query
名词 n.
动词 v.
英 /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
美 /ˈkwɪə.ɹi/|/ˈkwɪ.ɹi/|/ˈkwɛ.ɹi/
英文释义
名词 n.
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A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
— The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
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A question mark.
— His Glossary has ‘bouchen, to stop people's mouths,’; but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.
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A set of instructions passed to a database.
— The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
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Ellipsis of query letter.
— Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters.
动词 v.
- To ask a question.
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To ask, inquire.
— It’s queried whether there be any Science in the ſenſe of the Dogmatiſts: […]
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To question or call into doubt.
— The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.
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To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
— Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under construction.
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To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
— if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
- To send out a query letter.
词汇关系
词源
词源 1
An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”); perhaps suffixed with -y (“abstract noun”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
词源 2
An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaerō (“seek, look for; ask”); perhaps suffixed with -y (“abstract noun”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.
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