Seek

a.	1.	Sick.
v. t.	1.	To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find. [imp. & p. p. Sought ; p. pr. & vb. n. Seeking.] The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he said, I seek my brethren. - Gen. xxxvii. 15, 16.
	2.	To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech. Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. - Luke xi. 16.
	3.	To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
	4.	To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to. Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. - Amos v. 5. Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains. - Pope.
v. i.	1.	To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery. Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. - Isa. xxxiv. 16. To seek needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared. To seek after to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take. - Milton. To seek for to endeavor to find. To seek to to apply to; to resort to; to court. To seek upon to make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute. - 1 Kings x. 24. To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest. - Chaucer.

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" Synonyms: look for, search
	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" Synonyms: attempt, essay, try, assay
	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.

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