5: invite
intransitive verb
1: to seek information
2: to make a request
3: look —often used in the phrase ask for trouble
— ask·er noun
ASK may refer to:
In music:
- "Ask (song)", a song by The Smiths
- "Ask", a song by Avail from their 1998 album Over the James
Places:
- Ask, Akershus in Gjerdrum municipality, Akershus, Norway
- Ask, Hordaland in Askøy municipality, Hordaland, Norway
- Ask, Buskerud in Ringerike municipality, Buskerud, Norway
Other:
- Ask or Ishq, the Turkish word for love.
- Ask and Embla, in Norse Mythology
- Ask.com, a search website, formerly Ask Jeeves
- Ask price in finance markets
- An English verb
- The Norwegian, Swedish, and Danish word for the European ash, a tree.
- Amplitude-shift keying in telecommunication and computing
- The American School of Kuwait
- ASK France-based company producing a full range of contactless products (smart cards, tickets and radio-frequency identification (RFID) solutions).
- Amplitude-shift keying, a type of signal modulation
- ASK (game developer) A Japanese game company, developer and publisher of several games.
- A series of glider aircraft by the German manufacturer Schleicher GmbH
- ASK Restaurants Ltd., which operates the Zizzi and ASK restaurant brands in the United Kingdom.
- The National Rail code for Askam-in-Furness railway station, United Kingdom
- New Jersey Assessment of Skills and Knowledge, a state test of student achievement
- FK ASK, a Latvian former football club.
- ASK-1, apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1, an enzyme and a protein kinase sometimes just referred to as ASK
- Alpha Sigma Kappa, a sorority for women in technical studies.
- in travel, Available seat kilometre measures an airline's passenger carrying capacity.
Advise:
–verb (used with object)
1. to give counsel to; offer an opinion or suggestion as worth following: I advise you to be cautious.
2. to recommend as desirable, wise, prudent, etc.: He advised secrecy.
3. to give (a person, group, etc.) information or notice (often fol. by of): The investors were advised of the risk.
They advised him that this was their final notice.
–verb (used without object) 4. to take counsel; consult (usually fol. by with): I shall advise with my friends.
5. to offer counsel; give advice: I shall act as you advise.
[Origin: 1275–1325; late ME; r. ME avisen < AF, OF aviser, v. deriv. of avis opinion (< a vis; see advice)]
The term ADVISE (Analysis, Dissemination, Visualization, Insight, and Semantic Enhancement) is a research and development program within the
United States Department of Homeland Security Threat and Vulnerability Testing and Assessment (TVTA) portfolio. It is reported to be a massive
data mining system with the ability to store one quadrillion data entities. The data can be everything from financial records, phone
records, emails, blog entries, website searches, and any other electronic information that can be put into a computer system. This
information then would be connected to any given American citizen and assess the probability that he or she is a terrorist.
The exact scope and degree of completion of the program is unclear. ADVISE is in the 2004-2006 Federal DHS Budget as a component of the
$47 million TVTA program.
The program was officially scrapped in September 2007 after the agency's internal Inspector General found that pilot testing of the
system had been performed using data on real people without required privacy safeguards in place.
Source References and additional reading:
- Merriam Webster
- Dictionary.com
- Wikipedia.org, the free encyclopedia
