| A | B | 
| ascending | alphabetical order (A-Z or 0-9) | 
| connectors | Words like AND or OR | 
| field name | title or label at the top of a category | 
| logical field | yes or no, true or false | 
| operators | <, >, <=, contains | 
| sorting | place in a certain order | 
| text field | field that contains alphanumeric data | 
| database | application software used for organizing data (like a file cabinet) | 
| entry | piece of data entered in a database | 
| field | category of related information | 
| numeric field | contains mainly numeric data | 
| record | complete set of field entries | 
| filtering | temporarily removing unwanted information | 
| wildcards | * symbol used if you don't know the spelling of a word | 
| EST words | used in sorting a database | 
| Query | request or question |