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1. WordNet® 3.0 (2006) |
quest
n 1: a search for an alternative that meets cognitive criteria;
"the pursuit of love"; "life is more than the pursuance of
fame"; "a quest for wealth" [syn: pursuit, pursuance,
quest]
2: the act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds"
[syn: quest, seeking]
v 1: make a search (for); "Things that die with their eyes open
and questing"; "The animal came questing through the
forest"
2: search the trail of (game); "The dog went off and quested"
3: bark with prolonged noises, of dogs [syn: bay, quest]
4: seek alms, as for religious purposes
5: express the need or desire for; ask for; "She requested an
extra bed in her room"; "She called for room service" [syn:
request, bespeak, call for, quest]
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
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.
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Upon an hard adventure yet in quest. --Spenser.
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Cease your quest of love. --Shak.
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There ended was his quest, there ceased his care.
--Milton.
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2. Request; desire; solicitation.
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Gad not abroad at every quest and call
Of an untrained hope or passion. --Herbert.
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3. Those who make search or inquiry, taken collectively.
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The senate hath sent about three several quests to
search you out. --Shak.
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4. Inquest; jury of inquest.
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What lawful quest have given their verdict ? --Shak.
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3. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Quest \Quest\, v. t. [Cf. OF. quester, F. qu[^e]ter. See
Quest, n.]
To search for; to examine. [R.] --Sir T. Herbert.
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4. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 |
Quest \Quest\, v. i.
To go on a quest; to make a search; to go in pursuit; to beg.
[R.]
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If his questing had been unsuccessful, he appeased the
rage of hunger with some scraps of broken meat.
--Macaulay.
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5. V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016) |
QUEST
Quality Excellence for Suppliers of Telecommunication Leadership
(org.), "QuEST"
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6. The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018) |
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)
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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 |
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