ask
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Is ask a Scrabble word?
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- Scrabble US/Canada (OTCWL) Yes
- Scrabble UK (SOWPODS) Yes
- Wordle No
- Words With Friends Yes
What is the meaning of ask?
Definition
verb (English)
1. To request or petition.Examples: "I asked her age."; "I didn't know the answer so I asked."; "Everyone always asks what my advice is, and my advice is don’t overintellectualize your art."intransitivetransitive
2. To request or petition.Examples: "I asked her (for) her age."; "I’m going to ask this lady (for) directions."; "If you want to know, ask her."ditransitivetransitive
3. To request or petition.Examples: "to ask for a second helping at dinner"; "to ask for help with homework"; "to ask a favour"transitiveusually
4. To request or petition.Examples: "Emma asked Jim to close his eyes."transitive
5. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.Examples: "Even when the damage isn't that clear cut, the intangible burdens of a bad image can add up. Just ask Dow Chemical."figuratively
noun (English)
1. (Internet) A message sent to a blog on social networking platform Tumblr, which can be publicly posted and replied to by the recipient.Examples: "Answering 'asks' like this is one common way that Tumblr bloggers interact with their followers, so it is in the act of publicly answering these asks that I examine community building practices."; "The following example from Black Mental Health illustrates an ask from an anonymous follower seeking social support: […]"; "Once the number of unanswered Asks in the inbox was over eight thousand, despite us deleting everything accumulated in the inbox once a year."Internetinformal
noun (English)
1. (UK dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.Examples: "He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask."ScotlandUKdialectalinformal
2. (UK dialectal) A lizard.Examples: "We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards)."UKdialectalinformal
name (English)
1. (Norse mythology) The first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.Norse
Definition source: Wiktionary