Court vs Seek - What's the difference?
court | seek | Synonyms |
An enclosed space; a courtyard; an uncovered area shut in by the walls of a building, or by different building; also, a space opening from a street and nearly surrounded by houses; a blind alley.
* (1809-1892)
* (1800-1859)
# A street with no outlet, a cul-de-sac.
(label) Royal society.
# The residence of a sovereign, prince, nobleman, or ether dignitary; a palace.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# The collective body of persons composing the retinue of a sovereign or person high in authority; all the surroundings of a sovereign in his regal state.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
#* Sir (Walter Scott) (1771-1832)
# Any formal assembling of the retinue of a sovereign.
#* (1800-1859)
Attention directed to a person in power; conduct or address designed to gain favor; courtliness of manners; civility; compliment; flattery.
* (Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)
* (John Evelyn) (1620-1706)
(label) The administration of law.
# The hall, chamber, or place, where justice is administered.
# The persons officially assembled under authority of law, at the appropriate time and place, for the administration of justice; an official assembly, legally met together for the transaction of judicial business; a judge or judges sitting for the hearing or trial of causes.
#* {{quote-news, date=21 August 2012, first=Ed, last=Pilkington, newspaper=The Guardian
, title= # A tribunal established for the administration of justice.
# The judge or judges; as distinguished from the counsel or jury, or both.
# The session of a judicial assembly.
# Any jurisdiction, civil, military, or ecclesiastical.
(label) A place arranged for playing the games of tennis, basketball, squash, badminton, volleyball and some other games; also, one of the divisions of a tennis court.
*{{quote-book, year=1935, author=
, title=Death on the Centre Court, chapter=5
, passage=By one o'clock the place was choc-a-bloc. […] The restaurant was packed, and the promenade between the two main courts' and the subsidiary ' courts was thronged with healthy-looking youngish people, drawn to the Mecca of tennis from all parts of the country.}}
To seek to achieve or win.
* Prescott
* De Quincey
To risk (a consequence, usually negative).
To try to win a commitment to marry from.
* Shakespeare
To engage in behavior leading to mating.
To attempt to attract.
* Macaulay
To attempt to gain alliance with.
To engage in activities intended to win someone's affections.
To engage in courtship behavior.
To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract.
* Tennyson
(lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.
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, magazine=(American Scientist), title= (label) To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
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*Bible, (w) xi. 16
*:Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.
*1960 , (Lobsang Rampa), :
*:“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.
(lb) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
:
*1880 , , :
*:But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.
*1886 , Constantine Popoff, translation of (Leo Tolstoy)'s :
*:I can no longer seek fame or glory, nor can I help trying to get rid of my riches, which separate me from my fellow-creatures.
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*:Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes.She put back a truant curl from her forehead where it had sought egress to the world, and looked him full in the face now, drawing a deep breath which caused the round of her bosom to lift the lace at her throat.
To go, move, travel (in a given direction).
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*, Bk.V:
*:Ryght so he sought towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes
(lb) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
*:
*:Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beersheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
*1726
*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
Court is a synonym of seek.
As a proper noun court
is (us) an abbreviated term of respect for any court ("the court").As a verb seek is
(lb) to try to find, to look for, to search.court
English
Noun
(en noun)- And round the cool green courts there ran a row / Of cloisters.
- Goldsmith took a garret in a miserable court .
- This our court , infected with their manners, / Shows like a riotous inn.
- My lord, there is a nobleman of the court at door would speak with you.
- Love rules the court , the camp, the grove.
- The princesses held their court within the fortress.
- No solace could her paramour entreat / Her once to show, ne court , nor dalliance.
- I went to make my court to the Duke and Duchess of Newcastle.
Death penalty on trial: should Reggie Clemons live or die?, passage=Next month, Clemons will be brought before a court presided over by a "special master", who will review the case one last time. The hearing will be unprecedented in its remit, but at its core will be a simple issue: should Reggie Clemons live or die?}}
George Goodchild
Derived terms
* contempt of court * court case * court fight * court jester * courtroom * hold court * in court * out-of-courtVerb
(en verb)- He was courting big new accounts that previous salesman had not attempted.
- They might almost seem to have courted the crown of martyrdom.
- Guilt and misery court privacy and solitude.
- He courted controversy with his frank speeches.
- If either of you both love Katharina / Leave shall you have to court her at your pleasure.
- The bird was courting by making an elaborate dance.
- By one person, hovever, Portland was still assiduously courted .
- She's had a few beaus come courting .
- In this season, you can see many animals courting .
- A well-worn pathway courted us / To one green wicket in a privet hedge.
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Verb
Catherine Clabby
Focus on Everything, passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.
(tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33