Ask vs Wonder - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between ask and wonder

is that ask is to request (information, or an answer to a question) while wonder is to be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

As nouns the difference between ask and wonder

is that ask is an act or instance of asking while wonder is something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.

As a proper noun Ask

is the first male human, according to the Poetic Edda.

ask

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) asken, from (etyl) .

Verb

(en verb)

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

I asked her age.

To put forward (a question) to be answered.

to ask a question

To interrogate or enquire of (a person).

I'm going to ask this lady for directions.

* Bible, John ix. 21

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

To request or petition; usually with for .

to ask for a second helping at dinner

to ask for help with homework

* Bible, Matthew vii. 7

Ask , and it shall be given you.

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

What price are you asking for the house?

* Addison

An exigence of state asks a much longer time to conduct a design to maturity.

To invite.

Don't ask them to the wedding.

To publish in church for marriage; said of both the banns and the persons.

(Fuller)

(figuratively) To take (a person's situation) as an example.

Usage notes

* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . See * Pronouncing ask as /æks/ is a common example of metathesis and a feature of 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'' (confer the parallel in German between ''fragen'' and ''eine Frage stellen ).

Derived terms

* ask after * ask around * ask for * ask in * ask out * ask over * ask round * for the asking * no questions asked * outask

Noun

(en noun)

An act or instance of asking.

* 2005 , Laura Fredricks, The ask :

To ask for a gift is a privilege, a wonderful expression of commitment to and ownership of the organization. Getting a yes to an ask can be a rush, but asking for the gift can and should be just as rewarding.

Something asked or asked for; a 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.

An asking price.

Etymology 2

From (etyl) aske, arske, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

Noun

(en noun)

An eft; newt.

* 1876 , S. Smiles, Scottish Naturalist :

He looked at the beast. It was not an eel. It was very like an ask .

A lizard.

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wonder

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Noun

(en noun)

Something that causes amazement or awe; a marvel.

* , chapter=8

, title= Mr. Pratt's Patients , passage=That concertina was a wonder in its way. The handles that was on it first was wore out long ago, and he'd made new ones of braided rope yarn. And the bellows was patched in more places than a cranberry picker's overalls.}}

Something astonishing and seemingly inexplicable.

Someone very talented at something, a genius.

The sense or emotion which can be inspired by something curious or unknown; surprise; astonishment.

* (Plato), Theætetus (section 155d)

Socrates: I see, my dear Theaetetus, that Theodorus had a true insight into your nature when he said that you were a philosopher, for wonder' is the feeling of a philosopher, and philosophy begins in ' wonder . He was not a bad genealogist who said that Iris (the messenger of heaven) is the child of Thaumas (wonder).

* Bible, (w) iii. 10

They were filled with wonder and amazement at that which had happened unto him.

* 1781 , (Samuel Johnson), The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets

All wonder is the effect of novelty upon ignorance.

(UK, informal) A mental pondering, a thought.

* 1934 , Katharine Tynan, The house of dreams

Miss Paynter had a little wonder as to whether the man, as she called Mr. Lacy in her own mind, had ever been admitted to this room. She thought not.

Derived terms

* bewonder * boy wonder * girl wonder * gutless wonder * little wonder * nine day wonder * no wonder * one hit wonder * * small wonder * Wonder Woman * wonderberry * wonderboy * wonderbra * wonderchild * wonderdrug * wonderful * wonderland * wonderment * wondrous, wonderous * wonderworker * work wonders

Verb

(en verb)

To be affected with surprise or admiration; to be struck with astonishment; to be amazed; to marvel.

* (Jonathan Swift), (w, Gulliver's Travels)

I could not sufficiently wonder at the intrepidity of these diminutive mortals.

* Johnson

We cease to wonder at what we understand.

, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4 , passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}

To ponder; to feel doubt and curiosity; to wait with uncertain expectation; to query in the mind.

* (William Shakespeare)

I wonder , in my soul, / What you would ask me, that I should deny.

Derived terms

* wonderer

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