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Phonetic: "/ˈask/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An act or instance of asking.

Definition: Something asked or asked for.

Example: I know this is a big ask, but …

Definition: An asking price.

Phonetic: "/ˈask/"

Part Of Speech: verb

Definition: To request (information, or an answer to a question).

Example: I asked her age.

Definition: To put forward (a question) to be answered.

Example: to ask a question

Definition: To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

Example: I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

Definition: To request or petition; usually with for.

Example: to ask for a second helping at dinner

Definition: To request permission to do something.

Example: Did you ask to use the car?

Definition: To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.

Example: What price are you asking for the house?

Definition: To invite.

Example: Don't ask them to the wedding.

Definition: To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.

Definition: To take (a person's situation) as an example.

Phonetic: "/ði/"

Part Of Speech: adverb

Definition: With a comparative or with more and a verb phrase, establishes a correlation with one or more other such comparatives.

Example: It looks weaker and weaker, the more I think about it.

Definition: With a comparative, and often with for it, indicates a result more like said comparative. This can be negated with none. See none the.

Example: I'm much the wiser for having had a difficult time like that.

Phonetic: "/ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/"

Part Of Speech: noun

Definition: An impossibility

Example: Late 14th century: “Madame,” quod he, “this were an impossible!” — Geoffrey Chaucer, ‘The Franklin's Tale’, Canterbury Tales

Phonetic: "/ɪmˈpɒs.ə.bəl/"

Part Of Speech: adjective

Definition: Not possible; not able to be done or happen.

Example: It is difficult, if not impossible, to memorize 20,000 consecutive numbers.

Definition: (of a person) Very difficult to deal with.

Example: You never listen to a word I say – you're impossible!

Definition: Imaginary

Example: impossible quantities, or imaginary numbers