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seek
English
Etymology
From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English s??an, with influence from Old Norse sœkja, whence the hard /k/ sound (compare beseech); both from Proto-Germanic *s?kijan? (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh?g- (“to seek out”). Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /si?k/, s?k
- Homophone: Sikh
- Rhymes: -i?k
Verb
seek (third-person singular simple present seeks, present participle seeking, simple past and past participle sought)
- (transitive, intransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.
- (transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Luke xi. 16
- Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
- 1960, Lobsang Rampa, The Rampa Story:
- “My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
- 1611, Bible (King James Version), Luke xi. 16
- (transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
- 1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.:
- But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
- 1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe:
- 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.
- 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.
- 1880, George Q. Cannon, How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.:
- (intransitive, obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
- Ryght so he sought […] towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes
- (transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
- 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.
- 1726 (tr.), Alexander Pope, Homer's Odyssey, Book II, line 33
- Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
- (intransitive) To attempt, endeavour, try
- Our company does not seek to limit its employees from using the internet or engaging in social networking.
- (intransitive, computing) To navigate through a stream.
- Synonym: scrub
- 2009, Jit Ghosh, Rob Cameron, Silverlight 2 Recipes: A Problem-Solution Approach (page 541)
- 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.
Quotations
For more quotations using this term, see Citations:seek.
Usage notes
- The word is sometimes used to mean "try" or "want". This usage is criticized by Fowler in the entry "Formal Words".
Synonyms
- look for
- search
Derived terms
Related terms
- hide and seek
- seeker
Translations
Noun
seek (plural seeks)
- (computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.
- 2012, Aidong Zhang, Avi Silberschatz, Sharad Mehrotra, Continuous Media Databases (page 120)
- 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)
Anagrams
- eeks, ekes, kees, seke, skee
Estonian
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German sêkhûs (“hospital”) (equivalent to sêk +? hûs). From Proto-West Germanic *seuk, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *seukaz (“sick”). Compare German Siechenhaus (“infirmary”), English sickhouse.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?se?k/
- Rhymes: -e?k
- Hyphenation: seek
Noun
seek (genitive seegi, partitive seeki)
- almshouse
- A residence and shelter for sick people in the Middle Ages.
- (colloquial) A nursing home, retirement home; poorhouse
Declension
References
- seek” in Sõnaveeb
seek From the web:
- what seek ye
- what seeking means
- what seek ye kjv
- what seek ye scripture
- what seek ye lds
- what seekest thou
- what seeketh thee
- what seekers bear are you
view
English
Etymology
From Middle English vewe, from Anglo-Norman vewe, from Old French veue f (French vue f), feminine past participle of veoir (“to see”) (French voir). Cognate with Italian vedere, as well as Portuguese and Spanish ver. Doublet of veduta.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /vju?/
- Rhymes: -u?
Noun
view (plural views)
- (physical) Visual perception.
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- , Book II, Chapter XXI
- Objects near our view are apt to be thought greater than those of a larger size are more remote.
- , Book II, Chapter XXI
- The range of vision.
- Synonyms: sight, eyeshot
- The walls of Pluto's palace are in view.
- Something to look at, such as scenery.
- Synonym: vista
- 1799, Thomas Campbell, s:The Pleasures of Hope
- 'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view.
- (Internet) An individual viewing of a web page or a video by a user.
- Synonyms: (of a webpage) pageview, (of a video) play
- (obsolete) Appearance; show; aspect.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- [Graces] which, by the splendor of her view / Dazzled, before we never knew.
- c. 1648, Edmund Waller, The Night-Piece
- The act of seeing or looking at something.
- A picture, drawn or painted; a sketch.
- An opinion, judgement, imagination, idea or belief.
- A mental image.
- A way of understanding something, an opinion, a theory.
- to give a right view of this mistaken part of liberty
- A point of view.
- An intention or prospect.
- No man ever sets himself about anything but upon some view or other which serves him for a reason for what he does
- A mental image.
- (computing, databases) A virtual or logical table composed of the result set of a query in relational databases.
- (computing, programming) The part of a computer program which is visible to the user and can be interacted with
- A wake. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
Antonyms
- (part of computer program): model, controller
Hyponyms
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
Verb
view (third-person singular simple present views, present participle viewing, simple past and past participle viewed)
- (transitive) To look at.
- The video was viewed by millions of people.
- (transitive) To regard in a stated way.
- I view it as a serious breach of trust.
Synonyms
- See also Thesaurus:deem
Derived terms
Translations
See also
- see
- look
- voyeur
Anagrams
- wive
Middle English
Noun
view
- Alternative form of vewe
Portuguese
Etymology
Borrowed from English view.
Pronunciation
- (Brazil) IPA(key): /viw/
- Homophone: viu
Noun
view f (plural views)
- (databases) view (logical table formed from data from physical tables)
- Synonym: visão
view From the web:
- what viewpoint is being expressed in the e-mail
- what viewpoint is the author suggesting
- what view of war is presented in micromegas
- what views are available in outlook 2016
- what viewpoint is expressed in this excerpt
- what view does zoom record
- how to email the view
- how to send an email to the view
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