seek

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To try to locate or discover; search for.
2. v. To endeavor to obtain or reach: seek a college education.
3. v. To go to or toward: Water seeks its own level.
4. v. To inquire for; request: seek directions from a police officer.
5. v. To try; endeavor: seek to do good.
6. v. Obsolete To explore.
7. v. To make a search or investigation: Seek and you will find.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. To go in search or quest of; look or search for; endeavor to find: often followed by out.
2. To inquire for; ask for; solicit; desire or try to obtain.
3. To go to; resort to; have recourse to.
4. To aim at; pursue as an object; strive after; attempt: as, to seek a person's life or his ruin.
5. To try; endeavor: with an infinitive object.
6. To search; search through.
7. To look at; consult.
8. To go; proceed; resort; have recourse; apply: with to.
9. To search, or make search or inquiry.
10. (b ) At a loss; without knowledge, experience, or resources; helpless: used adjectively, usually with be.
11. A Middle English form of sick.

Wiktionary

1. v. transitive To try to find, to look for, to search.
2. v. transitive To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
3. v. transitive To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
4. v. intransitive, obsolete To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adj. obsolete Sick.
2. v. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.
3. v. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
4. v. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
5. v. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
6. v. To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. go to or towards
2. v. inquire for
3. v. make an effort or attempt
4. n. the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
5. v. try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
6. v. try to get or reach