OXFORD 9000
📚 noun • entry_id 17635

query

/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
consulta • interrogante • pregunta
A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query…
The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
consulta
A set of instructions passed to a database.
The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
Word forms
📚 verb • entry_id 17636

query

/ˈkwɪə.ɹi/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
cuestionar • preguntar
To ask a question.
consultar
To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
Linked tables can be accessed, queried, combined and reorganised much more flexibly and in a number of ways that may not be immediately predictable when the database is under const…