noun

• (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
  "The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes."
• (publishing) Ellipsis of query letter.
  "Although many agents accept email queries, check to see if they prefer mailed query letters."

verb

• (intransitive) To ask a question.
• (transitive) To ask, inquire.
  "I tried that once in an AOL thing called "The Arena", I can't remember who the celebrity was, but I posed some divinely thoughtful, inspired, well-crafted question, and they chose one, instead, that querried her favourite colour, quelle banel."
• (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
  "The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad."
• (computing, databases) 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 construction."