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The gap between wanting and having, dressed up as a verb.
means To actively look for, pursue, or try to obtain something.
from From Old English sēċan, 'to go in search of, pursue,' rooted in the Proto-Germanic sōkijaną — the same well that gave German suchen and Swedish söka. It traces back further to a Proto-Indo-European root meaning 'to track down' or 'investigate,' a cousin of Latin sāgīre ('to perceive keenly') and the source of 'sagacious.' Its old past tense, 'sought,' kept the harder ending that 'seek' itself softened over centuries — and 'beseech' is simply 'seek' with an intensifying prefix bolted on the front.
- old roots
- From Old English secan, to pursue or visit
- hide rule
- One word governs an entire childhood game
- disk past
- Hard drives literally seek across spinning platters
- radio cousin
- The button that hunts for stations alone
- saying
- Seek and ye shall find, allegedly
the big lebowski — 1998 coen brothers film where jeffrey lebowski's quest to find a kidnapped person drives the entire plot
apollo 13 — 1970 nasa mission where astronauts had to seek a safe return to earth after an oxygen tank explosion