the interrogations and other necessary investigative measures in Great Britain”.
  • (11) Doctors are failing to keep proper medical records of injuries caused during interrogations.
  • (12) Thus in your own words you have said why it was utterly inappropriate for you to use the platform of a Pac hearing in this way.” He suggested that many professionals were “in despair at the lack of understanding and cheap haranguing which characterise your manner” after a series of hearings at which Hodge has led fierce interrogations of senior business figures and others.
  • (13) Murdoch had one on his, of course, but because he was facing hostile interrogation he looked (unfairly) as if he were wearing it in self-protection as a symbol of his own virtue.
  • (14) In order to exclude physician bias in history taking, 18 patients (9 female) diagnosed as non-ulcer dyspepsia, after endoscopy and gallbladder ultrasonography, underwent computer interrogation using the Glasgow Diagnostic System for Dyspepsia (GLADYS).
  • (15) These men then handed him over to a team of FBI interrogators, who took a lengthy statement.
  • (16) In the words of former CIA agent Robert Baer: "If you want a serious interrogation, you send a prisoner to Jordan.
  • (17) The 6,300-page Senate report on the CIA’s interrogation program has been years in the making.
  • (18) All of the hypotheses tested were supported, indicating that there are three primary factors associated with the reasons why criminals make confessions during interrogation.
  • (19) They have merely changed venue from police stations, where CCTV has been installed in interrogation rooms, to the parking lot on the way.
  • (20) But he has since retreated from that view and told his confirmation hearing that the Senate's report on the CIA's detention and interrogation programme had disturbed him.

Interrogatory


Definition:

  • (n.) A formal question or inquiry; esp. (Law), a question asked in writing.
  • (a.) Containing, expressing, or implying a question; as, an interrogatory sentence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The study was performed by direct or indirect interrogatory, review of the case histories, serologic examinations, and psychological evaluation of the intellectual performance level and psychopathological index.
  • (2) Mayor's Court interrogatories and depositions in six disputes between apprentices and their surgeon and apothecary masters in London in 1654-1684 are reviewed.
  • (3) The author also provides a list of the interrogatories required of defendants in malpractice suits related to implants.
  • (4) The diagnosis is mostly based on a good interrogatory, a careful and systematic physical examination and standard X-rays.
  • (5) If Johnson has even a bit of courage to match his Rome convictions, he should now push for a more interrogatory relationship.
  • (6) These results should be taken into consideration for the exploitation of food surveys, especially norvadays when surveys are made more often at home and at the hospital and concern the individual consumption either by weighing the food consumed at table in dining-room or on the tray of the patient, and also when surveys are realized by interrogatory, the food being then, cooked, without refuse.
  • (7) The physician measured the blood pressure (BP) using the auscultatory method according to the WHO recommendations, after the medical interrogatory.
  • (8) Inquiry progresses from an open-ended to a forced choice interrogatory.
  • (9) We are a welcoming place, no killing, no hate here.” According to research by the University of Brighton out this weekend, unaccompanied child asylum seekers face a “hostile and interrogatory” reception when they arrive, facing “confusing and repetitive” questioning by immigration officers who do not ensure appropriate adults are present.
  • (10) The described experimentation demonstrates the interest of method compared with the classical "interrogatory", particularly with rebellious or "problematic" patients.
  • (11) Comfort, sound formation and food relations of the oral surface of mould cast metal plates have been examined by means of interrogatory examination.
  • (12) A special interrogatory for acute hepatic injury was assessed.
  • (13) Before the consultation and during the medical interrogatory 18 + 8 measures were performed every 2 minutes by an automatic device using the oscillometric method.