Geek vs. Seek — What's the Difference?

The word geek is a slang term originally used to describe eccentric or non-mainstream people; in current use, the word typically connotes an expert or enthusiast obsessed with a hobby or intellectual pursuit. In the past, it had a generally pejorative meaning of a "peculiar person, especially one who is perceived to be overly intellectual, unfashionable, boring, or socially awkward".

To try to locate or discover; search for

A person regarded as foolish, inept, or clumsy.

To endeavor to obtain or reach

A person who is single-minded or accomplished in scientific or technical pursuits but is felt to be socially inept.

To go to or toward

A carnival performer whose show consists of bizarre acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken.

To inquire for; request

To excite emotionally

To try; endeavor

(dated) A carnival performer specializing in bizarre and unappetizing behavior.

To make a search or investigation

(colloquial) A person who is intensely interested in a particular field or hobby and often having limited or nonstandard social skills. Often used with an attributive noun.

(ambitransitive) To try to find; to look for; to search for.

An expert in a technical field, particularly one having to do with computers.

(transitive) To ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

The subculture of geeks; an esoteric subject of interest that is marginal to the social mainstream; the philosophy, events, and physical artifacts of geeks; geekness.

(transitive) To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at.

(colloquial) An unfashionable or socially undesirable person.

To go, move, travel (in a given direction).

A look.

(transitive) To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

(colloquial) To behave geekishly or in a socially awkward manner, especially when under the influence of drugs or other psycho-active substances, and exhibiting such marked characteristics as hyperactivity, repetitiveness, talkativeness, nervousness, irritability, or paranoia.

To attempt, endeavour, try

(colloquial) To enthusiastically engage in or discuss geek-like interests.

To navigate through a stream.

(Cornwall) To look; to peep; to stare about intently.

(computing) The operation of navigating through a stream.

A performer in a carnival, often presented as a wild man, who performs grotesquely disgusting acts, such as biting the head off a live chicken or snake.

Sick.

Any eccentric or strange person; an oddball; an eccentric.

To go in search of; to look for; to search for; to try to find.

A student who is socially inept and a misfit in his class, especially one who is an intellectual; a nerd; a dork.

To inquire for; to ask for; to solicit; to beseech.

An intellectually inclined person, especially one who is interested in scientific or technical subjects; as, a group of geeks wearing pocket protectors; - originally a deprecatory and contemptuous term, but in the 1990's, with the increase in popularity of computers and the frequency of accumulation of great wealth by computer entrepreneurs, it has come to be used with noticeable frequency by technically competent people to refer to themselves, ironically and sometimes proudly.

To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at; as, to seek wealth or fame; to seek one's life.

A carnival performer who does disgusting acts

To try to reach or come to; to go to; to resort to.

A person with an unusual or odd personality

To make search or inquiry; to endeavor to make discovery.

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

Try to get or reach;

Try to locate or discover, or try to establish the existence of;

Make an effort or attempt;

Go to or towards;

Inquire for;