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quest

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–noun
1. a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
2. Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something: the quest of the Holy Grail.
3. those engaged in such an expedition.
4. British Dialect. inquest.
5. Obsolete. a jury of inquest.
–verb (used without object)
6. to search; seek (often fol. by for or after): to quest after hidden treasure.
7. to go on a quest.
8. Hunting. (of a dog)
a. to search for game.
b. to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.
–verb (used with object)
9. to search or seek for; pursue.
Origin:
1275–1325; (n.) ME queste < OF < L quaesīta, fem. ptp. of quaerere to seek; (v.) ME questen < OF quester, deriv. of the n.

Related forms:
quester, noun
quest⋅ing⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. hunt, seeking, journey, mission, enterprise.
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quest   (kwěst)   
n.  
  1. The act or an instance of seeking or pursuing something; a search.
  2. An expedition undertaken in medieval romance by a knight in order to perform a prescribed feat: the quest for the Holy Grail.
  3. Archaic A jury of inquest.
v.   quest·ed, quest·ing, quests

v.   intr.
  1. To go on a quest.
  2. To search for game.
v.   tr.
To search for; seek.

[Middle English queste, from Old French, ultimately from Latin quaesta, from feminine of *quaestus, obsolete past participle of quaerere, to seek.]
quest'er n.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Quest

Quest\, n. [OF. queste, F. qu[^e]te, fr. L. quaerere, quaesitum, to seek for, to ask. Cf. Query, Question.]

1. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit; as, to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. --Spenser.

Cease your quest of love. --Shak.

There ended was his quest, there ceased his care. --Milton.

2. Request; desire; solicitation.

Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion. --Herbert.

3. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.

The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out. --Shak.

4. Inquest; jury of inquest.

What lawful quest have given their verdict ? --Shak.

Quest

Quest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. quester, F. qu[^e]ter. See Quest, n.] To search for; to examine. [R.] --Sir T. Herbert.

Quest

Quest\, v. i. To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. [R.]

If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat. --Macaulay.
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Language Translation for : quest
Spanish: busca, búsqueda,
German: die Suche,
Japanese: 探求
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quest 
c.1303, "a search for something" (esp. of judicial inquiries or hounds seeking game), from O.Fr. queste (Fr. quête), prop. "the act of seeking," from M.L. questa "search, inquiry," alteration of L. quæsitus, pp. of quærere "seek, gain, ask" (see query). Romance sense of "adventure undertaken by a knight" is attested from c.1384. The verb is first recorded c.1350.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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Quest
1. A language designed for its simple denotational semantics. "The Denotational Semantics of Programming Languages", R. Tennent, CACM 19(8):437-453 (Aug 1976).
2. QUantifiers and SubTypes. Language with a sophisticated type system. Just as types classify values, "kinds" classify types and type operators. Explicit universal and existential quantification over types, type operators, and subtypes. Subtyping is defined inductively on all type constructions, including higher-order functions and abstract types. User-definable higher-order type operators.
"Typeful Programming", Luca Cardelli , RR 45, DEC SRC 1989.
Implemented in Modula-3.
(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Quest/quest12A.tar.Z).
3. A multimedia authoring system. Quest has been available for MS-DOS for some time. Version 3.5 for Microsoft Windows was released around March 1995. It features an Authorware-style flowchart system with an ANSI-C script language.
(1995-04-02)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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quest

see under in search of.

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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