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Definitions: Seeker |
SeekerNoun1. Someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after truth". 2. A missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "seeker" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: SeekerSynonyms: quester (n), searcher (n). (additional references) |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Curiosity | Inquirer; sightseer; quidnunc, newsmonger, Paul Pry, eavesdropper; gossip; (news); rubberneck; intellectual; seeker, seeker after truth. |
Petitioner | Noun: petitioner, solicitor, applicant; suppliant, supplicant; suitor, candidate, claimant, postulant, aspirant, competitor, bidder; place hunter, pot hunter; prizer; seeker. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Seeker |
| English words defined with "seeker": cold, Comet- seeker, Comet-finder ♦ gadabout ♦ hot ♦ Petitor, pleasure seeker, Pleasurer ♦ Questant, Questrist ♦ warm ♦ Zetetic. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "seeker": Bone seeker ♦ comet seeker ♦ infra red seeker, IR seeker ♦ laser guided weapon, laser seeker ♦ sun seeker. (references) |
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Movie/TV Titles | Dr. Death: Seeker of Souls (1973) Seeker (1994) | |
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 | EDWARDS AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. (AFPN) -- An F-16 Fighting Falcon, piloted by Capt. Jim Less, 416th Flight Test Squadron, drops a Joint Direct Attack Munition equipped with the Direct Attack Munition Affordable Seeker during a recent test. |  | The seven stages of the office seeker.Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | The sunny South--a negro revival meeting--a seeker "getting religion" / W.L. Sheppard del.Credit: Library of Congress. |  | So then, to every man his chance; to every man, regardless of his birth, golden opportunity ... this seeker is the promise of America.Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| Author | Quotation |
Ralph Waldo Emerson | No facts are to me sacred; none are profane; I simply experiment, an endless seeker with no Past at my back. |
Rene Descartes | If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Russia | According to the UNHCR, the PIC's never have accepted anyone as an asylum seeker. (references) |
Portugal | The Government almost never rules that an asylum seeker has a "valid" claim and did not grant first asylum during the year. (references) | |
Fiji | In the past, the Government has been reluctant to grant first asylum without assurances that the asylum seeker would be moved to a third country. (references) | |
Human Rights | Hungary | In 2000 a Cameroonian asylum seeker, Ebune Christian Ecole, died while being deported. (references) |
Lebanon | Four persons died in custody during 2000. In January 2000, a Sudanese asylum seeker, Abdallah Juma' Jarkum, died of malaria in Zahle prison. (references) | |
Minorities | Russia | On August 23, youths attacked Massa Mayoni, an asylum seeker from Angola, outside the UNHCR processing center in Moscow; Mayoni later died from his wounds. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Seeker" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Seeker" is used about 74 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 74 | 38,813 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "seeker". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Mnason | N/A | Biblical | A diligent seeker |
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Expressions using "seeker": bone seeker ♦ comet seeker ♦ infra red seeker ♦ IR seeker ♦ laser seeker ♦ office seeker ♦ pleasure seeker ♦ seeker after piece ♦ seeker after truth ♦ sun seeker. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "seeker": seeker-out. | |
Ending with "seeker": pleasure-seeker. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
milf seeker | 5,250 | apartment seeker | 24 |
job seeker | 548 | 2 milf seeker | 24 |
seeker | 260 | traffic seeker | 23 |
m.i.l.f seeker | 187 | new seeker | 22 |
opportunity seeker | 95 | thrill seeker | 21 |
business opportunity seeker | 91 | seeker snitch | 20 |
hentai seeker | 85 | reg seeker | 20 |
seeker soul | 83 | mlf seeker | 19 |
mlm opportunity seeker | 50 | blue seeker | 18 |
business opportunity seeker lead | 50 | grant seeker | 18 |
opportunity seeker mailing list | 47 | the heat seeker | 17 |
asylum seeker | 47 | the star seeker | 16 |
home seeker | 41 | basement seeker | 16 |
business opportunity seeker list | 35 | seeker of the truth | 16 |
rod seeker | 32 | the pleasure seeker | 15 |
com milf seeker | 32 | milfs seeker | 15 |
job seeker allowance | 29 | hot milf seeker | 15 |
sun seeker | 27 | seeker fishing rod | 14 |
job job seeker | 26 | js seeker | 14 |
career seeker | 24 | neo seeker | 13 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "seeker"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | kandidat në post (office seeker), egoist (egoist, egoistic, egotist, hoggish, self centered, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | الساعي للمتعه, باحث (inquisitive, prospector, searcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | търсач (finder, prospector). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 寻找者 (Seekers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | auto-søger (homing device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | doelzoeker (homing device). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | etsijä (searcher). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | tête chercheuse, chercheur (searcher), autodirecteur. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Sucher (finder, searcher, seekers, viewfinder, view-finder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | σύστημα κατευθύνσεως δι'ανιχνεύσεως (homing device), ζητών (fetcher, quester, requirer), ζητητήσ. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | שוחר (fan, friend, supporter). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | lézeres célkeresõ (laser seeker), hivatalra törekvõ politikus (office seeker), buzgó keresője vminek (earnest seeker after sg), önzõ ember (self-seeker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | pencari. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | sistema di guida con testa autocercante (homing device), guida con ricerca automatica del bersaglio (homing device), guida autocercante (homing device), cercatore (cat's whisker, searcher, whisker). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | シーアンドエア方式 (CM, commercial message, off-season, sea and air system, seajack, Seasat, seasickness, seaside, seaside resort, seaside school, season, season in, season sale, season stock, seasoning, secret, Secret Service, seek, see-through look, sequence, sequencer, sequential, sheath, sheath silhouette, Sikh). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | シーカー . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 찾" 사람 (Seekers). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | shirreyder (asker, candidate, inquirer, inquiring, prospector, searcher), shirragh (bird of prey, buzzard, falcon, kite). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eekersay sistema detector de infra-vermelhos (infra red seeker, IR seeker), pessoa procura de emprego (applicant for work, job seeker), perseguidor do sol (sun seeker), perseguidor de estrelas (star seeker), paredes divisórias (office seeker), obrigação de acolhimento do requerente de asilo (obligation to take back the asylum seeker), egoísta (base, egoistic, egotism, egotistically, self centered, self centred, self-absorbed, selfish, self-seeker, self-seeking, small), candidato a asilo politico (asylum seeker, person applying for asylum). (various references) cãutãtor (finder, Hunter, searcher). (various references) самонаводящийся снаряд, искатель (finder, searcher, selector). (various references) tražilac (applicant). (various references) buscador (finder, finder switch, hunter, hunting switch, investigator, linefinder, linefinder selector, linefinder switch, prospector, searcher, whisker). (various references) arbetssökande (applicant for work, job seeker, job-seeker, person seeking work). (various references) ผู้แสวงหา. (various references) sonda (bore, cannula, catheter, probe, searcher, style), arayan kimse, arayan (searcher), arayıcı (searcher). (various references) самонавідний снаряд. (various references) người đi tìm. (various references) ceisiwr, ceisiedydd (applicant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "seeker": seekers. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "seeker": sunseeker. (additional references) | |
Words containing "seeker": sunseekers. (additional references) | |
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"Seeker" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: keeker, nebeker, Nekeer, psykter, reeker, Seaser, seece, seeer, seeke, seeked, Seekie, Seezer, seike, seiken, seka, Sekber, seke, Sekera, sekere, Sekka, Seneferu, seoki, sieberi, sieke, sikerer, speeker, syber, Syer, Szekler. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "seeker" (pronounced sē"ker) |
| 3 | -ē" k er | beaker, bleaker, leaker, meeker, sleeker, Sneaker, speaker, squeaker, streaker, weaker. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reseek. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-e-k-r-s" | |
-1 letter: esker, reeks, resee. | |
-2 letters: ekes, reek, rees, seek, seer, sere, skee. | |
-3 letters: eke, ere, ers, ree, res, see, ser. | |
-4 letters: er, es, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-e-k-r-s" | |
+1 letter: keeners, keepers, keester, reekers, reseeks, seekers, skeeter, sleeker. | |
+2 letters: keesters, kegelers, kermeses, kermesse, kerosene, kneelers, reekiest, reevokes, skeeters, skewered, sleekier, streeked, streeker. | |
+3 letters: berserker, kedgerees, kermesses, kerosenes, kieserite, musketeer, reseeking, skeltered, skreeghed, sneakered, streekers, sunseeker, weakeners. | |
+4 letters: barkeepers, beekeepers, berserkers, breakevens, dekameters, fenugreeks, innkeepers, junketeers, kerchieves, kerseymere, kieserites, marketeers, musketeers, nebenkerns, racketeers, resketched, resketches, rocketeers, seersucker, shopkeeper, steelmaker, sunseekers, weekenders, zookeepers. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 65 65 6B 65 72 |
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| American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)
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| Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)
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| Braille (1829, in France) (references)
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... . . -.- . .-. |
| Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100101 01100101 01101011 01100101 01110010 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S e e k e r |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0065 0065 006B 0065 0072 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)537171777184 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Photo Album 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Usage Frequency 10. Names: Derived from 11. Expressions 12. Expressions: Internet | 13. Translations: Modern 14. Derivations 15. Rhymes 16. Anagrams | 17. Orthography 18. Bibliography |
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