asks

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When your browser asks for the IP to news.ycombinator.com, you get the address of a cloudflare CDN server.

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Quick take

To request or petition.

Meaning at a glance

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verb

To request or petition.

verb

To request permission (to do something).

verb

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for asks.

verb

To request or petition.

verb

To request permission (to do something).

verb

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

verb

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

Example sentences

When your browser asks for the IP to news.ycombinator.com, you get the address of a cloudflare CDN server.

When somebody asks the same question in a city like Boston or NYC, they're asking about your job.

So he walks into a bar and asks the bartender for a shot of 22-year old Glenmorangie Scotch to celebrate.

Can't wait to bring up this edge case the next time someone asks me to reverse a string in an interview.

Whenever someone asks for a fifth round of changes for a button's color, I think about a Japanese monk raking gravel.

Iirc windows 10 install asks if you have metered Internet.

I would recommend Processing to anyone that asks about getting started in programming.

(purely hypothetical, honey.) b) if a government asks me for my password, they will get something plausible, but not everything...

One company having a buggy interview process that asks questions irrelevant to the job, at the very most means if you are applying for a job at that company you should spend a couple days cramming for the interview.

I'd like a clear example of how it is that: a) if my wife asks me for my password, she will get the pictures of her and I...

Then, when the base is almost completed, and over schedule, the party in charge asks for more money, and more time because they still need to build the most important part of the base, the flight-line.

And then he asks the impossible question, `What would the average random code do?' He then proves that the average code is arbitrarily good, and that therefore there must be at least one good code.

Quote examples

It asks "do you mean unbridled capitalism?" and then gives me only results for unbridled capitalism.

Then when someone gets your "DV" unit and asks where the video is you can say it was set to live streaming mode and is never recorded.

The "backing up" of the local drive encryption key to Microsoft servers is one of the things the FBI specifically asks for.

This enables a succession of ever greater responsibility positions (or entry to Harvard Business School, who actually asks you "how many reports did you have").