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queries

[kweer-ee]

noun

a question; an inquiry.

mental reservation; doubt.

Printing. a question mark (?), especially as added on a manuscript, proof sheet, or the like, indicating doubt as to some point in the text.

an inquiry from a writer to an editor of a magazine, newspaper, etc., regarding the acceptability of or interest in an idea for an article, news story, or the like: usually presented in the form of a letter that outlines or describes the projected piece.

verb (used with object)

to ask or inquire about: No one queried his presence.

to question as doubtful or obscure: to query a statement.

Printing. to mark (a manuscript, proof sheet, etc.) with a query.

to ask questions of.

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a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.

a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal.

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Origin:
1625–35; alteration (compare -y³) of earlier quere < Latin quaere quaere

Related forms

que·ry·ing·ly, adverb

out·que·ry, verb (used with object), -ried, -ry·ing.

un·que·ried, adjective

Can be confused: 1. inquiry, query; 2. quarry, query.

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Most of their queries have to do with placement of commas, capitalization, or the proper use of that and which.

Some make another trip to town and back when queries cannot be answered by telephone.

Search engines also engage in predictive text to figure out what queries users might type in.

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Most of their queries have to do with placement of commas, capitalization, or the proper use of that and which.

Some make another trip to town and back when queries cannot be answered by telephone.

Search engines also engage in predictive text to figure out what queries users might type in.

We will make every effort to answer your queries and will reply to you via email within two business days.

Google said it was able to reduce that load significantly using some smart caching and some prioritization of queries.

Peer review may need to include queries re reproducibility of work.

Besides, they were being submerged by the daily flood of relatively trivial queries.

Other stimulating queries and observations on more topics follow.

Push it twice, and you are in dialogue with central for more complex queries.

Mentor reminds readers that she rarely answers letters personally, but always welcomes unusual queries and anecdotes.

In other words, the surge in queries is probably amplified by surges in media attention, creating a bit of a feedback loop.

The gadget compiles the info by aggregating search queries for the virus geographically.

The only thing the bot does is make a couple of interesting small queries on a public nameserver," he said.

But his response made me wonder how players would react to my queries and presence.

His project combined readings from remote water-sensors with queries and data which villagers keyed into their mobile phones.

She is extensively programmed and able to draw upon a vast ecosystem based on an array of queries.

Tellme would solve part of the problem by enabling voice-activated search for local businesses, among other queries.

Mentor welcomes rants, gossip, and queries for future columns.

All queries regarding transit would be answered once the deal is finalized.

Google has a lock on search queries where the answer is a single website.

We have listed our property on the site and it generates for more queries than any other vacation home site does.

The content in question is the search queries our users submit.

So let's agree that not-terribly-astute queries are part of everyday life.

As a result, you can expect them to be efficient in answering queries and eventually making an offer of a place.

On the new license proposals, he queries why any angler should be prepared to buy one.

Project organizers have been receiving a number of queries from people wondering how they can get involved in this initiative.

It also provides tools to help users further refine their queries.

The wiki can be helpful for sharing answers to individual queries about a department's job listing or search timeline.

Ever accessible, he gave lectures, responded to queries about his plays and even acted in them.

Watson then queries its database for an appropriate question response, a process that doesn't involve using the internet at all.

But in any event, my daughters found lots of relevant responses to queries.

Paleontologists respond to dozens of similar queries each year.

Post some random queries for the best place to eat or something unusual to do in your destination city.

Submit your queries on fashion, travel, design and.

The database is freely available for online queries and complete download.

Cody peppered them with a few queries and awaits their reply.

Expanded answers to key interview questions, and additional queries and replies, appear here.

Archibald's e-mail queries to anonymous machine makers were politely but uniformly rejected.

Alpha is a powerful computational engine that can effortlessly answer queries that no one has asked of a search engine before.

Mentor wonders how she can answer these queries without a plot summary or a gloss.

Open search box supporting keyword and natural language queries.

The queries were handed to a film crew that filmed the actor's responses.

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Word Origin & History

query

1530s, quære, from L. quære "ask," imperative of quærere "to seek, gain, ask," probably ultimately from PIE *kwo-, base forming the stem of relative and interrogative pronouns. Spelling altered c.1600 by influence of inquiry. The noun in the sense of "a question" is attested from 1630s.

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