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Question vs. Suspect — What's the Difference?

Question vs. Suspect — What's the Difference?

Difference Between Question and Suspect

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Question

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

Suspect

In law enforcement jargon, a suspect is a known person accused or suspected of committing a crime. Police and reporters in the United States often use the word suspect as a jargon when referring to the perpetrator of the offense (perp in dated US slang).

Question

To ask a question or questions of (someone).

Suspect

To consider (something) to be true or probable on little or no evidence
I suspect they are very disappointed.

Question

To interrogate (a suspect, for example).
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Suspect

To have doubts about (something); distrust
I suspect his motives.

Question

To pose a question or questions regarding (something); analyze or examine
Researchers questioning which of the methods will work.

Suspect

To consider (a person) guilty without proof
The police suspect her of murder.

Question

To express doubt about; dispute
Questioned his sincerity.
Questioned the expense report.

Suspect

To have suspicion.

Question

To ask questions.

Suspect

One who is suspected, especially of having committed a crime.

Question

A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.
What is your question?

Suspect

Open to or viewed with suspicion
A suspect policy.
Suspect motives.

Question

A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
The question of seniority will be discussed at the meeting.
There was a question of which material to use.

Suspect

(transitive) To imagine or suppose (something) to be true, or to exist, without proof.
To suspect the presence of disease

Question

A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.
His claim to the property has come under question.
The story is true beyond question.
He obeyed without question.

Suspect

(transitive) To distrust or have doubts about (something or someone).
To suspect the truth of a story

Question

A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.
I move that the question be put to a vote.

Suspect

(transitive) To believe (someone) to be guilty.
I suspect him of being the thief.

Question

Interrogation by torture.

Suspect

(intransitive) To have suspicion.

Question

(obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.

Suspect

To look up to; to respect.

Question

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

Suspect

A person who is suspected of something, in particular of committing a crime.

Question

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

Suspect

Viewed with suspicion; suspected.

Question

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

Suspect

(nonstandard) Viewing with suspicion; suspecting.

Question

To argue; to converse; to dispute.

Suspect

Suspicious; inspiring distrust.
Suspect [was] his face, suspect his word also.

Question

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

Suspect

Suspected; distrusted.
What I can do or offer is suspect.

Question

Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question.
There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.
It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes to make an invasive war simply for the propagation of the faith.

Suspect

Suspicion.
So with suspect, with fear and grief, dismayed.

Question

Examination with reference to a decisive result; investigation; specifically, a judicial or official investigation; also, examination under torture.
He that was in question for the robbery. Shak.The Scottish privy council had power to put state prisoners to the question.

Suspect

One who, or that which, is suspected; an object of suspicion; - formerly applied to persons and things; now, only to persons suspected of crime.

Question

That which is asked; inquiry; interrogatory; query.
But this question askedPuts me in doubt. Lives there who loves his pain ?

Suspect

To imagine to exist; to have a slight or vague opinion of the existence of, without proof, and often upon weak evidence or no evidence; to mistrust; to surmise; - commonly used regarding something unfavorable, hurtful, or wrong; as, to suspect the presence of disease.
Nothing makes a man suspect much, more than to know little; and therefore men should remedy suspicion by procuring to know more.
From her hand I could suspect no ill.

Question

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

Suspect

To imagine to be guilty, upon slight evidence, or without proof; as, to suspect one of equivocation.

Question

Talk; conversation; speech; speech.

Suspect

To hold to be uncertain; to doubt; to mistrust; to distruct; as, to suspect the truth of a story.

Question

To ask questions; to inquire.
He that questioneth much shall learn much.

Suspect

To look up to; to respect.

Question

To argue; to converse; to dispute.
I pray you, think you question with the Jew.

Suspect

To imagine guilt; to have a suspicion or suspicions; to be suspicious.
If I suspect without cause, why then make sport at me.

Question

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

Suspect

Someone who is under suspicion

Question

To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
And most we question what we most desire.

Suspect

A person or institution against whom an action is brought in a court of law; the person being sued or accused

Question

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

Suspect

Imagine to be the case or true or probable;
I suspect he is a fugitive
I surmised that the butler did it

Question

To talk to; to converse with.
With many holiday and lady terms he questioned me.

Suspect

Regard as untrustworthy; regard with suspicion; have no faith or confidence in

Question

An instance of questioning;
There was a question about my training
We made inquiries of all those who were present

Suspect

Hold in suspicion; believe to be guilty;
The U.S. suspected Bin Laden as the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks

Question

The subject matter at issue;
The question of disease merits serious discussion
Under the head of minor Roman poets

Suspect

Not as expected;
There was something fishy about the accident
Up to some funny business
Some definitely queer goings-on
A shady deal
Her motives were suspect
Suspicious behavior

Question

A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply;
He asked a direct question
He had trouble phrasing his interrogations

Question

Uncertainty about the truth or factuality of existence of something;
The dubiousness of his claim
There is no question about the validity of the enterprise

Question

A formal proposal for action made to a deliberative assembly for discussion and vote;
He made a motion to adjourn
She called for the question

Question

An informal reference to a marriage proposal;
He was ready to pop the question

Question

Challenge the accuracy, probity, or propriety of;
We must question your judgment in this matter

Question

Pose a series of questions to;
The suspect was questioned by the police
We questioned the survivor about the details of the explosion

Question

Pose a question

Question

Conduct an interview in television, newspaper, and radio reporting

Question

Place in doubt or express doubtful speculation;
I wonder whether this was the right thing to do
She wondered whether it would snow tonight

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