seek

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Betekenis (Engels)

1. To try to find; to look for; to search for.
2. To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
4. (obsolete) To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
5. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
6. To attempt, endeavour, try
7. To navigate through a stream.

zoeken

uitzien naar

uitkijken naar

zich kandidaat stellen

uitkĳken naar

achterna zitten

afspeuren

search for

hunt for

be after

seek for

look closely

apply for

look out for

search after

try to find

find a solution

Hakea

look about for

quest after

quest for

courtship

seek after

seek to get

see to

self-guidance

set about

charge

stand as a candidate for

strive for

self-aiming

come at

be curious

beg for

hanker after

have a go

beat about

hunt up

look about

look around for

press for

aspire to

shoot for

try for

wish for

aspiring to

focus on

Frequentie

Uitgesproken als (IPA)

/siːk/

From Middle English seken (also sechen, whence dialectal English seech), from Old English sēċan (compare beseech); from Proto-West Germanic *sōkijan, from Proto-Germanic *sōkijaną (“to seek”), from Proto-Indo-European *seh₂g- (“to seek out”). Cognate with West Frisian sykje, Dutch zoeken, Low German söken, German suchen, Danish søge, Icelandic sækja, Norwegian Bokmål søke, Norwegian Nynorsk søkja, Swedish söka. The Middle English and later Modern English hard /k/ derives from Old English sēcð, the third person singular; the forms with /k/ were then reinforced by cognate Old Norse sǿkja.