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Interrogation   /ɪntˌɛrəgˈeɪʃən/   Listen
Interrogation

noun
1.
A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply.  Synonyms: interrogative, interrogative sentence, question.  "He had trouble phrasing his interrogations"
2.
A transmission that will trigger an answering transmission from a transponder.
3.
Formal systematic questioning.  Synonyms: examination, interrogatory.
4.
An instance of questioning.  Synonyms: enquiry, inquiry, query, question.  "We made inquiries of all those who were present"  Antonym: answer.



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"Interrogation" Quotes from Famous Books



... seems to me that the church is not what she ought to be, and this being true the vision is denied. One of my friends said the other day that the difficulty with the church is that she has lost her interrogation point. At the day of Pentecost people were saying, "What do these things mean?" To-day they never think of saying it. I have been told in a little pamphlet issued by an English writer that the church has lost her possessive ...
— And Judas Iscariot - Together with other evangelistic addresses • J. Wilbur Chapman
... interrogation tumbled too eagerly from the soldier's lips to be consonant with his wary assumption of innocence. "There are so many Dukes. Myself, I ...
— The Lighted Match • Charles Neville Buck
... for some presents. They were only school-girl letters," she added, nervously answering the interrogation of ...
— Tales of the Argonauts • Bret Harte
... we intended to occupy that. Evidently our English conversation had gained for us the covert reputation of being English spies, and this was verified in the minds of our hosts when we began to ask questions about the city prisons we had passed on our way. To every interrogation they replied, "I don't know." But presto, change, on the presentation of documents! Apologies were now profuse, and besides tea, bread, and eggs, the usual rations of a Russian post-station, we were exceptionally favored with ...
— Across Asia on a Bicycle • Thomas Gaskell Allen and William Lewis Sachtleben
... she's much better." Meta's eyes flashed interrogation into Rose's: Rose's returned back glances which spoke whole volumes ...
— A Sweet Girl Graduate • Mrs. L.T. Meade


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