Usually means: Request information or express desire.
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General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. ask: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. ask: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. ask: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. ask: Collins English Dictionary
  5. ask: Vocabulary.com
  6. Ask, ask: Wordnik
  7. ask: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. ASK, Ask, ask: Wiktionary
  9. ask: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. ask: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. ask: Dictionary.com
  12. ask: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. ask: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. ASK (disambiguation), ASK, Ask (The Smiths song), Ask (disambiguation), Ask (restaurant), Ask (song), Ask, The Ask: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Ask: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. ask: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. ask: Rhymezone
  18. ask: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. ask: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. ASK: Stammtisch Beau Fleuve Acronyms
  21. ask: Free Dictionary
  22. ask: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. ask: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. ask: Dictionary/thesaurus
  25. ask: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  26. ask: Infoplease Dictionary

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Business (13 matching dictionaries)
  1. MoneyGlossary.com (No longer online)
  2. ask: Webster's New World Finance & Investment Dictionary
  3. Derivatives (No longer online)
  4. INVESTORWORDS (No longer online)
  5. ASK (available seat kilometres): Moneyterms
  6. Ask: Futures and Options Market Terminology
  7. ask: Finance-Glossary.com
  8. Ask: Investopedia
  9. Comprehensive Financial (No longer online)
  10. ask: Legal dictionary
  11. Ask: Financial dictionary
  12. Ask: WashingtonPost.com: Business
  13. Yahoo Tax Center Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ASK: Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
  2. The Microsoft Lexicon (No longer online)
  3. ASK: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. ASK: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. ASK: Acronym Finder
  2. ASK: Three Letter Words with definitions
  3. AbbreviationZ (No longer online)
  4. ask: Idioms

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. ask, ask: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. ask, the ask: Urban Dictionary

Tech (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. ask: Webster's New World Telecom Dictionary
  2. ask: Coin Collecting
  3. RF Terms Glossary (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To request or petition.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).
verb:  (transitive or ditransitive) To request or enquire of (a person).
verb:  (transitive usually with 'for' or intransitive) To request (an item or service); see also ask for.
verb:  (transitive) To request (someone to do something).
verb:  To request permission (to do something).
verb:  To put forward (a question) to be answered.
verb:  To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
verb:  To invite.
verb:  To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
verb:  (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
noun:  An act or instance of asking.
noun:  Something asked or asked for.
noun:  An asking price.
noun:  (Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.
noun:  (UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
noun:  (UK dialectal) A lizard.
noun:  (Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.
noun:  A surname from Swedish.
noun:  Initialism of amplitude shift keying.

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