Found 4 items, similar to ask.
English → Indonesian (Kamus Landak) Definition: ask bertanya
English → Indonesian (quick) Definition: ask bertanya, mempersilakan, menanyakan, mengajak
English → English (WordNet) Definition: ask ask v 1: inquire about; “I asked about their special today”; “He had to ask directions several times” [syn: inquire, enquire] 2: make a request or demand for something to somebody; “She asked him for a loan” 3: direct or put; seek an answer to; “ask a question” 4: consider obligatory; request and expect; “We require our secretary to be on time”; “Aren't we asking too much of these children?”; “I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons” [syn: require, expect] 5: require or ask for as a price or condition; “He is asking $200 for the table”; “The kidnapers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage” 6: address a question to and expect an answer from; “Ask your teacher about trigonometry”; “The children asked me about their dead grandmother” 7: 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 postulates a patient's consent” [syn: necessitate, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand] [ant: obviate]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Ask Ask \Ask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asked; p. pr. & vb. n. Asking.] [OE. asken, ashen, axien, AS. [=a]scian, [=a]csian; akin to OS. [=e]sc[=o]n, OHG. eisc[=o]n, Sw. [=a]ska, Dan. [ae]ske, D. eischen, G. heischen, Lith. j["e]sk['o]ti, OSlav. iskati to seek, Skr. ish to desire. [root]5.] 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. [1913 Webster] Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. --Judg. xviii. 5. [1913 Webster] If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. --John xv. 7. [1913 Webster] 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? [1913 Webster] Ask me never so much dowry. --Gen. xxxiv. 12. [1913 Webster] To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. --Luke xii. 48. [1913 Webster] An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity. --Addison. [1913 Webster] 3. To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question. [1913 Webster] He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. --John ix. 21. [1913 Webster] He asked the way to Chester. --Shak. [1913 Webster] 4. To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment. [1913 Webster] 5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. --Fuller. [1913 Webster] Syn: To beg; request; seek; petition; solicit; entreat; beseech; implore; crave; require; demand; claim; exhibit; inquire; interrogate. See Beg. [1913 Webster] Ask \Ask\, v. i. 1. To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread. [1913 Webster] Ask, and it shall be given you. --Matt. vii. 7. [1913 Webster] 2. To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after. [1913 Webster] Wherefore . . . dost ask after my name? --Gen. xxxii. 29. [1913 Webster] Ask \Ask\, n. [See 2d Asker.] (Zo["o]l.) A water newt. [Scot. & North of Eng.] [1913 Webster]