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A question or request for information
“If you have a query regarding someone's book, you can find his or her email address and fire off the question in a matter of minutes.”
An act of questioning someone or requesting information from them
“On a query of the witness as to where the said person had gone, accused replied he did not know.”
A search or investigation for information or details
“Officers conducted a query of the suspect's license and discovered that he had an active warrant.”
A lack of trust or uncertainty
“Before embarking on this task, one obvious query about this way of proceeding needs first to be answered.”
(computing) A set of instructions passed to a database to retrieve data
“Using this information allows you to optimize your query to use indexes in the query where possible.”
An act of asking politely or formally for something
A slight objection or criticism about a trivial matter
A matter or concern or a topic of discussion
To ask a question about something, especially to check its validity or accuracy
“Some shareholders are expected to query whether this would be the most prudent use of the money.”
To ask someone a question or questions, especially in an interrogative fashion
“No one was ever quite brave enough to query him about his involvement or ask him what those neuroses were.”
To perform an analysis or investigation into something
“Through my readings, I began to query if something central within me was amiss.”
To have or cast doubts about a fact or supposition
“Several minutes after nine, he began to query the clothing he had chosen to don himself with.”
(computing) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve data from it
“Run the following SQL statement to query the database table.”
To have doubts or suspicions about
To implore or make a request for
To put forward one's questions
To analyze or argue against a claim or piece of information
To think about something with curiosity or doubt
To argue or raise objections about a trivial matter
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