seek

[Seek]

If you seek an accordion player for your new polka band, it means you are looking for a band mate.

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Sick.

Noun
the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk

Verb
inquire for; "seek directions from a local"

Verb
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"

Verb
go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"

Verb
try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"

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Verb
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"


a.
Sick.

v. t.
To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

v. t.
To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.

v. t.
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

v. t.
To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

v. i.
To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.


Seek

Seek , a. Sick. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Seek

Seek, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] [OE, seken, AS. scan, scean; akin to OS. skian, LG. s'94ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. skja, Sw. s'94ka, Dan. s'94ge, Goth. skjan, 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.
2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
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.
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.

Seek

Seek , v. i. To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read.
To seek, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated. "Unpracticed, unpreparated, 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.

Sick.

To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.

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Usage Examples

Being told about the effects of climate change is an appeal to our reason and to our desire to bring about change. But to see that Africans are the hardest hit by climate change, even though they generate almost no greenhouse gas, is a glaring injustice, which also triggers anger and outrage over those who seek to ignore it.

As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.

Artists who seek perfection in everything are those who cannot attain it in anything.

Change will not come if we wait for some other person or some other time. We are the ones we've been waiting for. We are the change that we seek.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

Celebrity, to me, is not a thing to seek.

Before we can know God and understand his great plan it is first necessary for us to believe that he exists and that he rewards all who diligently seek him.

According to your sympathy, you will take pleasure in your own happiness or in the happiness of other people but it is always your own happiness you seek.

Misspelled Form

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Other Usage Examples

By mere burial man arrives not at bliss and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range, they will seek for happiness as vainly as they sought it here, who seek it in aught else than that which so closely surrounds them here - the Infinite.

A man has to learn that he cannot command things, but that he can command himself that he cannot coerce the wills of others, but that he can mold and master his own will: and things serve him who serves Truth people seek guidance of him who is master of himself.

As soon go kindle fire with snow, as seek to quench the fire of love with words.

All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.

Can I see another's woe, and not be in sorrow too? Can I see another's grief, and not seek for kind relief?

All you now do is pursue your private objectives within society. Instead of us being a community, everybody is asked to seek their own personal ends. It's called competition. And competition is antagonism.

All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

Always seek out the seed of triumph in every adversity.

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