Beg vs. Please — What's the Difference?

To ask (someone) for something in an urgent or humble manner

Cause to feel happy and satisfied

To ask for (something) in an urgent or humble manner

Take only one's own wishes into consideration in deciding how to act or proceed

To ask for (food or money, for instance) as a beggar.

Used in polite requests or questions

To ask (permission) to do something

To give enjoyment, pleasure, or satisfaction to; make glad or contented.

To evade; dodge

To be the will or desire of

To take for granted without proof

To give satisfaction or pleasure; be agreeable

To ask for something, especially money or food from strangers, in an urgent or humble manner.

To have the will or desire; wish

To live as a beggar.

If it is your desire or pleasure; if you please. Used in polite requests

To make an urgent or humble plea

Yes. Used in polite affirmative replies to offers

(intransitive) To request the help of someone, often in the form of money.

(ambitransitive) To make happy or satisfy; to give pleasure to.

(transitive) To plead with someone for help, a favor, etc.; to entreat.

To desire; to will; to be pleased by.

(transitive) To unwillingly provoke a negative, often violent, reaction.

Used to make a polite request.

(transitive) In the phrase beg the question: to assume.

Used as an affirmative to an offer.

In the phrase beg the question: to raise (a question).

An expression of annoyance or impatience.

To ask to be appointed guardian for, or to ask to have a guardian appointed for.

(Cincinnati) Said as a request to repeat information.

The act of begging; an imploring request.

To give pleasure to; to excite agreeable sensations or emotions in; to make glad; to gratify; to content; to satisfy.

A provincial governor under the Ottoman Empire; a bey.

To have or take pleasure in; hence, to choose; to wish; to desire; to will.

A title of honor in Turkey and in some other parts of the East; a bey.

To be the will or pleasure of; to seem good to; - used impersonally.

To ask earnestly for; to entreat or supplicate for; to beseech.

To afford or impart pleasure; to excite agreeable emotions.

To ask for as a charity, esp. to ask for habitually or from house to house.

To have pleasure; to be willing, as a matter of affording pleasure or showing favor; to vouchsafe; to consent.

To make petition to; to entreat; as, to beg a person to grant a favor.

Give pleasure to or be pleasing to;

To take for granted; to assume without proof.

Be the will of or have the will (to);

To ask to be appointed guardiln for, or to aso to havo a guardian appointed for.

Give satisfaction;

To ask alms or charity, especially to ask habitually by the wayside or from house to house; to live by asking alms.

Used in polite request;

Call upon in supplication; entreat;

Make a solicitation or entreaty for something; request urgently or persistently;

Ask to obtain free;