query

• POS: Noun, Verb (usu participle), Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: que=ry

CIDE DICTIONARY

query, n. [L. quaere, imperative sing. of quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Cf. Acquire, Conquer, Exquisite, Quest, Require.].

•  A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.  [1913 Webster]

  "I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others."  [1913 Webster]
•  A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.  [1913 Webster]
•  An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.  [1913 Webster]

query, v. i. 

•  To ask questions; to make inquiry.  [1913 Webster]

  "Each prompt to query, answer, and debate."  [1913 Webster]
•  To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.  [1913 Webster]

query, 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.  [1913 Webster]
•  To address questions to; to examine by questions.  [1913 Webster]
•  To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.  [1913 Webster]
•  To write “ query” (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

query, n. & v.
--n. (pl. -ies)
1 a question, esp. expressing doubt or objection.
2 a question mark, or the word query spoken or written to question accuracy or as a mark of interrogation.
--v. (-ies, -ied)
1 tr. (often foll. by whether, if, etc. + clause) ask or inquire.
2 tr. call (a thing) in question in speech or writing.
3 tr. dispute the accuracy of.
4 intr. put a question.

Etymology

Anglicized form of quaere f. L quaerere ask, after INQUIRY

THESAURUS

query

ask, ask a question, ask about, ask questions, awake a doubt, be curious, be diffident, be doubtful, be dubious, be skeptical, be uncertain, bone of contention, bring into question, burn with curiosity, call in question, catechism, catechize, challenge, concern, contest, cross-interrogatory, cross-question, debating point, demand, dig around for, dig up, dispute, distrust, doubt, dubiety, enquiry, examine, feeler, gape, gawk, greet with skepticism, half believe, harbor suspicions, have reservations, inquire, inquire of, inquiry, interpellate, interrogate, interrogation, interrogative, interrogatory, interview, issue, leader, leading question, make inquiry, misgive, mistrust, moot point, nose around for, nose out, peer, point at issue, point in question, problem, propose a question, propound a question, pump, put queries, question, question at issue, question mark, questioning, quiz, quodlibet, raise a question, require an answer, reservation, rubber, rubberneck, scepticism, scruple, seek, skepticism, smell a rat, stare, suspect, suspicion, test, throw doubt upon, topic, treat with reserve, trial balloon, uncertainty, vexed question, want to know, worm out of

ROGET THESAURUS

query

Inquiry

N inquiry, request, search, research, quest, pursuit, examination, review, scrutiny, investigation, indagation, perquisition, perscrutation, pervestigation, inquest, inquisition, exploration, exploitation, ventilation, sifting, calculation, analysis, dissection, resolution, induction, Baconian method, strict inquiry, close inquiry, searching inquiry, exhaustive inquiry, narrow search, strict search, study, scire facias, ad referendum, trial, questioning, interrogation, interrogatory, interpellation, challenge, examination, cross-examination, catechism, feeler, Socratic method, zetetic philosophy, leading question, discussion, reconnoitering, reconnaissance, prying, espionage, espionnage, domiciliary visit, peep behind the curtain, lantern of Diogenes, question, query, problem, desideratum, point to be solved, porism, subject of inquiry, field of inquiry, subject of controversy, point in dispute, matter in dispute, moot point, issue, question at issue, bone of contention, plain question, fair question, open question, enigma, knotty point, quodlibet, threshold of an inquiry, inquirer, investigator, inquisitor, inspector, querist, examiner, catechist, scrutator scrutineer scrutinizer, analyst, quidnunc, inquiry, inquisitive, requisitive, requisitory, catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic, in search of, in quest of, on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic, all searching, undetermined, untried, undecided, in question, in dispute, in issue, in course of inquiry, under discussion, under consideration, under investigation, sub judice, moot, proposed, doubtful, quaere?, what?, why?, wherefore?, whence?, whither?, where?, how comes it?, how happens it?, how is it?, what is the reason?, what's the matter?, nicht wahr?, what's in the wind?, what on earth?, when?, who?.