Alternative forms quæry ( archaic ) 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 . ( Received Pronunciation ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/ , /ˈkwɪː.ɹi/ ( Standard Southern British ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɪːɹɪj/ Audio ( Southern England ) : ( file ) Audio ( Southern England ) : ( file ) ( General American ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɪɹ.i/ , /ˈkwɛɹ.i/ Audio ( Texas ) : ( file ) Audio ( Texas ) : ( file ) ( Canada ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɪɹ.i/ ( Australia ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/ ( New Zealand ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwiə.ɹi/ ( Scotland ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwi.ɹɪ/ , /ˈkwi.ɹe/ ( East Anglia , cheer – chair merger ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkwɛː.ɹi/ ( South Asia ) IPA ( key ) : /ˈkʋɛ.ri/ Rhymes: -ɪəɹi , -ɛɹi Homophone : quaere ( some pronunciations ) query ( plural queries ) A question , an inquiry ( US ) , an enquiry ( UK ) . The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis. 1910 , Emerson Hough , “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC , page 29 : Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. 1910 , Emerson Hough , “The Gateway, and Some Who Passed”, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise , Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company , →OCLC , page 29 : Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. A question mark . 1886 , Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society , Great Britain: His Glossary has ‘ bouchen , to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query , to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote. 1973 , Oliver Sacks , Awakenings : She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page [ … ] 2006 , Pip, “Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one?”, in rec.motorcycles ( Usenet ): I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together. 1886 , Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society , Great Britain: His Glossary has ‘ bouchen , to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query , to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote. 1973 , Oliver Sacks , Awakenings : She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page [ … ] 2006 , Pip, “Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one?”, in rec.motorcycles ( Usenet ): I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together. ( computing , databases ) A set of instructions passed to a database . The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes. ( publishing ) Ellipsis of query letter . 2006 , Michael Larsen, How to Get a Literary Agent ‎ [1] , Sourcebooks Inc., page 46 : Although many agents accept email queries , check to see if they prefer mailed query letters. 2006 , Michael Larsen, How to Get a Literary Agent ‎ [1] , Sourcebooks Inc., page 46 : Although many agents accept email queries , check to see if they prefer mailed query letters. query processing Structured Query Language Bulgarian: въпро́с (bg) m ( văprós ) Chinese: Mandarin: 問題 / 问题 (zh) ( wèntí ) , 質問 / 质问 (zh) ( zhìwèn ) Czech: dotaz (cs) m Danish: spørgsmål (da) , forespørgsel Dutch: vraag (nl) f , verzoek (nl) n Esperanto: pridemando Estonian: päring Finnish: kysymys (fi) , kysely (fi) , tiedustelu (fi) French: question (fr) f Georgian: კითხვა ( ḳitxva ) , შეკითხვა ( šeḳitxva ) German: Frage (de) f Greek: Ancient Greek: ἐρώτημα n ( erṓtēma ) Hungarian: kérdés (hu) Interlingua: inquisition Italian: interrogativo (it) m , domanda (it) f , quesito (it) m , richiesta (it) f Japanese: 質問 (ja) ( しつもん, shitsumon ) Korean: 질문(質問) (ko) ( jilmun ) Norwegian: Bokmål: spørsmål (no) n , forespørsel (no) m Polish: pytanie (pl) n Portuguese: pergunta (pt) f Russian: запро́с (ru) m ( zaprós ) , вопро́с (ru) m ( voprós ) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: у̀пит m Latin: ùpit (sh) m Spanish: consulta (es) f , pregunta (es) , interrogante (es) m or f Swedish: fråga (sv) c Turkish: sorgulama (tr) Ukrainian: запита́ння (uk) n ( zapytánnja ) Arabic: اِسْتِعْلام (ar) m ( istiʕlām ) Azerbaijani: sorğu (az) Belarusian: за́пыт m ( zápyt ) Chinese: Mandarin: 查詢 / 查询 (zh) ( cháxún ) Czech: dotaz (cs) m Dutch: verzoek (nl) n Esperanto: informpeto Estonian: päring Finnish: kysely (fi) French: requête (fr) f German: Abfrage (de) f Hungarian: lekérdezés (hu) Indonesian: kueri (id) , permintaan (id) Italian: query (it) f Japanese: クエリ (ja) ( kueri ) , 問い合わせ (ja) ( といあわせ, toiawase ) Korean: 쿼리 ( kwori ) Norwegian: Bokmål: spørring f Polish: zapytanie (pl) n , kwerenda (pl) f Portuguese: consulta (pt) f , query (pt) f Russian: запро́с (ru) m ( zaprós ) Serbo-Croatian: upit (sh) m Spanish: consulta (es) f Thai: สอบถาม (th) ( sɔ̀ɔp-tǎam ) Turkish: sorgu (tr) Ukrainian: за́пит m ( zápyt ) Query on Wikipedia. Wikipedia query ( third-person singular simple present queries , present participle querying , simple past and past participle queried ) ( intransitive ) To ask a question . ( transitive ) To ask , inquire . 1661 , Joseph Glanvill , chapter XX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. [ … ] , London: [ … ] E. C [ otes ] for Henry Eversden [ … ] , →OCLC , page 188 : It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: [ … ] 1994 , Dermot Healy , “ As Gaelige ”, in A Goat’s Song , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking , published 1995 , →ISBN , part II (The Salmon of Knowledge), page 160 : “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?” 1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip ‎ [2] ( Usenet ): I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried [ sic ] her favourite colour, quelle banel. 1661 , Joseph Glanvill , chapter XX, in The Vanity of Dogmatizing: Or Confidence in Opinions. [ … ] , London: [ … ] E. C [ otes ] for Henry Eversden [ … ] , →OCLC , page 188 : It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: [ … ] 1994 , Dermot Healy , “ As Gaelige ”, in A Goat’s Song , 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Viking , published 1995 , →ISBN , part II (The Salmon of Knowledge), page 160 : “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?” 1997 August 16, PRINCESSPK, “Re: Opinions wanted for magazine article”, in alt.showbiz.gossip ‎ [2] ( Usenet ): I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried [ sic ] her favourite colour, quelle banel. ( transitive ) To question or call into doubt. 1963 , Margery Allingham , “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery , London: Chatto & Windus , →OCLC , page 249 : The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad. 1963 , Margery Allingham , “Eye Witness”, in The China Governess: A Mystery , London: Chatto & Windus , →OCLC , page 249 : The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad. ( computing , databases ) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it. 1999 , Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction , page 104 : Linked tables can be accessed, queried , combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction. 1999 , Luciano Floridi, Philosophy and computing: an introduction , page 104 : Linked tables can be accessed, queried , combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction. ( transitive , Internet ) To send a private message to (a user on IRC ). 2000 , Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc ( Usenet ): if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key. 2000 , Robert Erdec, “Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si”, in alt.irc.mirc ( Usenet ): if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key. ( intransitive , publishing ) To send out a query letter . In the sense “ to ask, inquire ” , chiefly used with an interrogative clause or direct speech as the object . [ 1 ] Bulgarian: питам (bg) ( pitam ) Chinese: Mandarin: 詢問 / 询问 (zh) ( xúnwèn ) Dutch: vragen (nl) , bevragen (nl) Esperanto: pridemandi (eo)

Finnish: kysyä (fi) , tiedustella (fi) , kysellä (fi) Italian: chiedere (it) Kazakh: сұрау ( suraw ) Portuguese: perguntar (pt) Russian: спра́шивать (ru) impf ( sprášivatʹ ) , справля́ться (ru) impf ( spravljátʹsja ) , осведомля́ться (ru) impf ( osvedomljátʹsja ) Tocharian B: pärk- Turkish: sorgulamak (tr) Ottoman Turkish: صورمق ( sormak ) Ukrainian: запи́тувати impf ( zapýtuvaty ) , запита́ти pf ( zapytáty ) Bulgarian: питам (bg) ( pitam ) Dutch: ( zich (nl) ) informeren (nl) Finnish: kysyä (fi) Italian: domandare (it) Polish: pytać (pl) Portuguese: perguntar (pt) Russian: спра́шивать (ru) impf ( sprášivatʹ ) Spanish: preguntar (es) Tocharian B: pärk- Turkish: Ottoman Turkish: صورمق ( sormak ) Ukrainian: запи́тувати impf ( zapýtuvaty ) , запита́ти pf ( zapytáty ) , поста́вити pf ( postávyty ) ( 'поставити запитання' - 'ask a question' ) Bulgarian: съмня́вам се ( sămnjávam se ) Dutch: betwijfelen (nl) , in vraag stellen Esperanto: pridemandi (eo) Finnish: kyseenalaistaa (fi) German: in Frage stellen Italian: interrogarsi Polish: kwestionować (pl) Portuguese: questionar (pt) Russian: подверга́ть сомне́нию impf ( podvergátʹ somnéniju ) Swedish: betvivla (sv) , ifrågasätta (sv) Turkish: sorgulamak (tr) Ukrainian: сумніва́тися impf ( sumnivátysja ) ( + у/в + locative ) Chinese: Mandarin: 查詢 / 查询 (zh) ( cháxún ) Dutch: bevragen (nl) , queryen Esperanto: informpeti Finnish: suorittaa kysely German: abfragen (de) Italian: ricercare (it) Polish: wysyłać zapytanie impf , wysłać zapytanie pf , kwerendować (pl) impf Portuguese: consultar (pt) Russian: запрашивать (ru) ( zaprašivatʹ ) , писать запрос ( pisatʹ zapros ) Turkish: sorgulamak (tr) ^ “ query, v. ”, in OED Online ⁠ , Oxford: Oxford University Press , launched 2000. English terms derived from Latin English 2-syllable words English terms with IPA pronunciation English terms with audio pronunciation Rhymes:English/ɪəɹi Rhymes:English/ɪəɹi/2 syllables Rhymes:English/ɛɹi Rhymes:English/ɛɹi/2 syllables English terms with homophones English countable nouns English terms with usage examples English terms with quotations English ellipses English intransitive verbs English transitive verbs en:Punctuation marks Pages with entries Pages with 1 entry Quotation templates to be cleaned Entries with translation boxes Terms with Bulgarian translations Terms with Mandarin translations Terms with Czech translations Terms with Danish translations Terms with Dutch translations Terms with Esperanto translations Terms with Estonian translations Terms with Finnish translations Terms with French translations Terms with Georgian translations Terms with German translations Terms with Ancient Greek translations Terms with Hungarian translations Terms with Interlingua translations Terms with Italian translations Terms with Japanese translations Terms with Korean translations Terms with Norwegian Bokmål translations Terms with Polish translations Terms with Portuguese translations Terms with Russian translations Terms with Serbo-Croatian translations Terms with Spanish translations Terms with Swedish translations Terms with Turkish translations Terms with Ukrainian translations Terms with Arabic translations Terms with Azerbaijani translations Terms with Belarusian translations Terms with Indonesian translations Terms with Thai translations Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations Terms with Kazakh translations Terms with Tocharian B translations Terms with Ottoman Turkish translations