dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/ask_MW.json

{
  "ask":{
    "type":[
      "noun",
      "verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to call on for an answer":[
        "She asked him about his trip."
      ],
      ": to put a question about":[
        "asking her opinion"
      ],
      ": speak , utter":[
        "ask a question"
      ],
      ": to make a request of":[
        "She asked her teacher for help."
      ],
      ": to make a request for":[
        "She asked help from her teacher."
      ],
      ": to call for : require":[
        "a challenge that will ask much of us"
      ],
      ": to set as a price":[
        "asked $3000 for the car"
      ],
      ": invite":[
        "She asked a few friends to the party."
      ],
      ": to seek information":[
        "ask for her address"
      ],
      ": to make a request":[
        "asked for food"
      ],
      ": to behave in a way that invites punishment or retribution":[
        "Experts used to think that battered women were \" asking for it \"\u2014somehow masochistically provoking abuse from their men. Mercifully, that idea has now been discredited.",
        "\u2014 Michele Ingrassia"
      ],
      ": to behave in a way that is likely to result in trouble":[
        "\u2026 you are asking for trouble if you try to lift too much weight \u2026",
        "\u2014 Douglas Jeffrey"
      ],
      ": something asked for, requested, or required of someone":[
        "\u2014 used especially in phrases like a big ask and a tough ask to say that what is being asked for or hoped for is difficult or unlikely It's a big ask , I think, demanding audiences recall a plot from two years ago, and while normally I don't mind a big ask \u2026 this particular ask utterly defeated me. \u2014 Deborah Ross"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ask",
      "dialectal \u02c8aks",
      "\u02c8\u00e4sk"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "catechize",
      "grill",
      "inquire (of)",
      "interrogate",
      "query",
      "question",
      "quiz"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "answer",
      "reply",
      "respond"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"Choose the Right Synonym for ask Verb ask , question , interrogate , query , inquire mean to address a person in order to gain information. ask implies no more than the putting of a question. ask for directions question usually suggests the asking of series of questions. questioned them about every detail of the trip interrogate suggests formal or official systematic questioning. the prosecutor interrogated the witness all day query implies a desire for authoritative information or confirmation. queried a librarian about the book inquire implies a searching for facts or for truth often specifically by asking questions. began to inquire of friends and teachers what career she should pursue 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 a favor of a friend request implies greater formality and courtesy. requests the pleasure of your company solicit suggests a calling attention to one's wants or desires by public announcement or advertisement. a letter soliciting information",
    "examples":[
      "Verb",
      "I need to ask a question.",
      "Did you ask her yet",
      "\u201cHave you seen the movie yet",
      "a list of frequently asked questions",
      "\u201cIf you don't mind me asking , how old are you",
      "\u201cDo they have any soda",
      "I would have given it to him, but he never asked .",
      "We had to stop and ask directions.",
      "May I ask the time",
      "Did you ask permission to leave",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Verb",
      "Under the plea deal, Deveny can ask for no less than a five-year prison term, Fay said. \u2014 oregonlive , 27 June 2022",
      "People still ask about the exhibition on fashion designer Alexander McQueen that closed 11 years ago, the guard said. \u2014 Joseph Pisani, WSJ , 23 June 2022",
      "To ask him a question, email him at gary@garysingerlaw.com, or go to SunSentinel.com/askpro. \u2014 Gary Singer, Sun Sentinel , 23 June 2022",
      "President Joe Biden will ask Congress today to suspend the federal gas tax for the next three months. \u2014 Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY , 22 June 2022",
      "President Biden will ask Congress on Thursday to suspend the federal gas tax through September, a move that could shave off 18 cents per gallon to help consumers battling record prices at the pump, senior administration officials said. \u2014 Los Angeles Times , 22 June 2022",
      "The premise is so simple and clear and strong that what is left for those of us who care about equality is to ask the question: What does equality mean",
      "During a press conference in January, 2021, Rosa Flores, of CNN, raised her hand to ask a question. \u2014 Dexter Filkins, The New Yorker , 20 June 2022",
      "The rap episode became a favorite, and whenever Mr. Theroux made the publicity rounds for a new project, interviewers would inevitably ask him about his hip-hop foray. \u2014 New York Times , 17 June 2022",
      "Recent Examples on the Web: Noun",
      "For some, lending out a personal vehicle is already a big ask that comes with a lot of risk. \u2014 Laura Forman, WSJ , 9 June 2022",
      "But the underlying issue isn\u2019t the ask of creating content for TikTok, but the potential repercussions that can come when artists\u2019 promotional content fails to hit an impossibly high target. \u2014 Cheyenne Roundtree, Rolling Stone , 31 May 2022",
      "That would be a much bigger ask for Europe, which got 45% of its natural gas imports from Russia last year \u2014 a much bigger share than oil. \u2014 Anna Cooban, CNN , 5 May 2022",
      "That might be a hard ask to fulfill, as neither dispensaries nor product manufacturers are required to disclose their remediation methods, just that their product passed lab tests. \u2014 Chris Roberts, Forbes , 30 Apr. 2022",
      "While four three-point makes is a hefty ask , Trent has done so in 19 of his 54 appearances this season. \u2014 Xl Media, cleveland , 6 Mar. 2022",
      "The latest ask , which does not include money from the city\u2019s general fund, comes 2.5 years after the council approved a $52.3 million budget for the park. \u2014 Jennifer Van Grove, San Diego Union-Tribune , 16 May 2022",
      "That\u2019s not an easy ask as the world emerges from the economic shock of the pandemic. \u2014 Ned Temko, The Christian Science Monitor , 13 Apr. 2022",
      "The bigger the ask , the bigger the prize needs to be. \u2014 George Bradt, Forbes , 12 Apr. 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Middle English, from Old English \u0101scian ; akin to Old High German eisc\u014dn to ask, Lithuanian ie\u0161koti to seek, Sanskrit icchati he seeks":"Verb",
      "noun derivative of ask entry 1":"Noun"
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "before the 12th century, in the meaning defined at transitive sense 1a":"Verb",
      "13th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-142259"
  },
  "ask (for)":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to request to see or talk to (someone)":[
        "Unhappy with the service, he asked for the store manager.",
        "There's someone on the phone asking for you."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-000614",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "ask for":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to request to see or talk to (someone)":[
        "Unhappy with the service, he asked for the store manager.",
        "There's someone on the phone asking for you."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-083654",
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ]
  },
  "ask for the moon":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": to ask for something that is very difficult or impossible to get":[
        "The striking workers say they just want to be paid a fair wage. They're not asking for the moon ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-021818",
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ]
  },
  "askew":{
    "antonyms":[
      "even",
      "level",
      "straight"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": out of line : at an angle":[
        "The picture hung askew ."
      ]
    },
    "examples":[
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Glazed legs slightly askew , and ringlets of blond, chestnut, ebony, and russet. \u2014 The New Yorker , 23 May 2022",
      "On a recent day, the traffic was so light that no one really noticed when a car accidentally backed into the barrel, setting one of the signs askew . \u2014 Patrik Jonsson, The Christian Science Monitor , 11 May 2022",
      "Seven of Nine) travel back to Earth in 2024 to prevent the timeline from going hopelessly askew . \u2014 Andy Greene, Rolling Stone , 2 Mar. 2022",
      "Nearby, the remnants of a red taillight sat askew near the sidewalk while a license plate lay in the street. \u2014 Washington Post , 23 Feb. 2022",
      "If there are tree branches askew across a path, it\u2019s probably not the right one. \u2014 Paighten Harkins, The Salt Lake Tribune , 18 July 2021",
      "The black Toyota\u2019s right front end appeared to be badly damaged from being jammed into a vehicle in front of it; its windshield was partially shattered, the hood crumpled up and its two front tires askew . \u2014 Chicago Tribune Staff, chicagotribune.com , 10 June 2021",
      "Leaning into the microphone, tie slightly askew , Dr. Tobin used his hands and elbows to demonstrate how people breathe. \u2014 New York Times , 8 Apr. 2021",
      "One of the shifters has been knocked askew , and my leg has two bleeding puncture marks. \u2014 Jason H. Harper, Robb Report , 14 Mar. 2021"
    ],
    "first_known_use":{
      "1552, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably from a- entry 1 + skew":""
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8sky\u00fc"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[
      "aslant",
      "atilt",
      "awry",
      "cock-a-hoop",
      "cockeyed",
      "crazy",
      "crooked",
      "listing",
      "lopsided",
      "oblique",
      "off-kilter",
      "pitched",
      "skewed",
      "slanted",
      "slanting",
      "slantwise",
      "tilted",
      "tipping",
      "uneven"
    ],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-110947",
    "type":[
      "adverb or adjective",
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "asking bid":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": an artificial bid in contract bridge that asks for certain information from the bidder's partner":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-054623",
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ]
  },
  "asking price":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": the price at which something is offered for sale":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "The original asking price for the car was $20,000, but I was eventually able to buy it for $18,000.",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Their affordable lease in New Paltz, N.Y., negotiated in 2015 with the help of a farming nonprofit, had just ended, and they were suddenly thrust into a market where buyers were paying above asking price . \u2014 New York Times , 9 June 2022",
      "Zillow notes that 60% of sellers reported getting at least two offers on their homes, and that nearly half of homes sold in the US in April went for above asking price . \u2014 Kira Bindrim, Quartz , 3 June 2022",
      "The couple, who share daughter Genevieve, 3, purchased the property for $5,250,000 in 2016, property records show \u2014 a little over half of the current asking price . \u2014 Hannah Chubb, PEOPLE.com , 14 Jan. 2022",
      "That\u2019s just $900 shy of his asking price , records show. \u2014 Jack Flemming, Los Angeles Times , 5 Dec. 2020",
      "Sellers' median asking price jumped to a new record in June, reaching $450,000 \u2014 an increase of almost 17% from a year earlier. \u2014 Megan Cerullo, CBS News , 30 June 2022",
      "The villa\u2019s furniture, mostly imported from Europe, is included in the asking price . \u2014 Alison Gregor, New York Times , 22 June 2022",
      "Coincidentally, Silva's asking price is exactly what Barca want for De Jong from United or any other interested party: \u20ac80mn fixed and up front plus another \u20ac20mn in variables. \u2014 Tom Sanderson, Forbes , 17 June 2022",
      "The game\u2019s entertainment value well exceeds the asking price of nothing. \u2014 Gene Park, Washington Post , 14 June 2022"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{
      "1755, in the meaning defined above":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220709-050915"
  },
  "askingly":{
    "antonyms":[],
    "definitions":{
      ": in an entreating or inquiring manner":[]
    },
    "examples":[],
    "first_known_use":{},
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "synonyms":[],
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220707-012754",
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ]
  },
  "ask after":{
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to ask about (someone or something)":[
        "He asked after my wife's health.",
        "He greeted us warmly and asked after our families."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-154015"
  },
  "ask around":{
    "type":[
      "phrasal verb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to ask many people to tell one information about someone or something":[
        "Maybe you should ask around to find out more about this guy.",
        "We usually ask around before trying a new restaurant."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-175523"
  },
  "ask oneself":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to think about the true answer (to a particular question)":[
        "Ask yourself what you would do in that situation.",
        "Before buying an expensive item, he needs to ask himself if/whether he can afford it."
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-182747"
  },
  "askable":{
    "type":[
      "adjective"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": fit or proper to be asked":[
        "\u2026 a question that Wordsworth took to be altogether askable , and which, indeed, he spent eighty-five lines answering\u2014the question what happiness really is\u2014soon looked to philosophers under Bentham's influence like a question whose answer was so obvious that it could not be asked in earnest.",
        "\u2014 Martha C. Nussbaum , Daedalus , 22 Mar. 2004"
      ],
      ": approachable and capable of being asked a question":[
        "I think it is important that you be an askable parent, so that he will know that he can come to you with any sort of question and that you'll give him a straight answer.",
        "\u2014 Ruth Westheimer , Chicago Tribune , 14 Dec. 1995"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8a-sk\u0259-b\u0259l",
      "\u02c8\u00e4-"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "ask entry 1 + -able":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1650, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-185351"
  },
  "askance":{
    "type":[
      "adverb"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": with disapproval or distrust : scornfully":[
        "They eyed the stranger askance .",
        "Many critics have looked askance at the proposal."
      ],
      ": with a side-glance : obliquely":[
        "That experienced pilot of the Broads looked askance at his watch, and drew Allan aside at the first opportunity.",
        "\u2014 Wilkie Collins"
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u0259-\u02c8skans",
      "\u0259-\u02c8skan(t)s"
    ],
    "synonyms":[
      "distrustfully",
      "doubtfully",
      "doubtingly",
      "dubiously",
      "mistrustfully",
      "sideways",
      "skeptically",
      "suspiciously"
    ],
    "antonyms":[
      "trustfully",
      "trustingly"
    ],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[
      "we looked askance at the dealer's assertion that the car had never been in an accident",
      "Recent Examples on the Web",
      "Candidates and their backers also typically knock on doors to get signatures, but that\u2019s not an option this year as people look askance at strangers on their doorsteps. \u2014 Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 18 May 2020",
      "True, lots of good white progressives look askance at businessmen who amass vast fortunes. \u2014 John Powers, Los Angeles Times , 28 Feb. 2020",
      "Saban heard those words and looked askance and sidewise. \u2014 Joseph Goodman | Jgoodman@al.com, al , 9 Feb. 2020",
      "But Blue Thunder is still early enough in the cycle to look askance at its titular sweet ride. \u2014 Peter Opaskar, Ars Technica , 10 Jan. 2020",
      "Anyone who transgresses that norm by refusing to follow traditional gender stereotypes is viewed askance and, in small and large ways, treated as an outcast. \u2014 Max De Haldevang, Quartz , 27 Dec. 2019",
      "Wisconsinites might look askance at the pie that uses sweet instead of sour cherries, but the bars, Bundt cakes, cookies and other sweets and savories in this book feed the Midwestern soul. \u2014 Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , 5 Dec. 2019",
      "Even beneficiaries of the increase look at it askance . \u2014 Robert O'connell, The Atlantic , 1 Oct. 2019",
      "As regulators look increasingly askance at Big Tech, the very notion of blitzscaling raises competition and other concerns, which will make public investors yet more queasy. \u2014 The Economist , 28 Sep. 2019"
    ],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "probably a sense development (influenced by asqwynt \"obliquely, askew ,\" and phonetically similar words) of earlier and Middle English askaunce, a-skans, a-skaunces \"in such a way that, as if, as if to say, artificially, deceptively,\" from as- as entry 1 + Old French quanses, canses \"as if, appearing as though,\" from quanse-, canse- (going back to Latin quam s\u012b \"as if\") + -s, adverbial suffix":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "circa 1530, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-191932"
  },
  "ask someone out":{
    "type":[
      "idiom"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": to ask someone to go on a date":[
        "Are you going to ask her out "
      ]
    },
    "pronounciation":[],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{},
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-204522"
  },
  "askar":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a native infantryman in the army of Morocco or any other Arabic-speaking country":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u02c8ask\u0259(r)"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Arabic \u02bdaskar soldier":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-213456"
  },
  "askarel":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a synthetic electrically insulating liquid that is noncombustible":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "\u00a6ask\u0259\u00a6rel"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "origin unknown":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{},
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-214611"
  },
  "askari":{
    "type":[
      "noun"
    ],
    "definitions":{
      ": a native soldier especially of eastern Africa in the service of a European power":[],
      ": a native police officer or guard of eastern Africa":[]
    },
    "pronounciation":[
      "a\u02c8s-",
      "\u0259\u02c8sk\u00e4r\u0113",
      "\u02c8ask\u0259r\u0113"
    ],
    "synonyms":[],
    "antonyms":[],
    "synonym_discussion":"",
    "examples":[],
    "history_and_etymology":{
      "Arabic \u02bdaskar\u012b":""
    },
    "first_known_use":{
      "1835, in the meaning defined at sense 1":""
    },
    "time_of_retrieval":"20220708-223948"
  }
}