Definition of "seek"

seek

/siːk/

verb
third-person singular simple present seeks, present participle seeking, simple past and past participle sought
1. (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
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  Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus. […] A photo processing technique called focus stacking has changed that. Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.
  2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist
2. (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
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  Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Luke xi:16
  “My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
  1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story
3. (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
  Quotations
  But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
  1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.
  I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
  1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe
  Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. […] She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
  1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
4. (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
  Quotations
  Ryght so he sought […] towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1470–1485 (date produced), Thomas Malory, “(please specify the chapter)”, in [Le Morte Darthur], book V, [London: […] by William Caxton], published 31 July 1485; republished as H[einrich] Oskar Sommer, editor, Le Morte Darthur […], London: David Nutt, […], 1889,
5. (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
  Quotations
  Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
  1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], Amos 5:5
  Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
  1725, Homer, “Book II”, in [William Broome], transl., The Odyssey of Homer. […], volume I, London: […] Bernard Lintot, line 33
6. (intransitive, sometimes proscribed) To attempt, endeavour, try
7. (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
  Quotations
  Most of the changes made to this control are to accommodate the various constraints that playback of streaming media may impose in broadcast streams, such as the inability to seek through the media.
  2009, Jit Ghosh, Rob Cameron, Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach, page 541
noun
plural seeks
1. (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
  Quotations
  The number of seeks to retrieve a shot […] depends on the location of those frames on physical blocks.
  2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases, page 120

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