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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 question mark.
  3. n. computing, databases A set of instructions passed to a database.
  4. v. transitive To ask, inquire.
  5. v. intransitive To ask a question.
  6. v. transitive To question or call into doubt.
  7. v. computing, databases 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

Etymologies

  1. An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō ("seek, look for; ask"). Compare question. (Wiktionary)
  2. Alteration of obsolete quaere, quere, from Latin quaere, imperative of quaerere, to ask, to seek. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “# Make up a simple query my $query = new Unit:: Request ( "");”

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  • “You do this by sending the straight text through PHP either through a variable or through the mysql_query command directly, like this: $query = "SELECT * from TABLE"; $results = mysql_query ($query); You can also do it like this: $results = mysql_query ( "SELECT * from TABLE"); The results of your query are then put into a temporary array known as $results, which you'll learn more about later.”

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  • “Next you plan out your query and assign it to the $query variable.”

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  • “$Vm = gwmi - namespace root\virtualization - query $query - computername $HyperVServer”

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  • “$Kvp = gwmi - namespace root\virtualization - query $query - computername $HyperVServer Write-Host "Guest KVP information for”

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  • “$result = $db - > query ($query); if ($result) echo $db - > affected_rows. 'student inserted into the database.”

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  • “$result = mysql_query ($query) or die ( "Couldn't execute query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) $indexx = $row [ "indexx"];”

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  • “= mysql_query ($query) or die ( "Couldn't execute query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) $indexx = $row [ "indexx"];”

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  • “$forum_db-query_build ($query) or error (__FILE__, __LINE__);”

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  • “\''. $forum_user [ 'ident']. '\ '': 'id ='. $forum_user [ 'id'] $result = $forum_db-query_build ($query) or error (__FILE__, __LINE__); list ($question_id) = $forum_db-fetch_row ($result);”

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synonyms (2)

Words with the same meaning

  1. question
  1. doubt

hypernyms (2)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. questioning
  1. inquiring

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. inquiry
  2. request
  3. reply
  4. message
  1. comment
  2. database
  3. objection
  4. statement
  1. reference
  2. update
  3. exclamation
  4. code
  1. suggestion
  2. invitation
  3. input
  4. script
  1. entry
  2. challenge
  3. observation
  4. parameter

rhymes (4)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Kashmiri
  1. Peary
  1. peary
  1. peery

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. query
  2. quaere
  3. qy
  1. join
  2. interrogation
  3. qu
  1. questioning
  2. qu.
  3. unmeaning
  1. demand
  2. rescript
  3. inquiry
  1. feedback
  2. question
  3. wonder
  1. q

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