seek 
seek (sēk)
transitive verb sought, seek′·ing
- to try to find; search for; look for
- to go to; resort to to seek the woods for peace
- to try to get or find out by asking or searching to seek the answer to a question
- to request; ask for
- to bend one's efforts toward; aim at; pursue seeking perfection
- to try; attempt: used with an infinitive to seek to please someone
- Archaic to explore
Etymology: ME seken < OE secan, akin to OS sōkian, Ger suchen, ON sœkja < IE base *sāg-, to track down, trace > L sagire, to scent out, perceive
intransitive verb
- to look for someone or something
- to make a search or investigation to seek after something
- Archaic to resort (to)
seek
v.
To look for
investigate, explore, search for, delve for, gun for, bob for, dig for, ransack for, fish for, go gunning for, look around for, look about for, look up, hunt up, sniff out, dig out, hunt out, root out, smell around, go after, run after, see after, prowl after, go in pursuit of, go in search of. To try
To find out
Object
- advice: Seeking professional advice at an early stage may help to secure the next deal.
- clarification: Footpaths The council is seeking clarification of how the Test Way will be affected by a proposal to divert the footpath at Gavelacre.
- refuge: Serb troops have been seeking refuge in villages in the east where the allies know ethnic Albanians are hiding, he said.
- approval: CTC Accounts At the CTC AGM in April the Board sought approval from members on the continuing auditing of the CTC accounts.
- asylum: Seeking asylum is a basic human right that government policy is denying.
- permission: If you wish to seek permission to use material from this site contact the Webmaster at the address given below.
Subject
- employer: Becoming business aware Useful information on one of the key skills sought by some graduate employers.
Preposition: after
- location: VisitBritain Opinion " attractive modern holiday accommodation in a sought after location "
Modifying Another Word
- actively: The organizing committee is actively seeking more funding in order to further substantially reduce the cost to participants.
Followed by an intransitive particle
- out: Yet they are not sought out for the council of the people, nor do they attain eminence in the public assembly.
Followed by a transitive particle
- out: The center is seeking out possible brain injury casualties instead of waiting for referred patients.
Used with why or when
- where: The advice of English Heritage and the Garden History Society will be sought where necessary.
- which: The Court granted the trial date I was seeking which was July 15th.
Infinitive complement
- recruit: A non-executive director will be appointed shortly and the Company is also seeking to recruit key personnel at both management and operational levels.
- ensure: Seeking to ensure that all our citizens feel fully part of our civil society.
- establish: Hence we are seeking to establish a critical mass of people enough to initiate and sustain a thriving local land based economy.
- promote: The project seeks to promote ' broad debate ' and is ' informed by the latest and best thinking ' .
- improve: To develop guidance on accessibility issues During our existence we have sought to ensure guidance is available to those seeking to improve accessibility.
- achieve: By tabling the amendments, we sought to achieve greater clarity in the Bill.
Preposition: by
- employer: Becoming business aware Useful information on one of the key skills sought by some graduate employers.
Neque enim quaero ut credem, sed credo ut intelligam. For I do not seek to understand so that I may believe; but I believe so that I may understand.
Lord, make me an instrument of Your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; Where there is injury, pardon; Where there is doubt, faith; Where there is despair, hope; Where there is darkness, light; Where there is sadness, joy. O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek To be consoled as to console; To be understood as to understand; To be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; It is in pardoning that we are pardoned; And it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.
Un journal est un conseiller qu'on n'a pas besoin d'aller chercher, mais qui se pre¤ sente de lui-me" me et qui vous parle tous les jours et brie' vement de l'affaire commune, sans vous de¤ ranger de vos affaires particulie' res. A newspaper is an adviser whom one does not need to seek out, but one who comes of his own accord and speaks to you every day, briefly, of public affairs, without disturbing you from your own.
Ask, and it shall be given you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you: For every one 110 that askethreceiveth; and hethat seekethfindeth; and to him that knocketh it shall be opened.
Seek ye the L while he may be found, call ye upon him while he is near.
There lies the port; the vessel, puffs her sail: There gloom the dark broad seas. My mariners, Souls that have toiled, and wrought, and thought with meö That ever with a frolic welcome took The thunder and the sunshine, and opposed Free hearts, free foreheadsöyou and I are old: Old age hath yet his honour and his toil; Death closes all: but something ere the end, Some work of noble note, may yet be done, Not unbecoming men that strove with gods. The lights begin to twinkle from the rocks: The long day wanes: the slow moon climbs: the deep Moans round with many voices.Come, my friends, 'Tis not too late to seek a newer world. Push off, and sitting well in order smite The sounding furrows: for my purpose holds To sail beyond the sunset, and the baths Of all the western stars, until I die. It may be that the gulfs will wash us down: It may be we shall touch the Happy Isles, And see the great Achilles, whom we knew. Though much is taken, much abides: and though We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and hearth: that which we are, we are: One equal temper of heroic hearts, Made weak by time and fate, but strong in will To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.
Stella, think not that I by verse seek fame; Who seek, who hope, who love, who live, but thee: Thine eyes my pride, thy lips my history; If thou praise not, all other praise is shame.
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