query — Diccionario de inglés

Sustantivo

1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).

   Ejemplos

   The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.

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   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.

2. A question mark.

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   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.

   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 […]

   I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.

3. A set of instructions passed to a database.

   Ejemplos

   The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

Verbo

1. To ask a question.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

2. To ask, inquire.

   Uso

   • transitivo

   Ejemplos

   It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]

   “You must have had an active life,” queried the shopkeeper, “before you retired?”

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   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.

3. To question or call into doubt.

   Uso

   • transitivo

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   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.

4. To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.

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   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.

5. To send a private message to (a user on IRC).

   Uso

   • Internet
   • transitivo

   Ejemplos

   if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

6. To send out a query letter.

   Uso

   • intransitivo

Sustantivo

1. an instance of questioning

   Sinónimos

   questioninquiryenquiryinterrogation

   Términos más generales

   questioninginquiring

   Ejemplos

   there was a question about my training

   we made inquiries of all those who were present

Verbo

1. pose a question

   Sinónimos

   question

   Términos más generales

   askinquireenquire