Seek vs Comb - What's the difference?
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(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.
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*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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*: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.
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*: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
A toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place.
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*:There was also hairdressing: hairdressing, too, really was hairdressing in those times — no running a comb through it and that was that. It was curled, frizzed, waved, put in curlers overnight, waved with hot tongs;.
A machine used in separating choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
A fleshy growth on the top of the head of some birds and reptiles; crest.
A structure of hexagon cells made by bees for storing honey; honeycomb.
An old English measure of corn equal to the half quarter.
*1882 , James Edwin (Thorold Rogers), ,
*:But the comb or half quarter is very general in the Eastern counties, particularly in Norfolk.
The top part of a gun’s stock.
The toothed plate at the top and bottom of an escalator that prevents objects getting trapped between the moving stairs and fixed landings.
(music) The main body of a harmonica containing the air chambers and to which the reed plates are attached.
A former, commonly cone-shaped, used in hat manufacturing for hardening soft fibre.
A toothed tool used for chasing screws on work in a lathe; a chaser.
The notched scale of a wire micrometer.
The collector of an electrical machine, usually resembling a comb.
One of a pair of peculiar organs on the base of the abdomen in scorpions.
The curling crest of a wave; a comber.
A toothed plate used for creating wells in agar gels for electrophoresis.
(weaving) A toothed wooden pick used to push the weft thread tightly against the previous pass of thread to create a tight weave.
(especially of hair or fur) To groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a .
To separate choice cotton fibers from worsted cloth fibers.
To search thoroughly as if raking over an area with a comb.
(nautical) To roll over, as the top or crest of a wave; to break with a white foam, as waves.
As verbs the difference between seek and comb
is that seek is (lb) to try to find, to look for, to search while comb is (especially of hair or fur) to groom with a toothed implement; chiefly with a.As a noun comb is
a toothed implement for grooming the hair or (formerly) for keeping it in place or comb can be (abbreviation) combination.seek
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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
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