asks

noun

An act or instance of asking.

Something asked or asked for.

An asking price.

(Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.

A surname from Swedish.

(Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.

Initialism of amplitude shift keying.

(UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.

(UK dialectal) A lizard.

verb

To request or petition.

(transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

(transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).

(transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service); see also ask for.

(transitive) To request (someone to do something).

To request permission (to do something).

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

To invite.

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

(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.

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