query

Meanings

Noun

• A question, an inquiry , an enquiry .
• A question mark.
• A set of instructions passed to a database.

Verb

• To ask a question.
• To ask, inquire.
• To question or call into doubt.
• To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
• To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
• To send out a query letter.

Related

Narrower meaning words

• subquery

Origin

• An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō. Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.