Questioner

Definition

question / 'kwestʃǝn / n ၁။ [C] ေမးခြန္း။ ပုစၧာ။ ask a lot of questions ❍ Question 3 is quite difficult. ❍ I will be happy to answer questions at the end. ❍ I'd like to put a question to the speaker. ၂။ [C] ~ (of sth) ျပႆနာ။ ကိစၥ။ What about the question of security? ❍ I've got the job. Now it's a question of finding somewhere to live. ❍ This raises the question of how we finance the project. ❍ I'm afraid he's dying __ it's merely a question of time. သူ ဒီေတာင္က ေက်ာ္ႏိုင္မယ္ မထင္ဘူး၊ ေန႔လား ညလားပဲ။ ၃။ [U] သံသယ။ အျငင္းပြားဖြယ္။ There is no/ some question about his honesty. ❍ Her sincerity is beyond question. ❍ His suitability for the post is open to question. v ၁။ ~ sb (about/ on sth) စံုစမ္းေမးျမန္းသည္။ They questioned her closely about her previous job. ❍ He was questioned by the police for six hours. ❍ Of those questioned, over 50% said they knew they should take more exercise. ၂။ ယံုမွားသံသယျဖစ္သည္။ မသကၤာျဖစ္သည္။ Her loyalty has never been questioned. ❍ I just accepted what he said __ I never thought to question it. ❍ He also questioned whether it was solely the lorry driver's fault. ❏ bring sth/ come into question [ IDM ] ေမးရန္ရိွ သည္။ စဥ္းစားစရာရိွသည္။ It does bring into question the whole purpose of the Nato alliance. ❍ Sunday trading laws came into question again recently. ❏ in question [ IDM ] ၁။ ရည္ၫႊန္းပါ။ အဆိုပါ။ The woman in question is sitting over there. ခုန ေျပာတဲ့မိန္းမဟာ ဟိုမွာထိုင္ေနတယ္။ ❍ The job in question is available for three months only. ၂။ မေရမရာ။ စဥ္းစား ဖြယ္ရာ။ The future of public transport is now in question. ❏ out of the question [ IDM ] စဥ္းစားစရာမလို။ A new bicycle is out of the question __ we can't afford it. ❏ questionable adj ၁။ စဥ္းစားဖြယ္ရာ။ သံသယျဖစ္ဖြယ္ရာ။ a questionable assumption/ decision/ result ❍ It is questionable how necessary the changes are. ၂။ မ႐ိုးသားေသာ။ မဖြယ္မရာ။ questionable earnings ❍ a questionable lifestyle. questionably / -ǝbli / adv ❏ questioner n (စကားရည္လုပြဲ၊ ေဆြးေႏြးပြဲ စသည္တြင္) ေမးခြန္းထုတ္သူ၊ ေစာဒကတက္သူ။ ❏ questioning n [U] စစ္ေဆးေမးျမန္းျခင္း။ စစ္ေၾကာ ျခင္း။ be subjected to hostile/ persistent questioning ❍ The police brought him in for questioning. ❏ questioningly adv မယံုသကၤာသည့္ ဟန္ျဖင့္။ look at sb questioningly ❍ raise an eyebrow questioningly. ❏ question mark n (က) ေမးခြန္းသေကၤတ။ (?)။ (ခ) ယံုမွားသံသယျဖစ္ျခင္း၊ ရိွျခင္း။ There's a question mark against his name __ I'm not convinced he's really the right man for the job. ❏ question-master (also esp US quiz-master ) n (ေရဒီယို႐ုပ္သံပေဟဠိေျဖဆိုပြဲ၌) ေမးခြန္းေမးသူ။ ❏ question time n [U] ပါလီမန္အမတ္မ်ား၏ ေမးခြန္းမ်ားကို ဝန္ႀကီးမ်ားကေျဖဆိုခန္း။ ❏ there is, was, etc some/ no question of [ IDM ] အေၾကာင္းကိစၥေပၚေပါက္သည္ (သို႔) အေၾကာင္းမရိွ။ There was some question of selling the business. ❍ There is no question of anyone being made redundant.

Examples

1. [answer a question] : Why won’t you answer my question?
2. [ask a question] : I regretted asking the question as soon as the words were out.
3. [rephrase a question] : Perhaps I ought to rephrase the question.
4. [evade/sidestep a question] : Politicians have a habit of evading difficult questions.
5. [awkward question] : Children are always asking awkward questions about the facts of life.
6. [a searching/probing question] : Probing questions about my health
7. [answer a question] : Only one person answered all three questions correctly.
8. [raise a question] : Recent incidents are bound to raise questions about the level of violence in football.
9. [address/tackle/resolve a question] : His report did not address the question of air warfare.
10. [vexed question] : The vexed question of the national minimum wage
11. [question over/as to/about] : There had been some question as to whether to interview the boy.
12. [raise questions] : This information began to raise questions in her mind about Jack’s innocence.