inquiries

Meaning

of Inquiry

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

research enquiry investigation correspondence inquiry query interrogation inquest studies

Phrases with the word

make inquiries make inquiries about inquiries office

Examples

We made no inquiries about India or about the families people had left behind. When our ways of thinking had changed, and we wished to know, it was too late. I know nothing of the people on my father's side; I know only that some of them came from Nepal. V. S. Naipaul

It was here [at the age of seventeen] that I suspended my religious inquiries. Edward Gibbon

We avoid the gravest difficulties when, giving up the attempt to frame hypotheses concerning the constitution of matter, we pursue statistical inquiries as a branch of rational mechanics. Josiah Willard Gibbs

Mathematics is of two kinds, Rigorous and Physical. The former is Narrow: the latter Bold and Broad. To have to stop to formulate rigorous demonstrations would put a stop to most physico-mathematical inquiries. Am I to refuse to eat because I do not fully understand the mechanism of digestion? Oliver Heaviside

The length of life takes the leading place among inquiries about events following birth. Ptolemy

My cares and my inquiries are for decency and truth, and in this I am wholly occupied. Horace