query

About 8.87 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. noun A question, an inquiry , an enquiry .

   The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.

2. noun A question mark.
3. noun A set of instructions passed to a database.

   The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

4. noun Ellipsis of query letter.
5. verb To ask a question.
6. verb To ask, inquire.
7. verb To question or call into doubt.
8. verb To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

Similar words

enquiry inquiry question inquire enquire ask interrogate interrogation questioning request

Often followed by

is language to and the with in that letter

Word family

queried querier queriers queries querying