explore vs seek

explore

verb
  • To travel somewhere in search of discovery. 

  • To be engaged exploring in any of the above senses. 

  • To examine diagnostically. 

  • To (seek) experience first hand. 

  • To seek sexual variety, to sow one's wild oats. 

  • To wander without any particular aim or purpose. 

  • To examine or investigate something systematically. 

noun
  • An exploration; a tour of a place to see what it is like. 

seek

verb
  • To try to find; to look for; to search for. 

  • To try to acquire or gain; to strive after; to aim at. 

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

  • To navigate through a stream. 

  • To ask for; to solicit; to beseech. 

  • To attempt, endeavour, try 

noun
  • The operation of navigating through a stream. 

How often have the words explore and seek occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )