make a request or demand for something to somebody; "She asked him for a loan"
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"
inquire about; "I asked about their special today"; "He had to ask directions several times"
direct or put; seek an answer to; "ask a question"
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"
providing or experiencing physical discomfort; "an uncomfortable chair"; "an uncomfortable day in the hot sun"
conducive to or feeling mental discomfort; "this kind of life can prove disruptive and uncomfortable"; "the uncomfortable truth"; "grew uncomfortable beneath his appraising eye"; "an uncomfortable way of surprising me just when I felt surest"; "the teacher's presence at the conference made the child very uncomfortable"
proper alignment; the property possessed by something that is in correct or proper alignment; "out of true"
accurately placed or thrown; "his aim was true"; "he was dead on target"
accurately fitted; level; "the window frame isn't quite true"
devoted (sometimes fanatically) to a cause or concept or truth; "true believers bonded together against all who disagreed with them"
consistent with fact or reality; not false; "the story is true"; "it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true"- B. Russell; "the true meaning of the statement"
conforming to definitive criteria; "the horseshoe crab is not a true crab"; "Pythagoras was the first true mathematician"
as acknowledged; "true, she is the smartest in her class"
make level, square, balanced, or concentric; "true up the cylinder of an engine"