Seeks vs Seels - What's the difference?
seeks | seels |
(seek)
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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
(seel)
(UK, dialectal) Good fortune; happiness; bliss.
(UK, dialectal) Opportunity; time; season.
(falconry) To sew together the eyes of a young hawk.
* J. Reading
(by extension) To blind.
(intransitive, obsolete, of a ship) To roll on the waves in a storm.
* Samuel Pepys
As verbs the difference between seeks and seels
is that seeks is (seek) while seels is (seel).seeks
English
Verb
(head)seek
English
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
Quotations
Synonyms
* look for * searchDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Anagrams
* English irregular verbsseels
English
Verb
(head)Anagrams
*seel
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), from (etyl) .Etymology 2
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) . More at (l).Alternative forms
* (l)Noun
(en noun)- the seel of the day
Derived terms
* (l) * (l)Etymology 3
From (etyl) (m), .Verb
(en verb)- Fond hopes, like seeled doves for want of better light, mount till they end their flight with falling.
Etymology 4
Compare (etyl) , and (etyl) (m) (transitive verb).Verb
(en verb)- (Sir Walter Raleigh)