different between question vs job

English

Alternative forms

• quæstion (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English question, questioun, questiun, from Anglo-Norman questiun, from Old French question, from Latin quaesti?nem, accusative of quaesti? (“a seeking, investigation, inquiry, question”), from quaerere (“to seek, ask, inquire”). Displaced native Middle English frain, fraign (“question”) (from Old English fræ?n); compare Middle English frainen, freinen ("to inquire, question"; > Modern English frain), Middle English afrainen, affrainen (“to question”), German fragen (“to ask”) and Frage (“question”). Compare also Middle Low German qu?stie (“questioning; inquiry”), Middle High German questje (“question”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?st???n/, /?kw?stj?n/, /?kw??t???n/
• (US also) IPA^(key): /?kw??t?n/
• Hyphenation: ques?tion

Noun

question (plural questions)

1. A sentence, phrase or word which asks for information, reply or response; an interrogative.

2. A subject or topic for consideration or investigation.
3. A doubt or challenge about the truth, accuracy, or validity of a matter.

   • There arose a question between some of John's disciples and the Jews about purifying.

   • 1623, Francis Bacon, An Advertisement touching an Holy War

     It is to be to question, whether it be lawful for Christian princes or states to make an invasive war, only and simply for the propagation of the faith.
4. A proposal to a meeting as a topic for deliberation.

5. (now archaic, historical, chiefly with definite article) Interrogation by torture.
   • 1751, Tobias Smollett, The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, vol. II, ch. 77:

     I, not at all ambitious of the crown of martyrdom, resolved to temporize: so that, when I was brought to the question the second time, I made a solemn recantation […] .
6. (obsolete) Talk; conversation; speech.

Synonyms

• (interrogative): inquiry, enquiry, query, interrogation
• (subject): subject, topic, problem, consideration, proposition
• (doubt): issue, doubt
• (proposal): proposal

Derived terms

Related terms

• query
• quest

Translations

Verb

question (third-person singular simple present questions, present participle questioning, simple past and past participle questioned)

1. (transitive) To ask questions of; to interrogate; to ask for information.
2. (transitive) To raise doubts about; have doubts about.
   • 2019, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     He questioned South Korean claims that China is a major source of its pollution.

3. (intransitive) To ask a question or questions; inquire or seek to know; examine.
   • 1597, Francis Bacon, Of Discourse

     He that questioneth much shall learn much.

4. (intransitive, obsolete) To argue; to converse; to dispute.

Synonyms

• frain, quaeritate (obsolete)

Derived terms

• questioner

Translations

See also

• answer
• ask
• interrogative

References

• question in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• question at OneLook Dictionary Search

French

Alternative forms

• quæstion (obsolete)

Etymology

From Old French question, borrowed from Latin quaesti?, quaesti?nem.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?s.tj??/
• Rhymes: -j??

Noun

question f (plural questions)

1. a question

2. a matter or issue; a problem

Derived terms

Further reading

• “question” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• quêtions, toniques

Interlingua

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwes?tjon/

Noun

question (plural questiones)

1. question

Middle English

Noun

question

1. Alternative form of questioun

Old French

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin quaesti?, quaesti?nem.

Noun

question f (oblique plural questions, nominative singular question, nominative plural questions)

1. question (verbal statement intended to elicit a response)
2. question (problem in need of resolution)

Descendants

• ? Middle English: questioun, question, questiun, questyon, questyounn, qwestyon, qwestioun
  • English: question
  • Scots: quaisten, quastin
  • ? Welsh: cwestiwn
• French: question
  • ? Romanian: chestie, chestiune
• Norman: tchestchion (Jersey)

References

• question on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub

English

Etymology

From the phrase jobbe of work (“piece of work”), of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a variant of Middle English gobbe (“mass, lump”); or perhaps related to Middle English jobben (“to jab, thrust, peck”), or Middle English choppe (“piece, bargain”). More at gob, jab, chop.

Folk etymology linked the word to Job, the biblical character who suffered many misfortunes; for semantic development of misery and labor, compare Vulgar Latin *tripalium (“instrument of torture”) and its Romance descendants like Spanish trabajo and French travail (whence borrowed into English travail).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• (General American) enPR: j?b, IPA^(key): /d???b/
• Rhymes: -?b

Noun

job (plural jobs)

1. A task.
   • 1996, Cameron Crowe, Jerry Maguire

     And it's my job to take care of the skanks on the road that you bang.

2. An economic role for which a person is paid.
   • 2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)

     Here I am at my new job! 

3. (in noun compounds) Plastic surgery.

4. (computing) A task, or series of tasks, carried out in batch mode (especially on a mainframe computer).
5. (The addition of quotations indicative of this usage is being sought:) A sudden thrust or stab; a jab.
6. A public transaction done for private profit; something performed ostensibly as a part of official duty, but really for private gain; a corrupt official business.
7. Any affair or event which affects one, whether fortunately or unfortunately.
8. (colloquial) A thing (often used in a vague way to refer to something whose name one cannot recall).

   Pass me that little job with the screw thread on it.

Usage notes

• Adjectives often applied to "job": easy, hard, poor, good, great, excellent, decent, low-paying, steady, stable, secure, challenging, demanding, rewarding, boring, thankless, stressful, horrible, lousy, satisfying, industrial, educational, academic.

Translations

Verb

job (third-person singular simple present jobs, present participle jobbing, simple past and past participle jobbed)

1. (intransitive) To do odd jobs or occasional work for hire.
   • a. 1852, Thomas Moore, Literary Advertisement

     Authors of all work, to job for the season.

2. (intransitive) To work as a jobber.
3. (intransitive, professional wrestling slang) To take the loss.
4. (transitive, trading) To buy and sell for profit, as securities; to speculate in.
5. (transitive, often with out) To subcontract a project or delivery in small portions to a number of contractors.

   We wanted to sell a turnkey plant, but they jobbed out the contract to small firms.

6. (intransitive) To seek private gain under pretence of public service; to turn public matters to private advantage.
   • 1733, Alexander Pope, Epistle to Bathurst

     And judges job, and bishops bite the town.

7. To strike or stab with a pointed instrument.

   • a raven pitch'd upon him, and there sate, jobbing of the sore

8. To thrust in, as a pointed instrument.
   • 1683, Joseph Moxon, Mechanick Exercises

     And while the Tympan is coming , he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it , as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position , as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder

9. To hire or let in periods of service.
   • 1848, William M. Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 59,^[1]

     […] ...and a pair of handsome horses were jobbed, with which Jos drove about in state in the park...

Translations

Derived terms

See also

• employment
• work
• labour

Anagrams

• obj

Danish

Etymology

From English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [?d?j?b?]

Noun

job n

1. job

Inflection

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??p/
• Hyphenation: job
• Rhymes: -?p

Noun

job f (plural jobs)

1. (chiefly Belgium) job

   Synonym: baan

Usage notes

Job is the default word for a job in Belgium. In the Netherlands baan is the default; however, job is sometimes used informally or in certain sectors (e.g. marketing), but it may also be considered pretentious due to an association with yuppies.

French

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /d??b/

Noun

job m or f (plural jobs)

1. (informal) job (employment role)
2. (Quebec, Louisiana, informal) work

Usage notes

• This term is feminine in Quebec and some parts of Louisiana and masculine elsewhere.

Synonyms

• (informal) boulot

Further reading

• “job” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Noun

job m (invariable)

1. job (employment role, computing task)

Portuguese

Etymology

Borrowed from English job.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?d??bi/
• (Rarely) IPA^(key): /?d??b/

Noun

job m (plural jobs)

1. (computing) job (task carried out in batch mode)