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Query

//ˈkwɪə.ɹi// name, noun, verb

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

    "The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis."

  2. 2
    an instance of questioning wordnet
  3. 3
    A question mark.

    "His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote."

  4. 4
    A set of instructions passed to a database.

    "The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes."

  5. 5
    Ellipsis of query letter. abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis

    "Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters."

Verb
  1. 1
    To ask a question. intransitive
  2. 2
    pose a question wordnet
  3. 3
    To ask, inquire. transitive

    "It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]"

  4. 4
    To question or call into doubt. transitive

    "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad."

  5. 5
    To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

    "Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction."

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  1. 6
    To send a private message to (a user on IRC). Internet, transitive

    "He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk..."

  2. 7
    To send out a query letter. intransitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

Etymology 2

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

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