seek

seek

1. etsiä, hakea

2. pyrkiä johonkin tulokseen

Esimerkkejä:

'Seek' first to understand, then to be understood.

That is what we are 'seeking' to achieve.

Liittyvät sanat: hide-and-seek

Synonyymisanakirja

seek

liikehdintä, liike, hakeminen, ottaa vastaan haaste, kaivaa, nostaa, kaivaa esiin, hakea finger-komennolla, etsiä, hakea, yrittää, koettaa.

Sitaatit

• ''"Space, the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Starship Enterprise. Its five-year mission: to explore strange new worlds, to seek out new life and new civilizations, to boldly go where no man has gone before."''

Rimmaavat sanat

seek rimmaa näiden kanssa:

parsek, haitek, vek...

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Englannin sanakirja

seek (englanti > suomi)

1. etsiä

seek englanniksi

1. puhekieltä To try to find, to look for, to search.

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2. {{quote-magazine|year=2013|month=July-August|author=http://www.americanscientist.org/authors/detail/catherine-clabby Catherine Clabby

3. puhekieltä To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

4. Bible, (w) xi. 16

Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign.

5. 1960, (w), s:The Rampa Story/Chapter Nine|The Rampa Story:

“My, my! It is indeed a long way yet, look you!” said the pleasant woman of whom I sought directions.

6. puhekieltä To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

7. 1880, (w), s:Journal of Discourses/Volume 23/How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.|How the Gospel is Preached By the Elders, etc.:

But persecution sought the lives of men of this character.

8. 1886, Constantine Popoff, translation of (w)'s s:What I Believe (Tolstoy)/Chapter 12|What I Believe:

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.

9. (RQ:EHough PrqsPrc)

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.

10. puhekieltä To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

11. (RQ:Mlry MrtArthr), Bk.V:

Ryght so he sought(..)towarde Sandewyche where he founde before hym many galyard knyghtes

12. puhekieltä To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

13. (RQ:Authorized Version):

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.

14. 1726 http://books.google.com.au/books?id=0CYg_SkcUEEC (tr.), (w), (w)s (w), Book II, line 33

Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains

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