- (v.i.) To ask questions; to make inquiry.
- (n.) A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
- (n.) A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved.
- (v.t.) To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
- (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.
- (n.) An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
- (v.i.) To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
- (v.t.) To write " query" (qu., qy. or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling or sense, in a proof. See Quaere.
- (v.t.) To address questions to; to examine by questions.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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