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SEEKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
An attempt to acquire or gain something
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("seeking" is a kind of...):
attempt; effort; endeavor; endeavour; try (earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something)
Derivation:
seek (try to get or reach)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of searching for something
Example:
a quest for diamonds
Synonyms:
quest; seeking
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("seeking" is a kind of...):
hunt; hunting; search (the activity of looking thoroughly in order to find something or someone)
Derivation:
seek (try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb seek
Context examples:
Her astonishment at his coming—at his coming to Netherfield, to Longbourn, and voluntarily seeking her again, was almost equal to what she had known on first witnessing his altered behaviour in Derbyshire.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
“I can only, asking your pardon, save my life and the boy's by seeking for that treasure; and you may lay to that.”
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Horses are active day and night with most of the day spent seeking and consuming food.
(Horse, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)
Do you think I am a Jew-usurer, seeking good investment in land?
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
An uncontrollable craving, seeking, and use of a substance, such as a drug or alcohol.
(Addiction, NCI Dictionary)
Summerlee had lain down and slept upon the sand, but we others roamed round the edge of the water, seeking to learn something more of this strange country.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There he wandered for a week, seeking vainly for fresh sign of the wild brother, killing his meat as he travelled and travelling with the long, easy lope that seems never to tire.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
Skiff Miller looked at her sharply, seeking in her face the guile her words had led him to suspect.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
Further, PZM21-treated mice didn’t display the drug-seeking behaviors of those given morphine, suggesting that the drug may have less addictive potential.
(Designing more effective opioids, NIH)
In the new study, Spitzer set its heat-seeking infrared eyes on the dusty star NGC 2547-ID8, which is about 35 million years old and lies 1,200 light-years away in the Vela constellation.
(Spitzer Telescope Witnesses Asteroid Smashup, NASA)
