Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To try to locate or discover; search for.
- intransitive verb To endeavor to obtain or reach.
- intransitive verb To go to or toward.
- intransitive verb To inquire for; request.
- intransitive verb To try; endeavor.
- intransitive verb To make a search or investigation.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To go in search or quest of; look or search for; endeavor to find: often followed by out.
- To inquire for; ask for; solicit; desire or try to obtain.
- To go to; resort to; have recourse to.
- To aim at; pursue as an object; strive after; attempt: as, to
seek a person's life or his ruin. - To try; endeavor: with an infinitive object.
- To search; search through.
- To look at; consult.
- To go; proceed; resort; have recourse; apply: with to.
- To search, or make search or inquiry.
- (b ) At a loss; without knowledge, experience, or resources; helpless: used adjectively, usually with be.
- A Middle English form of
sick .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Sick.
- intransitive verb To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared.
- intransitive verb to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take.
- intransitive verb to endeavor to find.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] to apply to; to resort to; to court.
- intransitive verb [Obs.] to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute.
- transitive verb To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
- transitive verb To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- transitive verb To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- transitive verb To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
try tofind , tolook for , tosearch . - verb transitive To
inquire for; toask for; tosolicit ; tobeseech . - verb transitive To try to
acquire orgain ; tostrive after; toaim at. - verb intransitive, obsolete To
go ,move ,travel (in a given direction).
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb go to or towards
- verb inquire for
- verb make an effort or attempt
- noun the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
- verb try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
- verb try to get or reach
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
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Examples
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JEANNE MESERVE, CNN HOMELAND SECURITY CORRESPONDENT (voice over): In the remote Ramara Township, 90 miles north of Toronto, Mike Cote says he came across a group of men in what he called seek camouflage.
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It is amazing to me that anyone could think that, let alone put their name behind it and once again seek to distract state officials and needlessly increase their work load.
Latest ethics complaints should be 'a wake-up call,' Palin says 2009
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The public good that the nations of the world seek is reduced net emissions of carbon that is ultimately more beneficial than its costs.
Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010
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I assure you the Utopia you seek is NOT Wisconsin.
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Local Governments Mining for Dollars 2009
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The public good that the nations of the world seek is reduced net emissions of carbon that is ultimately more beneficial than its costs.
Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010
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What we seek is more stability and a health care system on a sound financial footing.
Wonk Room » Obama To AMA: ‘The Public Option Is Not Your Enemy, It Is Your Friend’ 2009
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Although that might seem reasonable on its face, in practice what they really always seek is to prevent any mention of homosexuality at all unless it is described as evil, a ‘deathstyle’ or all the supposed bad things that gays are all about.
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What the patient might seek is under such a system is a clinic that would provide them with services related to their condition in exchange for the 'going' lump-sum rate: consider the lump sum payment as a 'cancer voucher'.
Five Big Health Care Questions, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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And if what they seek is for America to recognize their lifestyles as moral, should that not be something decided by ballot initiative and the will of the people, rather than a few judges legislating from the bench?
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The public good that the nations of the world seek is reduced net emissions of carbon that is ultimately more beneficial than its costs.
Nigel Barber: Small Birds Solve Global Warming Nigel Barber 2010
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