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Meaning seek meaning

What does seek mean?
Definitions in simple English

seek Verb

— If you seek something, you want it and search for it. If you are not sure if this is right for your child, then seek advice from your doctor, a child psychologist or health visitor, or from other parents.

seek

— verb try to get or reach seek a position seek an education seek happiness — verb (= search) 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 — verb (= try, attempt, essay) 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 — verb go to or towards a liquid seeks its own level — verb inquire for seek directions from a local — noun the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk

Synonyms seek synonyms

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seek English » English

look for search search for attempt try request pursue look quest investigate hunt go after endeavour ask hunt for find ask for inquire get examine assay want strive explore endeavor be after track solicit seek for probe pray petition observe look closely fetch essay desire chase bid beseech aspire apply turn to try to find tap seek out search after retrieve plot pick up

SEEK English » English

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Topics seek topics

What do people use seek to talk about?
Language and thought Think Learn

Study
Language and thought Think Learn

Evaluate, test
Physical actions Hide

Search
Language and thought Want Influence

Advise
Social behavior Social activity Entertainment, recreation

Game
Social behavior Conflict Peace Repent

Request forgiveness
Work and occupation Work Method

Try, attempt

Conjugation seek conjugation

How do you conjugate seek?

seek · verb

Examples seek examples

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Simple sentences

Everybody has the right to seek happiness.
Didn't I have a right to seek the happiness I longed for?
You need to seek help.
And they would play hide and go seek.
We seek happiness.
Seek, and you will find.
Believe those who seek truth, beware those who find it.
Religions, which condemn the pleasures of sense, drive men to seek the pleasures of power. Throughout history power has been the vice of the ascetic.
Everyone has the right to seek and to enjoy in other countries asylum from persecution.
My grandfather went to the hospital to seek help for his stomach pain.
It is impossible to escape the impression that people commonly use false standards of measurement - that they seek power, success and wealth for themselves and admire them in others, and that they underestimate what is of true value in life.
Let's play hide and seek.
He's the type of man who'd rather crochet potholders than seek adventure.
Life is too short to seek perfection in material things.
Ask, and it shall be given to you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened to you; for every one who is asking doth receive, and he who is seeking doth find, and to him who is knocking it shall be opened.
Now you have come of age, you should seek a living for yourself.
He decided to seek information elsewhere.
The only useful knowledge is that which teaches us how to seek what is good and avoid what is evil.
It might be worthwhile to seek advice from your doctor.
Let's play hide-and-seek!
I seek my own truth.
I knew where to seek.
He often needs to seek solace in places near water.

Movie subtitles

Maybe that purpose is just to be nice to each other and just to seek and explore and to discover.
Farandola arrives at apes island to seek help from his former comrades.
No one shall seek salvation in vain. God will never lead you astray.
You seek Gods. but it's people you must find.
I will seek the truth.
They participated in the universal law which is. to please oneself. to seek oneself. and to find oneself.
I intend to stay and protect those you seek to destroy.
He will have to seek shelter.
It's a natural thing for Dr Kemp to seek protection.
He'll seek shelter.
They seek the King.
I seek the Hermit, the Holy Man.
You were not wise to seek her here.
Your kingdom is seized by your brother, John and other traitors seek your life.
His mission is to seek peace with Abd el-Kader.
We also seek peace.
France's flag is wide and can shelter all those who seek refuge and protection.
A scant minority of my kind are planning an uprising. I believe they seek to shatter the existing order and create a new world.
He can't stay out in this bitter cold. He'll seek shelter.
Seek and find something beautiful. something splendid for your child.
Desperate men, we go to seek a desperate fortune.
He was loyal enough to send me to seek you out. to offer you pardon for your past crimes. freedom from your slavery and more than that. a commission in his own navy for you and your men.
One must know when to seek publicity and when to avoid it.
We do not buy or sell or seek personal fortunes because there is no uncertain future here for which to accumulate it.
I hope that you'll be normal again in a few days and stop playing hide and seek with your charms.
Hide and go seek?
But, uh.well, all I mean is, if this keeps up, I may have to seek other employment.
I seek only one thing between us.. distance.
To be frank with you, I seek advice.
Yet a week has passed since I asked him to seek other lodgings.
And we shall seek your advice.
We have heard the order of Master, to seek happiness for all.
You seek to destroy that memory.
You seek nothing but scandal.
Or maybe hide-and-seek, huh?
We have no time to play the hide-and-the-seek, Mr. Elliott.
The French, advised by good intelligence of this most dreadful preparation, shake in their fear and with pale policy seek to divert the English purposes.
My lord, your nobles, jealous of your absence, seek through your camp to find you.
I don't think he has the information you seek.

News and current affairs

Second, and more importantly, our leaders must seek to calm, rather than exploit, public anxiety.
So if it is true that trust in financial institutions - and in the governments that oversee them - has been damaged by the crisis, we should care a lot, and we should be devising responses which seek to rebuild that trust.
Driven by short-term electoral horizons, policymakers repeatedly seek a quick fix - another bailout or one more liquidity injection.
Time and again, people seek to learn the truth about Romania's past.
Far from being willing to coerce people to live in a certain way, German conservatives seek a politics that recognizes limits - the limits of the state, the market, and the individual.
This is of particular importance for our ideas about the European Union, where we seek an effective balance between the nation and Europe.
In essence, the form of government we seek within Germany and across Europe is built on a sense of moral discourse and moral decision-making rather than on the supposedly eternal truth of some abstract political concept.
The same people that Obama had called on in his Cairo speech to seek democracy had now formed the most important nonviolent movement the world had seen in decades.
If either country adhered to the thinking embodied in the Bush administration's new nuclear policy, there would be little reason for each not to seek to integrate nuclear weapons even more deeply into their own contingency plans--and possibly use them.
The US and the rest of Asia must not merely adjust to China; they must seek to shape a China that plays by the rules.
It is time to seek out best practices that bridge this putative divide, and scale them up.
The vested interests that the Alliance members - Austria, Prussia, and Russia - had in the survival of their domestic institutions led each to seek to avoid conflicts that, in the past, they would have pursued as a matter of course.
If civil society is too weak, parties will seek to dominate institutions that should remain independent.
We used to be reassured by the generalization that democratic countries seek peace.
History can be made in Madrid at the end of January, when the world's richest and poorest countries converge to seek solutions to the global hunger crisis.
Moreover, without a new PCA, individual European countries may feel it necessary to seek even more bilateral agreements with Russia.
And the more widespread this becomes, the more women will seek a political role that reflects their economic clout.
Indeed, political entanglements are one of two sources of weakness in European-style family capitalism, as owners seek political advantages and preferred access as much as they strive for technical innovation.
But none of these steps, taken alone or together, can bring about the ends that their often well-intentioned advocates seek.
America, more than in the past, will depend on strong partners and will seek such partnerships.
Nor would I seek to downplay the full horror of what has happened.

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