Word Meanings - QUERY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Cf. 1. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. Sir I. Newton. 2. A question

Additional info about word: QUERY

quaerere, quaesitum to seek or search for, to ask, inquire. Cf. 1. A question; an inquiry to be answered or solved. I shall conclude with proposing only some queries, in order to a . . . search to be made by others. Sir I. Newton. 2. A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity. 3. An interrogation point as the sign of a question or a doubt.

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• CONCLUDENCY
  Deduction from premises; inference; conclusion. Sir M. Hale.
• SHALLOP
  A boat. thrust the shallop from the floating strand. Spenser. Note: The term shallop is applied to boats of all sizes, from a light canoe up to a large boat with masts and sails.
• PROPOSER
  1. One who proposes or offers anything for consideration or adoption. 2. A speaker; an orator. Shak.
• SEARCHLESS
  Impossible to be searched; inscrutable; impenetrable.
• QUESTIONIST
  A candidate for honors or degrees who is near the time of his examination. (more info) 1. A questioner; an inquirer.
• QUESTIONABLENESS
  The quality or state of being questionable, doubtful, or suspicious.
• SOLVABLE
  1. Susceptible of being solved, resolved, or explained; admitting of solution. 2. Capable of being paid and discharged; as, solvable obligations. Tooke. 3. Able to pay one's debts; solvent. Fuller.
• ANSWER
  1. To speak in defense against; to reply to in defense; as, to answer a charge; to answer an accusation. 2. To speak or write in return to, as in return to a call or question, or to a speech, declaration, argument, or the like; to reply to ; to
• INQUIRER
  One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.
• SHALLOON
  A thin, loosely woven, twilled worsted stuff. In blue shalloon shall Hannibal be clad. Swift.
• SHALLOW-BRAINED
  Weak in intellect; foolish; empty-headed. South.
• SOLVEND
  A substance to be dissolved.
• SHALLOW-WAISTED
  Having a flush deck, or with only a moderate depression amidships; -- said of a vessel.
• SOLVE
  To explain; to resolve; to unfold; to clear up out to a result or conclusion; as, to solve a doubt; to solve difficulties; to solve a problem. True piety would effectually solve such scruples. South. God shall solve the dark decrees of
• SHALLOW
  schalowe, probably originally, sloping or shelving; cf. Icel. skjalgr wry, squinting, AS. sceolh, D. & G. scheel, OHG. schelah. Cf. Shelve 1. Not deep; having little depth; shoal. "Shallow brooks, and rivers wide." Milton. 2. Not deep in tone.
• SOLVER
  One who, or that which, solves.
• SEARCHABLENESS
  Quality of being searchable.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• QUESTION
  1. The act of asking; interrogation; inquiry; as, to examine by question and answer. 2. Discussion; debate; hence, objection; dispute; doubt; as, the story is true beyond question; he obeyed without question. There arose a question between some
• SEARCHABLE
  Capable of being searched.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• INSOLVABLE
  1. Not solvable; insoluble; admitting no solution or explanation; as, an insolvable problem or difficulty. I. Watts. 2. Incapable of being paid or discharged, as debts. 3. Not capable of being loosed or disentangled; inextricable. "Bands
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• DISSOLVATIVE
  Having the power to dissolve anything; solvent. Frampton.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• INCONCLUDENT
  Not inferring a conclusion or consequence; not conclusive.
• RESOLVENT
  Having power to resolve; causing solution; solvent.
• IRRESOLVABILITY
  The quality of being irresolvable; irresolvableness.
• INSEARCH
  To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.
• RESEARCH
  Diligent inquiry or examination in seeking facts or principles; laborius or continued search after truth; as, researches of human wisdom. The dearest interests of parties have frequently been staked on the results of the researches of antiquaries.
• PRERESOLVE
  To resolve beforehand; to predetermine. Sir E. Dering.