QUERY

query

Noun

  1. A question or inquiry.
    The teacher answered the student's query concerning biosynthesis.
  2. A question mark.
  3. A set of instructions passed to a database.
    The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

Verb

  1. To ask, inquire.
  2. To ask a question.
  3. To question or call into doubt.
  4. To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.
  5. To send a private message to (a user on IRC).


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