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sought 中文解釋 wordnet sense Collocation Usage Collins Definition
Verb
/sēk/,
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seeks, 3rd person singular present; sought, past tense; sought, past participle; seeking, present participle;
  1. Attempt to find (something)
    • - they came here to seek shelter from biting winter winds
  2. Attempt or desire to obtain or achieve (something)
    • - the new regime sought his extradition
    • - her parents had never sought to interfere with her freedom
  3. Ask for (something) from someone
    • - he sought help from the police
  4. Search for and find someone or something
    • - it's his job to seek out new customers
  5. Go to (a place)
    • - I sought my bedroom each night to brood over it
  1. that is looked for; "the long sought relatives"
  2. being searched for; "the most sought-after item was the silver candelabrum"
  3. (seek) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
  4. (seek) try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"
  5. (seek) search: 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"
  6. (seek) try: 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"
  7. (seek) go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"
  8. inquire for; "seek directions from a local"
  9. (seek) To try to find, to look for, to search; To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech; To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; To go, move, travel (in a given direction)
  10. (Seek) When a tuner stops at each strong station. (e.g., I only use seek tuning when I m in a new area and don t know the stations.)
  11. (SEEK) A random access operation by the disk drive. The act of moving a set of read/write heads so that one of them is over the desired cylinder. The actuator or positioner moves the heads to the cylinder containing the desired track and sector.
  12. (SEEK (Search for Education, Elevation through Knowledge)) A higher education opportunity program dedicated to the success of its students. ...
  13. (SEEK) Support Education Excellence in Kentucky is the formula that determines how much money local school districts get from the state.
  14. (Seek) A feature of a car stereo where the radio will find a requested station.
  15. (Seek) Changed frequency to the next station on command.
  16. (Seek) to search for; and, as to the Trinitarian God of Abraham, seeking has more to do with searching out a personal relationship between yourself and God than it has to do with seeking knowledge about God. It has to do with experiencing and hearing from and seeing the activities of God.
  17. (seek) Look diligently for something.
  18. (seek) To move to a specified location in a file.
  19. (seek) To try to find or get.
  20. (seek) Used during random access processing of a record file. The act of moving an implicit cursor to the specified relative record number, so that the next read returns the specified record in the file.
  21. (seek) v. ~ (after/for sth) look (for sth); try to find or obtain (sth)
  22. to try to locate or discover