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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seek \Seek\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Sought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeking}.] [OE. seken, AS. s[=e]can, s[=e]cean; akin to OS. s[=o]kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. s[ae]kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s[=o]kjan, and E. sake. Cf. {Beseech}, {Ransack}, {Sagacious}, {Sake}, {Soc}.]
1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke xi. 16.
3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. --Pope.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seek \Seek\, adjective Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Seek \Seek\, verb (used without an object) To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa. xxxiv. 16.
{To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. ''Unpracticed, unprepared, and still to seek.'' --Milton. [Obs.]
{To seek after}, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take.
{To seek for}, to endeavor to find.
{To seek to}, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] ''All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.'' --1 Kings x. 24.
{To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.]
To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. --Chaucer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
seek
noun: the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
verb
1: try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"
2: try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" [syn: {search}, {look for}]
3: make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" [syn: {try}, {attempt}, {essay}, {assay}]
4: go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"
5: inquire for; "seek directions from a local" [also: {sought}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
97 Moby Thesaurus words for "seek": address, aim, angle for, ask for, aspire, be after, be curious, be determined, beat about for, beg, bid for, burn with curiosity, canvass, cast about, chase, chivy, court, delve, delve for, demand, dig, dig around for, dig for, dig up, dog, endeavor, essay, ferret out, fish, fish for, follow, follow up, gape, gawk, give chase, go after, go gunning for, gun for, hollo after, hope, hound, hunt, hunt for, hunt up, inquire, interrogate, invite, labor, look, look for, look up, make after, mouse, nose, nose around for, nose out, peer, pop the question, prosecute, prowl after, pursue, query, quest, quest after, question, quiz, raise the hunt, request, resolve, root, rubber, rubberneck, run after, search, search for, search out, see to, seek for, seek out, smell, solicit, stare, still-hunt, strain, strive, struggle, study, sue, sue for, sweat, sweat blood, take out after, try, try to find, undertake, want to know, woo
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:
seek
1. To move the head of a {disk drive} radially, i.e., to move from one {track} to another. 2. To wind the {tape} to a given location. 3. To move the pointer that marks the next {byte} to be read from or written to a {file}. (1997-07-15)
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