(n.) The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.
(n.) Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
(n.) Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
(n.) That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
(n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.
(n.) Talk; conversation; speech; speech.
(n.) To ask questions; to inquire.
(n.) To argue; to converse; to dispute.
(v. t.) To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.
(v. t.) To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
(v. t.) To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
(v. t.) To talk to; to converse with.
Example Sentences:
(1) Recently, the validity of the American Thoracic Society (ATS) standards for selection of spirometric test results has been questioned based on the finding of inverse dependence of FEV1 on effort.
(2) Theoretical findings on sterilization and disinfection measures are useless for the dental practice if their efficiency is put into question due to insufficient consideration of the special conditions of dental treatment.
(3) Collins said she asked Sullivan several questions, including who the women were.
(4) A remarkable deterioration of prognosis with increasing age rises the question whether treatment with cytotoxic drugs should be tried in patients more than 60 years old.
(5) As the requirements to store and display these images increase, the following questions become important: (a) What methods can be used to ensure that information given to the physician represents the originally acquired data?
(6) These findings raise questions regarding the efficacy of medical school curriculum in motivating career choices in primary care.
(7) We are pursuing legal action because there are still so many unanswered questions about the viability of Shenhua’s proposed koala plan and it seems at this point the plan does not guarantee the survival of the estimated 262 koalas currently living where Shenhua wants to put its mine,” said Ranclaud.
(8) The Bohr and Root effects are absent, although specific amino acid residues, considered responsible of most of these functions, are conserved in the sequence, thus posing new questions about the molecular basis of these mechanisms.
(9) The Department of Health referred questions to Monitor.
(10) However, each of the studies had numerous methodological flaws which biased their results against finding a relationship: either their outcome measures had questionable validity, their research designs were inappropriate, or the statistical analyses were poorly conceived.
(11) testosterone, fentanyl, nicotine) may ultimately be administered in this way, important questions pertaining to pharmacology (tolerance), toxicity (irritation, sensitisation) and dose sufficiency (penetration enhancement) remain.
(12) Renal arteriography is therefore alone capable of answering two primordial questions: "Must surgery be undertaken and when operating, what surgical tactics to adopt".
(13) Tap the relevant details into Google, though, and the real names soon appear before your eyes: the boss in question, stern and yet oddly quixotic, is Phyllis Westberg of Harold Ober Associates.
(14) In our opinion, a carcinologically "malignant" metastatic myxoma remains a questionable pathological entity.
(15) Gwendolen Morgan, the lawyer at Bindmans dealing with the case, said: "We have grave concerns about the decision to use this draconian power to detain our client for nine hours on Sunday – for what appear to be highly questionable motives, which we will be asking the high court to consider.
(16) There are questions with regard to the interpretation of some of the newer content scales of the MMPI-2, whereas most clinicians feel comfortably familiar, even if not entirely satisfied, with the Wiggins Content Scales of the MMPI.
(17) Patients' and therapists' discourses can be analysed from tape recordings or from their responses to open-ended questions.
(18) The question addressed by this study is whether patients with other pharyngeal pouch malformations could also have immunologic abnormalities.
(19) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
(20) What if the court of justice refuses to answer the question?
Unquestionably
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) Thus, in spite of its excellent activity and unquestionable effectiveness, rifampicin should be used with caution in severe staphylococcal infections.
(2) The curiously double nature of the virgin in this tale, her purity versus her duplicity, seems unquestionably related to the infantile split mother, as elucidated by Klein--a connection explored in an earlier paper.
(3) The validity of ASI in diagnosing these problems was unquestionable, but the cross-cultural significance of some problem areas is doubtful.
(4) The survey demonstrated the frequency of the unquestionably positive sera: 79.4% of the studied sera.
(5) Cigarette smoking is unquestionably the leading contributing factor.
(6) But while she unquestionably adds colour to Westminster, the outspoken MP has also shown a repeated facility for self-sabotage.
(7) It is unquestionable that people coming from inside Syria are ... in need of international protection,” she said.
(8) The Coordinating Council on Medical Education is unquestionably a significant attempt to demonstrate public accountability.
(9) The syncope occurred in a state of acute drunkenness in 14 cases and was unquestionably due to the absorption of medicines in 6 cases.
(10) The same phenomenon is observed in other countries and particularly the USA, where surveys show unquestionable disappointment among internists with the quality of their working life arising from concerns over a private life-invading profession, low income, increasing administrative burdens and loss of clinical decision-making autonomy.
(11) While its impact on retail is unquestionable, from user reviews of products through to its persistence in developing a slick, global department store, Rayner points out that there has also been plenty of pain for Amazon’s gain.
(12) His membership of Nigeria's superwealthy scene is unquestionable.
(13) The report also pointed to “unquestionable” failings that allowed Salah Abdeslam , the only surviving member of the November Paris attack team, to flee from France by car to his home country of Belgium hours after the attacks.
(14) An English parliament, wherever it was based, would still be dominated by the economic imperatives of the City of London, meaning that market-based solutions will continue to be unquestionably followed, no matter what their implications for our communities.
(15) Even though its clinical diagnosis is difficult, radiology plays a decisive role with US, CT, MR imaging and, above all, angiography; the latter, together with liver biopsy, generally provides with an unquestionable diagnosis.
(16) Three histological criteria (necrotizing vasculitis of the small vessels, perivascular infiltration with numerous eosinophils and extravascular granulomas) enable this anatomico-clinical syndrome to be identified, but the granuloma component is frequently missing and the existence of borderline states, notably with periarteritis nodosa, is unquestionable.
(17) The cyclic expression of CD45RC isoforms on both immature and mature CD4 T cells and the fact that the low molecular weight isoform was found in the periphery on both RTE (unquestionably naive) and antigen-experienced CD4 T cells, makes it unlikely that this isoform uniquely identifies memory T cells, at least in the rat.
(18) Of unquestionable therapeutic value was the use of magnesium for the treatment of 2 episodes of severe ventricular extrasystoles with "torsades de pointe".
(19) Casino Royale is arguably his best book, and when eventually it was filmed with Daniel Craig in 2006 (there had been a sad, jokey, non-canonical version in 1967), it was unquestionably the closest the movie series has come to capturing the spirit of Fleming's early work.
(20) Commenter Chumbaniya responds: The answer here is yes, unquestionably.