Ask vs. Tell
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To request (information, or an answer to a question).
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To put forward (a question) to be answered.
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To interrogate or enquire of (a person).
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To request or petition; usually with for.
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To request permission to do something.
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To require, demand, claim, or expect, whether by way of remuneration or return, or as a matter of necessity.
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To invite.
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To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
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(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.
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An act or instance of asking.
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Something asked or asked for; a request.
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An asking price.
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An eft; newt.
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A lizard.
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To request; to seek to obtain by words; to petition; to solicit; - often with of, in the sense of from, before the person addressed.
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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?
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To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
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To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
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To publish in church for marriage; - said of both the banns and the persons.
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To request or petition; - usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
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To make inquiry, or seek by request; - sometimes followed by after.
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A water newt.
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inquire about;
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make a request or demand for something to somebody;
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direct or put; seek an answer to;
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consider obligatory; request and expect;
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require or ask for as a price or condition;
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address a question to and expect an answer from;
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require as useful, just, or proper;
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(transitive) To count, reckon, or enumerate.
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(transitive) To narrate.
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(transitive) To convey by speech; to say.
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(transitive) To instruct or inform.
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(transitive) To order; to direct, to say to someone.
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(intransitive) To discern, notice, identify or distinguish.
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(transitive) To reveal.
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(intransitive) To be revealed.
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(intransitive) To have an effect, especially a noticeable one; to be apparent, to be demonstrated.
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To use beads or similar objects as an aid to prayer.
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To inform someone in authority about a wrongdoing.
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To reveal information in prose through outright expository statement -- contrasted with show
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A reflexive, often habitual behavior, especially one occurring in a context that often features attempts at deception by persons under psychological stress (such as a poker game or police interrogation), that reveals information that the person exhibiting the behavior is attempting to withhold.
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(archaic) That which is told; a tale or account.
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(internet) A private message to an individual in a chat room; a whisper.
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(archaeology) A hill or mound, originally and especially in the Middle East, over or consisting of the ruins of ancient settlements.
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To mention one by one, or piece by piece; to recount; to enumerate; to reckon; to number; to count; as, to tell money.
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To utter or recite in detail; to give an account of; to narrate.
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To make known; to publish; to disclose; to divulge.
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To give instruction to; to make report to; to acquaint; to teach; to inform.
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To order; to request; to command.
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To discern so as to report; to ascertain by observing; to find out; to discover; as, I can not tell where one color ends and the other begins.
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To make account of; to regard; to reckon; to value; to estimate.
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To give an account; to make report.
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To take effect; to produce a marked effect; as, every shot tells; every expression tells.
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That which is told; tale; account.
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A hill or mound.
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a Swiss patriot who lived in the early 14th century and who was renowned for his skill as an archer; according to legend an Austrian governor compelled him to shoot an apple from his son's head with his crossbow (which he did successfully without mishap)
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express in words;
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let something be known;
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narrate or give a detailed account of;
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give instructions to or direct somebody to do something with authority;
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discern or comprehend;
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inform positively and with certainty and confidence;
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give evidence;
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mark as different;
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communicate information to someone in spoken or written words
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order or advise someone to do something
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relate (a story)
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reveal (information) to someone in a non-verbal way
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divulge confidential or private information
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inform someone of the misdemeanours of
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decide or determine correctly or with certainty
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perceive (the difference between one person or thing and another)
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(of an experience or period of time) have a noticeable, typically harmful, effect on someone
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(of a particular factor) play a part in the success or otherwise of someone or something
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count (the members of a group)
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(especially in poker) an unconscious action that is thought to betray an attempted deception.
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(in the Middle East) an artificial mound formed by the accumulated remains of ancient settlements.
