Usually means: Request for information or data.
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We found 48 dictionaries that define the word query:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. query: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. query: Merriam-Webster
  3. query: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. query: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. query: Collins English Dictionary
  6. query: Vocabulary.com
  7. Query, query: Wordnik
  8. query: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Query, query: Wiktionary
  10. query: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. query: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. query: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Query, query: Dictionary.com
  14. query: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. query: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Query (Quaker), Query: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Query: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. query: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. query: Rhymezone
  20. query: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. query: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. query: FreeDictionary.org
  23. query: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. query: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. ODLIS: Online Dictionary of Library and Information Science (No longer online)

Business (6 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. query: Law.com Dictionary
  3. Broadcast Media Terms (No longer online)
  4. query: Legal dictionary
  5. BusinessDictionary.com (No longer online)
  6. WebmasterWorld Webmaster and Search Engine Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. query: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. query: Netlingo
  3. query: CCI Computer
  4. query: Computer Telephony & Electronics Dictionary and Glossary
  5. Query: Database Glossary
  6. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  7. Internet Terms (No longer online)
  8. Data Formats and Their Sugggested File Extensions (No longer online)
  9. Technopedia (No longer online)
  10. query: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. query: PlanetMath Encyclopedia
  2. FOLDOP - Free On Line Dictionary Of Philosophy (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. query: Urban Dictionary

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. query: Search Engine Dictionary

(Note: See queried as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
noun:  A question mark.
noun:  (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
verb:  (intransitive) To ask a question.
verb:  (transitive) To ask, inquire.
verb:  (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
verb:  (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
verb:  (transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
verb:  (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.
noun:  A surname.
noun:  (publishing) Short for query letter. [A formal letter sent to an editor, literary agent or publisher in order to propose an idea for a written work.]

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