face down vs query

face down

verb
  • To confront; to abash by stern looks. 

query

verb
  • To question or call into doubt. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • A question mark. 

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

  • A set of instructions passed to a database. 

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