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TO SEEK TO

Definition: TO SEEK TO

TO SEEK TO

1. To apply to; to resort to; to court. [Obs.] ``All the earth sought to Solomon, to hear his wisdom.'' --1. Kings x. 24.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 


Crosswords: TO SEEK TO

English words defined with "TO SEEK TO": To curry favor, To feel after, To go in for, To pay one's court, To seek the life of, To take the air. (references)
Etymologies containing "TO SEEK TO": Acropetal, AdscititiousCerebripetalDisquisitionExpetibleimpetus, IndagatePerquisite, PetitorQuaere, Questorsagacious, Sciscitation, Seche. (references)

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Non-Fiction Usage: TO SEEK TO

SubjectTopicQuote

Business

As a result of the limited market size, some Japanese firms appear increasingly reluctant to seek to maintain their efforts in this sector. (references)

Too often foreign companies seem to seek to cover Europe from a single European base, or even through periodic visits from the foreign country. (references)

Minorities

Iceland

Many of these "temporary" workers come from Central and Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union, and the Directorate of Immigration expected most of them to seek to remain permanently rather than return to their countries of origin. (references)

Political Economy

INDONESIA

The weakness of the central government in a period of significant political upheaval has encouraged special interests, especially in the agricultural sector, to seek to reinstate some former special trade privileges. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

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Anagrams: TO SEEK TO

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-k-o-o-s-t-t"

-2 letters: ketose.

-3 letters: keets, kotos, ottos, skeet, steek, stoke, stook, tokes, toots, totes.

-4 letters: ekes, keet, keto, koto, okes, oots, otto, seek, sett, skee, soke, sook, soot, stet, tees, test, tets, toes, toke, took, toot, tost, tote, tots.

-5 letters: eke, kos, oes, oke, oot, ose, see, set, sot, tee, tet, toe, too, tot, tsk.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-k-o-o-s-t-t"
 

+3 letters: ketosteroid, tenterhooks.

 

+4 letters: cytoskeleton, keratotomies, ketosteroids, retrorockets.

 

+5 letters: counterstroke, cytoskeletons.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: TO SEEK TO


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

54 4F      53 45 45 4B      54 4F

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

        

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010100 01001111 00100000 01010011 01000101 01000101 01001011 00100000 01010100 01001111

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#84 &#79 &#32 &#83 &#69 &#69 &#75 &#32 &#84 &#79

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0054 004F      0053 0045 0045 004B      0054 004F

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

544925339394525449

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Quotations: Non-fiction
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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