Challenge vs. Question — What's the Difference?

A call to someone to participate in a competitive situation or fight to decide who is superior in terms of ability or strength

A sentence, phrase, or gesture that seeks information through a reply.

A call to prove or justify something

To ask a question or questions of (someone).

Exposure of the immune system to pathogenic organisms or antigens

To interrogate (a suspect, for example).

Dispute the truth or validity of

To pose a question or questions regarding (something); analyze or examine

Invite (someone) to engage in a contest

To express doubt about; dispute

Expose (the immune system) to pathogenic organisms or antigens.

To ask questions.

A call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.

An act or statement of defiance; a call to confrontation

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.

A demand for explanation or justification; a calling into question

A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.

A sentry's call to an unknown party for proper identification.

A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.

A test of one's abilities or resources in a demanding but stimulating undertaking

Interrogation by torture.

A claim that a vote is invalid or that a voter is unqualified.

(obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.

A formal objection to the inclusion of a prospective juror in a jury.

(transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.

A legal case testing the validity of an action taken, particularly by the government.

(transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.

(Immunology) The induction or evaluation of an immune response in an organism by administration of a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

(intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.

To call to engage in a contest, fight, or competition

To argue; to converse; to dispute.

To invite with defiance; dare

The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer.

To confront or struggle with (something) as a test of one's abilities

Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.

To take exception to; call into question; dispute

Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.

To order to halt and be identified, as by a sentry.

That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.

To take formal objection to (a prospective juror).

Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question.

To bring a legal case testing the validity of an action, particularly by the government.

Talk; conversation; speech; speech.

To question the qualifications of (a voter) or the validity of (a vote).

To ask questions; to inquire.

To have due claim to; call for

To argue; to converse; to dispute.

To summon to action, effort, or use; stimulate

To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories; as, to question a witness.

(Immunology) To induce or evaluate an immune response in (an organism) by administering a specific antigen to which it has been sensitized.

To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.

To make or give voice to a challenge.

To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.

To begin barking upon picking up the scent. Used of hunting dogs.

To talk to; to converse with.

A confrontation; a dare.

An instance of questioning;

An antagonization or instigation intended to convince a person to perform an action they otherwise would not.

The subject matter at issue;

A bid to overcome something.

A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply;

(sports) An attempt to take possession; a tackle.

Uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something;

A summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;

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.

An informal reference to a marriage proposal;

An attempt to have a work of literature restricted or removed from a public library or school curriculum.

Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of;

A difficult task, especially one that the person making the attempt finds more enjoyable because of that difficulty.

Pose a series of questions to;

(legal) A procedure or action.

Pose a question

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).

Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

The act of appealing a ruling or decision of a court of administrative agency.

Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation;

The act of seeking to remove a judge, arbitrator, or other judicial or semi-judicial figure for reasons of alleged bias or incapacity.

(US) An act of seeking to have a certain person be declared not legally qualified to vote, made when the person offers their ballot.

(hunting) The opening and crying of hounds upon first finding the scent of their game.

(transitive) To invite (someone) to take part in a competition.

(transitive) To dare (someone).

(transitive) To dispute (something).

To call something into question or dispute.

To make a formal objection to a juror.

(transitive) To be difficult or challenging for.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines).

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.

An invitation to engage in a contest or controversy of any kind; a defiance; specifically, a summons to fight a duel; also, the letter or message conveying the summons.

The act of a sentry in halting any one who appears at his post, and demanding the countersign.

A claim or demand.

The opening and crying of hounds at first finding the scent of their game.

An exception to a juror or to a member of a court martial, coupled with a demand that he should be held incompetent to act; the claim of a party that a certain person or persons shall not sit in trial upon him or his cause.

An exception to a person as not legally qualified to vote. The challenge must be made when the ballot is offered.

To call to a contest of any kind; to call to answer; to defy.

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat.

To claim as due; to demand as a right.

To censure; to blame.

To question or demand the countersign from (one who attempts to pass the lines); as, the sentinel challenged us, with "Who comes there?"

To take exception to; question; as, to challenge the accuracy of a statement or of a quotation.

To object to or take exception to, as to a juror, or member of a court.

To object to the reception of the vote of, as on the ground that the person in not qualified as a voter.

To assert a right; to claim a place.

A demanding or stimulating situation;

A call to engage in a contest or fight

Questioning a statement and demanding an explanation;

A formal objection to the selection of a particular person as a juror

A demand by a sentry for a password or identification

Take exception to;

Issue a challenge to;

Ask for identification;

Raise a formal objection in a court of law