meaning of ask

1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
2. 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?
3. To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
4. To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
6. To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
7. To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
8. A water newt.
9. ASK Amplitude Shift Keying ASL Algebraic Specification Language ASL+ specification> An algebraic specification language by David Aspinall of the University of Edinburgh. ASL+ has rules for proving the satisfaction of specifications. It can also be viewed as a type theory with subtyping, featuring contravariant refinement for Pi-abstracted specifications and a notion of stratified equality for higher-order objects.
10. make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a ">loan"

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