1. [n]  (computer science) the movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk
2. [v]  inquire for; "seek directions from a local"
3. [v]  try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of; "The police are searching for clues"; "They are searching for the missing man in the entire county"
4. [v]  go to or towards; "a liquid seeks its own level"
5. [v]  try to get or reach; "seek a position"; "seek an education"; "seek happiness"
6. [v]  make an effort or attempt; "He tried to shake off his fears"; "The infant had essayed a few wobbly steps"; "The police attempted to stop the thief"; "He sought to improve himself"; "She always seeks to do good in the world"

Seek
Asked to write his autobiography for a school assignment, a high school senior named Rob submits his life story in the form of a radio play. Through a series of monologues, Rob describes his relationships with the members of his family--his mother, his grandfather and grandmother, and the aunts who helped raise him. The one voice not represented is that of his father, a radio DJ who abandoned the family before Rob was born. Seeking a connection with his dad, Rob begins to tune in to radio stations across the country, hoping to hear the one faraway announcer who is his father.

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1. \Seek\, a.
   Sick. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
   

2. \Seek\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sought}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Seeking}.] [OE, seken, AS. s?can, s?cean; akin to OS.
   s?kian, LG. s["o]ken, D. zoeken, OHG. suohhan, G. suchen,
   Icel. s?kja, Sw. s["o]ka, Dan. s["o]ge, Goth. s?kjan, and E.
   sake. Cf. {Beseech}, {Ransack}, {Sagacious}, {Sake}, {Soc}.]
   1. To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to
      find.
            The man saked him, saying, What seekest thou? And he
            said, I seek my brethren.             --Gen. xxxvii.
                                                  15,16.
   2. To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to bessech.
            Others, tempting him, sought of him a sign. --Luke
                                                  xi. 16.
   3. To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as,
      to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.
   4. To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
            Seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal. --Amos v. 5.
            Since great Ulysses sought the Phrygian plains.
                                                  --Pope.
   

3. \Seek\, v. i.
   To make search or inquiry: to endeavor to make discovery.
         Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read. --Isa.
                                                  xxxiv. 16.
   {To seek}, needing to seek or search; hence, unpreparated.
      ``Unpracticed, unpreparated, and still to seek.''
      --Milton. [Obs]
   {To seek after}, to make pursuit of; to attempt to find or
      take.
   {To seek for}, to endeavor to find.
   {To seek to}, to apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.]
      ``All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.''
      --1. Kings x. 24.
   {To seek upon}, to make strict inquiry after; to follow up;
      to persecute. [Obs.]
            To seek Upon a man and do his soul unrest.
                                                  --Chaucer.
   

1. To move the head of a disk drive radially, i.e., to move from one track to another.

2. To wind the tape to a given location.

3. To move the pointer that marks the next byte to be read from or written to a file.