Seek \Seek\, v. i.
   To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
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         Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
                                                  xxxiv. 16.
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   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.]
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            To seek
            Upon a man and do his soul unrest.    --Chaucer.
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	Seek \Seek\, a.
   Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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	Seek \Seek\, v. t. [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. saekja, 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.
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            The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he
            said, I seek my brethren.             --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                  15, 16.
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   2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
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            Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke
                                                  xi. 16.
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   3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as,
      to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
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   4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
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            Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
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            Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
                                                  --Pope.
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	seek
     n : the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track
         on a disk
     v 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]

	

	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

	

	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.
     
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