query — 英語辞典

名詞

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

   例文

   The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.

   その他の例文 (1)

   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.

   例文

   その他の例文 (2)

   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.

   例文

   The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

動詞

1. To ask a question.

   用法

   • 自動詞

2. To ask, inquire.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   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?”

   その他の例文 (1)

   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.

   用法

   • 他動詞

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   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.

   例文

   その他の例文 (1)

   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).

   用法

   • Internet
   • 他動詞

   例文

   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.

   用法

   • 自動詞

名詞

1. an instance of questioning

   同義語

   questioninquiryenquiryinterrogation

   上位語

   questioninginquiring

   例文

   there was a question about my training

   we made inquiries of all those who were present

動詞

1. pose a question

   同義語

   question

   上位語

   askinquireenquire