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say it: ask
ask is a verb meaning "make a request or demand for something to somebody". It carries 7 recorded senses.
address a question to and expect an answer from
“Ask your teacher about trigonometry”
“The children asked me about their dead grandmother”
“I inquired about their special today”
“He had to ask directions several times”
require as useful, just, or proper
“It takes nerve to do what she did”
“success usually requires hard work”
“This job asks a lot of patience and skill”
“This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice”
“This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert”
“This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent”
make a date
“Has he asked you out yet?”
“He asekd me to a dance”
require or ask for as a price or condition
“He is asking $200 for the table”
“The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for ask come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.