question

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun A sentence, phrase, or gesture that seeks information through a reply.
• noun A subject or point that is under discussion or open to controversy.
• noun A matter of concern or difficulty; a problem.
• noun A proposition brought up for consideration by an assembly.
• noun The act of bringing a proposal to vote.
• noun Law An issue in dispute for the resolution of a court.
• noun Uncertainty; doubt.
• intransitive verb To ask a question or questions of (someone).
• intransitive verb To interrogate (a suspect, for example). synonym: ask.
• intransitive verb To pose a question or questions regarding (something); analyze or examine.
• intransitive verb To express doubt about; dispute.
• intransitive verb To ask questions.
• idiom (in question) Under consideration or discussion.
• idiom (out of the question) Not worth considering because of being too difficult or impossible.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
• To debate; reason; consider.
• To dispute; doubt.
• To talk; converse.
• To inquire of by asking questions; examine by interrogatories: as, to question a witness.
• To doubt of; be uncertain of; mention or treat as doubtful or not to be trusted.
• To call in question; challenge; take exception to: as, to question an exercise of prerogative.
• Synonyms Ask, Inquire of, Interrogate, etc. (see ask), catechize.
• To controvert, dispute.
• noun plural The smaller catechism. Also called question-book.
• noun The act of interrogation; the putting of inquiries: as, to examine by question and answer.
• noun That which is asked; an inquiry; a query; the expression of a desire to know something indicated more or less definitely. ;
• noun Inquiry; disquisition; discussion.
• noun The subject or matter of examination or investigation; the theme of inquiry; a matter discussed or made the subject of disquisition.
• noun Dispute or subject of debate; a point of doubt or difficulty.
• noun Doubt; controversy; dispute: as, the story is true beyond all question.
• noun Judicial trial or inquiry; trial; examination.
• noun Examination by torture, or the application of torture to prisoners under criminal accusation in order to extort confession.
• noun Conversation; speech; talk.
• noun In logic, a proposition, or that which is to be established as a conclusion, stated by way of interrogation.
• noun In parliamentary usage: The point under discussion by the house; the measure to be voted on: as, to speak to the question.
• noun The putting of the matter discussed to a vote: as, are you ready for the question?
• noun To subject to judicial interrogation.
• noun 4 and Proposition, motion, topic, point.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To ask questions; to inquire.
• intransitive verb obsolete To argue; to converse; to dispute.
• transitive verb To inquire of by asking questions; to examine by interrogatories.
• transitive verb To doubt of; to be uncertain of; to query.
• transitive verb To raise a question about; to call in question; to make objection to.
• transitive verb To talk to; to converse with.
• noun The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry.
• noun Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt