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queries

queries is the plural of query.

queries is the third-person singular simple present indicative of query.

Meaning of query

Noun

query (plural queries)

  1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
    • The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
  2. 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.1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society, Great Britain
  3. A set of instructions passed to a database.
    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

See all 10 meanings of query

Questions about queries

What is queries the plural of?
Queries is the plural of query.

Words near queries in the dictionary

  1. querida
  2. queridas
  3. queried
  4. querier
  5. queriers
  6. queries
  7. queriest
  8. querieth
  9. queriman
  10. querimana
  11. querimanas

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