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Asking Jeeves

Asking Jeeves is the present participle and gerund of Ask Jeeves.

Meaning of Ask Jeeves

Verb

Ask Jeeves (third-person singular simple present Asks Jeeves, present participle Asking Jeeves, simple past and past participle Asked Jeeves)

  1. (Internet) To search for (something) on the Internet using the Ask Jeeves search engine.
    • Back then Google was still only a small private American company set up by two Stanford University students rather than a globally-recognised verb for finding information online. When we Asked Jeeves about progeria only 2,200 web pages appeared and many of those lacked hard information and facts.2011, Hayley Okines, Kerry Okines, Alison Stokes, “Kerry; Learning to Live with Progeria”, in Old Before My Time, Accent Press Ltd, →ISBN, page 23

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What is Asking Jeeves the present participle and gerund of?
Asking Jeeves is the present participle and gerund of Ask Jeeves.

Words near Asking Jeeves in the dictionary

  1. asking for someone's hand in marriage
  2. asking for the moon
  3. asking for trouble
  4. asking how high when someone says jump
  5. asking in
  6. Asking Jeeves
  7. asking out
  8. asking over
  9. asking price
  10. asking prices
  11. asking rate

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