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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.
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Ask Quotations
My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.
Albert Einstein
We shall show mercy, but we shall not ask for it.
Winston Churchill
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
While we look to the dramatist to give romance to realism, we ask of the actor to give realism to romance.
Oscar Wilde
Do you want to know who you are? Don't ask. Act! Action will delineate and define you.
Thomas Jefferson
Go to you bosom: Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
William Shakespeare
There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
Robert Kennedy
You can't just ask customers what they want and then try to give that to them. By the time you get it built, they'll want something new.
Steve Jobs
Creativity is just connecting things. When you ask creative people how they did something, they feel a little guilty because they didn't really do it, they just saw something. It seemed obvious to them after a while. That's because they were able to connect experiences they've had and synthesize new things.
Steve Jobs
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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