query
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[edit] English
[edit] Alternative forms
- quæry (archaic)
[edit] Etymology
An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Compare question.
[edit] Pronunciation
[edit] Noun
query (plural queries)
- A question or inquiry.
- The teacher answered the student's query concerning biosynthesis.
- (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
- The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
[edit] Derived terms
[edit] Translations
question or inquiry
computing: set of instructions passed to a database
[edit] Verb
query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)
- (transitive) To ask, inquire.
- (intransitive) To ask a question.
- (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
- (computing, databases) To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.
- 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:
[edit] Translations
inquire
question
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computing: search database
