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QUERY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

Irregular inflected form: queried   

 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of questioning

Example:

we made inquiries of all those who were present

Synonyms:

enquiry; inquiry; interrogation; query; question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("query" is a kind of...):

inquiring; questioning (a request for information)

Derivation:

query (pose a question)

 II. (verb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pose a question

Synonyms:

query; question

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Hypernyms (to "query" is one way to...):

ask; enquire; inquire (address a question to and expect an answer from)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "query"):

enquire; inquire; wonder (have a wish or desire to know something)

interpellate (question formally about policy or government business)

examine (question closely)

pump (question persistently)

check out; feel out; sound out (try to learn someone's opinions and intentions)

debrief (put someone through a debriefing and make him report)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

Derivation:

querier (someone who asks a question)

query (an instance of questioning)

Credits

 Context examples: 

A grid service that provides an API with a query method, which allows the querying of any class or attribute in the exposed model.

(Data Grid Service, NCI Thesaurus)

Anything more wheedlesome than that touching appeal was seldom heard, but Jo quenched 'her boy' by turning on him with a stern query, "How many bouquets have you sent Miss Randal this week?"

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There are people who seem to have no notion of sketching a character, or observing and describing salient points, either in persons or things: the good lady evidently belonged to this class; my queries puzzled, but did not draw her out.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Services that are needed to maintain the running of a grid, including monitoring and discovery service, security management service (authentication and authorization), identifier naming and resolution service, query and federated query service, and workflow management service.

(Core Grid Service, NCI Thesaurus)

An extension to UML that provides constraint and object query expressions on an object-oriented model that cannot otherwise be expressed by diagrammatic notation, providing expressions that have neither the ambiguities of natural language nor the inherent difficulty of using complex mathematics.

(Object Constraint Language, NCI Thesaurus)

"Who comes?" he queried in a thin, tremulous voice.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“How do I know they are not afraid?” I queried a moment later, after having rowed a few more strokes along the beach.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

"Lookin' for a job?" the other queried.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

And Summerlee, too, there he was with his short briar between his thin moustache and his gray goat's-beard, his worn face protruded in eager debate as he queried all Challenger's propositions.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"How do you mean, ask them questions?" I queried, wishful to get him into a talkative humour.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)