want to know
ask the question
I have a question
preface
sound out
response
answer
hint
reply
put to
submonish
so
allude
interrogative sentence
question
the devil
hey
you
interrogation
suggestional
interrogative
eh
thing
epiplexis
speer
punctuative
raise one's hand
peroration
intimation
percontative
asking
affirmatio
say
do you know what I'm saying
hinting
remark
quiz
anyway
ask for it
question the question
colloquy
erotematic
shall
challenge
pardon me
questionize
enquiring
should
questioningly
inquiry
insinuate
query
enquiry
would
ask
will
inkling
noise
apply
make noises
gambit
description
that
mell
in
interrogatively
interrogate
phrasally
askingly
bagsy
put words in someone's mouth
moot
invite
argumentatively
innit
point of inquiry
the fact that
OK
metaremark
supplicate
kick around
right
propone
what do you mean
you're on
on to
underpoint
smack
fashion statement
stress
suggestional
interrogative
punctuative
percontative
asking
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anyway
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phrasally
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response
answer
reply
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hinting
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bagsy
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moot
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verb
noun
noun
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- a result
- a bodily process occurring due to the effect of some antecedent stimulus or agent
- the manner in which something is greeted
- a phrase recited or sung by the congregation following a versicle by the priest or minister
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- the manner in which an electrical or mechanical device responds to an input signal or a range of input signals
noun
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- a statement that solves a problem or explains how to solve the problem
- the speech act of replying to a question
- the principal pleading by the defendant in response to plaintiff's complaint; in criminal law it consists of the defendant's plea of `guilty' or `not guilty' (or nolo contendere); in civil law it must contain denials of all allegations in the plaintiff's complaint that the defendant hopes to controvert and it can contain affirmative defenses or counterclaims
- a nonverbal reaction
verb
- react verbally
- respond to a signal
- give the correct answer or solution to
- understand the meaning of
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument)
- be liable or accountable
- be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity
- match or correspond
- be satisfactory for; meet the requirements of or serve the purpose of
- react to a stimulus or command
verb
- To bring to mind by a slight mention or remote allusion; to suggest in an indirect manner.
- To develop and add hints to a font.
- To imply without a direct statement; to provide a clue.
noun
- A small, barely detectable amount.
- An instruction to the database engine as to how a query should be executed, for example whether to use an index or not.
- An implicit suggestion that avoids a direct statement.
- A clue.
- Information in a computer-based font that suggests how the outlines of the font's glyphs should be distorted in order to produce, at specific sizes, a visually appealing pixel-based rendering; an instance of hinting.
intj
- Used as a question to ask for further explanation of something said, often rhetorically or in a dismissive or impolite manner.
- Used as a meaningless filler word to begin a response to a question.
- Used after a pause for thought to introduce a new topic, question or story, or a new thought or question in continuation of an existing topic.
conj
- Used to introduce a rhetorical question.
- Used to connect previous conversation or events to the following question.
- With the result that; for that reason; therefore.
noun
- A type of dairy product, made especially in Japan between the seventh and 10th centuries, by reducing milk by boiling it.
- A syllable used in solfège to represent the fifth note of a major scale.
adj
- In that state or manner; with that attribute. A proadjective that replaces the aforementioned adjective phrase.
- True, accurate.
adv
noun
- a sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
- an instance of questioning
- the subject matter at issue
- uncertainty about the truth or factuality or existence of something
- a formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote
- an informal reference to a marriage proposal
verb
intj
- Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- A meaningless beat marker or extra, filler syllable in song lyrics.
- An expression of surprise.
- An exclamation to get attention.
- A request for repetition or explanation; an expression of confusion.
- A protest or reprimand.
- An informal greeting, similar to hi.
noun
det
- Used before epithets, describing the person being addressed, for emphasis.
- The individual or group spoken or written to.
verb
noun
pron
- Anyone, one; an unspecified individual or group of individuals (as subject or object).
- (To) yourselves, (to) yourself.
- The people spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Replacing ye.)
- The person spoken to or written to, as an object. (Replacing thee; originally as a mark of respect.)
- The people spoken, or written to, as an object.
- The person spoken to or written to, as a subject. (Originally as a mark of respect.)
intj
- Used as a tag question, to emphasise what goes before or to request that the listener express an opinion about what has been said.
- An interjection used to ascertain the continued attention of an individual addressed by the speaker.
- Expressing apprehension following or preceding a reasoning or excuse; uh.
- In isolation, a request for repetition or clarification of what has just been said; compare what, pardon.
- In isolation, expressing surprise or confusion; compare wha, huh, za.
- Expressing apathy or lack of enthusiasm; meh.
verb
adj
noun
- Used after a noun to refer dismissively to the situation surrounding the noun's referent.
- A public assembly or judicial council in a Germanic country.
- A unit or container, usually containing edible goods.
- A problem, dilemma, or complicating factor.
- Corporeal object.
- That which is considered to exist as a separate entity, object, quality or concept.
- A romantic relationship.
- Alternate form of ting.
- One's typical routine, habits, or manner. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A genuine concept, entity or phenomenon; something that actually exists (often contrary to expectation or belief).
- An individual object or distinct entity.
- That which is favoured; personal preference. (Used in possessive constructions.)
- A living being or creature.
- A penis.
- Whatever can be owned.
- Girl; attractive woman.
- Clothes, possessions or equipment.
- That which matters; the crux.
- A romantic couple.
- A word, symbol, sign, or other referent that can be used to refer to any entity.
verb
verb
verb
intj
verb
- Suppose, assume; used to mark an example, supposition or hypothesis.
- To tell, either verbally or in writing.
- To indicate in a written form.
- To have a common expression; used in singular passive voice or plural active voice to indicate a rumor or well-known fact.
- To recite.
- To pronounce.
- To try; to assay.
- To bet as a wager on an outcome; by extension, used to express belief in an outcome by the speaker.
- To speak; to express an opinion; to make answer; to reply.
adv
noun
adv
- Used at the end of a question for emphasis, or to direct the conversation to something of more broad importance (compare with more to the point).
- Regardless; anyhow.
- Used to indicate that a statement explains or supports a previous statement. See anyhow and at least.
- Used to indicate a change of subject.
verb
verb
- To call something into question or dispute.
- To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).
- To dare (someone).
- To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.
- To be difficult or challenging for.
- To object to the reception of the vote of, e.g. on the ground that the person is not qualified as a voter.
- To take (a final exam) in order to get credit for a course without taking it.
- To make a formal objection to a juror.
- To dispute (something).
noun
- The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.
- An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.
- A bid to overcome something.
- The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.
- An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.
- The act of a sentry in halting a person and demanding the countersign, or (by extension) the action of a computer system demanding a password, etc.
- A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.
- A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.
- An attempt to take possession; a tackle.
- An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.
- The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.
- A judge's interest in the result of a case, constituting grounds for them to not be allowed to sit the case (e.g., a conflict of interest).
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- In questions, asks what is correct, proper, desirable, etc.
- Will be likely to (become or do something); indicates a degree of possibility or probability that the stated thing will happen or be true in the future.
- Indicates that something is expected to have happened or to be the case now.
- Used to express a conditional outcome.
- With verbs such as 'see' or 'hear', usually in the second person, used to point out something remarkable in either a good or bad way.
- To make a statement of what ought to be true, as opposed to reality.
- Used to impart a tentative, conjectural or polite nuance.
- Simple past tense of shall.
- Used to issue an instruction (traditionally seen as carrying less force of authority than alternatives such as 'shall' or 'must').
- Used to give advice or opinion that an action is, or would have been, beneficial or desirable.
- Used to form a variant of the present subjunctive, expressing a state or action that is hypothetical, potential, mandated, etc.
noun
verb
- Used to express what the speaker would do in another person's situation, as a means of giving a suggestion or recommendation.
- Used interrogatively to express a polite request; are (you) willing to …?
- Used as the auxiliary of the simple conditional modality, indicating a state or action that is conditional on another.
- Was or were determined to; indicating someone's insistence upon doing something.
- Used to; was or were habitually accustomed to; indicating an action in the past that happened repeatedly or commonly.
- Could naturally have been expected to (given the tendencies of someone's character etc.).
- Without explicit condition, or with loose or vague implied condition, indicating a hypothetical or imagined state or action.
- Used to express the speaker's belief or assumption.
- Used to form the "anterior future", or "future in the past", indicating a futurity relative to a past time.
- Suggesting conditionality or potentiality in order to express a sense of politeness, tentativeness, indirectness, hesitancy, uncertainty, etc.
noun
noun
- An act or instance of asking.
- An asking price.
- A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
- An eft; newt.
- A lizard.
- Something asked or asked for.
verb
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To invite.
- To take (a person's situation) as an example.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To request (information, or an answer to a question).
verb
- To choose or agree to (do something); used to express intention but without any temporal connotations (+ bare infinitive), often in questions and negation.
- To instruct (that something be done) in one's will.
- Used to express the future tense, sometimes with some implication of volition when used in the first person. Compare shall.
- To bequeath (something) to someone in one's will (legal document).
- Expressing a present tense with some conditional or subjective weakening: "will turn out to", "must by inference".
- To exert one's force of will (intention) in order to compel, or attempt to compel, something to happen or someone to do something.
- To be able to, to have the capacity to.
- To habitually do (a given action).
- To wish, desire (something).
noun
- One's intention or decision; someone's orders or commands.
- Firmity of purpose, fixity of intent
- The act of choosing to do something; a person’s conscious intent or volition.
- One's independent faculty of choice; the ability to be able to exercise one's choice or intention.
- A formal declaration of one's intent concerning the disposal of one's property and holdings after death; the legal document stating such wishes.
noun
- Speech that is suggestive of an attitude or opinion.
- Various sounds, usually unwanted or unpleasant.
- Sound or signal generated by random fluctuations.
- Any sound.
- Any part of a signal or data that reduces the clarity, precision, or quality of the desired output.
- A genre of rock music that uses static and other non-musical sounds, also influenced by art rock.
- The measured level of variation in gene expression among cells, regardless of source, within a supposedly identical population.
- Rumour or complaint.
- Unwanted fuss or bustle; useless activity.
verb
verb
- To address; to refer; generally used reflexively.
- To pertain or be relevant to a specified individual or group.
- To make use of, declare, or pronounce, as suitable, fitting, or relative
- To lay or place; to put (one thing to another)
- To put closely; to join; to engage and employ diligently, or with attention
- To submit oneself as a candidate (with the adposition "to" designating the recipient of the submission, and the adposition "for" designating the position).
- To put to use; to use or employ for a particular purpose, or in a particular case
noun
- A descriptive linguistic survey.
- A sketch or account of anything in words; a portraiture or representation in language; an enumeration of the essential qualities of a thing or species.
- The act or practice of recording and describing actual language usage in a given speech community, as opposed to prescription, i.e. laying down norms of language usage.
- A set of characteristics by which someone or something can be recognized.
- A scientific documentation of a taxon for the purpose of introducing it to science.
- The act of describing; a delineation by marks or signs.
pron
- The aforementioned quality or proposition; used to emphatically affirm or deny a previous statement or question.
- The known (thing); used to refer to something just said.
- That's my car over there.
- The thing, person, idea, quality, event, action, or time indicated or understood from context, especially if more remote geographically, temporally or mentally than one designated as "this", or if expressing distinction.
- (plural that) Which, who; representing a subject, direct object, indirect object, or object of a preposition.
- Used in place of relative adverbs such as where or when; often omitted.
conj
- Introducing a subordinate clause expressing a reason or cause: because, in that.
- Introducing — especially, but not exclusively, with an antecedent like so or such — a subordinate clause expressing a result, consequence, or effect.
- Introducing a subordinate clause modifying an adverb.
- Introducing a clause which is the subject or object of a verb (such as one involving reported speech), or which is a complement to a previous statement.
- Introducing an exclamation expressing a strong emotion such as sadness or surprise.
noun
det
adv
adv
- Towards the speaker or other reference point.
- After the beginning of something.
- The show still didn't become interesting 20 minutes in.
- Denotes a gathering of people assembled for the stated activity, sometimes, though not always, suggesting a protest.
- At or towards the interior of a defined space, such as a building or room.
- So as to be enclosed or surrounded by something.
prep
- Within the bounds or limits of.
- During (a period of time).
- Into.
- Indicates, connotatively, a place-like form of someone's (or something's) personality, as his, her or its psychic and physical characteristics.
- Used to indicate a language, script, tone, etc. of a text, speech, etc.
- Characterized by.
- In replacing the faucet washers, he felt he was making his contribution to the environment.
- Surrounded by; among; amidst.
- Denoting a state of the subject.
- Less water gets in your boots this way.
- In the form of, in the denomination of.
- Indicating an order or arrangement.
- Contained by.
- Part of; a member of; out of; from among.
- Within (a certain elapsed time); by the end of.
- At the end of (a period of time).
- Wearing (an item of clothing).
- Used to indicate limit, qualification, condition, or circumstance.
- Pertaining to; with regard to.
adj
- In fashion; popular.
- Falling or remaining within the bounds of the playing area.
- (Britain, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand) Burning; ablaze.
- Having familiarity or involvement with somebody.
- Inserted or fitted into something.
- With privilege or possession; used to denote a holding, possession, or seisin
- Incoming.
- Located indoors, especially at home or at one's office or place of work.
- Having been collected or received.
- Of the tide, at or near its highest level.
- Currently batting.
- He is very in with the Joneses.
- Having a favourable position, such as a position of influence or expected gain, in relation to another person.
- Furled or stowed.
- Located inside something.
noun
verb
- To bring up as a subject for debate, to propose.
- To argue or plead in a supposed case.
- To say, utter, also insinuate.
- To take root and begin to grow.
- To make or declare irrelevant.
- To turn up soil or dig up roots, especially an animal with a snout.
- To discuss or debate.
noun
- A social gathering of pagans, normally held in a public house.
- A whisper, or an insinuation, also gossip or rumors.
- A mutual follower on a social media platform.
- Vagina.
- A moot court.
- A ring for gauging wooden pins.
- The stump of a tree; the roots and bottom end of a felled tree.
- An assembly (usually for decision-making in a locality).
- A gathering of Rovers, usually in the form of a camp lasting 2 weeks.
- A system of arbitration in many areas of Africa in which the primary goal is to settle a dispute and reintegrate adversaries into society rather than assess penalties.
- Talk.
adj
intj
- Used to introduce a sentence in order to draw attention to the importance of what is being said.
- Used to indicate acknowledgement or acceptance.
- Used to dismiss a dialog box or confirm a prompt.
- Used in turn-taking, serving as a request to the speaker to grant the turn to the interrupter.
verb
adv
name
adj
- All right, acceptable, permitted.
- In good health or a good emotional state.
- Satisfactory, reasonably good; not exceptional.
- Satisfied (with); willing to accept a state of affairs.
noun
verb
- To ask or request (something) humbly and sincerely, especially from a person in authority; to beg or entreat for.
- To make a humble request to (a deity or other spiritual being) in a prayer; to entreat as a supplicant.
- Of a member of the university, or an alumnus or alumna of another university seeking a degree ad eundem: to formally request that an academic degree be awarded to oneself.
- To make a humble request to (someone, especially a person in authority); to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
- To humbly request for something, especially to someone in a position of authority; to beg, to beseech, to entreat.
intj
- Signpost word to change the subject in a discussion or discourse.
- I have listened to what you just said and I acknowledge your assertion or opinion, regardless of whether I agree with it (opinion) or can verify it (assertion).
- Yes, that is correct; I agree.
- Used to check listener engagement and (especially) agreement at the end of an utterance or each segment thereof.
- Used to add seriousness or decisiveness before a statement.
adj
- Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's right when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the south bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: ⥴ shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the right side of the river.
- Designating the side of the body which is positioned to the east if one is facing north, the side on which the heart is not located in most humans. This arrow points to the reader's right: →
- Complying with justice, correctness, or reason; correct, just, true.
- Healthy, sane, competent.
- Real; veritable (used emphatically).
- Pertaining to the political right; conservative.
- Designed to be placed or worn outward.
- Of an angle, having a size of 90 degrees, or one quarter of a complete rotation; the angle between two perpendicular lines.
- Appropriate, perfectly suitable; fit for purpose.
- Of a geometric figure, incorporating a right angle between edges, faces, axes, etc.
- All right; not requiring assistance.
adv
- In a correct manner.
- According to fact or truth; actually; truly; really.
- Immediately, directly.
- On the right side.
- Towards the right side.
- Exactly, precisely.
- Very, extremely, quite.
verb
- To do justice to; to relieve from wrong; to restore rights to; to assert or regain the rights of.
- To set upright.
- To return to normal upright position.
- To correct.
noun
- The authority to perform, publish, film, or televise a particular work, event, etc.; a copyright.
- The right side or direction.
- A wave breaking from right to left (viewed from the shore).
- That which complies with justice, law or reason.
- The outward or most finished surface, as of a coin, piece of cloth, a carpet, etc.
- The ensemble of right-wing political parties; political conservatives as a group.
- A legal, just or moral entitlement.
- The right hand or fist.
verb
- To emphasize or call attention to a point within a discussion.
- To point the underside.
- To include too few points.
- To add a dot beneath a letter as a proofreading or diacritical mark.
- To indicate or focus on a position closer than the one that is intended.
adj
noun
- Something that calls attention to or emphasizes a particular conclusion within a topic of discussion.
- The number of scored points below a specified criterion.
- A downward facing point on the underside.
- The lowest intensity point of a diminuendo that is followed by an increase in volume and intensity.
verb
- To indicate or suggest something; used with of.
- To strike a child (usually on the buttocks) as a form of discipline. (normal U.S. and Canadian term spank)
- To slap or hit someone.
- To have a particular taste; used with of.
- To wetly separate the lips, making a noise, after tasting something or in expectation of a treat.
- To get the flavor of.
- To kiss with a close compression of the lips, so as to make a sound when they separate.
- To make a smacking sound.
adv
noun
- A group of jellyfish.
- A sharp blow; a slap. See also: spank.
- The sound of a loud kiss.
- A distinct flavor, especially if slight.
- A small sailing vessel, commonly rigged as a sloop, used chiefly in the coasting and fishing trade and often called a fishing smack
- A slight trace of something; a smattering.
- A form of fried potato; a scallop.
- A quick, sharp noise, as of the lips when suddenly separated, or of a whip.
- Heroin.
noun
- Emphasis placed on a particular point in an argument or discussion (whether spoken or written).
- A suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound, word or word group by means of of loudness, duration or pitch; phonological prominence.
- distress; the act of distraining; also, the thing distrained.
- Aggression toward an organism resulting in a response in an attempt to restore previous conditions.
- Emotional pressure suffered by a human being or other animal.
- A physical, chemical, infective agent aggressing an organism.
- The internal distribution of force across a small boundary per unit area of that boundary (pressure) within a body. It causes strain or deformation and is typically symbolised by σ or τ.
- Force externally applied to a body which cause internal stress within the body.
- The suprasegmental feature of a language having additional attention raised to a sound by means of of loudness and/or duration; phonological prominence phonetically achieved by means of dynamics as distinct from pitch.
verb
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