Asking Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0

asking adj : relating to the use of or having the nature of an interrogation [syn: interrogative, interrogatory, asking(a)] [ant: declarative, declarative] n : the verbal act of requesting [syn: request]

Asking Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Asking \Ask"ing\, n.
1. The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation. --Longfellow.
2. The publishing of banns.

Asking Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Ask \Ask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Asked; p. pr. & vb. n. Asking.] [OE. asken, ashen, axien, AS. [=a]scian, [=a]csian; akin to OS. [=e]sc[=o]n, OHG. eisc[=o]n, Sw. [=a]ska, Dan. [ae]ske, D. eischen, G. heischen, Lith. j["e]sk['o]ti, OSlav. iskati to seek, Skr. ish to desire. [root]5.]
1. To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed. Ask counsel, we pray thee, of God. --Judg. xviii. 5. If ye abide in me, and my words abide in you, ye shall ask what ye will, and it shall be done unto you. --John xv. 7.
2. To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity; as, what price do you ask? Ask me never so much dowry. --Gen. xxxiv. 12. To whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more. --Luke xii. 48. An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity. --Addison.
3. To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question. He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. --John ix. 21. He asked the way to Chester. --Shak.
4. To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
5. To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons. --Fuller. Syn: To beg; request; seek; petition; solicit; entreat; beseech; implore; crave; require; demand; claim; exhibit; inquire; interrogate. See Beg.

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* Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning. - Daniel J. Boorstin

* People asking questions, lost in confusion, well I tell them there's no problem, only solutions. - John Lennon

* Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live. - Oscar Wilde


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