QUEEST

  

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QUEEST

Definition: QUEEST

QUEEST

Noun

1. The European ringdove (Columba palumbus); the cushat.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Etymology: Queest \Queest\, noun. [Compare to Icelandic kvisa kind of bird, kvistr branch of tree, and English cushat.]. (Websters 1913)


Crosswords: QUEEST

English words defined with "QUEEST": Quice. (references)

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: QUEEST

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

map queest

7
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: QUEEST

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Words within the letters "e-e-q-s-t-u"

-1 letter: quest.

-2 letters: suet, tees.

-3 letters: see, set, sue, suq, tee, use, uts.

-4 letters: es, et, us, ut.

 Words containing the letters "e-e-q-s-t-u"
 

+1 letter: bequest, equates, equites, quested, quester, request, sequent.

 

+2 letters: bequests, equiseta, equities, mesquite, queerest, questers, quietens, quieters, quietest, requests, requites, sequents.

 

+3 letters: bequeaths, coequates, coquettes, equisetum, exquisite, frequents, grotesque, maquettes, mesquites, mezquites, miquelets, moquettes, queasiest, queaziest, quetzales, quiescent, quietness, quietudes, quietuses, requested, requester, requestor, requisite, requiters, sequester, sequestra, torqueses.

 

+4 letters: banqueters, banquettes, barquettes, briquettes, consequent, coquetries, croquettes, desquamate, disquieted, equalities, equestrian, equinities, equipments, equisetums, etiquettes, exquisites, grotesques, inequities, liquescent, perquisite, quartettes, queenliest, quercetins, questioned, questioner, quintettes, reconquest, requesters, requesting, requestors, requiescat, requisites, sequential, sequesters, sequestrum, squattered, squeakiest, squeteague, statuesque, subsequent, techniques, unquietest.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: QUEEST


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

51 55 45 45 53 54

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

--.-    ..-    .    .    ...    -

Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010001 01010101 01000101 01000101 01010011 01010100

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#81 &#85 &#69 &#69 &#83 &#84

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0051 0055 0045 0045 0053 0054

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

515539395354

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Crosswords
3. Expressions: Internet
4. Anagrams
5. Orthography
6. Bibliography


  

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