Phrase Hound found 23 phrases and 16 compound words that contain seek. The most common are listed below. Open seek in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 23
- hide and seekA game where the players have to hide and one has to seek them out.
- seek outTo try to locate; to search for.
- seek and ye shall findSomething can be found if it is sought.
- seek timeThe measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.
- hide-and-go-seekAlternative form of hide and go seek (“hide and seek”)
- seek timesplural of seek time: The measurement of time required for the head assembly on the actuator arm of a hard drive to travel to the track of the disk where the data will be read or written.
- seek one's fortuneTo go to a particular place to augment one's wealth or to find success.
- seek one's virtuous couchTo go to bed: to lie down to sleep.
- seek-no-furtherAny of a number of kinds of North American apples, such as the Rambo apple or the Westfield Seek-No-Further
- seek-no-fartherAlternative form of seek-no-further (“kind of apple”).
- seek-no-furthersplural of seek-no-further: Any of a number of kinds of North American apples, such as the Rambo apple or the Westfield Seek-No-Further
- seek-no-farthersplural of seek-no-farther: Alternative form of seek-no-further (“kind of apple”).
- average seek timeOf a hard drive, the average of all possible seek times equivalent to the time of all possible seeks divided by the number of all possible seeks.
- average seek timesplural of average seek time: Of a hard drive, the average of all possible seek times equivalent to the time of all possible seeks divided by the number of all possible seeks.
- maximum seek timeThe amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- maximum seek timesplural of maximum seek time: The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- minimum seek timeThe amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.
- minimum seek timesplural of minimum seek time: The amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.
- full stroke seek timeSynonym of maximum seek time: The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- full stroke seek timesplural of full stroke seek time: The amount of time required for a disk drive to seek through all possible tracks, from the innermost to the outermost or vice versa.
- track-to-track seek timeSynonym of minimum seek time: The amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.
- track-to-track seek timesplural of track-to-track seek time: The amount of time required to move the head of a disk drive from one track to the next.
- seek a knot in a bulrushTo find problems where none exist.
Compound words 16
- seekerOne who seeks.
- seekableCapable of being sought.
- foreseekTo seek beforehand; seek in advance.
- seeksorrowA person who acts to their own detriment, contriving to give themselves vexation; a self-tormentor.
- underseekTo examine; explore; investigate.
- outseekTo seek out; actively or diligently search for; investigate; research.
- reseekTo seek again.
- beseekTo beseech; entreat.
- upseekTo seek or strain upward.
- misseekTo seek for wrongly.