Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A question; an inquiry.
- n. A doubt in the mind; a mental reservation.
- n. A notation, usually a question mark, calling attention to an item in order to question its validity or accuracy.
- v. To express doubt or uncertainty about; question: query someone's motives.
- v. To put a question to (a person). See Synonyms at ask.
- v. To mark (an item) with a notation in order to question its validity or accuracy.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- 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.
- n. Synonyms Inquiry, Interrogation, etc. See question.
- To put a query; ask a question or questions; express doubt.
- To mark with a query; express a desire to examine as to the truth of.
- To seek by questioning; inquire or ask: as, to query the sum or amount; to query the motive or the fact.
- To examine by questions; address queries to: as, to query a person.
Wiktionary
- n. A question or inquiry.
- n. A question mark.
- n. computing, databases A set of instructions passed to a database.
- v. transitive To ask, inquire.
- v. intransitive To ask a question.
- v. transitive To question or call into doubt.
- v. computing, databases To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
- n. A question in the mind; a doubt.
- n. An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
- v. To ask questions; to make inquiry.
- v. To have a doubt.
- v. To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into
- v. To address questions to; to examine by questions.
- v. To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
- v. To write “ query” (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.
WordNet 3.0
- n. an instance of questioning
- v. pose a question
Etymologies
- 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)
- 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 ( "");”
“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.”
“Next you plan out your query and assign it to the $query variable.”
“$Vm = gwmi - namespace root\virtualization - query $query - computername $HyperVServer”
“$Kvp = gwmi - namespace root\virtualization - query $query - computername $HyperVServer Write-Host "Guest KVP information for”
“$result = $db - > query ($query); if ($result) echo $db - > affected_rows. 'student inserted into the database.”
“$result = mysql_query ($query) or die ( "Couldn't execute query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) $indexx = $row [ "indexx"];”
“= mysql_query ($query) or die ( "Couldn't execute query"); while ($row = mysql_fetch_array ($result)) $indexx = $row [ "indexx"];”
“$forum_db-query_build ($query) or error (__FILE__, __LINE__);”
“\''. $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);”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘query’.
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GRE Barrons Wordlist
A complete Barron's Wordlist for GRE preparation. Your online flashcard replacement.
abase, abash, abate, abbreviate, abdicate, aberrant, aberration, abet, abeyance, abhor, abject, abjure and 4087 more...
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GRE Barron's 800
zealot, wistful, welter, wary, whimsical, warranted, vortex, vivisection, volatile, vitiate, viscous, visage and 787 more...
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EN - pronunciation fun
All words of the poem
The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse <...abyss, ache, actual, advice, aerie, age, ague, aisles, alas, alien, alive, allowed and 406 more...
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webdev
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ajax, user, admin, frontend, backend, database, sql, protocol, call, dom, layout, ui and 439 more... -
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revising for a competition 30 games
in 24 hours
5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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tech words
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soa, environment, production, architecture, architect, language, java, application, integration, deploy, deployment, install and 28 more...
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I am : talking
"These are talking words," I announce. "You mean verbs that can be used for dialogue?" you ask. "That's right!" I agree.
say, speak, ask, declare, query, shout, yell, scream, shriek, squeal, squeak, screech and 81 more...
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big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6689 more...
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maygra
apropos, advantageous, perception, discombobulated, adumbrate, apogee, perihelion, mortmain, solitudinous, mediastinus, asumbrative, traveler and 498 more...
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madmelanie's Words
monkey, folderol, snark, snarky, flibbertigibbet, faith, asshat, pirouette, avuncular, exegesis, memento mori, verisimilitude and 379 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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Some Wednesday words
Just another arbitrary list of words that come up for me today, June 20 2007
tutelage, hobby horse, abracadabra, occipital, martinet, margarita, persona, cute, sharp, acute, confabulate, conspire and 97 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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dienekes's Words
chutzpah, lexicon, intrepid, pedagogical, schlemiel, schism, erudite, anathema, pugilist, jaunty, paradigm, automaton and 949 more...
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2011 July
New words
correspondent, promulgate, transgress, trite, ravine, corespondent, contrivance, contrive, expedient, conducive, clairvoyance, difform and 184 more...
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