Query vs Consult - What's the difference?
query | consult |
A question or inquiry.
A question mark.
* Oliver Sacks, Awakenings
* 2006 , "Pip", Re: Royal Enfield motorbike - why would anyone buy one?'' (on newsgroup ''rec.motorcycles )
(computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
To ask, inquire.
To ask a question.
To question or call into doubt.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=20 (computing, databases) To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.
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(internet) To send a private message to (a user on IRC).
* 2000 , "Phantom", Re: Uhm.. hi... I guess...'' (on newsgroup ''alt.support.boy-lovers )
* 2000 , "Robert Erdec", Re: Help; mIRC32; unable to resolve server arnes.si'' (on newsgroup ''alt.irc.mirc )
(obsolete): The act of consulting or deliberating; consultation; also, the result of consultation; determination; decision.
(obsolete): A council; a meeting for consultation.
(obsolete): Agreement; concert.
(US): A visit, e.g. to a doctor; a consultation.
To seek the opinion or advice of another; to take counsel; to deliberate together; to confer.
To advise or offer expertise.
To work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.
To ask advice of; to seek the opinion of; to apply to for information or instruction; to refer to; as, to consult a physician; to consult a dictionary.
To have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.
(obsolete): To deliberate upon; to take for.
(obsolete): To bring about by counsel or contrivance; to devise; to contrive.
In transitive terms the difference between query and consult
is that query is to question or call into doubt while consult is to have reference to, in judging or acting; to have regard to; to consider; as, to consult one's wishes.In intransitive terms the difference between query and consult
is that query is to ask a question while consult is to work as a consultant or contractor rather than as a full-time employee of a firm.query
English
Alternative forms
* (archaic)Noun
(queries)- The teacher answered the student's query concerning biosynthesis.
- 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
- I refer you to your line above, where you use a query and a bang together.
- The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.
Derived terms
* query language * subqueryVerb
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- He parted the channel saying "SHUTUP!"... so I queried him, asking if there was something I could do.. maybe talk...
- if you know someone who is in the channel, you can query them and ask for the key.
consult
English
Alternative forms
* consultation (Only noun form in UK)Noun
(en noun)- The council broke; And all grave consults dissolved in smoke. -.
- A consult of coquettes. -.
Usage notes
* The noun consult is avoided in British English, favoring consultation instead. In AmE, they are merely synonyms.Synonyms
* consultationVerb
(en verb)- Let us consult upon to-morrow's business. -
- All the laws of England have been made by the kings of England, consulting with the nobility and commons. - .
- Men forgot, or feared, to consult''' ... ; they were content to '''consult libraries. - .
- We are ... to consult the necessities of life, rather than matters of ornament and delight. -L'Estrange.
- Many things were there consulted for the future, yet nothing was positively resolved. -.
- Thou hast consulted shame to thy use by cutting off many people. - Bible, Heb. ii. 10.