to query

Examples

• All

• Culture Ministry personnel at the municipal level queried me: "Do you mean something might happen to Fidel?"

  Academic text (1995)

• Participants were also queried about some of the tangible resources available through ASHA.

  Academic text (2013)

• This is the program that I use to query my students in the class.

• You just have to be able to query it for the function value.

• You can talk to them, you can query them there.

• It's too late to query the price.

  Vanity Fair (2004)

• - Shall I query them again?

  On the Beach (1959)

• We will work with them to query and push on a business plan.

  Academic text (1995)

• I jotted down a few notes and queried our newspaper editor the next day.

  Academic text (2008)

• Eighty of the 107 businesses were randomly selected, and their managers were queried by a mailed questionnaire.

  Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

A

to ask

vsto query

∞ 1.0

To request information or an answer from someone

is used to show doubt or formally seek information

Q

to question

vsto query

570 1.0

To ask someone questions to get information

focuses on expressing doubt or seeking facts rather than testing

I

to inquire

vsto query

• Formal

107 3.0

To ask someone for information about something

is used also to express doubt as well as to seek information

E

to examine

vsto query

• Formal

53 3.1

To ask someone many questions in a formal way to find out facts

is more informal and used to express doubt or request simple information

S

to shoot a question

vsto query

• Informal

1 3.7

To ask a question quickly and directly

is often used to show doubt or to seek information with care

Q

to questionize

vsto query

9.9

To look at an idea or belief carefully by asking hard questions

is about asking to express doubt or seek simple information, not challenge ideas

Antonyms

A

to answer

∞ 1.0

To reply to a question or request

Compounds

Q

query language

• Specialized

5.4

A way to write computer commands that ask for and get information from a database

How Forceful

to interrogate

• Formal

142 6.5

to probe

• Literature

35 5.1

to question

777 3.5

to query

18 3.7

to ask

∞ 1.0

Surface Forms

Etymology