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What is the difference between a question and a query? It seems that in certain circumstances, the words are interchangeable:

I have one further question.

I have one further query.

But, other times they are not:

The police officer questioned the man.

The police officer queried the man.

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Oxford online says:

Query

noun (plural queries)

a question, especially one expressing doubt or requesting information:
if you have any queries please telephone our office

[...]

verb (queries, querying, queried)

[reporting verb]
ask a question about something, especially in order to express one's doubts about it or to check its validity or accuracy

[...]

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Query implies an official/technical doubt or question. Whereas Question implies general question or doubt.

Query is a subset of Question.

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This use of the word "doubt" as a synonym of question is mainly limited to Indian English. In other English speaking regions it would be regarded as an error. – RedGrittyBrick May 4 '11 at 9:59

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