quest
Noun · VerbOpen English WordNet
Noun (2)
Verb (5)
- make a search (for)“Things that die with their eyes open and questing”“The animal came questing through the forest”More general seek
- search the trail of (game)“The dog went off and quested”More general chase, chase after
- bark with prolonged noises, of dogsSynonyms: bayMore general bark
- seek alms, as for religious purposesMore general solicit, beg
- express the need or desire for“She requested an extra bed in her room”“She called for room service”“when you call, always ask for Mary”Synonyms: requestask forbespeakcall forMore general communicate, pass onMore specific ask, demand, claim, order, apply, solicit, call, invite, petition, ask out +8 moreSimilar invite, call for
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Translations
Noun journey or effort in pursuit of a goal
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Origin: OF. queste, F. quête, 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.— Edmund Spenser
Cease your quest of love.— William Shakespeare
There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.— John Milton
2. Request; desire; solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.— George Herbert
3. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.— William Shakespeare
4. Inquest; jury of inquest.
What lawful quest have given their verdict ?— William Shakespeare
Origin: Cf. OF. quester, F. quêter. See Quest, noun
To search for; to examine. rare Sir Thomas Herbert
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg. rare
If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.— Thomas Babington Macaulay
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing
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 <luca@src.dec.com>, RR 45, DEC SRC 1989.
Implemented in Modula-3.
(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Quest/quest12A.tar.Z).
3.<tool, text> 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)