seek
pronunciation
How to pronounce seek in British English:
UK [siːk]
How to pronounce seek in American English:
US [siːk]
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- Noun:
- the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
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- Verb:
- try to get or reach
- try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
- make an effort or attempt
- go to or towards
- inquire for
Word Origin
- seek
- seek: [OE] Seek has several Germanic relatives – German suchen, Swedish söka, Danish søge, etc – which point back to a prehistoric Germanic ancestor *sōkjan. The base from which this was derived, *sōk-, went back to an Indo-European *sāg-, which also produced (via Latin) English presage [14] and sagacious [17]. If Old English sēcan had developed in the ordinary way, it would have become modern English seech, not seek. For various reasons it did not, but we can see how it would have been in its derivative beseech [12].=> beseech, presage, sagacious, sake
- seek (v.)
- Old English secan "inquire, search for; pursue; long for, wish for, desire; look for, expect from," influenced by Old Norse soekja, both from Proto-Germanic *sokjan (cognates: Old Saxon sokian, Old Frisian seka, Middle Dutch soekan, Old High German suohhan, German suchen, Gothic sokjan), from PIE *sag-yo-, from root *sag- "to track down, seek out" (cognates: Latin sagire "to perceive quickly or keenly," sagus "presaging, predicting," Old Irish saigim "seek"). The natural modern form of the Anglo-Saxon word as uninfluenced by Norse is in beseech. Related: Sought; seeking.
Antonym
Example
- 1. This victory alone is not the change we seek .
- 2. Evolution has primed humans to seek high status .
- 3. This would seek to bind former enemies together institutionally .
- 4. Emotional validation is something we all seek and crave far more than we realize .
- 5. The sec may seek monetary penalties .