Assert and Ask

verb

• State categorically.
  • synonyms: asseverate, maintain
• To declare or affirm solemnly and formally as true.
  • usage: "Before God I swear I am innocent"
  • synonyms: affirm, verify, avow, aver, swan, swear
• Insist on having one's opinions and rights recognized.
  • usage: "Women should assert themselves more"
  • synonyms: put forward
• Assert to be true.
  • usage: "The letter asserts a free society"
  • synonyms: insist

• (v.t.) To maintain; to defend.
• (v.t.) To maintain or defend, as a cause or a claim, by words or measures; to vindicate a claim or title to; as, to assert our rights and liberties.
• (v.t.) To affirm; to declare with assurance or plainly and strongly; to state positively; to aver; to asseverate.

verb

• Inquire about.
  • usage: "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"
  • synonyms: inquire, enquire
• Make a request or demand for something to somebody.
  • usage: "She asked him for a loan"
• Direct or put; seek an answer to.
  • usage: "ask a question"
• Consider obligatory; request and expect.
  • usage: "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons"
  • synonyms: require, expect
• Address a question to and expect an answer from.
  • usage: "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother"
• Require as useful, just, or proper.
  • usage: "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent"
  • synonyms: necessitate, postulate, need, require, take, involve, call for, demand
• Require or ask for as a price or condition.
  • usage: "He is asking $200 for the table"; "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage"

• (v.t.) To publish in church for marriage; -- said of both the banns and the persons.
• (v.t.) To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.
• (v.i.) To make inquiry or seek by request; -- sometimes followed by after.
• (v.i.) To request or petition; -- usually followed by for; as, to ask for bread.
• (n.) A water newt.
• (v.t.) To interrogate or inquire of or concerning; to put a question to or about; to question.
• (v.t.) 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?.
• (v.t.) 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 is the ask price (a shortening of asked price) is the price at which a market maker or broker offers to sell a security or commodity. The price another market maker or broker is willing to pay for that security is called the bid price, and the difference between the two prices is called the spread. Bid and ask prices are typically reported to the media for commodities and over-the-counter (OTC) transactions. In contrast, last, or closing, prices are reported for exchange-traded and national market securities. With open-end mutual funds, the ask price is the net asset value (NAV), or the price you get if you sell, plus the sales charge, if one applies.

• Name Meaning: From the ash tree
• Name Origin: Norse