Definitions for query

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query que·ry

Spelling: [kweer-ee]

IPA: /ˈkwɪər i/

Query is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 17 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in query (eqruy).

Definitions for query

noun

1. a question; an inquiry.
2. mental reservation; doubt.
3. Printing. a question mark (?), especially as added on a manuscript, proof sheet, or the like, indicating doubt as to some point in the text.
4. an inquiry from a writer to an editor of a magazine, newspaper, etc., regarding the acceptability of or interest in an idea for an article, news story, or the like: usually presented in the form of a letter that outlines or describes the projected piece.

verb (used with object)

1. to ask or inquire about:
2. to question as doubtful or obscure:
3. Printing. to mark (a manuscript, proof sheet, etc.) with a query.
4. to ask questions of.

Origin of query

1625-35; alteration (cf. -y³) of earlier quere Latin quaere quaere

Examples for query

But it is needless to complete the query; the answer alone is important.

If few or no results are found for a query, results from Bing, Microsoft's search engine, will populate the page.

Then he stands by—near enough to query, not close enough to crowd.

So Lopez also does his homework and hands out a query sheet with questions.

Then, in his turn, Burke put the query that the girl had put to him a little while before.

And then her insolence reached its culmination in a query of her own: "Was his name Griggs?"

Porter went on as though he had not heard the daughter's query.

Your query will be answered with a blank stare, followed by a long pause and half-hearted reply: My accountant?

There was something half-plaintive in the modulated cadences of the query.

That would be the end of the visit, a quick two-question survey; except Gilligan has a query of her own.