QUERY (queried)

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Irregular inflected form: queried   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does query mean? 

• QUERY (noun)
  The noun QUERY has 1 sense:

1. an instance of questioning

  Familiarity information: QUERY used as a noun is very rare.

• QUERY (verb)
  The verb QUERY has 1 sense:

1. pose a question

  Familiarity information: QUERY used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUERY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An instance of questioning

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

enquiry; inquiry; interrogation; query; question

Context example:

we made inquiries of all those who were present

Hypernyms ("query" is a kind of...):

inquiring; questioning (a request for information)

Derivation:

query (pose a question)

• QUERY (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they query    ... he / she / it queries   
Past simple: queried   
Past participle: queried   
-ing form: querying   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Pose a question

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

query; question

Hypernyms (to "query" is one way to...):

ask; enquire; inquire (address a question to and expect an answer from)

Troponyms (each of the following is one way to "query"):

enquire; inquire; wonder (have a wish or desire to know something)

interpellate (question formally about policy or government business)

examine (question closely)

pump (question persistently)

check out; feel out; sound out (try to learn someone's opinions and intentions)

debrief (put someone through a debriefing and make him report)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s something
Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s whether INFINITIVE

Derivation:

querier (someone who asks a question)

query (an instance of questioning)

 Context examples 

"Why didn't you introduce us?" Messner queried.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

“Will you have some beef?” was her next query.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Query, said Mr. Crawford, looking round him, whether we may not find something to employ us here before we go farther?

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"Why didn't you say, 'Can't say that it do'?" she queried.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

Thus, when old Doctor Meldrum, with his well-known curly-brimmed opera-hat, appeared upon the platform, there was such a universal query of Where DID you get that tile?

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This query was directly addressed to Lord Godalming.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

When I had put an end to these long discources, his majesty, in a sixth audience, consulting his notes, proposed many doubts, queries, and objections, upon every article.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)

The new-comer to whom this abrupt query had been addressed was a tall and exceedingly handsome cavalier who had just been ushered into the apartment.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"What d'ye think?" Scott queried eagerly.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

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