[khreūangmāi pratsanī] (n, exp) EN: « ? » ; question mark ; interrogation point ; interrogation mark FR: « ? » ; point d'interrogation [ m ]
Result from Foreign Dictionaries (2 entries found)
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Interrogation \In*ter`ro*ga"tion\, n. [L. interrogatio: cf. F.
interrogation.]
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1. The act or process of interrogating or questioning;
examination by questions; an instance of interrogating;
inquiry.
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2. A question put; an inquiry.
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3. A point, mark, or sign, thus [?], indicating that the
sentence with which it is connected is a question. It is
used to express doubt, or to mark a query. Usually called
a {question mark}; called also {interrogation point}.
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Note: In works printed in the Spanish language this mark is
not only placed at the end of an interrogative
sentence, but is also placed, inverted [as thus
([iques])], at the beginning.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
interrogation point
n 1: a punctuation mark (?) placed at the end of a sentence to
indicate a question [syn: {question mark}, {interrogation
point}]