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question and answer
A dialogue consisting of alternate question and answer. Also (with hyphens) attrib.; occas. also question-answer.
1817Keats Let. 10 Sept. (1931) 39 My dear Fanny, Let us now begin a regular question and answer—a little pro and con. 1839Lett. fr. Madras (1843) 255 The question-and-answer lessons on Scripture History. 1908Mrs. H. Ward Diana Mallory ii. xii. 237 The trivial question-and-answer of the tea-making. 1940N. Marsh Surfeit of Lampreys (1941) xiii. 187 She maintained a question-and-answer attitude, replying in the most meagre phrases. 1941L. MacNeice Poetry of W. B. Yeats i. 14 He may be answering quite different questions from mine but the question-answers which he evolves are the same kind of organism, and result from the same kind of activity as my own question-answers. 1945C. S. Lewis Great Divorce 41 That question-and-answer conception of thought only applies to matter of fact. 1957E. Bott Family & Social Network ii. 42 The question-and-answer pattern of fact-collecting. 1960Guardian 9 June 9/1 Police interrogators..now hold a daily..question-and-answer session with the former Nazi. 1965Language XLI. 387 The question-answer pair What does he do? He draws cartoons can be analyzed in the same way. 1977Oxford Diocesan Mag. Oct. 20/2 It was decided to organise..a question-and-answer programme on an electronic screen. 1980English World-Wide I. i. 28 It is not easy to elicit syntactic information by using the short direct question-answer technique. |