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Seek

verb
(past & past part. sought; pres. part. seeking)
1.
Try to get or reach.  "Seek an education" , "Seek happiness"
2.
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of.  Synonyms: look for, search.  "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
3.
Make an effort or attempt.  Synonyms: assay, attempt, essay, try.  "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"
4.
Go to or towards.
5.
Inquire for.
noun
1.
The movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk.



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"Seek" Quotes from Famous Books



... fact convinces me that they are the very men we seek; for they said they meant to have some game with you, and what more amusing than to give you a long, ...
— The Lighthouse • R.M. Ballantyne
... lost,—and simply from the want of effective champions; that this great opportunity for the institution which I loved better than my life had passed from us during my lifetime, at least; and then it was that I determined to break from my surroundings for a time, and to seek new scenes which might do something to change the ...
— Autobiography of Andrew Dickson White Volume II • Andrew Dickson White
... their progress by a succession of gales which blew on the 4th, 5th, and 6th of October. These gales assisted Sir Edward Codrington in compelling the whole of the dispersed fleet of the Patrona Bey to seek refuge ...
— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, Number 360, October 1845 • Various
... beyond it, it is something to escape condolence. We follow her fortunes no farther. It is needless to give all the details of the hospital service which occupied her till the conclusion of the war set her free; and we will not seek to penetrate into the retreat in the Far West where she is dwelling still. The gray manor-house guards its secrets well, though it has witnessed in its time sorrows and sins that might have wrung a voice from granite. Conscious of many ...
— Sword and Gown - A Novel • George A. Lawrence
... seek is, that the people of the upper classes should have their children taught the language which explains our names of persons or places, our older history, and our music, and which is spoken in the majority of our counties, rather ...
— Thomas Davis, Selections from his Prose and Poetry • Thomas Davis


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