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Learn to pronounce ask

/ask/
verb
  1. say something in order to obtain an answer or some information.
    "people are always asking questions"
    synonyms: inquire (of), query, want to know, question, put a question to, interrogate, quiz, cross-question, cross-examine, catechize, grill, pump, give the third degree to, put, put forward, pose, raise, submit, propose, seek/get the answer to
  2. request (someone) to do or give something.
    "Mary asked her father for money"
    synonyms: request, demand, appeal to, apply to, petition, call on, entreat, beg, implore, exhort, urge, enjoin, importune, pray, solicit, beseech, plead with, sue, supplicate, seek, put in for, call for, crave
  3. invite (someone) to one's home or a function.
    "it's about time we asked Pam to dinner"
    synonyms: invite, bid, have someone over, summon

noun
a request, especially for a donation.
"it was an awkward ask for more funding"

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6 days ago · ask, request, solicit mean to seek to obtain by making one's wants known. ask implies no more than the statement of the desire.
Ask.com

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Ask.com is a question answering–focused e-business founded in 1996 by Garrett Gruener and David Warthen in Berkeley, California. The original software was implemented by Gary Chevsky, from his own design. Warthen, Chevsky, Justin Grant, and others... Wikipedia
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ASK is the magazine about science, history, inventors, artists, and more, all written just for 6- to 9-year-olds - the most curious people on the planet!
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to speak or write to someone saying that you want him or her to do something, to give you something, or to allow you to do something:.