To put a question or a request. Asking is the move that makes an answer possible, and it is often the missing step.

Answers kept ready for the questions that keep being asked. An FAQ is evidence of where a thing is unclear.

Short form of query, and of question. A named abbreviation rather than a concept.

An asking held open until answered. A question that stops being asked has become a ruling.

Request shortened to its parameter name — the asking half of every exchange, as code spells it.

Which thing. The word that opens an asking about identity or content.