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| Domain | Definition |
Literature | Beg the Question (To). (See Begging .). Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Context | Synonyms 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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Expression using "BEG THE QUESTION": To beg the question. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| 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. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
beg the question | 9 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| 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 голословно утверждать. (various references) izbegavati direktan odgovor. (various references) ser una petición de principio, incurrir en una petición de principio, cometer petición de principio. (various references) svara undvikande. (various references) kanıtlanmış farzetmek, doğru farzetmek, cevaplamaktan kaçınmak, cevap vermek istememek. (various references) голослівно твердити щось. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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). | |
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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| 1. Usage: Commercial 2. Expressions 3. Expressions: Internet 4. Translations: Modern | 5. Derivations 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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