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Meaning of query in English

query
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈkwɪə.ri/ us
/ˈkwɪr.i/
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B2
a questionoften expressing doubt about something or looking for an answer from an authority:
If you have any queries about your treatmentthe doctor will answer them.
Synonyms
enquiry UK
question
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query
verb [ T ]
uk
/ˈkwɪə.ri/ us
/ˈkwɪr.i/
to ask questionsespecially in order to check if something is true or correct:
A few students have queried their marks.
[ + question word ] She queried whether three months was long enough.
[ + speech ] "Any chance of a cup of tea?" he queried hopefully.
Synonyms
ask (QUESTION)
question
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(Definition of query from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

query | American Dictionary

query
noun [ C ]
us
/ˈkwɪər·iˈkwer·i/
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a questionoften one expressing doubt about something or looking for information

query

verb [ T ] us
/ˈkwɪr·iˈkwer·i/
Lawyers queried Ann about what she wore that day.
(Definition of query from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

query | Business English

query
noun [ C ]
uk
/ˈkwɪəri/ us
plural queries
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a questionoften expressing doubt about something or looking for an answer from someone:
Email your commentsqueriesor suggestions to us at this address.
We regret that we cannot answer every query.
If you have any queriesplease don't hesitate to ask.
a query about sth I have a query about the second item on the agenda.

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search query
query
verb [ T ]
uk
/ˈkwɪəri/ us
to express doubt about something or ask for more information:
Someone in the accounts department had queried his expense claim.
The Revenue is unlikely to query such an arrangement unless the sums are particularly large in relation to your income.
query whether/why/how He queries whether there is really sufficient demand to warrant another model.
(Definition of query from the Cambridge Business English Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of query

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Other locutions exist allowing agents to express proposals for actionacceptance and rejection of proposalsmake various queries about time and placeand so on.
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In additionit is also very difficult to predict what evidence to combine for different collections or queries.
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On requestthe collected constraints on a par t can be folded into queries that retrieve candidates.
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A second experiment was runusing the same queries and same test collectionin which experimental subjects were asked to select expansion terms.
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The knowledge-enhanced searching of captioned information module permits making queries about images using their captions in natural language.
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Note that when constructing these queriesthe relevance judgments were not referred to this time.
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The results may also be indexed by a search enginewhich may then be used to process queries.
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The manually evaluated material amounts to 410 randomly picked compound queriesresulting in 3.367 hits.
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Howeverthey are in fact extremely inconvenient for automatic analysis and is thus a poor candidate as an abstract representation of queries.
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The sampleconstrained by the ontologyis asserted into a knowledge base which is continually queried for evidence of an intrusion or an attack.
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A logic engine typically has facts assertedand queries requestedin a fairly ordered sequence.
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Let us now formally provide a way of "collecting" all the adorned predicates generated by the rewriting of queries.
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The latter work handles more general queries and achieves completeness with a certain restriction on types that ensures splitting to be finite.
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The predicates are fuzzy sets that represent the degree of membership of terms to documents and queries.
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The main strength of best-match models is that they allow for iterative improvementoften using similar techniques to retrieve documents as to modify queries.
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Translations of query

in Chinese (Traditional)
疑問，問題提問質問，懷疑…
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疑问，问题提问质问，怀疑…
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preguntadudacuestionar…
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dúvidaperguntaperguntar…
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