query

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A question; an inquiry.
2. n. A doubt in the mind; a mental reservation.
3. n. A notation, usually a question mark, calling attention to an item in order to question its validity or accuracy.
4. v. To express doubt or uncertainty about; question: query someone's motives.
5. v. To put a question to (a person). See Synonyms at ask.
6. v. To mark (an item) with a notation in order to question its validity or accuracy.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A question; an inquiry to be answered or resolved; specifically, a doubt or challenge, as of a written or printed statement, represented by the interrogation-point (?), or by an abbreviation, q., qy., or qu., or by both.
2. n. Synonyms Inquiry, Interrogation, etc. See question.
3. To put a query; ask a question or questions; express doubt.
4. To mark with a query; express a desire to examine as to the truth of.
5. To seek by questioning; inquire or ask: as, to query the sum or amount; to query the motive or the fact.
6. To examine by questions; address queries to: as, to query a person.

Wiktionary

1. n. A question or inquiry.
2. n. A set of instructions passed to a database.
3. v. To ask, inquire.
4. v. To ask a question.
5. v. To question or call into doubt.
6. v. To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
2. n. A question in the mind; a doubt.
3. n. An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
4. v. To ask questions; to make inquiry.
5. v. To have a doubt.
6. v. To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into
7. v. To address questions to; to examine by questions.
8. v. To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
9. v. To write “ query” (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. an instance of questioning
2. v. pose a question