Verb

(lb) To try to find, to look for, to search.

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*{{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Catherine Clabby

, magazine=(American Scientist), title= Focus on Everything , passage=Not long ago, it was difficult to produce photographs of tiny creatures with every part in focus.

(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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*, 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.

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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 (tr.), (Alexander Pope), ''(Homer)'s (Odyssey), Book II, line 33

*:Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains

Verb

(receiv)

To take, as something that is offered, given, committed, sent, paid, etc.; to accept; to be given something.

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*(William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)

*:Our hearts receive your warnings.

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:The idea of solidity we receive by our touch.

*(Bible), viii.64:

*:The brazen altar that was before the Lord was too little to receive the burnt offerings.

*, chapter=19

, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=Nothing was too small to receive attention, if a supervising eye could suggest improvements likely to conduce to the common welfare. Mr. Gordon Burnage, for instance, personally visited dust-bins and back premises, accompanied by a sort of village bailiff, going his round like a commanding officer doing billets.}}

*{{quote-magazine, date=2013-05-25, volume=407, issue=8837, page=74, magazine=(The Economist)

, title= No hiding place , passage=In America alone, people spent $170 billion on “direct marketing”—junk mail of both the physical and electronic varieties—last year. Yet of those who received unsolicited adverts through the post, only 3% bought anything as a result.}}

To take possession of.

To act as a host for guests; to give admittance to; to permit to enter, as into one's house, presence, company, etc.

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*(Bible), (w) xxviii.2:

*:They kindled a fire, and received us every one.

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*:In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.Strangers might enter the room, but they were made to feel that they were there on sufferance: they were received with distance and suspicion.

To suffer from (an injury).

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To allow (a custom, tradition, etc.); to give credence or acceptance to.

*(Bible), (w) vii.4:

*:Many other things there be which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots.

(lb) To detect a signal from a transmitter.

(lb) To be in a position to take possession, or hit back the ball.

# To be in a position to hit back a service.

#(lb) To be in a position to catch a forward pass.

To accept into the mind; to understand.

*, I.57:

*:I cannot receive that manner, whereby we establish the continuance of our life.