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To (l) (a question) to be answered.
To (l) or enquire of (a person).
(RQ:KJV)
- He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
To request or petition; usually with ''for''.
- Ask, and it shall be given you.
To request permission to do something.
To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
(RQ:Addison Ital)
- 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.
To invite.
To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
To take (a person's situation) as an example.
(quote-journal)
An act or instance of asking.
(quote-book)
Something asked or asked for.
(syn)
2008, Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins, ''Speaking to Teenagers'':
- 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.
An price.
A message sent to a blog on networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
2017, Abigail Oakley, "Supporting one another: Nonbinary community building on Tumblr", in ''Sex in the Digital Age'' (eds. Isabel K. Düsterhöft & Paul G. Nixon), unnumbered page:
- 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.
2018, Lynette Kvasny & Fay Cobb Payton, "African American Youth Tumbling Toward Mental Health Support-Seeking and Positive Academic Outcomes", in ''Diversifying Digital Learning: Online Literacy and Educational Opportunity'' (eds. Amanda Ochsner, William G. Tierney, & Zoë B. Corwin), page 168:
- The following example from ''Black Mental Health'' illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: (..)
2020, Lee Brown, "Behind the Scenes of a Popular Trans Youth Resources Tumblr", in ''A Tumblr Book: Platforms and Cultures'' (eds. Alexander Cho, Allison McCracken, Indira N. Hoch, & Louisa Stein), page 265:
- Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year.
(seemoreCites)
A lizard.
1951, Malcolm Arthur Smith, ''The British Amphibians & Reptiles'' (page 258)
- We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards).
ash tree (''Fraxinus'' spp.), especially, ash (tree, ''excelsior'')
ash wood
(inflection of)
ash tree
a small box (with a loose lid)
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