1. Pose a question
   "The journalist queried the politician about the new policy";
   - question

1. An instance of questioning
   "there was a query about my training";
   - question, inquiry, enquiry [Brit, Cdn], interrogation
    
2. A sentence of inquiry that asks for a reply
   "he asked a direct query";
   - question, interrogation, interrogative, interrogative sentence
    
3. (computing) a set of instructions passed to a database to retrieve particular data
   "The SQL query returned all customers who made purchases in the last month"

Derived forms: queries, querying, queried

Type of: ask, enquire [Brit, Cdn], inquire, questioning, sentence

Encyclopedia: Query