different between query vs investigation

English

Alternative forms

• quæry (archaic)

Etymology

An anglicisation of quere, an obsolete variant form of Latin quaere, second-person singular present active imperative of quaer? (“seek, look for; ask”). Cognate with French quérir, Italian chiedere, Portuguese querer, Romanian cere, and Spanish querer. Compare question.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kw??.?i/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kw?.?i/, /?kw?.?i/
• Rhymes: -???i, -??i

Noun

query (plural queries)

1. A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK).
2. A question mark.
   • 1886, Skeat, Address of the President to the Philological Society of Great Britain:

     His Glossary has 'bouchen, to stop people's mouths,' but this is followed by a query, to show that it was but a guess. I have shown, from the MSS. and other sources, that it should be bonched, i.e. bunched, bumped, knocked, smote.

   • 1973, Oliver Sacks, Awakenings

     She had written in her diary: "I don't think I am in a concentration-camp??????", the queries growing larger and more numerous till they covered the entire page […]

   • 2006, "Pip", Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one? (on newsgroup rec.motorcycles)

     I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.

3. (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.

Hyponyms

• subquery

Derived terms

Translations

References

• Query on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

query (third-person singular simple present queries, present participle querying, simple past and past participle queried)

1. (intransitive) To ask a question.
2. (transitive) To ask, inquire.
3. (transitive) To question or call into doubt.
4. (computing, databases) To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
5. (transitive, Internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
   • 2000, "Phantom", Re: Uhm.. hi... I guess... (on newsgroup alt.support.boy-lovers)

     He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...

   • 2000, "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si (on newsgroup alt.irc.mirc)

     if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.

6. (intransitive, publishing) To send out a query letter.

Translations

Related terms

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.Morphologically investigate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?st???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

investigation (countable and uncountable, plural investigations)

1. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

   The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.

   Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.

Related terms

• investigate

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?s.ti.?a.sj??/

Noun

investigation f (plural investigations)

1. investigation, examination

Further reading

• “investigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

investigation (plural investigationes)

1. investigation