enquiring vs query

enquiring

noun
  • An instance of making an enquiry; an asking. 

adj
  • Curious, inquisitive or investigative. 

query

noun
  • A question, an inquiry (US), an enquiry (UK). 

  • A question mark. 

  • A set of instructions passed to a database. 

verb
  • To ask a question. 

  • To send a private message to (a user on IRC). 

  • To send out a query letter. 

  • To pass a set of instructions to a database to retrieve information from it. 

  • To ask, inquire. 

  • To question or call into doubt. 

How often have the words enquiring and query occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )