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query

noun
/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/UK/ˈkwɪ.ɹi/US/ˈkwi.ɹɪ/

Etymology

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”); perhaps suffixed with -y (“abstract noun”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

  1. derived from quaere

Definitions

  1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

    • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
    • Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations.

  2. A question mark.

    • His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.
    • She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page […]
    • I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.

  3. A set of instructions passed to a database.

    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
  4. ›+ 8 more definitions

    1. Ellipsis of query letter.

      • Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters.

    2. To ask a question.

    3. To ask, inquire.

      • It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]
      • “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”

    4. To question or call into doubt.

      • The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.

    5. To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

      • Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.

    6. To send a private message to (a user on IRC).

      • if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

    7. To send out a query letter.

    8. A surname.

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Derived

antiquery, counterquery, interquery, intraquery, multiquery, non-query, querist, query-by-query, queryist, query language, query plan, query processing, querysome, query string, Structured Query Language, overquery, queriable, querier, queryable, requery

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at query. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at query. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

7 hops · closes at query

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA