seek

B2 · Upper Intermediate Formal

v. to ask for help, advice, or permission.

v. to request or solicit something from another person or authority.

Español:pedir

“You should seek legal advice before you sign the contract.”

“The diplomat was instructed to seek an audience with the prime minister to discuss the escalating border dispute.”

B2 · Upper Intermediate Academic

v. to try to get or achieve something, like a goal or a new job.

v. to strive after or attempt to acquire a non-physical objective.

“Many young people move to the city to seek their fortune.”

“The company continues to seek innovative ways to reduce its carbon footprint while maintaining high production levels.”

C1 · Advanced Computing Technical

v. to move to a specific part of a video, audio file, or computer data.

v. to move a read head or pointer to a specific location within a data stream or on a storage device.

“The video player allows you to seek to any timestamp instantly.”

“The application experienced significant latency because the hard drive had to seek across multiple sectors to retrieve the fragmented file.”

C2 · Proficiency Countable noun Computing Technical

n. the act of moving to a specific point in a digital file.

n. the operation of moving a pointer or playback head to a specific position in a stream.

“The slow seek time on the old disk made the computer feel very laggy.”

“Optimizing the database reduced the number of random seeks required, significantly improving the overall query performance.”