different between furthering vs seeking

English

Verb

furthering

1. present participle of further

Noun

furthering (plural furtherings)

1. The act by which something is furthered; furtherance.

   • […] the complicated probabilities of an arduous purpose, with all the possible thwartings and furtherings of circumstance, all the niceties of inward balance, by which a man swims and makes his point or else is carried headlong.

English

Etymology

seek +? -ing.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?si?.k??/
• Rhymes: -i?k??
• Hyphenation: seek?ing

Noun

seeking (plural seekings)

1. The act of one who seeks; a search or quest to find something.
   • 1873, Van Nostrand's Eclectic Engineering Magazine (volume 9, page 269)

     […] the Company contemplated having their works at Esher—for they have had long and anxious seekings for a location—to store our gun-cotton in unlimited quantity […]

Adjective

seeking (not comparable)

1. (in combination) That seeks something specified.

Derived terms

• heat-seeking
• rent-seeking
• self-seeking

Translations

Verb

seeking

1. present participle of seek
   • 1948, Carey McWilliams, North from Mexico / The Spanish-Speaking People of The United States, J. B. Lippincott Company, page 25,

     While De Anza was exploring the Bay of San Francisco, seeking a site for the presidio, the American colonists on the eastern seaboard, three thousand miles away, were celebrating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

Anagrams

• skeeing