Query
noun
A question or a request for information about something.
I have a query about my order. When will it be delivered?
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- solve a query
- have a query
verb
To ask question or questions to get more information.
He queried the waiter about the ingredients of the soup
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- query someone
- query about something
noun
A question in a computer program to get information from a database.
He ran a query to find all the customers from New York
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- run a query
- sql query
Usage tips
Technical
noun
A question or a request for information about something.
I have a query about my order. When will it be delivered?
Often appears as...
- solve a query
- have a query
verb
To ask question or questions to get more information.
He queried the waiter about the ingredients of the soup
Often appears as...
- query someone
- query about something
noun
A question in a computer program to get information from a database.
He ran a query to find all the customers from New York
Often appears as...
- run a query
- sql query
Usage tips
Technical
Definition 1 of 3
Pro Tip 1/3Information Seeking
Use 'query' when you need information more formal than a casual question.
May I pose a query regarding the project deadline?
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Doubt
A 'query' can also suggest you have doubts about the information provided.
I'd like to raise a query about the accuracy of these figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Seeking Assistance
Phrase your 'query' to seek help or clarification in a respectful manner.
I have a query regarding the application form—could you assist me?
Pro Tip 1/3Information Seeking
Use 'query' when you need information more formal than a casual question.
May I pose a query regarding the project deadline?
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Doubt
A 'query' can also suggest you have doubts about the information provided.
I'd like to raise a query about the accuracy of these figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Seeking Assistance
Phrase your 'query' to seek help or clarification in a respectful manner.
I have a query regarding the application form—could you assist me?
Pro Tip 1/3Information Seeking
Use 'query' when you need information more formal than a casual question.
May I pose a query regarding the project deadline?
Pro Tip 2/3Expressing Doubt
A 'query' can also suggest you have doubts about the information provided.
I'd like to raise a query about the accuracy of these figures.
Pro Tip 3/3Seeking Assistance
Phrase your 'query' to seek help or clarification in a respectful manner.
I have a query regarding the application form—could you assist me?
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The moral bias behind...
even if I, too, realize that that trust, that idea of the unbiased search result is a cornerstone in our collective love for and appreciation of Google. I will show you why that, philosophically, is almost an impossibility. But let me first elaborate, just a little bit, on a basic principle behind each search query that we sometimes seem to forget.
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How Amazon, Apple,...
Our competitive advantage as a species is our brain. Our brain is robust enough to ask these really difficult questions, but, unfortunately, it doesn't have the processing power to answer them, which creates a need for a superbeing that we can pray to and look to for answers. What is prayer? Sending a query into the universe,
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The thrilling potential...
A message written on a sticky note to my mom, on paper, can come to an SMS, or maybe a meeting reminder automatically syncs with my digital calendar -- a to-do list that automatically syncs with you. But you can also search in the digital world, or maybe you can write a query, saying,
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Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
part of the drive because what will happen in the beginning of the drive is I'll get back to your thoughts just been said to me and because of course all of you are greeting each other currently on the chat which means that any biological query is lost in amongst all of you
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The sound of things not...
introduced she was being told about it her manager said he was hypoallergenic never tested on animals all those great things she knew there were standards and certificates for this sort of thing so she started to ask about them look it's just fine he said brushing her query
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History's "worst" nun -...
by posing the most difficult questions they could muster. But Juana successfully answered every challenge, from complicated equations to philosophical queries. Observers would later liken the scene to “a royal galleon fending off a few canoes.”
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What would you do if...
question what does it feel like to have Alzheimer's through story I might change the world's perception of this disease so I finished writing the book and I sent out a hundred query letters to literary agents still waiting to hear
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The joy of shopping --...
scrolling through hundreds of choices identified by an algorithm, delivered by a machine. When you do have a query, you interact with another machine or a bot -- rarely an actual human being.
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Sergey Brin and Larry...
is just making sure that we can keep up with this kind of traffic load. Now, each one of those queries has an interesting life and tale of its own. I mean, it could be somebody's health,
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Hunting for Dinosaurs PIPE...
to keep opening the query to uncover many other neck vertebra and hopefully the skull working at what species this is going to be possible until the bones
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The moral bias behind...
even if I, too, realize that that trust, that idea of the unbiased search result is a cornerstone in our collective love for and appreciation of Google. I will show you why that, philosophically, is almost an impossibility. But let me first elaborate, just a little bit, on a basic principle behind each search query that we sometimes seem to forget.
Video examples
How Amazon, Apple,...
Our competitive advantage as a species is our brain. Our brain is robust enough to ask these really difficult questions, but, unfortunately, it doesn't have the processing power to answer them, which creates a need for a superbeing that we can pray to and look to for answers. What is prayer? Sending a query into the universe,
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The thrilling potential...
A message written on a sticky note to my mom, on paper, can come to an SMS, or maybe a meeting reminder automatically syncs with my digital calendar -- a to-do list that automatically syncs with you. But you can also search in the digital world, or maybe you can write a query, saying,
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Safari Live - Day 304 PIPE...
part of the drive because what will happen in the beginning of the drive is I'll get back to your thoughts just been said to me and because of course all of you are greeting each other currently on the chat which means that any biological query is lost in amongst all of you
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The sound of things not...
introduced she was being told about it her manager said he was hypoallergenic never tested on animals all those great things she knew there were standards and certificates for this sort of thing so she started to ask about them look it's just fine he said brushing her query
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History's "worst" nun -...
by posing the most difficult questions they could muster. But Juana successfully answered every challenge, from complicated equations to philosophical queries. Observers would later liken the scene to “a royal galleon fending off a few canoes.”
Video examples
What would you do if...
question what does it feel like to have Alzheimer's through story I might change the world's perception of this disease so I finished writing the book and I sent out a hundred query letters to literary agents still waiting to hear
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The joy of shopping --...
scrolling through hundreds of choices identified by an algorithm, delivered by a machine. When you do have a query, you interact with another machine or a bot -- rarely an actual human being.
Video examples
Sergey Brin and Larry...
is just making sure that we can keep up with this kind of traffic load. Now, each one of those queries has an interesting life and tale of its own. I mean, it could be somebody's health,
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Hunting for Dinosaurs PIPE...
to keep opening the query to uncover many other neck vertebra and hopefully the skull working at what species this is going to be possible until the bones
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Andrew Ng
Chinese Scientist
Text input is certainly useful, but images and speech are a much more natural way for humans to express their queries. Infants learn to see and speak well before they learn to type. The same is true of human evolution - we've had spoken language for a long time compared to written language, which is a relatively recent development.
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Brad Thor
American Novelist
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
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Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian Writer
If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent, you need to send them a query letter, but agents can get up to 20,000 query letters a year. With numbers like that, it helps to get in front of agents with every opportunity you have.
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Nicholas Sparks
American Author
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
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Amitabh Bachchan
Indian Actor
Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.
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Gurjeet Singh
Businessman
The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.
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Jeff Dean
American Musician
In a lot of these areas, from machine translation to search quality, you're always trying to balance what you can do computationally with each query.
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The Great Khali
Indian Athlete
In order to help the talented Indian wrestlers, I am always ready to talk to them and answer their queries.
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Marc Ostrofsky
American Author
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
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Andrew Ng
Chinese Scientist
Text input is certainly useful, but images and speech are a much more natural way for humans to express their queries. Infants learn to see and speak well before they learn to type. The same is true of human evolution - we've had spoken language for a long time compared to written language, which is a relatively recent development.
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Brad Thor
American Novelist
Authors should do multiple submissions to agents. I mean, that's the way the business world works and whether or not the industry likes it or not, they can't stop you from submitting to multiple agents and you know what? If an agent misses out on you because they took too long with your query letter, tough luck for them.
Quote examples
Tomi Adeyemi
Nigerian Writer
If you want to be traditionally published, then you most likely want to get a literary agent. To sign with an agent, you need to send them a query letter, but agents can get up to 20,000 query letters a year. With numbers like that, it helps to get in front of agents with every opportunity you have.
Quote examples
Nicholas Sparks
American Author
Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It's the first impression and will either open the door or close it. It's that important, so don't mess it up. Mine took 17 drafts and two weeks to write.
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Mark Zuckerberg
American Businessman
Facebook is uniquely positioned to answer questions that people have, like, what sushi restaurants have my friends gone to in New York lately and liked? These are queries you could potentially do with Facebook that you couldn't do with anything else, we just have to do it.
Quote examples
Amitabh Bachchan
Indian Actor
Personally, when a controversy erupts, we decide first whether it requires clarification and, secondly, if it receives notice from authorities and the establishment, we submit responses to their queries.
Quote examples
Gurjeet Singh
Businessman
The number of queries in a large dataset is exponential, and it's growing exponentially. No matter how fast you make your system, you're never going to be able to get all that information.
Quote examples
Jeff Dean
American Musician
In a lot of these areas, from machine translation to search quality, you're always trying to balance what you can do computationally with each query.
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The Great Khali
Indian Athlete
In order to help the talented Indian wrestlers, I am always ready to talk to them and answer their queries.
Quote examples
Marc Ostrofsky
American Author
Relevance is a search engine's holy grail. People want results that are closely connected to their queries.
Example 1 of 10
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