Require vs Query - What's the difference?
require | query |
(label) To ask (someone) for something; to request.
*, Bk.XI:
*:I requyre yow lete vs be sworne to gyders that neuer none of vs shalle after this day haue adoo with other, and there with alle syre Tristram and sire Lamorak sware that neuer none of hem shold fyghte ageynst other nor for wele, nor for woo.
*1526 , Bible , tr. William Tyndale, Mark V:
*:I requyre the in the name of god, that thou torment me nott.
To demand, to insist upon (having); to call for authoritatively.
*1998 , Joan Wolf, The Gamble , Warner Books:
*:"I am Miss Newbury," I announced, "and I require to be shown to my room immediately, if you please."
*2009 , Vikram Dodd, The Guardian , 29 December:
*:‘Regrettably, I have concluded, after considering the matter over Christmas, that I can no longer maintain the high standard of service I require of myself, meet the demands of office and cope with the pressures of public life, without my health deteriorating further.’
Naturally to demand (something) as indispensable; to need, to call for as necessary.
*1972 , "Aid for Aching Heads", Time , 5 June:
*:Chronic pain is occasionally a sign of a very serious problem, like brain tumors, and can require surgery.
*2009 , Julian Borger, The Guardian , 7 February:
*:A weapon small enough to put on a missile would require uranium enriched to more than 90% U-235.
To demand of (someone) to do something.
*1970 , "Compulsory Midi", Time , 29 June:
*:After Aug 3 all salesgirls will be required to wear only one style of skirt while on duty: the midi.
*2007 , Allegra Stratton, "Smith to ban non-EU unskilled immigrants from working in UK", The Guardian , 5 December:
*:The government would like to require non-British fiances who wish to marry a British citizen to sit an English test.
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 )
As verbs the difference between require and query
is that require is to ask (someone) for something; to request while query is to ask, inquire.As a noun query is
a question or inquiry.require
English
Verb
(requir)External links
* * * English control verbs ----query
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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
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.}}
- 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.