query

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A question, especially one asking for information or expressing a doubt.

   The teacher answered the student's query about the homework.

2. 2
   verb

   To ask a question or express doubt about something.

   She queried the bill because the total seemed too high.

3. 3
   noun

   A request for information sent to a computer database.

   The database returned thousands of results for that query.

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.

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