'what is this squeeze?'

My German IT colleagues do some technical support on some orphan database. This database support involves reading and understanding commands in some other computer language than one that they know. They muddle through and get the job done with much help from google.

However, occasionally they hit a command that they don't know. And further, it seems to be based on an English word that they also don't know, so to them, it's like looking at some random letters, (like say, 'wtrenbg' or 'noxfor' to put together some random letters and give you a feel) and trying to figure out first what it means in English, and then to try to unravel what it is doing technically based on this meaning.

So here is how it goes....Heather is trying fervently to get some things banged out as she was out until noon in German class. So music was in ears to block out sound. I see my colleague wave, so earbuds come out. I missed anything prior they may have discussed, but I'm used to random English questions, as they are used to my random German questions.

IT 1: H, what is 'sqeeze'?
Heather: 'squeeze? s-q-u-ee-z-e?'
IT1: No. Quize.
Heather: huh? Quiz?
IT2: here, i ping it to you, maybe it's part of a word.-->quiesce
Heather: ah! perhaps from acquiesce? like to give in or or to agree, does that make sense for what the command does?
IT2: ah, yes....techical mumbo jumbo (that i zoned out, but apparently it made sense.)
IT1: (whose English is very good, mentally storing new word) hmm....'ack-quease'. 'ak-sqeeze'.
Heather: (thinking) what a half-baked database command.