Enquire vs. Query — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Enquire and Query
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Enquire
Ask for information from someone
I enquired where he lived
‘How well do you know Berlin?’ he enquired of Hencke
He enquired about cottages for sale
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Query
A question; an inquiry.
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Enquire
Investigate; look into
The task of political sociology is to enquire into the causes of political events
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Query
A doubt in the mind; a mental reservation.
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Enquire
Variant of inquire.
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Query
A notation, usually a question mark, calling attention to an item in order to question its validity or accuracy.
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Enquire
(intransitive) To make an enquiry.
He enquired about the availability of rental bicycles in the town.
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Query
To express doubt or uncertainty about; question
Query someone's motives.
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Enquire
To ask about (something).
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Query
To put a question to (a person).
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Enquire
See Inquire.
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Query
To mark (an item) with a notation in order to question its validity or accuracy.
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Enquire
Inquire about;
I asked about their special today
He had to ask directions several times
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Query
A question, an inquiry US, an enquiry UK.
The teacher answered the student’s query concerning biosynthesis.
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Enquire
Conduct an inquiry or investigation of;
The district attorney's office investigated reports of possible irregularities
Inquire into the disappearance of the rich old lady
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Query
A question mark.
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Enquire
Have a wish or desire to know something;
He wondered who had built this beautiful church
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Query
A set of instructions passed to a database.
The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
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Query
(intransitive) To ask a question.
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Query
(transitive) To ask, inquire.
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Query
(transitive) To question or call into doubt.
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Query
To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it.
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Query
To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
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Query
To send out a query letter.
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Query
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.
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Query
A question in the mind; a doubt; as, I have a query about his sincerity.
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Query
An interrogation point [?] as the sign of a question or a doubt.
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Query
To ask questions; to make inquiry.
Each prompt to query, answer, and debate.
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Query
To have a doubt; as, I query if he is right.
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Query
To put questions about; to elicit by questioning; to inquire into; as, to query the items or the amount; to query the motive or the fact.
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Query
To address questions to; to examine by questions.
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Query
To doubt of; to regard with incredulity.
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Query
To write " query" (qu., qy., or ?) against, as a doubtful spelling, or sense, in a proof. See Quære.
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Query
An instance of questioning;
There was a question about my training
We made inquiries of all those who were present
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Query
Pose a question
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