seeking

Noun
Synonyms: quest

WordNet 3.0

Noun (2)

  1. the act of searching for something“a quest for diamonds”Synonyms: quest
  2. an attempt to acquire or gain something
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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Sought; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] [OE. seken, AS. s[=e]can, s[=e]cean; akin to OS. s[=o]kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen, Icel. saekja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s[=o]kjan, and E. sake. Cf. Beseech, Ransack, Sagacious, Sake, Soc.]

1.To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. [1913 Webster]

The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren.— Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.[1913 Webster]

2.To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. [1913 Webster]

Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.— Luke xi. 16.[1913 Webster]

3.To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life. [1913 Webster]

4.To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. [1913 Webster]

Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal.— Amos v. 5.[1913 Webster]
Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.— Pope.[1913 Webster]

Free On-line Dictionary of Computing

seek seeking

1.<storage> To move the head of a disk drive radially, i.e., to move from one track to another.

2.<storage> To wind the tape to a given location.

3.<programming> To move the pointer that marks the next byte to be read from or written to a file.

(1997-07-15)

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