asking

[AskĀ·ing]

The verbal act of requesting

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The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

Noun
the verbal act of requesting


p. pr. & vb. n.
of Ask

n.
The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

n.
The publishing of banns.


Asking

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

The act of inquiring or requesting; a petition; solicitation.

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Usage Examples

Having a positive mental attitude is asking how something can be done rather than saying it can't be done.

Going online and asking questions is the best way to learn.

A player dreams of being a superstar, but he doesn't want people flocking all over him asking for an autograph.

Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.

By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

Customers don't know what they want. There's plenty of good psychology research that shows that people are not able to accurately predict how they would behave in the future. So asking them, 'Would you buy my product if it had these three features?' or 'How would you react if we changed our product this way?' is a waste of time. They don't know.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

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Other Usage Examples

By asking the question 'Am I happy?,' and via the answer setting out what I mean by happiness, there is a political route that can be taken, by asking another question - 'Can politics deliver happiness, and should it try?'

But if you're asking my opinion, I would argue that a social justice approach should be central to medicine and utilized to be central to public health. This could be very simple: the well should take care of the sick.

But I don't want to be out there anymore I don't want people asking me about my health issues, about my kids. I choose not to be a public paparazzi girl on purpose.

Asking the author of historical novels to teach you about history is like expecting the composer of a melody to provide answers about radio transmission.

And I like asking questions, to keep learning people with big egos might not want to look unsure.

A national legal organization is giving very serious thought to using The Betrayal of America as a legal basis for asking the House Judiciary Committee to institute impeachment proceedings against these five justices.

A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

Aristotle could have avoided the mistake of thinking that women have fewer teeth than men, by the simple device of asking Mrs. Aristotle to keep her mouth open while he counted.

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