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Query vs Quart - What's the difference?

query | quart |

As nouns the difference between query and quart

is that query is a question or inquiry while quart is a unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon equivalent to 1136 liters in the uk and 0946 liter (liquid quart) or 1101 liters (dry quart) in the us.

As a verb query

is to ask, inquire.

query

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(queries)
  • A question or inquiry.
    • The teacher answered the student's query concerning biosynthesis.
  • A question mark.
  • * 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.
  • (computing, databases) A set of instructions passed to a database.
    • The database admin switched on query logging for debugging purposes.

    Derived terms

    * query language * subquery

    Verb

  • 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 citation , passage=The story struck the depressingly familiar note with which true stories ring in the tried ears of experienced policemen. No one queried it. It was in the classic pattern of human weakness, mean and embarrassing and sad.}}
  • (computing, databases) To pass a query to a database to retrieve information.
  • *
  • (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.

    Related terms

    * (l) * (l)

    quart

    English

    (wikipedia quart)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A unit of liquid capacity equal to two pints; one-fourth (quarter) of a gallon. Equivalent to 1.136 liters in the UK and 0.946 liter (liquid quart) or 1.101 liters (dry quart) in the U.S.
  • (cards) Four successive cards of the same suit.
  • * 1908 , Cavendish, The laws of piquet adopted
    • A tierce major is good against any other tierce; a quart minor is good against a tierce major.
  • (obsolete) A fourth; a quarter; hence, a region of the earth.
  • * Spenser
    • Camber did possess the western quart .

    See also

    * you can't get a quart into a pint pot ----