Seek vs Notice - 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.
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*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains
The act of observing; perception.
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*:Athelstan Arundel walked homeHe walked the whole way, walking through crowds, and under the noses of dray-horses, carriage-horses, and cart-horses, without taking the least notice of them.
*(Isaac Watts) (1674-1748)
*:How ready is envy to mingle with the notices we take of other persons?
(lb) A written or printed announcement.
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(lb) A formal notification or warning.
(senseid) Advance notification of termination of employment, given by an employer to an employee or vice versa.
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(lb) A published critical review of a play or the like.(rfex)
(lb) Prior notification.
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*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
*:Ihave given him notice that the Duke of Cornwall and Regan his duchess will be here.
(lb) Attention; respectful treatment; civility.
To observe or take notice of.
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* {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-20, volume=408, issue=8845, magazine=(The Economist)
, title= To detect; to perceive with the mind.
In transitive terms the difference between seek and notice
is that seek is to try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to while notice is to detect; to perceive with the mind.As a noun notice is
the act of observing; perception.seek
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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
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* English irregular verbsnotice
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Noun
(en noun)- The sidewalk adjacent to the damaged bridge stonework shall be closed until further notice .
Derived terms
* short noticeVerb
(notic)- So you punched out a window for ventilation. Was that before'' or ''after you noticed you were standing in a lake of gasoline?
Welcome to the plastisphere, passage=[The researchers] noticed many of their pieces of [plastic marine] debris sported surface pits around two microns across. Such pits are about the size of a bacterial cell. Closer examination showed that some of these pits did, indeed, contain bacteria, […].}}
