QUERY


Meaning of QUERY in English

I. noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ VERB

answer

We answer three of your queries about getting hair into tip-top condition.

It gives clear detailed instructions, answers queries and suggests ways to improve your technique.

The Bank staff are there to help you, answer your queries or take details of your complaint.

Please note: We can not answer queries personally and no correspondence will be entered into.

Our advisory services answer thousands of queries from people all over the country.

I can't do much to answer your queries about Kaama.

Station and telephone enquiry bureaux can answer queries on individual services.

Gold Seal unit I should be grateful if you could answer a few technical queries for me.

respond

It can be helpful to limit your reading time, allowing time for taking notes, or responding to queries .

Some three weeks later they are still responding to queries and will continue to send out packs.

The Orientalia Division of the Library of Congress promptly responded to my queries .

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

I would be happy to answer people's queries if they write to me at my home address.

If anyone has a query I'll deal with it at the end of the meeting.

Menlo angrily replied to a query from a reporter.

One of the students raised a query about the marking system.

Since the TV programme the advice bureau has received lots of queries about maternity rights.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Another rather unusual query ... Is it possible to make your own garden gnomes - by casting them?

On major and minor issues you should give fair answers to queries about the job to avoid misunderstandings and resentment later on.

Seers galore will be on hand to shed a little light on those and other troubling queries at the Renaissance Psychic Fair.

The query command is shown in Figure 3.13 along with an example of its results in Figure 3.14.

The query seems like a jolt of reality, following stories Mrs Clinton has been telling of her college days.

We can obtain top management replies to your queries.

II. verb

EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES

Not one of the customers queried liked the service.

The manager queried the figures.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

Derbyshire folk may query the authenticity of this but I defy them not to enjoy the results.

I've always made the list out and you've never queried it before, well not like that.

I could have queried whether the castle was going to be part of an entire medieval town.

If you have any queries our team will be happy to help.

Those bold enough to query the official faith risk detention and death.

When I queried this I learned that Microwriter no longer employed a press officer.

Why do we not query everything, even the act of querying itself?

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