Seeks vs Try - What's the difference?
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(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
To attempt; to endeavour. Followed by infinitive.
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, title= (label) To divide; to separate.
# To separate (precious metal etc.) from the ore by melting; to purify, refine.
#* 1590 , (Edmund Spenser), (The Faerie Queene) , II.vii:
# (label) To winnow; to sift; to pick out; frequently followed by out .
To test, to work out.
# To make an experiment. Usually followed by a present participle.
# To put to test.
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, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=4
, passage=The Celebrity, by arts unknown, induced Mrs. Judge Short and two other ladies to call at Mohair on an afternoon when Mr. Cooke was trying a trotter on the track. The three returned wondering and charmed with Mrs. Cooke; they were sure she had had no hand in the furnishing of that atrocious house.}}
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, title= # To taste, sample, etc.
# To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
# To put on trial.
#* 1900 , , (The House Behind the Cedars) , Chapter I
To experiment, to strive.
# To have or gain knowledge of by experience.
#* (John Dryden) (1631-1700)
# To work on something.
# (label) To do; to fare.
# To settle; to decide; to determine; specifically, to decide by an appeal to arms.
#* (William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)
(label) To lie to in heavy weather under just sufficient sail to head into the wind.
To strain; to subject to excessive tests.
An attempt.
An act of tasting or sampling.
(rugby) A score in rugby, analogous to a touchdown in American football.
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(UK, dialect, obsolete) A screen, or sieve, for grain.
(American football) a field goal or extra point
(obsolete) Fine, excellent.
* 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.2:
As a verb seeks
is (seek).As an initialism try is
.seeks
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Verb
(head)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
Quotations
Synonyms
* look for * searchDerived terms
* (l) * (l) * (l) * (l) * (l)Anagrams
* English irregular verbstry
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) . Replaced native (etyl) (from (etyl) (m)).Verb
(en-verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=Not unnaturally, “Auntie” took this communication in bad part. Thus outraged, she showed herself to be a bold as well as a furious virago. Next day she found her way to their lodgings and tried to recover her ward by the hair of the head.}}
Magician’s brain, passage=[Isaac Newton] was obsessed with alchemy. He spent hours copying alchemical recipes and trying to replicate them in his laboratory. He believed that the Bible contained numerological codes.}}
- euery feend his busie paines applide, / To melt the golden metall, ready to be tride .
- “So mousie shall only find tins on the floor now,” thought Miss Mapp. “Mousie shall try his teeth on tins.”
David Van Tassel], [http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/lee-dehaan Lee DeHaan
Wild Plants to the Rescue, volume=101, issue=3, magazine=(American Scientist) , passage=Plant breeding is always a numbers game.
- Let the end try the man.
- The murderer, he recalled, had been tried and sentenced to imprisonment for life, but was pardoned by a merciful governor after serving a year of his sentence.
- Try the Libyan heat or Scythian cold.
- (Milton)
- Left I the court, to see this quarrel tried .
Usage notes
* (to attempt) This is a catenative verb that takes the to'' infinitive. In the future tense, it can take ''and'' instead of ''to . *: * (to make an experiment) This is a catenative verb that takes the gerund (-ing) . * SeeSynonyms
* (to attempt) attempt, mint, take a run at, take a stab at * sample, tasteDerived terms
* try-hard * try-miter square * try-off * try on * try-on * try out * try-out * try-outs * try square/try-square * try your luck * trying * try one's handNoun
(tries)- I gave unicycling a try but I couldn’t do it .
- I gave sushi a try but I didn’t like it .
- Today I scored my first try .
citation, page= , passage=But two penalties and a drop-goal from Jonny Wilkinson, despite a host of other wayward attempts, plus a late try from Chris Ashton were enough to send a misfiring England through.}}
- (Holland)
Synonyms
* (an attempt) bash, go, stab, whirl * (an act of tasting or sampling) sampling, taste, tasting * (a score in rugby) touchdown (American football )Derived terms
* give a try * old college try * penalty try * worth a tryEtymology 2
Probably from (etyl) .Adjective
(en adjective)- But he her suppliant hands, those hands of gold, / And eke her feete, those feete of silver trye , […] Chopt off […].