Difference between Try and Seek

TRY vs SEEK: NOUN

An attempt; an effort.
In Rugby, an act of advancing the ball past the opponent's goal line and grounding it there for a score of three points.
The act of trying; a trial; experiment; effort.
In foot-ball, in the Rugby game, the right to carry the ball in front of the goal and try to kick a goal. When goals are equal, the game is decided by the majority of tries.
A sieve; riddle; screen.
Earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something

The movement of a read/write head to a specific data track on a disk

TRY vs SEEK: ADJECTIVE

Sick.

TRY vs SEEK: VERB

Examine or hear (evidence or a case) by judicial process
Give pain or trouble to
Put on a garment in order to see whether it fits and looks nice
Take a sample of
Put on trial or hear a case and sit as the judge at the trial of
Test the limits of
Make an effort or attempt
Put to the test, as for its quality, or give experimental use to
Melt (fat, lard, etc.) in order to separate out impurities

Try to get or reach
Inquire for
Go to or towards
Make an effort or attempt
Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of
To try to find, to look for, to search.
To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

TRY vs SEEK: INTRANSITIVE VERB

To do; to fare; !
To exert strength; to endeavor; to make an effort or an attempt.
To taste, sample, or otherwise test in order to determine strength, effect, worth, or desirability.
To make an effort to open (a closed door or window).
To conduct the trial of (a legal claim).
To put (an accused person) on trial.
To subject to great strain or hardship; tax.
To make an effort to do or accomplish (something); attempt.
To melt (lard, for example) to separate out impurities; render.
To make an effort; strive.

To make strict inquiry after; to follow up; to persecute.
To apply to; to resort to; to court.
To endeavor to find.
To make pursuit of; to attempt to find or take.
Needing to seek or search; hence, unprepared.
To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.
To try; endeavor.
To inquire for; request.
To go to or toward.
To endeavor to obtain or reach.
To try to locate or discover; search for.
To make a search or investigation.

TRY vs SEEK: TRANSITIVE VERB

To prove by experiment; to apply a test to, for the purpose of determining the quality; to examine; to prove; to test.
To purify or refine, as metals; to melt out, and procure in a pure state, as oil, tallow, lard, etc.
To divide or separate, as one sort from another; to winnow; to sift; to pick out; -- frequently followed by out.

To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.
To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.
To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.
To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

TRY vs SEEK: OTHER WORD TYPES

To bear hardly upon; subject to trials or suffering; afflict: as, the family has been sorely tried.
To strain: as, to try the eyes.
To incite to wrong; tempt; solicit.
In joinery, to dress with a trying-plane. See trying-plane.
To attempt; undertake.
To exert strength; make an effort; endeavor; attempt: as, to try for a situation.
To find or show what a person or a thing is; prove by experience; make or hold a trial.
Nautical, to lie to in a gale under storm-sails so as to keep a ship's bow to the sea.
In angling, to fish again over a pool or stream where the fish have refused to bite before, as with a different cast of flies, from another direction with regard to the wind or sun, etc.: also used transitively: as, to try back the water.
Hence— To transude, or ooze out, as sweat: as, the perspiration is trying out of him.
Synonyms To seek, essay, strive.
To invite; escort.
Hence— To select; cull; pick out.
To ascertain by sifting or examination.
To separate (metal) from the ore or dross by melting; refine; assay.
To separate or reduce by boiling or steaming; render: generally with out: as, to try out lard or blubber.
To put to the test or proof; subject to experimental treatment, comparison with a standard, or the like, in order to determine the truth, accuracy, power, strength, speed, fitness, or other quality of; test; prove: as, to try weights and measures; to try a new invention; to try conclusions; to try one's patience, or one's luck.
To use, apply, or practise tentatively; experiment with: as, to try a new remedy; also, to experiment upon; treat tentatively.
To endeavor experimentally to find out.
To experience; have knowledge of by experience.
To undertake; attempt; essay.
To examine judicially; bring or set before a court with evidence or argument, or both, for a final judicial determination; submit to the examination and decision or sentence of a judicial tribunal: as, to try a case; to try a prisoner.
To bring to a decision; determine; settle; hence, to decide by combat.
To separate, as what is good from what is bad; separate by sifting; sift.
(idiom) (try (one's) hand) To attempt to do something for the first time.
(idiom) (try (one's) fortune) To make an effort or take a risk to be successful, especially as a newcomer.

To try; endeavor: with an infinitive object.
To aim at; pursue as an object; strive after; attempt: as, to seek a person's life or his ruin.
To go to; resort to; have recourse to.
To inquire for; ask for; solicit; desire or try to obtain.
To go in search or quest of; look or search for; endeavor to find: often followed by out.
To search; search through.
A Middle English form of sick.
(b ) At a loss; without knowledge, experience, or resources; helpless: used adjectively, usually with be.
To search, or make search or inquiry.
To go; proceed; resort; have recourse; apply: with to.
To look at; consult.

TRY vs SEEK: RELATED WORDS

Try out, Sample, Stress, Render, Judge, Adjudicate, Hear, Test, Taste, Prove, Endeavor, Examine, Effort, Seek, Attempt

Consider, Receive, Intend, Need, Solicit, Strive, Obtain, Provide, Pursue, Assay, Essay, Look for, Search, Attempt, Try

TRY vs SEEK: DESCRIBE WORDS

Assay, Strain, Sample, Stress, Render, Judge, Adjudicate, Hear, Test, Taste, Prove, Endeavor, Examine, Effort, Seek

Ask, Consider, Receive, Intend, Need, Solicit, Strive, Obtain, Provide, Pursue, Assay, Essay, Look for, Search, Try

TRY vs SEEK: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

And when did they try to kill Quetzalcoatl.
Try these problems by yourself before pressing play!
Look this over, I want to try something.
Try to interest thepatient in a different activity.
Try entering a name, location, or different words.
Anyone try to sign up with Selectel recently?
You can try to get teaching experience, first try getting one year of teaching experience.
Try to disable UAC or any native firewall or security solution installed on the server and give a try.
All I can do is try to cut out temptations and try to live a life that pleases Jesus.
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We do not seek war with any country.
People may seek out liposuction for various reasons.
Tulsi Tranquility sounded like everything I seek out.
Do not seek to educate the other attorney.
Seek personal guarantees and other forms of security.
Is It Time to Seek Some Professional Help?
The claimant no longer has the right to seek payment from the real estate, but can now seek payment from the bond instead.
True love is not a hide and seek game: in true love, both lovers seek each other.
No matter how diligently the psalmist would seek after God and seek to please Him, he would always remain in need of mercy.
Those property owners inevitably seek advice pertaining to these matters, thus they often seek the advice of their lawyers.

TRY vs SEEK: QUESTIONS

Did Mamata Banerjee try making Momos in Darjeeling?
Did Charles Dickens try to institutionalize his wife?
Did the surrealists ever try to simulate psychosis?
Should college athletes try to land endorsement deals?
How can Congress try to neutralize new legislation?
Are your free photosynthesis worksheets worth a try?
Do pharmaceutical companies try to influence doctors?
Where can I rent or try or try an electric wheelchair?
Can a TRY CATCH statement have other nested try catch statements?
What would make an extra-point try 48-yard try in college football?

How can smaller insurers seek reinsurance globally?
Should you seek marriage counseling while quarantining?
What do developmental psychologists seek to identify?
Do companies seek to hire entrepreneurial employees?
Does cubic pharmaceuticals seek marketing authorisation?
Should benchmark employees seek employment elsewhere?
What is the meaning of to strive to seek seek to find?
Do asylees have to seek legal advice to seek asylum?
Should you seek to understand or seek to be understood?
Did PM Imran Khan seek NRO to seek no-confidence motion?

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DIFFERENCE BETWEEN TRY AND SEEK

TRY vs SEEK: NOUN

TRY vs SEEK: ADJECTIVE

TRY vs SEEK: VERB

TRY vs SEEK: INTRANSITIVE VERB

TRY vs SEEK: TRANSITIVE VERB

TRY vs SEEK: OTHER WORD TYPES

TRY vs SEEK: RELATED WORDS

TRY vs SEEK: DESCRIBE WORDS

TRY vs SEEK: SENTENCE EXAMPLES

TRY vs SEEK: QUESTIONS