seek

seek meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Bengali and Malayalam

Examples of seek in a sentence

• Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.2013 July-August, Catherine Clabby, “Focus on Everything”, in American Scientist:
• 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.1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of Leo Tolstoy's What I Believe

All 40 example sentences with seek

Synonyms of seek

• look for
• search for
• scrub

Forms of seek

Past tense of seek: sought

Origin of seek

From Middle English seke, seken, from Old English sēċan, sēċean, sœ̄ċan, from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *séh₂gyeti (“to seek out”), from *seh₂g- (“to follow, trace”). Cognates Cognate with Yola zeek (“to seek”), North Frisian schük, sjuk, säke (“to search, seek”), Saterland Frisian säike (“to search, seek”), West Frisian sykje (“to seek”), Alemannic German sueche, süeche (“to search, seek”), Bavarian suacha, suachn (“to search”), Central Franconian söke (“to search”), Cimbrian züuchan (“to seek”), Dutch zoeken (“to seek”), Low German söken (“to seek”), German suchen (“to seek”), Luxembourgish sichen (“to seek; to fetch”), Vilamovian zihia, zihja (“to seek”), Yiddish זוכן (zukhn, “to search, seek”), Danish søge (“to seek; to apply”), Faroese søkja (“to seek”), Icelandic sækja (“to seek”), Norwegian Bokmål søke (“to seek; to apply”), Norwegian Nynorsk søka, søke, søkja, søkje (“to seek; to apply”), Swedish söka (“to search”), Gothic 𐍃𐍉𐌺𐌾𐌰𐌽 (sōkjan, “to seek”); also Cornish hedhes (“to reach; to achieve; to manage”), Welsh haeddu (“to deserve, merit”), Latin sāgiō (“to perceive quickly or keenly with the...

* As a North/Low German surname, from Seek, variant of Seeck, shortened from compound names containing the element Sieg (“victory”) (as in Siegfried) or siech (“ill”). * As a Chinese surname, Romanized from 薛 (xuē), see Xue.

Words formed from seek

• aseek
• attention-seeking
• beseek
• foreseek
• forseek
• hide and go seek
• hide and seek
• ideal-seeking behavior
• misseek
• north-seeking pole
• outseek
• rent seeking
• reseek
• seekable
• seek a knot in a bulrush
• seek and ye shall find
• seek for
• seek-no-further
• seek one's virtuous couch
• seek out
• seeksorrow
• seek time
• south-seeking pole
• underseek
• upseek

Related words

• hide and seek
• seeker

Phrases with seek

• seek times
• average seek time
• maximum seek time
• minimum seek time
• average seek times
• maximum seek times
• minimum seek times
• seek one's fortune
• full stroke seek time
• full stroke seek times
• track-to-track seek time
• track-to-track seek times

Words that rhyme with seek

• weak
• beak
• dreich
• speak
• streak
• peak
• freak
• cheek
• greek
• oblique
• sneak
• antique

Questions about seek

What does seek mean?

Seek means to try to find; to look for; to search for.

What is seek in Hindi?

Seek in Hindi is ढूँढ़ना (ḍhū̃ṛhnā), ढूँढना (ḍhūṇḍhnā), खोजना (khojnā). See Seek meaning in Hindi.

How do you use seek in a sentence?

Developed as a tool to electronically combine the sharpest bits of multiple digital images, focus stacking is a boon to biologists seeking full focus on a micron scale.

What part of speech is seek?

Seek can be a verb, a noun or a proper noun.

How do you pronounce seek?

Seek is pronounced /ˈsiːk/.

What is the past tense of seek?

The past tense of seek is sought.