Word Finder - asks

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

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I asked her age.

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To put forward (a question) to be answered.

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to ask a question

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To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

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I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

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To request or petition; usually with for.

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to ask for a second helping at dinner

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To request permission to do something.

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Did you ask to use the car?

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

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What price are you asking for the house?

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To invite.

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Don't ask them to the wedding.

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

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

Wherever we go, she asks eagerly for the names of things she has not learned at home.

Two months is all Kris asks, and I'm free.

The dying Siegfried calls on Briinnhilde to awaken, and asks " Who hath locked thee again in sleep?"

Who asks a question like that of a complete stranger?

I think you should do as she asks.

What is one man's life to save so many, he asks?

Diocletian asks her back of Tiridates, who meanwhile has fallen in love with her himself.

Nor is the argument that they are a visible manifestation of the continuity of the Church anything but a doubleedged weapon; for, as Father Braun pertinently asks, if these be their symbolism, of what was their disuse in the Church of England for nigh on 3 00 years a symbol?

For example, if someone asks, "Do you like Italian food?" a good reply might be, "No, I don't eat a lot of it - I stick with my favorite, chicken parmesan.

Next time someone asks you "What are the different kinds of wine?" you will have an answer for them.

I learned a long time ago, that anyone who asks that question can't understand my answer anyway.

We won't lie to her if she asks.

What, he asks, is the measure of value?

I can then provide copies of the audited accounts for anyone who asks for them.

She asks questions when you use the potty.

When your baby arrives, what's the question everyone asks?

The Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), asks questions that are then used to calculate the financial situation in your household.

Don't let the party volume creep too high, especially if someone asks you to tone things down.

When you use the grounds the winery asks that you only eat and drink the food and wine purchased there, which is not an unreasonable request.

A couple walks into a car rental building late at night, greeted by a woman who asks if they know about the problems they've been having with Internet services not working.

Wigs for Kids asks for at least twelve inches of clean, dry hair in a ponytail or braid.

How could the emperor gain the right,"he asks," to rule my faith?"With that only the Word of God is concerned."

He asks, is it not simpler to believe that there was a definite type in the background?

Pliny also asks for a decision on the status and maintenance of deserted children (65), and on the custom of distributing public doles on the occasion of interesting events in the life of a private citizen.

A philosopher," as Gibbon long ago pointed out, _ who asks from what articles of faith above and against reason the early Reformers enfranchised their followers of P will be surprised at their timidity rather than scandal Y ized by their freedom.

Who, he asks, can fathom the design of God in ordaining that this should happen at one place and not at another ?

It is objected that in the 79th letter of Seneca, which is the chief authority on the question, he apparently asks that Lucilius should introduce the hackneyed theme of Aetna merely as an episode in his contemplated poem, not make it the subject of separate treatment.

If a man asks you for anything, give it him; if he takes it without asking, do not seek to recover it.

Al-Mostarshid billah (" he who asks guidance from God"), who succeeded his father in Rabia II.

Al-Mostansir billah (" he who asks help from God") was caliph till his death in Jomada II.

He asks his readers, after weighing the evidence advanced, to determine "whether he (Erigena) used his philosophy to explain away his theology, or to bring out what he conceived to be the fullest meaning of it."

Motion of a Solid of Revolution.In the case of a solid of revolution, or (more generally) whenever there is kinetic syminetry about an asks through the mass-centre, or through a fixec point 0, a number of interesting problems can be treated almost directly from first principles.

When any stranger comes and asks who is the sweetest singer, they are to answer with one voice, the " blind man that dwells in rocky Chios; his songs deserve the prize for all time to come."

And when in the third book Priam asks Helen about the Greek captains, or when in the seventh book nine champions come forward to contend with Hector, the want of the greatest hero of all is sufficiently felt.

As spiritism asks us to accept such suspension of ordinary mechanics.

The only questions he asks are - Does experience forbid us to admit immortality as a possibility ?

But through some neglect of orders, the prince one day encounters a leper and a blind man, and asks of his attendants with pain and astonishment what such a spectacle should mean.

There is no positive evidence of any measures taken or threatened against him; but it is certain that he passed nearly the whole of 1546 and part of 1547 at Metz in Lorraine as physician to the town at the salary of 120 livres, and Sturm speaks of him as having been "cast out of France by the times" (with the exclamation c56 TLilv xpovwv) in a contemporary letter, and says that he himself in another letter gives a doleful account of his pecuniary affairs and asks for assistance.

Schmiedel asks, " How should Paul ever come to be in the 2nd, or, as far as the pseudo-Clementine Homilies and Recognitions are concerned, even in the 3rd or 4th century, the object of so fanatical a hatred?

Methuselah asks Enoch's blessing before he departs, and to all his sons and their families Enoch gives fresh instruction.

Elsewhere (b) Caleb the Kenizzite reminds Joshua of the promise at Kadesh; he asks that he may have the "mountain whereof Yahweh spake," and hopes to drive out the giants from its midst.

The latter, struck with his expression, asks him whose religion it is that makes him so glad, and yet so calm.

The earliest form of the Grail story, the Gawain- Bleheris version, exhibits a marked affinity with the characteristic features of the Adonis or Tammuz worship; we have a castle on the sea-shore, a dead body on a bier, the identity of which is never revealed, mourned over with solemn rites; a wasted country, whose desolation is mysteriously connected with the dead man, and which is restored to fruitfulness when the quester asks the meaning of the marvels he beholds (the two features of the weeping women and the wasted land being retained in versions where they have no significance); finally the mysterious food-providing, self-acting talisman of a common feast - one and all of these features may be explained as survivals of the Adonis ritual.

It paints popes, cardinals, prelates, rectors, monks and friars, who call themselves followers of Peter and keepers of the gates of heaven and hell, and pale poverty-stricken people, cotless and landless, who have to pay the fat clergy for spiritual assistance, and asks if these are Peter's priests.

Did the critic, asks Macaulay, ever hear any speaking that was less ornamented than that of Demosthenes, or more diffuse than that of Cicero?

What wonder, then, asks the Greek critic, if the diligence of Demosthenes was no less incessant and minute?

The student may then be asked to compare the account of Synagoga mira both with the figure of the cyprisstage of Dendrogaster astericola and with the figure of the " indeterminate animal found on Gerardia," about which Lacaze-Duthiers asks, " Is it the cypris-stage of Laura?"

Nobody who has even the slightest passing acquaintance with modern science still asks that nonsensical old question about "nature versus nurture."

MapMate then compiles the Atlas and asks you to wait while the Atlas is being generated.

She asks the chap from the Halifax for advice.