different between ask vs appeal

English

Alternative forms

• aks, ax (standard until about 1600, now dialectal and no longer standard)

Pronunciation

• (UK)
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sk/
  • (Northern England, Scotland) IPA^(key): /?ask/
  • (multicultural London also) IPA^(key): /???ks/
• (US)
  • (General American) IPA^(key): /?æsk/
  • (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /e?sk/
  • (AAVE, Cajun, Nigeria) enPR: ?ks, IPA^(key): /?æks/
• Rhymes: -??sk, -æsk
• Homophones: ax, axe (some dialects)

Etymology 1

From Middle English asken (also esken, aschen, eschen, etc.), from Old English ?scian, from Proto-West Germanic *aisk?n, from Proto-Indo-European *h?eys- (“to wish; request”), German eischen.

Verb

ask (third-person singular simple present asks, present participle asking, simple past and past participle asked)

1. (transitive or ditransitive) To request (information, or an answer to a question).

2. To put forward (a question) to be answered.

3. To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

   • He is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

4. To request or petition; usually with for.

   • Ask, and it shall be given you.

5. To request permission to do something.

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

   • But in any Exigence of State, like that they are now pressed with, it certainly asks a much longer time to conduct any Design, for the Good of the Common-wealth, to its Maturity and Perfection.

7. To invite.

8. To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.
   • (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)
9. (figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.

Usage notes

• This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• Pronouncing ask as /æks/ is a common example of metathesis (attested since the Old English period) and still common in some varieties of English, notably African American Vernacular English (AAVE).
• The action expressed by the verb ask can also be expressed by the noun-verb combination pose a question.
• In older forms of English, when the pronoun thou was in active use, and verbs used -est for distinct second-person singular indicative forms, the verb ask had the form askest, and had askedst for its past tense.
• Similarly, when the ending -eth was in active use for third-person singular present indicative forms, the form asketh was used.

Hyponyms

• beg, beseech, demand, enquire, entreat, frain, implore, interrogate, petition, prompt, query, question, request, solicit, supplicate

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

ask (plural asks)

1. An act or instance of asking.
2. Something asked or asked for.

   Synonym: request

   • 2008, Doug Fields, Duffy Robbins, Speaking to Teenagers:

     Communication researchers call this the foot-in-the-door syndrome. Essentially it's based on the observation that people who respond positively to a small “ask” are more likely to respond to a bigger “ask” later on.

3. An asking price.

Etymology 2

From Middle English aske, arske, from Old English ?þexe (“lizard, newt”), from Proto-West Germanic *agiþahsij? (“lizard”), a compound of *agiz (“snake, lizard”) + *þahsuz (“badger”). Cognate of German Echse (“lizard”).

Alternative forms

• asker, ascar, askerd, askard

Noun

ask (plural asks)

1. (Britain dialectal and Scotland) An eft; newt.
2. (Britain dialectal) A lizard.
   • 1951, Malcolm Arthur Smith, The British Amphibians & Reptiles (page 258)

     We hear of Adder dens, but detailed accounts of the discovery of one are very rare. Service (1902) records that a peatman, when levelling on an estate by the Solway, found in a hole in the ground, some 8 inches below the surface, 40 adders, 10 toads and a large number of asks (lizards).

Anagrams

• AKs, KAs, KSA, SKA, aks, kas, ska

Danish

Etymology

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ask/

Noun

ask c (singular definite asken, plural indefinite aske)

1. common ash (tree, Fraxinus excelsior)

Declension

References

• “ask” in Den Danske Ordbog

Faroese

Alternative forms

• askur m

Etymology

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ask/

Noun

ask f (genitive singular askar, plural askir)

1. ash tree
2. ash wood

Declension

Icelandic

Noun

ask

1. indefinite accusative singular of askur

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz.

Noun

ask m (definite singular asken, indefinite plural asker, definite plural askene)

1. the European ash (ash tree) Fraxinus excelsior

References

• “ask” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz. Akin to English ash.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?sk/

Noun

ask m (definite singular asken, indefinite plural askar, definite plural askane)

1. the European ash (ash tree) Fraxinus excelsior

References

• “ask” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *askaz, *askiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?s?k/

Noun

ask m

1. ash tree
2. spear

Declension

Descendants

• Middle Low German: esk
  • Plautdietsch: Asch

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Swedish asker, from Old Norse askr, from Proto-Germanic *askaz, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *?s- (“ash”).

Pronunciation

Noun

ask c

1. the European ash (tree) Fraxinus excelsior
2. a small box

   Synonyms: låda, skrin

Declension

Descendants

• ? Finnish: aski

Anagrams

• sak, ska

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /??pi?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /??pil/
• Rhymes: -i?l
• Hyphenation: ap?peal

Etymology 1

From Middle English apel, appel (“formal accusation brought in court; a challenge to trial by combat; an appeal to a higher court or authority; plea (for mercy, protection, etc.); pealing (of bells)”) [and other forms], from Old French apel (“a call”) (modern French appel (“a call; an appeal”)), from apeler (“to call; to call out”), from Latin appell?re, adpell?re, respectively the present active infinitives of appell? (“to address as, call by name; to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”) and adpell? (“to drive, move to; to land or put ashore”), from ad- (prefix meaning ‘to; towards’) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h?éd (“at; to”)) + pell? (“to drive, impel, push; to hurl, propel; to banish, expel; to eject, thrust out”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *pelh?- (“to approach”), from *pel- (“to beat; to drive; to push”)).

Noun

appeal (countable and uncountable, plural appeals)

1. (law)
   1. An application to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   2. The legal document or form by which such an application is made; also, the court case in which the application is argued.
   3. A person's legal right to apply to court for such a review.

   4. (historical) An accusation or charge against someone for wrongdoing (especially treason).
   5. (historical) A process which formerly might be instituted by one private person against another for some heinous crime demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered, rather than for the offence against the public; an accusation.

      (Can we find and add a quotation of Bouvier to this entry?)
   6. (historical) At common law, an accusation made against a felon by one of their accomplices (called an approver).
2. A call to a person or an authority for a decision, help, or proof; an entreaty, an invocation.
   1. (cricket) The act, by the fielding side, of asking an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not.
3. (figuratively) A resort to some physical means; a recourse.
4. (figuratively) A power to attract or interest.
5. (rhetoric) A call to, or the use of, a principle or quality for purposes of persuasion.
6. (historical) A summons to defend one's honour in a duel, or one's innocence in a trial by combat; a challenge.

Alternative forms

• appeale (obsolete, 16th–17th c.)
• appeall (obsolete)

Derived terms

Related terms

• appellant
• appellate
• appellee
• appellor

Translations

See also

• approvement

Etymology 2

From Middle English apelen, appelen (“to accuse; to make a formal charge before a court, etc., impeach; to challenge to trial by combat; to apply to a higher court or authority for review of a decision; to call upon for a decision, favour, help, etc.; to call by a name”) [and other forms], from Old French apeler (“to call; to call out”); see further at etymology 1.

Verb

appeal (third-person singular simple present appeals, present participle appealing, simple past and past participle appealed)

1. (law)
   1. (intransitive) Often followed by against (the inferior court's decision) or to (the superior court): to apply to a superior court or judge for a decision or order by an inferior court or judge to be reviewed and overturned.
   2. (transitive, originally US) To apply to a superior court or judge to review and overturn (a decision or order by an inferior court or judge).
   3. (transitive, historical) To accuse or charge (someone) with wrongdoing (especially treason).
   4. (transitive, historical) Of a private person: to instituted legal proceedings (against another private person) for some heinous crime, demanding punishment for the particular injury suffered.
   5. (transitive, historical) Of the accomplice of a felon: to make an accusation at common law against (the felon).
2. (intransitive) To call upon a person or an authority to corroborate a statement, to decide a controverted question, or to vindicate one's rights; to entreat, to invoke.
   1. (intransitive, cricket) Of a fielding side; to ask an umpire for a decision on whether a batsman is out or not, usually by saying "How's that?" or "Howzat?".
3. (intransitive) To call upon someone for a favour, help, etc.

4. (intransitive, figuratively) To have recourse or resort to some physical means.
5. (intransitive, figuratively) To be attractive.
6. (transitive, historical) To summon (someone) to defend their honour in a duel, or their innocence in a trial by combat; to challenge.

Conjugation

Derived terms

Translations

References

Further reading

• appeal on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• appeal (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• appeal at OneLook Dictionary Search
• appeal in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

Italian

Etymology

Borrowed from English appeal.

Noun

appeal

1. appeal (power to attract or interest)
2. sex appeal

Anagrams

• papale