Require as useful, just, or proper; "It takes nerve to do what she did"; "success usually requires hard work"; "This job asks a lot of patience and skill"; "This position demands a lot of personal sacrifice"; "This dinner calls for a spectacular dessert"; "This intervention does not postulate a patient's consent" address a question to and expect an answer from; "Ask your teacher about trigonometry"; "The children asked me about their dead grandmother" require or ask for as a price or condition; "He is asking $200 for the table"; "The kidnappers are asking a million dollars in return for the release of their hostage" consider obligatory; request and expect; "We require our secretary to be on time"; "Aren't we asking too much of these children?"; "I expect my students to arrive in time for their lessons" direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question" make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan" inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"
The blood group whose red cells carry the A antigen the 1st letter of the Roman alphabet the basic unit of electric current adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites; "a typical household circuit carries 15 to 50 amps" (biochemistry) purine base found in DNA and RNA; pairs with thymine in DNA and with uracil in RNA one of the four nucleotides used in building DNA; all four nucleotides have a common phosphate group and a sugar (ribose) any of several fat-soluble vitamins essential for normal vision; prevents night blindness or inflammation or dryness of the eyes a metric unit of length equal to one ten billionth of a meter (or 0.0001 micron); used to specify wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
A school teaching mechanical and industrial arts and the applied sciences
A personified abstraction that teaches; "books were his teachers"; "experience is a demanding teacher" a person whose occupation is teaching