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单词 questionnaire
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questionnairen.

Brit. /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛː/, U.S. /ˌkwɛstʃəˈnɛ(ə)r/, /ˌkwɛʃtʃəˈnɛ(ə)r/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French questionnaire.
Etymology: < French questionnaire questionary n.2 Compare earlier questionary n.2 2.The word was resisted by some (see H. W. Fowler Mod. Eng. Usage (1926) 479/1) for many years after its first use in English. Some retained a pronunciation (e.g. /ˌkɛstɪəˈnɛː/), modelled on French, while others preferred the English word questionary n.2 The pronunciation altered after question n. (attested from the mid 1930s, e.g. in D. Jones Eng. Pronouncing Dict. (ed. 4, 1937)) is now dominant.
A formulated series of questions by which information is sought from a selected group, usually for statistical analysis; a document containing these.
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the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > [noun] > list of questions, questionnaire
questionary1879
questionnaire1890
worksheet1892
1890 Times 4 Sept. 10/2 Mr. Thomas Barclay, as hon. secretary of the Territorial Waters Committee, submitted a detailed questionnaire on the subject which had resulted from the committee's labours.
1891 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 20 263 I propose that the questions used in Bengal..should be revised by the Council with reference to..the various continental questionnaires.
1899 Educ. Rev. June 87 By means of questionnaires the writer obtained..data bearing on the..characteristics of more than ten thousand children.
1901 E. B. Titchener Exper. Psychol. I. i. xii. 197 The questionary or ‘questionnaire’ is a series of questions bearing upon the matter to be investigated, and submitted to a large number of persons for introspective answer.
1920 Glasgow Herald 20 Aug. 7/1 Valuable information..is being obtained through a questionnaire by the Federation of British Industries concerning the fuel requirements of the great industrial centres.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night iii. 50 ‘But English people won't fill up questionnaires.... As a nation we are not questionnaire-conscious.’
1952 Shell Aviation News June 9/2 The moment for the distribution of a printed questionnaire is obviously in flight, when passengers are frequently bored and glad of any distraction.
1997 N.Y. Times 7 Sept. 42/3 A social scientist who knows how hard it is to write an unbiased questionnaire, let alone to administer it and analyze the results.

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1896 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 8 88 This perhaps should always be observed as one of the necessary safeguards of the questionnaire method.
1924 R. M. Ogden tr. K. Koffka Growth of Mind ii. 45 With the aid of Hall's questionnaire-method, one of his students has collected a large mass of material concerning children's play.
1949 M. Mead Male & Female 457 I have had access to enormous varieties of..original questionnaire blanks.
1964 I. L. Horowitz New Sociol. 6 Specialized techniques of questionnaire design [etc.]..make the interviewing process into the end of research rather than merely its instrument.
1988 Update 15 Oct. 661/1 The second approach is to use initially a questionnaire assessment in order to decide if patients should be visited later by a health visitor or other personnel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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