inquirerformal

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Questioning people & asking questions in general
ask after someone
ask questions of someone/somethingidiom
be someone's for the askingidiom
beat something out of someone
bombard
consultative
Gallup poll
inquisition
outpoll
pin someone down
ply someone with something
poll
pry
put someone through the millidiom
put someone through the wringeridiom
rhetorical question
roll
shoot
survey
trick question

questioner | American Dictionary

questioner
noun[ C ]
us/ˈkwes·tʃə·nər/
a person who asks a question

Examples of questioner

questioner
Here, where the information is (or should be) "already known" to the questioner, respondents commonly answer such inquiries with oh-prefaced responses.
The questioner did not seem fully satisfied but did not pursue the matter further.
The structural process discussed here, then, is also about the rights of the interactants involved: the questioner and the questioned.
Many studies of the questioning of witnesses concentrate solely, or almost solely, on the lawyer as questioner.
The lack of comprehension was perhaps somehow seen as a loss of face for the questioner as well as for the candidate.
Consequently, questioners could infer that they should seek out a contextual analysis that would allow them to derive a conversational implicature.
Here we see the questioner again trying to isolate the precise aspects of the defendant, or the defendant's behavior, that were frightening to the witness.
These question management decisions were influenced by what they considered to be the motives of the questioner.
There could be other contexts in which this explanation will need further fleshing out if it is to fully satisfy the questioner.
He thought of possible answers and how he might put his questioner to shame.
Namely, that when people answer questions in a poll, they try to guess what it is that the questioner wants to hear.
This legitimacy is not based on the fact that the respondent agrees to the questioner's premises in the sense that he shares his beliefs.
The boy's intervention with a response maintains the right of the questioner to an answer while maintaining the addressee's right to complete his in-progress activity.
For example, silence following a question is treated by participants as a noticeable nonaction by the recipient rather than as part of the questioner's turn.
The experimenter answered questions individually so that other subjects did not hear the question and only the questioner heard the answer.
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