(n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
(n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
(n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
(v. i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.
(v. i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
(v. t.) To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
(v. t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.
(v. t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
(v. t.) To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
Example Sentences:
(1) For this purpose, five queries may contribute to programming the most suitable surgery.
(2) A “significant” number of resignations from the party had come in on Tuesday and Giles queried whether the CLP still had the 500 members it needs to remain registered.
(3) He queried if implementation may be held up for several more years.
(4) Glove manufacturers were queried to ascertain the occurrence of Lowinox 44S36 and butylhydroxyanisole in different brands of latex and vinyl examination gloves.
(5) When multiple database systems are present, a flexible front end can provide sophisticated querying capabilities that bridge the systems, while hiding the complexities of the multiple systems from the user.
(6) The almost-Orwellian technology that enables the government to store and analyze the phone metadata of every telephone user in the United States is unlike anything that could have been conceived in 1979 [...] I cannot imagine a more "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary invasion" than this systematic and high-tech collection and retention of personal data on virtually every single citizen for purposes of querying and analyzing it without prior judicial approval.
(7) The smoking-specific item "craving" reflected this pattern, though in attenuated form, suggesting that the observed exacerbation of withdrawal symptomatology was not simply due to generalized dysphoria, as queried in both instruments.
(8) A sample of psychiatrists (n = 72) working in 20 community mental health centers (CMHCs) representative of the organizational and catchment area characteristics of operating Centers were queried as part of a larger study (n = 595) of community mental health worker roles.
(9) Sceptics have queried whether such vast sums are realistic for an unstable nation that is battling terror groups and has struggled to attract significant foreign investment.
(10) The BLASTx program, implemented on the National Center for Biotechnology Information server, allows a sensitive search of all putative translations of a nucleotide query sequence against all known proteins in a matter of seconds.
(11) It is incredibly difficult to detect manufactured quotes – the voices of people on the street who cannot later be verified, for example – which can go unquestioned without a reason to draw the attention of an editor to query them.
(12) From 2008 to 2011, as the economy worsened and a wave of new restrictions choked abortion access around the country, online queries about self-induced abortion almost doubled , according to Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, an economist who analyzes Google searches.
(13) Thirty-five graduates were tracked and queried regarding their present employment, job satisfaction, future goals and perception of their professional status.
(14) You didn’t really do that, did you?” I queried.
(15) Newly admitted patients from two comprehensive drug abuse programs in the Baltimore area were queried concerning frequency of illicit methadone use and availability of illicit methadone for a 3-month period prior to their admission.
(16) The replication becomes impossible to hold back because any time a web server gains a new file and is queried by the search engines' "spiders" – which go out looking to see what has changed on the web – the cache of the web is updated, with the location of the new file.
(17) In a survey of attitudes and referral practices toward screening mammography, one-fifth (886) of the 4200 physicians queried returned a postage-paid questionnaire.
(18) The nurse investigator initiated a protocol study with five patients responding to a query, "What do you need to know?," related to chemotherapy.
(19) Physicians who participated in our swine procedure laboratory over the past three years were queried as to their prelaboratory and postlaboratory comfort levels with six different resuscitative procedures, and 57 (76%) physicians responded.
(20) In interviews, too, Rubio typically responds to endless Trump-related queries by pivoting back to his own campaign, which weaves his compelling personal story into an optimistic pitch on restoring economic opportunity.