Associations to the word «Inquiry»

Wiktionary

INQUIRY, noun. The act of inquiring; a seeking of information by asking questions; interrogation; a question or questioning.
INQUIRY, noun. Search for truth, information, or knowledge; examination of facts or principles; research; investigation; as, physical inquiries.

Dictionary definition

INQUIRY, noun. A search for knowledge; "their pottery deserves more research than it has received".
INQUIRY, noun. An instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present".
INQUIRY, noun. A systematic investigation of a matter of public interest.

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne