ask

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• intransitive verb To put a question to.
• intransitive verb To seek an answer to.
• intransitive verb To seek information about.
• intransitive verb To make a request of.
• intransitive verb To make a request for. Often used with an infinitive or clause.
• intransitive verb To require or call for as a price or condition.
• intransitive verb To expect or demand.
• intransitive verb To invite.
• intransitive verb Archaic To publish, as marriage banns.
• intransitive verb To make inquiry; seek information.
• intransitive verb To make a request.
• idiom (it/trouble) To persist in an action despite the likelihood that it will result in difficulty or punishment.

from The Century Dictionary.

• To request; seek by words to obtain; petition for: commonly with of, in the sense of from, before the person to whom the request is made.
• To demand, expect, or claim: with for: as, what price do you ask, or ask for it?
• To solicit from; request of: with a personal object, and with or without for before the thing desired: as, I ask you a great favor; to ask one for a drink of water.
• To require as necessary or useful; demand; exact.
• To interrogate or inquire of; put a question to.
• To inquire concerning; seek to be informed about: as, to ask the way; to ask a question.
• To invite: as, to ask guests to a wedding or entertainment.
• and Ask, Inquire, Question, Interrogate. Ask is here also the generic word; it is simple and informal. Inquire may be used in the endeavor to be civil, or it may express a more minute examination into facts: as, to inquire (into, as to) the causes of discontent. To question in this sense implies the asking of a series of questions, it being supposed that the truth is hard to get at, through ignorance, reluctance, etc., in the person questioned. Interrogate is essentially the same as question, but more formal: as, to question a child or servant about his conduct; to interrogate a witness, an applicant for office, etc. Questioning or interrogation might be resented where asking, asking a question, or inquiring would meet with a friendly response.
• To request or petition: with for before the thing requested: as, ask for bread.
• To inquire or make inquiry; put a question: often followed by after or about, formerly also by of.
• noun A newt.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• intransitive verb To request or petition; -- usually followed by for.
• intransitive verb To make inquiry, or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
• noun (Zoöl.), Scot. & North of Eng. A water newt.
• transitive verb To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; -- often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
• transitive verb 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?
• transitive verb To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
• transitive verb To invite.
• transitive verb To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

• noun An eft; newt.
• noun A lizard.
• verb To look for an answer to a question by speaking.
• verb To approach someone to do something.
• noun An act or instance of asking.
• noun Something asked or asked for; a request.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

• verb make a request or demand for something to somebody
• verb direct or put; seek an answer to
• verb address a question to and expect an answer from
• verb consider obligatory; request and expect
• verb require or ask for as a price or condition
• verb inquire about
• verb require as useful, just, or proper