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1. Pose a question
   - 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

Derived forms: queries, queried, querying

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

Encyclopedia: Query