ask | Lernwerd

Forms

1.To request or petition.
- Ask, and it shall be given you.
- Emma asked Jim to close his eyes.
- I didn't know the answer so I asked.
2.To put forward (a question) to be answered.
- He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
3.To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
- What price are you asking for the house?
- It’s asking a lot of this old car to make it all the way up to Scotland.
- But in any Exigence of State, like that they are now pressed with, it certainly asks a much longer time to conduct any Design, for the Good of the Common-wealth, to its Maturity and Perfection.
4.To invite.
- Don’t ask them to the wedding.

1.A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.(informal)
- Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.
- Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices.
2.An act or instance of asking.(informal)
- That really does not seem much of an ask.
3.Something asked or asked for.(informal)
- Communication researchers call this the foot-in-the-door syndrome. Essentially it's based on the observation that people who respond positively to a small “ask” are more likely to respond to a bigger “ask” later on.
4.An asking price.(informal)

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Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *h₂eys-

Proto-Indo-European *-sḱéti

Proto-Indo-European *h₂isḱéti

Proto-Germanic *iskaną

Proto-Germanic *aiskaz

Proto-West Germanic *aisk

Proto-Indo-European *-h₂

Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂

Proto-Indo-European *-yéti

Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti