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BEG THE QUESTION

Specialty Definition: BEG THE QUESTION

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Literature

Beg the Question (To). (See Begging .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

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Synonyms within Context: BEG THE QUESTION

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Reasoning,

Beg the question, reason in a circle, reason in circles, assume the conclusion.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Commercial Usage: BEG THE QUESTION

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Books

  • Beg the Question (A Minimum Wage Collection) (reference)

    (more book examples)

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Expression: BEG THE QUESTION

Expression using "BEG THE QUESTION": To beg the question. Additional references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: BEG THE QUESTION

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

beg the question

9
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Modern Translation: BEG THE QUESTION

Language Translations for "BEG THE QUESTION"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Albanian

  

e quaj të vërtetë. (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏تهرب من المشكلة, ‏تهرب (avoidance, be truant, evade, fight shy of, fly in the face of, get in, hedge, malinger, shirk, shun, sidestep, skulk, swing the lead), ‏تعذر (impossibility). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

извъртам въпроса. (various references)

   

French

  

éluder la question. (various references)

   

German

  

an der eigentlichen frage vorbeigehen. (various references)

   

Greek 

  

ζητώ την ερώτηση. (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

ל"תחמק מן "בעי", ל" יח בלי ל"וכיח. (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

megkerüli a kérdést, igaznak tart, önmagának bizonyít valamit. (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

egbay ethay estionquay

   

Russian 

  

голословно утверждать. (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

izbegavati direktan odgovor. (various references)

   

Spanish

  

ser una petición de principio, incurrir en una petición de principio, cometer petición de principio. (various references)

   

Swedish

  

svara undvikande. (various references)

   

Turkish

  

kanıtlanmış farzetmek, doğru farzetmek, cevaplamaktan kaçınmak, cevap vermek istememek. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

голослівно твердити щось. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Misspellings: BEG THE QUESTION

Misspellings

"BEG THE QUESTION" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: beg the questiom. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: BEG THE QUESTION

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "b-e-e-e-g-h-i-n-o-q-s-t-t-u"

-4 letters: beshouting.

-5 letters: besetting, besotting, eighteens, euthenist, goethites, obtesting, outseeing, quotients, teethings.

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INDEX

1. Usage: Commercial
2. Expressions
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Translations: Modern
5. Derivations
6. Anagrams
7. Bibliography


  

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