plural queries
queried; querying
1
: to ask questions of especially with a desire for authoritative information
2
: to ask questions about especially in order to resolve a doubt
3
: to put as a question
4
: to mark with a query
querier
noun
Synonyms
Examples of query in a Sentence
Noun
I have a query about my order.
The librarian responded to my query.
Verb
They conducted a survey in which several hundred people were queried about their dietary habits.
it seems odd that someone would want two stoves, so you'd better query that order
Recent Examples on the Web
Charlie Savage, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
The query leads into an emotional acoustic ballad that sees Beyoncé celebrating her children, twins Rumi and Sir and 12-year-old Blue Ivy.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
And the performance difference wasn’t huge for Stable Diffusion, about 1 query per second, but the difference was larger for Llama 2 70B.
H200s are the same Hopper architecture as the H100, but with about 75 percent more high-bandwidth memory and 43 percent more memory bandwidth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2024
The right to be forgotten allows individuals in the EU, the European Economic Area, the U.K. and Switzerland to ask web pages to delist queries related to their name from European search engine result pages.
—Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The first suggested that there was no link, and that Ohtani had no comment in response to a Times query about the Dodger, Bowyer and the investigation, according to a representative for the ballplayer.
—Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The app does a great job of auto-filling my queries and pointing me to the terms industry professionals use.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
Although Ford issued a fix for the problem, the ODI in 2017 opened a recall query to address how effective the solution was.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
McGrady answered various commenter queries, such as where dogs relieve themselves on a cruise.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Their fraught reunion happens on Ellis Island, where they are queried by a peremptory immigration official, who communicates in a mixture of English and trombone.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Amazon’s shopping assistant, Rufus, answers customer queries about products.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2024
This integration facilitates the storage, indexing, and querying of vector embeddings directly within the AlloyDB environment.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
In the coming years, researchers plan to query younger teens as well.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Another tool to consider is a sophisticated search engine that will index the data based on its content and allow administrators to query the resulting index to identify the most relevant content.
—Russ Kennedy, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
But of the hundreds of thousands of Americans queried by the bureau each year, only a small fraction fall into this category—fewer than 1 percent, according to some civil liberties experts.
—Dell Cameron, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
Noun
But reformers — including both progressive Democrats and libertarian-minded Republicans — want to add a requirement that prohibits warrantless queries in the repository for the contents of Americans’ communications, with certain narrow exceptions.
—Charlie Savage, New York Times, 12 Apr. 2024
The query leads into an emotional acoustic ballad that sees Beyoncé celebrating her children, twins Rumi and Sir and 12-year-old Blue Ivy.
—Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 29 Mar. 2024
And the performance difference wasn’t huge for Stable Diffusion, about 1 query per second, but the difference was larger for Llama 2 70B.
H200s are the same Hopper architecture as the H100, but with about 75 percent more high-bandwidth memory and 43 percent more memory bandwidth.
—IEEE Spectrum, 27 Mar. 2024
The right to be forgotten allows individuals in the EU, the European Economic Area, the U.K. and Switzerland to ask web pages to delist queries related to their name from European search engine result pages.
—Emma Woollacott, Forbes, 27 Mar. 2024
The first suggested that there was no link, and that Ohtani had no comment in response to a Times query about the Dodger, Bowyer and the investigation, according to a representative for the ballplayer.
—Paul Pringle, Los Angeles Times, 27 Mar. 2024
The app does a great job of auto-filling my queries and pointing me to the terms industry professionals use.
—Julian Chokkattu, WIRED, 2 Apr. 2024
Although Ford issued a fix for the problem, the ODI in 2017 opened a recall query to address how effective the solution was.
—William Gavin, Quartz, 29 Mar. 2024
McGrady answered various commenter queries, such as where dogs relieve themselves on a cruise.
—Erin Clements, Peoplemag, 23 Mar. 2024
Verb
Disney guests will often stop him in the parks and ask for selfies, or query him about park design decisions.
—Meg James, Los Angeles Times, 4 Apr. 2024
Their fraught reunion happens on Ellis Island, where they are queried by a peremptory immigration official, who communicates in a mixture of English and trombone.
—Rhoda Feng, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2024
Amazon’s shopping assistant, Rufus, answers customer queries about products.
—Emilia David, The Verge, 27 Mar. 2024
This integration facilitates the storage, indexing, and querying of vector embeddings directly within the AlloyDB environment.
—Janakiram Msv, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2024
In the coming years, researchers plan to query younger teens as well.
—Emily Alpert Reyes, Los Angeles Times, 13 Mar. 2024
Another tool to consider is a sophisticated search engine that will index the data based on its content and allow administrators to query the resulting index to identify the most relevant content.
—Russ Kennedy, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2024
But of the hundreds of thousands of Americans queried by the bureau each year, only a small fraction fall into this category—fewer than 1 percent, according to some civil liberties experts.
—Dell Cameron, WIRED, 12 Feb. 2024
Fox News Digital has learned the committee also obtained documents that indicate officials suggested that banks query transactions with keywords like Dick's Sporting Goods, Cabela's, Bass Pro Shops and more.
—Fox News Staff, Fox News, 17 Jan. 2024
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query
2 of 2 verb
queried; querying
1
: to ask questions about especially in order to clear up doubts
2
: to put as a question
queried the matter to their teacher
3
: to ask questions of
queried the professor
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