seek : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: seek	by the DICT Development Group
5 results for seek
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
seek n the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk v try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness" 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" Synonym(s): search, seek, look for 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" Synonym(s): try, seek, attempt, essay, assay go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level" inquire for; "seek directions from a local"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seek \Seek\, a. Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sought}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Seeking}.] [OE, seken, AS. s[?]can, s[?]cean; akin to OS. s[?]kian, LG. s[94]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. s[?]kja, Sw. s[94]ka, Dan. s[94]ge, Goth. s[?]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. The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. --Gen. xxxvii. 15,16. 2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech. Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke xi. 16. 3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. 4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5. Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. --Pope.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Seek \Seek\, v. i. To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa. xxxiv. 16. {To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated. [bd]Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.[b8] --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.] [bd]All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.[b8] --1. Kings x. 24. {To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. [Obs.] To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. --Chaucer.
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
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}. (1997-07-15)