MEANING
A question seeking information or expressing doubt; as a verb, ask questions or challenge accuracy.
Use it for
raising doubt without asserting that a claim is false; requesting clarification of a research method; asking how a conclusion was reached; identifying a question submitted to an authorityRaises a question or doubt without claiming that the disputed statement has been disproved. Academic functions: Argumentation, Evidence.
Words that belong together
- query an assumption
- query the results
- raise a query
- respond to a query
On the page
The reviewer queried whether the model’s assumptions matched the sampling procedure.
The editorial response answers a query about the source of the dating evidence without changing the reconstruction.
Nearby words
Word forms
- Base
- query
- Past tense
- queried
- Past participle
- queried
- Present participle
- querying
Usage notes
Count noun: query, queries. Transitive verb: queries, queried, queried, querying; query whether or query a claim. No extra entry is counted for queries. Register: formal. Commonness: moderately common (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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