ask
IPA: ˈæsk
noun
- An act or instance of asking.
- Something asked or asked for.
- An asking price.
- (Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
- (UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
- (UK dialectal) A lizard.
- (Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.
- A surname from Swedish.
- Initialism of amplitude shift keying.
verb
- (transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
- To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
- To request or petition; usually with for.
- To request permission to do something.
- To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- To invite.
- To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
- (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
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Examples of "ask" in Sentences
- The man waffled as she asks the question.
- Ask the disabled nosy questions and stare.
- Asks questions of mechanism and teleology as well.
- The badger and the bear have been asking questions.
- The interrogative mood is used for asking questions.
- The question to ask is not if the columnist is human.
- He is known for asking nosy and impertinent questions.
- It's possible to ask the question without being insolent.
- The interrogative pronouns are used strictly for asking questions.
- The deadline for asking and answering questions is the end of the election.
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