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/kwˈɪri/ Listen

noun

Query n. (pl. queries)

A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. "I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a... search to be made by others."

A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.

An interrogation point (?) as the sign of a question or a doubt.

verb

Query v. t. (past & past part. queried; pres. part. querying)

To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.

To address questions to; to examine by questions.

To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.

To write " query" (qu., qy., or?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.

Query v. i.

To ask questions; to make inquiry. "Each prompt to query, answer, and debate."

To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.

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Etymology of 'Query'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Query" Quotes from Famous Books

... to try? And then another voice is heard, feeble, tremulous with years, ay, with deep emotion; it is that of the revered old soldier of the Cross, whose lips long years before propounded the same solemn query to her sainted mother; who under that same roof received this child, a smiling baby-girl, into the congregation of Christ's flock, and signed her with the sign of the cross; who led her, a sweet maiden, ...

— Marion's Faith. • Charles King

... the future. In her own mind, the old noblewoman wondered how much of Caroline's odd letter had been prompted by the mental condition of Caroline's daughter. But she had the grace not to repeat this mental query aloud, in her world. As for others' thoughts—well, why should the ecstatic young bride, full of the delight of her title and the Feodoreff sapphires, take the least interest in the fate of a miscreant with ...

— The Genius • Margaret Horton Potter

... fright had come into the woman's eyes. A name formed on Houston's lips, only to be forced back into the more general query: ...

— The White Desert • Courtney Ryley Cooper

... happen when the lines met? Almost before the query was thought there came the answer. With an earth-jarring crash they came together. The lines wavered back from the shock of impact and then the whole struggle appeared to Pasha to centre about him. Of course this was not so. ...

— Children's Literature - A Textbook of Sources for Teachers and Teacher-Training Classes • Charles Madison Curry

... attaining the end I had in view, I was to prove Rhoda Colwell's insinuations false, and Dwight Pollard's assertion true, was a question to which an answer did not come with very satisfactory readiness. Even the simple query as to how I was to explain my late neglect to Dwight Pollard occasioned me an hour of anxious thought; and it was not till I remembered that the simplest course was always the best, and that with a snake ...

— The Mill Mystery • Anna Katharine Green

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