Query

Noun

 * 1) A question or inquiry.
 * The teacher answered the student's query concerning biosynthesis.
 * 1)  A set of instructions passed to a database.
 * The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

Derived terms

 * queerious
 * query language
 * subquery

Verb

 * 1)  To ask, inquire.
 * 2)  To ask a question.
 * 3)  To question or call into doubt.
 * 4)  To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.

Adverbs for Query
sharply; deprecatingly; deliberately; romantically; significantly; stubbornly; breathlessly; anxiously; curtly; scornfully; perplexedly.

Thesaurus
ask, ask a question, ask about, ask questions, awake a doubt, be curious, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, bone of contention, bring into question, burn with curiosity, call in question, catechism, catechize, challenge, concern, contest, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, debating point, demand, dig around for, dig up, dispute, distrust, doubt, dubiety, enquiry, examine, feeler, gape, gawk, greet with skepticism, half believe, harbor suspicions, have reservations, inquire, inquire of, inquiry, interpellate, interrogate, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, interview, issue, leader, leading question, make inquiry, misgive, mistrust, moot point, nose around for, nose out, peer, point at issue, point in question, problem, propose a question, propound a question, pump, put queries, question, question at issue, question mark, questioning, quiz, quodlibet, raise a question, require an answer, reservation, rubber, rubberneck, scepticism, scruple, seek, skepticism, smell a rat, stare, suspect, suspicion, test, throw doubt upon, topic, treat with reserve, trial balloon, uncertainty, vexed question, want to know, worm out of

Alternative forms

 * quæry

Etymology
An anglicisation of quere:, an obsolete variant form of quaere:, second-person singular present active imperative of quaero:. Compare.

Noun

 * Croatian:
 * Danish:
 * Dutch: ,
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: päring


 * Japanese:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:


 * Croatian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto: informpeto
 * Estonian: päring


 * French:
 * German:
 * Japanese: クエリ, 問い合わせ
 * Polish: zapytanie
 * Russian:

Verb

 * Dutch:, bevragen


 * Esperanto:


 * Dutch:


 * Polish:


 * Dutch: in vraag stellen,
 * Esperanto:


 * Polish:


 * Dutch: bevragen, queryen
 * Esperanto: informpeti


 * German: abfragen
 * Polish: wysłać zapytanie