different between strive vs seeking

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?st?a?v/
• Rhymes: -a?v

Etymology 1

From Middle English striven (“to strive”), from Old French estriver (“to compete, quarrel”), from Frankish *str?ban (“to exert, make an effort”) from Proto-Germanic *str?ban?.

Verb

strive (third-person singular simple present strives, present participle striving, simple past strove or strived, past participle striven or strived or (nonstandard, colloquial) strove)

1. To try to achieve a result; to make strenuous effort; to try earnestly and persistently.
2. To struggle in opposition; to be in contention or dispute; to contend; to contest.
   • 1641, John Denham, On the Earl of Strafford's Tryal and Death

     Now private pity strove with public hate, / Reason with rage, and eloquence with fate.

3. To vie; to compete as a rival.

Usage notes

• This often occurs as a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive. See Appendix:English catenative verbs
• The strong or irregular forms "strove" and "striven" are more commonly used in print than "strived".

Conjugation

Related terms

• strife

Translations

Etymology 2

Noun

strive (plural strives)

1. (obsolete) Alternative form of strife

Further reading

• strive in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• strive in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Rivets, Stiver, rivest, rivets, stiver, tivers, verist

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