a. | 1. | Sick. | |||||||||||||||
v. t. | 1. | To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. | |||||||||||||||
2. | To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. | ||||||||||||||||
3. | To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; | ||||||||||||||||
4. | To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. | ||||||||||||||||
v. i. | 1. | To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
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Noun | 1. | seek - the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk |
Verb | 1. | seek - try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness" |
2. | seek - try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county" | |
3. | seek - make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world" | |
4. | seek - go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level" | |
5. | seek - inquire for; "seek directions from a local" |
1. | (storage) | seek - To move the head of a disk drive radially, i.e., to move from one track to another. | |
2. | (storage) | seek - To wind the tape to a given location. | |
3. | (programming) | seek - To move the pointer that marks the next byte to be read from or written to a file. |