query

Significado (Inglés)

Noun

1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
2. A question mark.
3. A set of instructions passed to a database.
4. Short for query letter.

Verb

1. To ask a question.
2. To ask, inquire.
3. To question or call into doubt.
4. To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
5. To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
6. To send out a query letter.

Conceptos

pregunta

consulta

preguntar

cuestión

consultar

interrogar

interrogación

interrogante

acertar

adivinar

augurar

predecir

presagiar

pronosticar

demanda

cuestionar

solicitud

averiguación

functor

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/

Etimología (Inglés)

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.