Both Uses of
query
in
Arrowsmith
- After an evening of Gottlieb's acrid doubting, Martin was inspired to hasten to the laboratory and attempt a thousand new queries into the laws of micro-organisms, a task which usually began with blasphemously destroying all the work he had recently done.†
Chpt 26 *
- The absence of Gottlieb may have been good for Martin, since he no longer turned to the master for solutions in tough queries.†
Chpt 36
Definition:
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(query) an instance of questioning -- especially of requesting information from a computer