v. | 1. to ask someone, especially someone famous, questions about themselves, their work, or their ideas, in order to publish or broadcast the information; to have a meeting with someone and ask them questions to find out if they are the right person for a job, course of study, etc; to ask and answer questions to find out if you want to accept a job, apply to a college, etc; if the police interview someone about a crime, they ask them questions about it; to ask people a series of questions as part of a research project |