A common placename in England:
Used in a Sentence
ashton
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for ashton.
Editorial note
Seems like a small amount to raise from a heavyweight VC like Khosla and super angel Ashton Kutcher.
Examples19
Definitions4
Parts of speech1
Quick take
A common placename in England:
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of ashton gathered in one view.
A habitational surname from Old English derived from the place names.
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for ashton.
noun
A common placename in England:
noun
A habitational surname from Old English derived from the place names.
noun
A unisex given name transferred from the surname.
noun
A number of places in the United States:
Example sentences
Seems like a small amount to raise from a heavyweight VC like Khosla and super angel Ashton Kutcher.
The Secretary of Defense is Ashton Carter, who's a physicist that's never served in the US Military.
Well now, isn't Rob Ashton just one of the wittiest people on the Internet these days!
No reason to throw out the baby with the bathwater just because of Ashton Kutcher, etc.
There were a billion tweets before Ashton though and the celebs showed up because there was an audience to be had.
If you somehow manage to keep all of ashton's friends on 10 shards instead of 100, then that's a big win, surely?
I doubt a 15 y/o could get Wendi Murdoch, Ashton Kutcher and Yoko Ono as investors without his parents help, then sell the company to Yahoo!
The Brief editor is a near and dear example for us developers, but they also went out of their way, it seems, to destroy dBase and the whole Ashton Tate thing.
It's funny watching the Zenefits response: Bring in the yComb & Celebrity Investors (Jared Leto / Ashton Kutcher) to get public opinion on their side via twitter #ADPeeved and a Change.org petition.
I spent the next couple years weaning myself off the drugs with the help of the Ashton Manual and full denial of my psychiatrist that these pills had any addiction potential.
It could be arbitrarily complex (e.g., some followers might only click a link if two people they're following like it, unless Ashton likes it, in which case they will never visit it, but if Colbert likes it, that will override Ashton).
Correct me if I'm wrong, but surely in the scenario that you are Ashton Kutcher and tweet a link to your followers, the average inter-arrival time would decrease but overall it would still be a Poisson process?
Quote examples
Most of the time the answer is "no" Too bad we Ashton Kutchner can't teach us physics via tweets.
I just finished "How to Fly a Horse" by Kevin Ashton.
I can also recommend "In Search of Stupidity:Over 20 Years of High-Tech Marketing Disasters" which about how the old giants of the early PC software industry (Ashton Tate, MicroPro et al) made colossal mistakes resulting in their extinction.
I think there is some "look at all these users who like my product (and thus me) so now I'm a rock star" philosophy in there, which isn't helped by people like Ashton Kutcher and MC Hammer coming into the scene.
Proper noun examples
That's the position that the current SecDef (Ashton Carter) held until he became SecDef.
Or at the very least having unelected foreign policy actors (Ashton et al) take ham-fisted actions on behalf of a whole continent.
Ashton Kutcher does look like young Steve Jobs.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use ashton in a sentence?
Seems like a small amount to raise from a heavyweight VC like Khosla and super angel Ashton Kutcher.
What does ashton mean?
A common placename in England:
What part of speech is ashton?
ashton is commonly used as noun.