| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | que·ry |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  kwîr  |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. que·ries
1. A question; an inquiry. 2. A doubt in the mind; a mental reservation. 3. A notation, usually a question mark, calling attention to an item in order to question its validity or accuracy. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: que·ried, que·ry·ing, que·ries
1. To express doubt or uncertainty about; question: query someone's motives. 2. To put a question to (a person). See synonyms at ask. 3. To mark (an item) with a notation in order to question its validity or accuracy. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Alteration of obsolete quaere, quere, from Latin quaere, imperative of quaerere, to ask, to seek. | | OTHER FORMS: | queri·er —NOUN
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