QUERY meaning: Request for information or data

We found 48 dictionaries that define the word query:

General (26 matching dictionaries)

query: Merriam-Webster.com
query: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
query: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
query: Collins English Dictionary
query: Vocabulary.com
Query, query: Wordnik
query: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
Query, query: Wiktionary
query: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
query: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
query: Infoplease Dictionary
Query, query: Dictionary.com
query: Online Etymology Dictionary
query: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Query (Quaker), Query: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Query: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
query: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
query: Rhymezone
query: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
query: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
query: Free Dictionary
query: Mnemonic Dictionary
query: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
query: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (1 matching dictionary)

ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)

MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
query: Law.com Dictionary
Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
query: Legal dictionary
BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)

query: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
query: Netlingo
query: CCI Computer
query: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
Query: Database Glossary
Internet Terms (No longer online)
Internet Terms (No longer online)
Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
Technopedia (No longer online)
query: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)

online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)

query: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

query: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

query: Search Engine Dictionary

(Note: See queried as well.)

Google, News, Wikipedia, Reddit, X, BlueSky, Kagi

Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
▸ noun:  A question mark.
▸ noun:  (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To ask a question.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To ask, inquire.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
▸ verb:  (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
▸ verb:  (transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
▸ verb:  (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.
▸ noun:  A surname.
▸ noun:  (publishing) Short for query letter. [A formal letter sent to an editor, literary agent or publisher in order to propose an idea for a written work.]

Opposite:

answer, reply, response, solution, result

Types:

SQL, XML, XPath, JSON, XQuery, XSLT, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, PHP, more...

Phrases:

query language, query letter, query processing, query languages, query string, more...

Adjectives:

first, same, new, simple, second, original, single, select, next, initial, last

Colors:

blue, green, yellow, red, orange, purple, pink, teal, cyan, magenta

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