Query

Definition: Query

Query

Noun

1. An instance of questioning; "there was a question about my training"; "we made inquiries of all those who were present".

Verb

1. Pose a question.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "query" was first used: 1535. (references)

Computing

Census

Information

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Synonyms: Query

Inquiry

Question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism; subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy; point in dispute, matter in dispute; moot point; issue, question at issue; bone of contention; (discord); plain question, fair question, open question; enigma; (secret); knotty point; (difficulty); quodlibet; threshold of an inquiry.

Crosswords: Query

Portuguese (query).

Books

• Ontology-Based Query Processing for Global Information Systems (Kluwer International Series in Engineering and Computer Science, 619) (reference)

• Open Query File Magic! (reference)

• Principles of Database Query Processing for Advanced Applications (Morgan Kaufmann Series in Data Management Systems) (reference)

• Quality-Driven Query Answering for Integrated Information Systems (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2261) (reference)

• SAS SQL Query Window User's Guide, Version 8 (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Query (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

A librarian at the National Library of Medicine (NLM) is using an IBM computer to access PDQ. The Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians obtain information about the most up-to-date protocols, physicians, and clinics treating cancer patients. Credit: Bill Branson (photographer).

Several nurses in a nurses' station, two of which are working on a computer accessing PDQ. Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians and patients obtain information on protocols, physician referrals and clinics using the most up-to-date cancer treatments. Credit: Bill Branson.

The R.A. Bloch Building, donated to the National Cancer Institute by several American businessmen is now the home of PDQ, an information service for physicians. The International Cancer Information Center (ICIC), the technical information office, and the JNCI staff. The building was dedicated in October 1983. The physician's data query, PDQ, is a new computerized information system developed by the National Cancer Institute to disseminate up-to-date information on cancer treatment. Using state-of-the-art computers, PDQ makes recent advances in cancer treatment readily available to physicians nationwide. Credit: Lew Bass (photographer).

Doctor sitting at his office desk accessing PDQ on his IBM computer. The Physicians Data Query was designed by the National Cancer Institute to help physicians obtain information about the most up-to-date protocols, physicians, and clinics treating cancer patients. Credit: Ernie Branson (photographer).

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Economic History

Indonesia

These include the Public Diplomacy Query (PDQ) database, Dialog, Legi-Slate, and Westlaw. (references)

Norway

The query normally asks about the payment of commissions/fees and the Norwegian laws, regulations or informal policies regarding such payments. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "query": 473L Query ♦ database query language ♦ i query whether ♦ knowledge Query and Manipulation Language ♦ Physician Data Query ♦ query by example ♦ query condition ♦ query expansion ♦ query fever ♦ query formulation ♦ Query Language ♦ query smth. ♦ query whether ♦ structured Query Language ♦ unprotected query. Additional references.

Beginning with "query": query-based, query-by-example.

Ending with "query": Jego-query.

Albanian

shpreh dyshim, pyetje (cross-question, enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, perquisition, quaere, question, questioning, request, requisition), pyes (ask, care, demand, enquire, inquire, interrogate, question, quiz), pikëpyetje (question mark), dyshim (distrust, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, hesitation, misgiving, qualm, suspicion, suspiciousness), bëj pyetje (question). (various references)

Arabic 

‏وضع علامة إستفهام, ‏تساؤل (question), ‏سؤال (inquiry, question, request), ‏علامة إستفهام (interrogation point, question mark), ‏إستفهم (question), ‏شكك (call in question, hesitate, impeach, misbelieve, question), ‏شك (discount, discredit, dispute, doubt, fall under suspicion, incertitude, inkling, misgiving, odor, odour, qualms, question, scepticism, scrupulosity, smell a rat, suspicion, unbelief, uncertainty, wonder). (various references)

Bulgarian 

съмнявам се (doubt, misdoubt), разпитвам (enquire, examine, inquire, interrogate, question), въпросителна (question mark), оспорвам (call down, contest, contravene, controvert, debate, dispute, gainsay, impugn, litigate, oppugn, question), питам се (wonder), питам (ask, question), пита се (the question is), искам да се обясни. (various references)

Chinese 

询问 (Enquire, enquiry, inquire, Inquired, Inquiries, inquiring, inquiry, interrogate, Interrogating, Queried, Queries, Querying), 疑問 (interrogation, interrogative). (various references)

Czech

zeptat se (ask, inquire), otazník (question mark), otázka (issue, problem, question, thing), otázat se (ask), dotaz (enquiry, inquiry, question), žádat vysvìtlení. (various references)

Danish

specifik anmodning (polling query), spørgsmål (question), forespørgsel (encoded search question, interrogation, query formulation, request). (various references)

Dutch

vraagformulering (encoded search question, query formulation), ondervragen (interrogate, question), informatieaanvraag, gegevensopvraag, afvraag (polling query). (various references)

Farsi 

پرسیدن (Ask, Question), پرسش (Inquiry, Question), تحقیق وبازجوءی کردن , تردید (Doubt, Hang, Hesitancy, Indecision, Qualm, Scruple, Skepticism, Suspicion, Uncertainty, Vibration), سوال (Question), جستار (Inquest, Inquiry), استفسار, استنطاق کردن (Inquire, Interrogate, Probate). (various references)

Finnish

kysely (inquiry, interrogation, investigation). (various references)

French

question (question). (various references)

German

Frage (demand, interrogation, issue, matter, problem, quest, question), abfragen (call up, extract, interrogate, quiz, request, retrieval, sample, scan, test, to inquire, to interrogate, to request), rückfrage (callback), fragen (ask, interrogate, queries, question, questions, to ask, to interrogate, to request), Abfrage (inquiry, interrogation, question, recitation, request). (various references)

Greek 

ερώτηση (enquiry, inquiry, interrogation, question), ερώτημα (question, quiz). (various references)

Hebrew 

מלת שאל�" (interrogative), לפקפק (doubt, falter, hesitate, suspect, vacillate, waver, wobble), שאל�" (inquiry, issue, petition, problem, question, request, wish), סימן שאל�" (interrogation point, question mark). (various references)

Hungarian

kérdés (issue, leader, leading question, matter, point, problem, quaere, question, score, teaser), kétség (doubt, misgiving, misgivings, question, scruple, suspense), kérdőjel (mark of interrogation, question mark), aggály (anxiety, qualm, scruple, solicitousness, solicitude). (various references)

Italian

domanda (appeal, application, demand, entreaty, inquiry, question, request, submission, supplication, supply). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

問い (question). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

とい (gutter, question, water pipe). (various references)

Korean 

질문 (Queries, Querying, Question). (various references)

Manx

feysht (problem, question), cowrey feyshtey. (various references)

Pig Latin

eryquay

Portuguese

questão (affair, broil, brush, business, business deal, case, difference, disagreement, dissemblance, earmark, fortuity, issue, litigation, matter, proposition, quarrel, question, scene, strife, wrangle), query, ponto de interrogação (question mark), perguntar (ask, ask questions, demand, enquire, inquire, put, quiz, to ask), pergunta (asking, question), pôr em dúvida (bring into question, call in question), investigar (burrow, delve, dub, enquire, examine, explore, inquire, investigate, look for, look into, placatory, place, rake, rake up, research, rummage, scrutinize, search into, seek, sit on, spy, study, to investigate), interrogação (demand, question, questioning), inquirir (enquire, inquire), informar-se (consult, enquire, inquire, learn, powwow, question), indagar (ascertain, enquire, inquire, investigate, quest, question, search), duvidar (demur, disbelieve, discredit, doubt, misbelieve, question), dúvida (demur, doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, mind-breaker, misgiving, objection, puzzle, scruple, suspense, suspicion). (various references)

Romanian

semn de întrebare, se îndoi (be doubtful of, bend, cast doubts on smth., crook, discredit, distrust, double up, doubt, get out of true, give, hook on, pucker, question, sag, spring, stand in doubt, suspect, verge, yield), pune o întrebare (put a question, question), întrebare (inquiry, interrogation, question), întreba (ask, call for, enquire, examine, inquire, question, wonder). (various references)

Russian 

запрос (demand, interpellation, message, request, requiry). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

raspitivanje, pitati (ask, question), pitanje (inquiry, question), ispitivati (inquire into, interrogate, probe, question, quiz), žalba (bellyache, bitch, complaint, grievance, gripe, kick, plaint). (various references)

Spanish

pregunta (enquiry, exasperation, inquiry, question). (various references)

Swedish

fråga (ask, ask questions, case, inquire, inquiry, interrogation, interrogatory, matter, point, quaere, question), förfrågan (inquiry). (various references)

Turkish

soru işareti koymak, soru işareti (interrogation mark, point of interrogation, question mark), soru (enquiry, inquiries, inquiry, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, question), sormak (ask, ask about, demand, enquire, inquire, pose, propose), sorguya çekmek (catechize, cross-examine, draw, examine, give a grilling, grill, interrogate, question), sorgulamak (cross-question, examine, give a grilling, interrogate, question), sorgu (enquiry, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, interrogation, interrogative, oyer, question), kuşkulanmak (be doubtful, disbelieve, doubt, fear, feel suspicious, impugn, question, smell a rat, surmise, suspect), kuşku (disbelief, distrust, doubt, fears, impeachment, misgiving, quandary, question, surmise, suspicion, uneasiness), şüphesi olmak (be sceptical about, be sceptical of, be skeptical about, be skeptical of, doubt, have doubts about), şüphe (disbelief, discredit, doubt, dubiousness, fears, haze, if, impeachment, incertitude, misdoubt, mistrust, question, surmise, suspicion, uncertainty). (various references)

Ukrainian

сумнів (challenge, demur, doubt, dubiety, hesitance, hesitancy, impeachment, misdoubt, offence, offense, qualm, question, scruple), знак питання (interrogatory), запитувати (ask, demand, enquire, inquire, interrogate), запитання (asking, interrogation, interrogatory, question), піддавати сумніву (perhaps), дізнаватися (learn). (various references)

Vietnamese 

chẳng biết dấu chấm hỏi, câu hỏi (interrogatory), câu chất vấn. (various references)

Welsh

gofyniad (question). (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "query": querying. (additional references)

Words ending with "query": grotesquery. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Query" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eueri, euery, juery, keery, kery, Ouery, qeer, qery, quadry, quagy, quarb, quarey, quarf, quarg, quari, quarie, quarj, quarm, quarp, quary, quaryz, queary, queay, Quebra, queby, queerie, queert, queery, queerys, queey, queezy, quely, Quelyia, quer, querd, quere, querey, queri, querie, querky, querm, querny, Quero, querp, querr, querre, quert, querty, querw, querys, quesy, quevy, queyd, queye, queyt, Quiery, Quierzy, quiey, quirey, quirg, Quirin, Quirm, quiry, quoer, quorry, quory, qure, quree, quri, qurry, qyery. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: quey.

-2 letters: rue, rye.

-3 letters: er, re, ye.

+2 letters: enquiry, equerry, quavery, queerly, quivery.

+3 letters: coquetry, quackery, querying, squarely.

+4 letters: baroquely, brusquely, frequency, marquetry, parquetry, quarrymen, quarterly, reliquary, reliquefy, requalify.

+5 letters: frequently, prequalify, quaternary, quaternity, squirrelly.