Ask
[ɑːsk] or [æsk]
Definition
(verb.) make a request or demand for something to somebody; 'She asked him for a loan'.
(verb.) consider obligatory; request and expect; 'We require our secretary to be on time'; 'Aren't we asking too much of these children?'; 'I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons'.
(verb.) inquire about; 'I asked about their special today'; 'He had to ask directions several times'.
(verb.) direct or put; seek an answer to; 'ask a question'.
(verb.) address a question to and expect an answer from; 'Ask your teacher about trigonometry'; 'The children asked me about their dead grandmother'.
(verb.) require or ask for as a price or condition; 'He is asking $200 for the table'; 'The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage'.
Edited by Georgina--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
(v. t.) To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask?
(v. t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
(v. t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
(v. t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
(v. i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
(v. i.) To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
(n.) A water newt.
Inputed by Alan
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Question, interrogate, inquire of, put the question to.[2]. Request, solicit, petition, beseech, implore, supplicate, crave, beg, desire, entreat, pray for, prefer a petition for, make application for.[3]. Require, claim, demand, challenge, call for.
v. n. [1]. Petition, beg, pray.[2]. Inquire, question, make inquiry.
Checker: Patty
Definition
v.t. to seek: to request inquire beg question invite.—v.i. to request: to make inquiry (with about and for—as to ask one after or for another).
Typed by Chloe
Examples
- Then you don't ask my advice,' says Podsnap. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Remember what I told you on the moor--and ask yourself what my assertion is worth. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
- May I ask how old he is, ma'am? Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- Love covers a multitude of sins, and of whom could you ask more freely than of him? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- Andreu Nin will find it easily by asking, if he knows what to ask for. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- May I ask you one thing more, Mr Rokesmith? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- Pray ask him for them, and keep them for me, together with the rest. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The porter lit it again, and I asked if that was all the light the clerk sent. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- And then I asked him if I might come to see you; because I felt so much for his trouble and yours. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I begged a fortnight's grace from the creditor, asked for a holiday from my employers, and spent the time in begging in the City under my disguise. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- I asked Mr. Farebrother to talk to her, because she had forbidden me--I didn't know what else to do, said Fred, apologetically. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- I asked George Lamb if he had heard Mr. Livius's new piece. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- Since that, we have quarrelled, and I have vainly asked him to return me my farce or pay me for it. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- At the hotel I asked Catherine to wait in the carriage while I went in and spoke to the manager. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The next morning after the capture of Petersburg, I telegraphed Mr. Lincoln asking him to ride out there and see me, while I would await his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Andreu Nin will find it easily by asking, if he knows what to ask for. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Who raised her head upon his coming in and asking: 'Where did you go, Liz? Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I have thought that if Mr. Yeobright would like to pay me a visit sometimes he shouldn't stay away for want of asking. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- The Colonel had his office full of people, mostly from the neighboring States of Missouri and Kentucky, making complaints or asking favors. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- But as to listening to what one lawyer says without asking another--I wonder at a man o' your cleverness, Mr. Dill. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- On the edge of her consciousness the question was asking itself, automatically: 'Why ARE you behaving in this IMPOSSIBLE and ridiculous fashion. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- She asks for a hundred pounds, and endeavors to buy them off. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- Will you give me a letter saying those words, which I can show to my sweetheart when he asks how I got the money? Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But if no one else asks her--you know they NEVER go to hotels. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
- Mr. Bucket asks, conveying the expression of an artist into the turn of his eye and head. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- A man always imagines a woman to be ready for any body who asks her. Jane Austen. Emma.
- Asks his mother to become, with him, a spy upon his father's transactions through a lifetime! Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- The man asks too much. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
Typist: Ralph