seek
/si:k/
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Definition
- Verb:
- To try to find or get something: To make an effort to locate, discover, or obtain something.
- To try to achieve or reach a goal: To attempt to attain a particular state, condition, or objective.
- To ask for something: To request help, advice, or information from someone.
Examples of Usage
- Verb:
- They seek a peaceful solution to the conflict. (They try to find a peaceful solution.)
- He will seek professional advice before making a decision. (He will ask for professional advice.)
- She seeks to improve her skills every day. (She tries to achieve an improvement in her skills.)
Advanced Usage
- "To seek out": To search for and find someone or something, especially when it requires effort.
- He sought out the best mechanic in town to fix his car.
- "To seek after": (Formal/Literary) To pursue or try to obtain something, often something desirable like fame or truth.
- Philosophers seek after wisdom.
- "Much to seek": (Archaic/Idiomatic) To be lacking or deficient in something.
- His knowledge of history is much to seek.
Variants and Related Words
- Seeker (noun): A person who is searching for or trying to find something.
- He is a truth seeker.
- Sought (verb): The past tense and past participle form of "seek".
- They sought shelter from the storm.
Synonyms
- Search for: To look carefully for something.
- Look for: To try to find something.
- Pursue: To follow or try to achieve something over time.
- Attempt: To try to do something.
Related Phrasal Verbs
- Seek through: (Rare/Formal) To search thoroughly through something.
- The detective sought through the files for evidence.
Related Idioms
- To seek one's fortune: To go to a new place hoping to find success and wealth.
- He left his village to seek his fortune in the city.
- To hide and seek: A children's game where one person hides and others try to find them. (Note: This is a compound noun phrase, not a direct use of the verb "seek" alone).
- Nothing seek, nothing find: (Proverb) If you do not try to get something, you will not get it.
Noun
- the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
Verb
- inquire for
- seek directions from a local
- go to or towards
- a liquid seeks its own level
- 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
- 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
- try to get or reach
- seek a position
- seek an education
- seek happiness