quest
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A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
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A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
the hero's quest
Cease your quest of love.
Everything I have done pales in comparison to what I am about to achieve. I am on a quest... a quest for the most revered icon in Klingon history. An icon that predates the Klingon Empire, an icon more sacred than the Torch of G'boj -- More revered than Sabak's armor, and more coveted than the Emperor's crown!
In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.
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A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission. A task that a player may complete in order to gain a reward or advance the story.
At the same time, players are not forced to complete quests in a certain order; they're allowed enough free will within the game to determine their goals and needs.
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.
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obsolèteA request; a desire; a solicitation.
Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
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obsolèteA group of people conducting a search or inquiry.
The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
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obsolèteAn inquest; a jury of inquest.
To 'cide this title is impanneled A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart, And by their verdict is determined The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]
Étymologie
From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerō (“to ask, seek”). Doublet of question.
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To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
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To search for something; to seek.
Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.
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To locate and attach to a host animal.
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A short test.
I had a calculus quest (not a quiz or a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...
However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^([sic]) uses, and got ten out of ten on it!
Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.
Étymologie
Blend of quiz + test, to avoid using the word test.
Formes
- pluriel
- quests
- passé
- quested
- participe passé
- quested
- participe présent
- questing
- 3ᵉ personne du singulier
- quests
quest · A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
Quest · A surname from German.question · A worded or expressed sentence, phrase, or only a word on its…questionable · Problematic; open to doubt or challenge.