Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Seek \Seek\, v. i.
   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, unpreparated.
      ``Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.''
      --Milton. [Obs]

   {To seek after}, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or
      take.

   {To seek for}, to endeavor to find.

   {To seek to}, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.]
      ``All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.''
      --1. Kings x. 24.

   {To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up;
      to persecute. [Obs.]

            To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
                                                  --Chaucer.

Seek \Seek\, a.
   Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

Seek \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Seeking}.] [OE, seken, AS. s?can, s?cean; akin to OS.
   s?kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen,
   Icel. s?kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s?kjan, and E.
   sake. Cf. {Beseech}, {Ransack}, {Sagacious}, {Sake}, {Soc}.]
   1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to
      find.

            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 bessech.

            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.

Source : WordNet®

seek
     v 1: try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education";
          "seek happiness"
     2: 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" [syn:
        {search}, {look for}]
     3: 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" [syn:
         {try}, {attempt}, {essay}, {assay}]
     4: go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"
     5: inquire for; "seek directions from a local"
     [also: {sought}]

seek
     n : the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track
         on a disk
     [also: {sought}]

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

seek
     
        1.  To move the head of a {disk drive} radially,
        i.e., to move from one {track} to another.
     
        2.  To wind the {tape} to a given location.
     
        3.  To move the pointer that marks the next {byte}
        to be read from or written to a {file}.
     
        (1997-07-15)