Definition of asks

"asks" in the verb sense

1. ask

make a request or demand for something to somebody

"She asked him for a loan"

2. ask

direct or put seek an answer to

"ask a question"

3. ask, require, expect

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"

4. ask, inquire, enquire

address a question to and expect an answer from

"Ask your teacher about trigonometry"

"The children asked me about their dead grandmother"

"I inquired about their special today"

"He had to ask directions several times"

5. necessitate, ask, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand

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 postulate a patient's consent"

6. ask out, ask, invite out, take out

make a date

"Has he asked you out yet?" "He asekd me to a dance"

7. ask

require or ask for as a price or condition

"He is asking $200 for the table"

"The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"

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Quotations for asks

A pitiful look asks enough. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

One shrewd turn asks another. [ Proverb ]

A great ship asks deep waters. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that asks faintly begs a denial. [ Proverb ]

There's a proud modesty in merit!
Averse from asking, and resolved to pay
Ten times the gifts it asks. [ Dryden ]

Love asks faith, and faith asks firmness. [ Proverb ]

To a grateful man give money when he asks. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

When a friend asks, there is no to-morrow. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He that asks a courtesy promises a kindness. [ Proverb ]

Without a sign his sword the brave man draws,
And asks no omen but his country's cause. [ Homer ]

It pities me to refuse him that asks modestly. [ Proverb ]

He has eat up the pot and asks for the pipkin. [ Proverb ]

Prosperity asks for fidelity; adversity exacts it. [ Seneca ]

A friar who asks alms for God's sake begs for two. [ Calderon ]

Who asks after the pedigree of a swine he is to kill? [ Proverb ]

The fool asks much, but he is more fool that grants it. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

He is a great necromancer, for he asks counsel of the dead (i.e. books). [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

It is right for him who asks forgiveness for his offenses to grant it to others. [ Horace ]

The only love which on this teeming earth asks no return for passion's wayward birth. [ Mrs. Norton ]

It is love that asks, that seeks, that knocks, that finds, and that is faithful to what it finds. [ St. Augustine ]

Avoid him who from mere curiosity asks three questions running about a thing that cannot interest him. [ Lavater ]

The friend asks no return but that his friend will religiously accept and wear, and not disgrace, his apotheosis of him. [ Thoreau ]

There is a lore simple and sure, that asks no discipline of weary years - the language of the soul, told through the eye. [ Mrs. Sigourney ]

Jesus wept once; possibly more than once. There are times when God asks nothing of His children except silence, patience, and tears. [ Charles S. Robinson ]

Love breaks in with lightning flash: friendship comes like dawning moonlight. Love will obtain and possess; friendship makes sacrifices but asks nothing. [ Geibel ]

When a man dies, they who survive him ask what property he has left behind. The angel who bends over the dying man asks what good deeds he has sent before him. [ Koran ]

Coleridge cried, O God, how glorious it is to live! Renan asks, O God, when will it be worth while to live? In Nature we echo the poet; in the world we echo the thinker. [ Ouida ]

If a kid asks where rain comes from, I think a cute thing to tell him is God is crying. And if he asks why God is crying, another cute thing to tell him is Probably because of something you did. [ Jack Handey, Deep Thoughts ]

Do not fancy, as too many do, that thou canst praise God by singing hymns to Him in church once a week, and disobeying Him all the week long. He asks of thee works as well as words; and more. He asks of thee works first and words after. [ Charles Kingsley ]

asks in Scrabble®

The word asks is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 8

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asks in Words With Friends™

The word asks is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words within the letters of asks

2 letter words in asks (1 word)

3 letter words in asks (2 words)

4 letter words in asks (1 word)

asks + 1 blank (7 words)

Words containing the sequence asks

Words that start with asks (1 word)

Words with asks in them (4 words)

Word Growth involving asks

Shorter words in asks

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Longer words containing asks

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