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Definition of Ask

Ask

To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.

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?

To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.

To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.

To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.

To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.

To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.

A water newt.

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Ask Quotations

I do not pray for success, I ask for faithfulness.
Mother Teresa

Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein

We are Divine enough to ask and we are important enough to receive.
Wayne Dyer

You are important enough to ask and you are blessed enough to receive back.
Wayne Dyer

Successful people ask better questions, and as a result, they get better answers.
Tony Robbins

These men ask for just the same thing, fairness, and fairness only. This, so far as in my power, they, and all others, shall have.
Abraham Lincoln

We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill

Can a mortal ask questions which God finds unanswerable? Quite easily, I should think. All nonsense questions are unanswerable.
C. S. Lewis

If you ask me anything I don't know, I'm not going to answer.
Yogi Berra

Ask Translations

ask in Afrikaans is vra
ask in Dutch is vragen
ask in German is fragen, verlangen, bitten, fragen, auffordern
ask in Latin is scisco
ask in Spanish is orar, rogar, preguntar, invitar, gana

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