Definition of Line of questioning

1. Noun. An ordering of questions so as to develop a particular argument.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Line Of Questioning

line of gab
line of heart
line of inquiry
line of latitude
line of least resistance
line of life
line of longitude
line of march
line of merchandise
line of nodes
line of occlusion
line of operations
line of play
line of poetry
line of products
line of questioning (current term)
line of reasoning
line of scrimmage
line of sight
line of striction
line of succession
line of thought
line of verse
line of vision
line of work
line officer
line one's pockets
line organisation
line organization
line out

Literary usage of Line of questioning

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Manual of the Art of Questioning, for Training Classes by Joseph Landon (1899)
"... be of a line of questioning, not of a list of questions. To settle just what questions are to be asked is a waste of time, and to adhere to such ..."

2. Eat Your Food! Gastronomical Glory from Garden to Gut: A Coastalfields by Aaron Brachfeld, Aaron Brachfeld and Mary Choate, Mary Choate (2007)
"If you do not limit their line of questioning, you can uncover ... How do you direct the line of questioning? Ask them questions of your own: "how would you ..."

3. Affairs of the Colony: Being a History Concerning the Straits Settlements by Farquhar Matheson McLarty (1893)
"... supplied by simply read in? his line of questioning in respect to Pulo Way, but his prejudiced spirit is seen in evert/ part of the so-called Enquiry. ..."

4. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice: Under the Codes and Practice Acts by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1898)
"Improper Line of Questioning. — Where the questions to be propounded to proposed jurors by the trial judge are not prescribed by law, but the points upon ..."

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