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seeker
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Seeker
(gcide) | Seeker \Seek"er\, n.
1. One who seeks; that which is used in seeking or searching.
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2. (Eccl.) One of a small heterogeneous sect of the 17th
century, in Great Britain, who professed to be seeking the
true church, ministry, and sacraments.
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A skeptic [is] ever seeking and never finds, like
our new upstart sect of Seekers. --Bullokar.
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seeker
(wn) | seeker
n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester]
2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward
some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) |
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selfseeker
(mass) | self-seeker
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job seeker
(encz) | job seeker, |
placeseeker
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pleasure seeker
(encz) | pleasure seeker, n: |
seeker
(encz) | seeker,hledač n: Zdeněk Brož |
seekers
(encz) | seekers,hledači Zdeněk Brož |
self-seeker
(encz) | self-seeker,sobec n: Zdeněk Brož |
research and seeker emulation radar
(czen) | Research and Seeker Emulation Radar,RASER[zkr.] [voj.] Zdeněk Brož a
automatický překlad |
Comet- seeker
(gcide) | Comet-finder \Com"et-find`er\, or Comet- seeker \Com"et-
seek`er\, n. (Astron.)
A telescope of low power, having a large field of view, used
for finding comets.
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Office seeker
(gcide) | Office \Of"fice\, n. [F., fr. L. officium, for opificium; ops
ability, wealth, help + facere to do or make. See Opulent,
Fact.]
1. That which a person does, either voluntarily or by
appointment, for, or with reference to, others; customary
duty, or a duty that arises from the relations of man to
man; as, kind offices, pious offices.
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I would I could do a good office between you.
--Shak.
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2. A special duty, trust, charge, or position, conferred by
authority and for a public purpose; a position of trust or
authority; as, an executive or judical office; a municipal
office.
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3. A charge or trust, of a sacred nature, conferred by God
himself; as, the office of a priest under the old
dispensation, and that of the apostles in the new.
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Inasmuch as I am the apostle of the Gentiles, I
magnify mine office. --Rom. xi. 13.
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4. That which is performed, intended, or assigned to be done,
by a particular thing, or that which anything is fitted to
perform; a function; -- answering to duty in intelligent
beings.
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They [the eyes] resign their office and their light.
--Shak.
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Hesperus, whose office is to bring
Twilight upon the earth. --Milton.
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In this experiment the several intervals of the
teeth of the comb do the office of so many prisms.
--Sir I.
Newton.
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5. The place where any kind of business or service for others
is transacted; a building, suite of rooms, or room in
which public officers or workers in any organization
transact business; as, the register's office; a lawyer's
office; the doctor's office; the Mayor's office.
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6. The company or corporation, or persons collectively, whose
place of business is in an office; as, I have notified the
office.
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7. pl. The apartments or outhouses in which the domestics
discharge the duties attached to the service of a house,
as kitchens, pantries, stables, etc. [Eng.]
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As for the offices, let them stand at distance.
--Bacon.
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8. (Eccl.) Any service other than that of ordination and the
Mass; any prescribed religious service.
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This morning was read in the church, after the
office was done, the declaration setting forth the
late conspiracy against the king's person. --Evelyn.
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Holy office. Same as Inquisition, n., 3.
Houses of office. Same as def. 7 above. --Chaucer.
Little office (R. C. Ch.), an office recited in honor of
the Virgin Mary.
Office bearer, an officer; one who has a specific office or
duty to perform.
Office copy (Law), an authenticated or certified copy of a
record, from the proper office. See Certified copies,
under Copy. --Abbott.
Office-found (Law), the finding of an inquest of office.
See under Inquest.
Office holder. See Officeholder in the Vocabulary
Office hours. the hours of the day during which business is
transacted at an office[5].
Office seeker. a person who is attempting to get elected to
an elected office, or to get an appointment to an
appointive public office.
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Seekers
(gcide) | Ranter \Rant"er\ (r[a^]nt"[~e]r), n.
1. A noisy talker; a raving declaimer.
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2. (Eccl. Hist.)
(a) One of a religious sect which sprung up in 1645; --
called also Seekers. See Seeker.
(b) One of the Primitive Methodists, who seceded from the
Wesleyan Methodists on the ground of their deficiency
in fervor and zeal; -- so called in contempt.
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Self-seeker
(gcide) | Self-seeker \Self"-seek`er\, n.
One who seeks only his own interest, advantage, or pleasure.
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placeseeker
(wn) | placeseeker
n 1: a disparaging term for an appointee [syn: placeman,
placeseeker] |
pleasure seeker
(wn) | pleasure seeker
n 1: someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures [syn:
hedonist, pagan, pleasure seeker] |
seeker
(wn) | seeker
n 1: someone making a search or inquiry; "they are seekers after
truth" [syn: seeker, searcher, quester]
2: a missile equipped with a device that is attracted toward
some kind of emission (heat or light or sound or radio waves) |
self-seeker
(wn) | self-seeker
n 1: a person who places expediency above principle [syn:
opportunist, self-seeker] |
heatseeker
(foldoc) | heatseeker
(IBM) A customer who can be relied upon to
buy, without fail, the latest version of an existing product
(not quite the same as a member of the lunatic fringe). A
1993 example of a heatseeker is someone who, owning a 286 PC
and Windows 3.0, goes out and buys Windows 3.1 (which offers
no worthwhile benefits unless you have a 386). If all
customers were heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be
made by just fixing the bugs in each release (n) and selling
it to them as release (n+1).
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heatseeker
(jargon) | heatseeker
n.
[IBM] A customer who can be relied upon to buy, without fail, the latest
version of an existing product (not quite the same as a member of the {
lunatic fringe}). A 1993 example of a heatseeker was someone who, owning a
286 PC and Windows 3.0, went out and bought Windows 3.1 (which offers no
worthwhile benefits unless you have a 386). If all customers were
heatseekers, vast amounts of money could be made by just fixing some of the
bugs in each release (n) and selling it to them as release (n+1). Microsoft
in fact seems to have mastered this technique.
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