different between tasking vs asking

English

Verb

tasking

1. present participle of task

Noun

tasking (plural taskings)

1. (military) A task; an assigned item of work.
   • 2007, Perry M. Smith, Daniel M. Gerstein, Assignment: Pentagon: How to Excel in a Bureaucracy

     Action officers receive taskings in many ways. A top boss will grab you in the hall and tell you to do something, some key official will give you multiple taskings right in the middle of your briefing, and you will pick up taskings in staff meetings […]

Anagrams

• Gitksan, skating, skin tag, skin-tag, skintag, staking, takings

English

Etymology

From Middle English asking, askyng, askynge, from Old English ?scung (“asking; question; inquiry”), equivalent to ask +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æsk??/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???sk??/
• (Northern England, Scotland) IPA^(key): /?ask??/
• (NYC, Philadelphia) IPA^(key): /?e?sk??/
• (AAVE) IPA^(key): /?æks??/

Verb

asking

1. present participle of ask

Noun

asking (plural askings)

1. The act or process of posing a question or making a request.

   His asking was greeted with silence.

2. (rare in the singular) A request, or petition.
   • 2005, The Woman's Book of Resilience: 12 Qualities to Cultivate, by Beth Miller - Page 125

     After many askings, pleadings, and episodes, all leading to nothing, she finally slumped down at the side of a well in a village where she was unknown.

3. (in the plural) The marriage banns.

Usage notes

• Normally found in plural, or in set phrases such as for the asking.

Adjective

asking (comparative more asking, superlative most asking)

1. That asks; that expresses a question or request.
   • 1924, Edna Ferber, So Big, New York: Grosset & Dunlap, Chapter , p. 109,^[1]

     It was as when some great gentle dog brings in a limp and bedraggled prize dug from the yard and, laying it at one’s feet, looks up at one with soft asking eyes.

   • 1942, Zora Neale Hurston, Dust Tracks on a Road, New York: Arno Press and The New York Times, 1969, Chapter 12, p. 235,^[2]

     […] all of them looked at each other in an asking way.

Derived terms

• askingly
• asking price

Anagrams

• Gaskin, aksing, gaskin, kiangs

Middle English

Noun

asking

1. Alternative form of askynge