noun
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An act or instance of asking.
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Something asked or asked for.
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I know this is a big ask, but …
synonyms
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An asking price.
verb
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To request (information, or an answer to a question).
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I asked her age.
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To put forward (a question) to be answered.
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to ask a question
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To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
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I'm going to ask this lady for directions.
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To request or petition; usually with for.
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to ask for a second helping at dinner
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To request permission to do something.
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Did you ask to use the car?
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To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
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What price are you asking for the house?
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To invite.
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Don't ask them to the wedding.
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To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
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To take (a person's situation) as an example.
Examples of ask in a Sentence
I didn't ask about his family tree.
I didn't ask him that.
I just wanted to ask you a question.
You can ask that?
You must ask him about every small thing?
Oh, I was going to ask you.
It was a question she'd have to ask Cade.
It was like Mom not to ask for help.
I didn't ask that.
I've got to ask a question; are we from the same planet?
He began to ask about his enemies who had been hunting him.
I'll ask him for the phone number.
Ask him to let you see it.
Did he ask you out?
There was no need to ask who.
I just wanted to ask him something.
I never instructed him to ask you anything.
If you were trying to ask me to marry you, why did you act that way after we...
I only ask that you do as much good for as many people for as long as you can.
Those are passages of which one would ask for more.
We must ask the doctor.
Some argue, Be careful what you ask for.
I was too excited to notice anything, too frightened to ask questions.
At times, it may be best to just enjoy the meal and not ask too many questions.
We'd have to pay seven rubles a cartload to Dorogobuzh and I tell them they're not Christians to ask it!
If Alex needed help, he wouldn't ask her for it.
All right, I'll ask for a break.
Besides, he had no time to ask himself whether these people were sincere or not.
I told him he wouldn't be involved and I'd only ask general questions but he's adamant.
It can't hurt to ask.
You're the second person to ask me for my opinion on something.
What would happen, I ask many and many a time.
Howie doesn't want you to simply telephone Willard Humphries; he wants you to go down there and look him in the eye when you ask him.
I do need to ask you for something.
I told her to ask her father, and she said, "No--mother."
When she referred to our conversation again, it was to ask, "Why did not Jesus go away, so that His enemies could not find Him?"
They ask him to dinner.
I only wanted to ask because I fear the Guards won't be in action, he added as if in apology.
He's desperate to ask Martha about the details of Annie's death but she, Quinn and Claire haven't reported in.
She didn't want to ask but did.
So why did you do ask it?
He'd ask her outright.
I hoped you would ask.
Berg took the opportunity to ask, with great politeness, whether, as was rumored, the allowance of forage money to captains of companies would be doubled.
I'll ask leave to go to the front, this may be my only chance of seeing the Emperor.
Boris doesn't want to help me and I don't want to ask him.
For heaven's sake don't ask me anything now!
Pierre was about to ask, but seeing the stern expression of the adjutant who was also looking that way, he checked himself.
The count was not angry even when they told him that Natasha had countermanded an order of his, and the servants now came to her to ask whether a cart was sufficiently loaded, and whether it might be corded up.
Countess dear... an officer came to me to ask for a few carts for the wounded.