Quest

Definition: Quest

Quest

Noun

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".

2. The act of searching for something; "a quest for diamonds".

Verb

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, as of game: "The dog went of and quested".

3. Bark with prolonged noises, of dogs.

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".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "quest" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1010. (references)

Computing

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QUEST

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Synonyms: Quest

Inquiry

Noun: inquiry; request; search, research, quest, pursuit.

Adjective: inquiry; Verb: inquisitive; (curious); requisitive, requisitory; catechetical, inquisitorial, analytic; in search of, in quest of; on the lookout for, interrogative, zetetic; all searching.

Pursuit

Noun: pursuit; pursuing; Verb: prosecution; pursuance; enterprise; (undertaking); business; adventure; (essay); quest; (search); scramble, hue and cry, game; hobby; still-hunt.

Adjective: pursuing; Verb: in quest of; (inquiry) in pursuit, in full cry, in hot pursuit; on the scent.

Crosswords: Quest

The quest will claim his life. (The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers; writing credit: Frances Walsh)

And for years he's on some kind of a quest for who knows what. (The English Patient; writing credit: Anthony Minghella)

Everything we've set out to do for this whole entire movie has been basically a quest for deep trouble, and we found it a lot. (Making of 'Jackass: The Movie'; writing credit: Danny Miller)

And what am I supposed to do while you're on a yellow book quest for a brain? (The Faculty; writing credit: David Wechter; Bruce Kimmel)

Go quest. (Buffy the Vampire Slayer; writing credit: Doreen Spicer)

You say your quest is to bring it higher (... On The Radio (Remember The Days); performing artist: Nelly Furtado)

On the quest for my song (Champagne High; performing artist: Sister Hazel)

The quest for beauty is a quest for love. (references; author: unknown)

Quest for Love (1971)

Random Quest (1969)

Quest for Health (1965)

Jonny Quest (1964)

The Quest (1958)

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References

• New Horizon Kids Quest, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Quest Diagnostics Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Quest Education Corporation: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

• Quest Software Incorporated: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  (more reference examples)

Books

• Quest of the Four: A Story of the Comanches and Buena Vista (reference)

• From the Desert to the Derby: The Ruling Family of Dubai's Billion-Dollar Quest to Win America's Greatest Horse Race (reference)

• The Billion-Dollar Molecule: One Company's Quest for the Perfect Drug (reference)

• Information Technology Standards: Quest for the Common Byte (reference)

• The Quest for Becket's Bones: The Mystery of the Relies of St. Thomas Bechet of Canterbury (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• African Quest (reference)

• Cable Quest (reference)

• Heritage Quest (reference)

• Human Quest (reference)

• New Quest (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Star Blazers - The Quest for Iscandar - The Complete Series I Collection (Episodes 1- 26) (reference)

• National Geographic - Quest for Noah's Flood (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Quest For Camelot: Music From The Motion Picture [SOUNDTRACK] (reference)

• Quest for Certainty (reference)

• Dopamine Quest [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Perceval: la quête du Graal (The Quest for the Grail) Vol.1 (reference)

• Quest of the Wanton Treader (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Minolta Quest 1-3hr Q2 Charger With 12v110v Adapater & 4 Aaa Batteries (reference)

• QUEST (NIMH) CHARGER W/4 (reference)

• Quest Overnight Charger 4 Aa Batteries 1300mah Nimh (reference)

• Disney's Phonics Quest (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Silver Quest Stroller (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Route map showing the routes of Shackleton and Amundsen in the quest for the . Pole. Titled: "Approximate bird's eye view, drawn from the first telegraphic account." In: "The South Pole", by Roald Amundsen, 1872-1928. Volume I, page 1, Library Call Number M82.1/99 A529s . Credit: Treasures of the Library.

Lockheed Corp.'s DEEP QUEST was instrumented more like a space ship than a sub. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP).

Figure 4. Li-Cor photometer. This photometer was investigated by Dr. Jean Brouardel in 1974 in a quest for instruments of greater precision. He investigated several including a Li-Cor quantum/radiometer/photometer developed by industry especially for measuring light in water or in air in relation to photosynthesis. Construction date and details of study conditions are unknown. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now.

In port during World War I. She was built in 1916 by the Greenport Basin and Construction Company, Greenport, Long Island, under the name Whippet and had the same hull design as a class of submarine chasers constructed for Russia. Quest was acquired by the Navy on 26 July 1917, commissioned on 8 September 1917, and returned to her owner on 7 January 1919. Credit: NAVY.

The Great walk--scenes and incidents on and off the track, during the memorable six days international pedestrian quest for the Astley Belt at Madison Square Garden, New York City, September 22-27. Credit: Library of Congress.

The quest of beauty. Credit: Library of Congress.

For the Negro, intelligent guides to family planning are a profoundly important ingredient in his quest for security and a decent life. Martin Luther King, Jr. Credit: Library of Congress.

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Finally, to those nations who would make themselves our adversary, we offer not a pledge but a request: that both sides begin anew the quest for peace, before the dark powers of destruction unleashed by science engulf all humanity in planned or accidental self-destruction. (reference)

Some of you have come from areas where your quest for freedom left you battered by the storms of persecution and staggered by the winds of police brutality. (Delivered on the steps at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington D.C. on August 28, 1937)

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Few secrets can escape an investigator, who has opportunity and license to undertake such a quest, and skill to follow it up.

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Business

However, the current quest for energy efficiency and economy of space has led many to consider alternative cooking methods and new technologies more seriously. (references)

Two (of three) Venezuelan cellular telephone operators currently offer WAP in their quest to diversify revenues as well as offer cutting edge technology solutions. (references)

The main characteristic of the market is the large market percentage held by the "no-name" manufacturers, while the firms Altec, Quest and Pouliadis continue to dominate the market. (references)

Economic History

Ukraine

This quest for high profitability can seriously affect the marketability of U.S. products. (references)

Democratic Republic of Congo

The U.S. remains a partner with DROC and other central African nations in their quest for stability and growth on the continent. (references)

Greece

Main competitors of American equipment are the European company, Bull, and the Greek assembly companies Altec, Pouliades and Quest, accounting for a significant portion of this market. (references)

Women

Ghana

In some cases in which FGM is performed, the victims actively seek out practitioners, sometimes without their parents' knowledge, in a quest to become ready for marriage. (references)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "quest": in quest of ♦ quest after ♦ quest for ♦ quest for pray. Additional references.

Beginning with "quest": quest-adventure, quest-novella, Quest-one-a-day, quest-plots, quest-story.

Ending with "quest": esa-quest, euro-quest.

Albanian

objekt për të kërkuar, kërkoj (aim, apply, arrogate, ask, ask for, assert, beg, call for, charge, claim, comb, cost, crave, cry for, demand, dig, dig for, exact, feel, fish for, fossick, go after, inquire, look, look for, looking for, necessitate, nose, nose out, petition, pick, postulate, ransack, request, rummage, search, search after, search out, seek, seek after, solicit, solicit for, want), kërkim (assertion, exploration, forage, inquiry, investigation, look, plea, pursuit, research, rummage, scan, search), gjë e kërkuar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏نقب (burrow, burrowing, comb, delve, drilling, excavation, fish, mine, piercing, pry, rake, ransack, root, rout out, rummage, scour, scrabble about, scrutinize, sleuth), ‏حقق (achieve, attain, check, consummate, effectuate, fulfil, fulfill, get on, implement, inquire, obtain, prize, probe, produce, realize, search closely, see, slate, take, work out), ‏تنقيب (drilling, excavations, mining prospect, prospecting), ‏تحقيق (ascertainment, come true, consummation, enquiry, exploration, fruition, fulfillment, fulfilment, implementing, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, probe, probing, realization, survey, verification), ‏طلب (appeal, application, ask, call, call for, demand, desire, instance, memorial, ordain, order, place, reclaim, request, require, requisition, rush order, seek, tune), ‏بحث (brochure, cast about, consideration, discuss, discussion, disquisition, drilling for, examine, exploration, explore, fumble, hunt for, inquest, inquire, inquisition, investigate, investigation, look, look for, looking for, poke about, probe, prospection, pry, pursue, research, retrieve, rummage, scrounge, scrutinize, search, see, see into, seek, seeking, sought, spy, study, talk over, think through, treatise, try, ventilate). (various references)

Bulgarian 

следствие (consequence, consequent, effect, inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, outgrowth, product), търся (ask for, go after, grope, hunt, hunt up, look about, look for, look up, nose, prospect, root about, scavenge, scratch around, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, skirmish), търсене (demand, hunting, looking for, market, request, requisition, research, run, scanning, search, seeking, solicitation), тръгвам да търся, анкета (inquisition, investigation), лая (bark, yap, yelp), душа (breast, ghost, heart, inside, lifeblood, mastermind, nature, nose, nuzzle, psyche, scent, scrag, smell, smell about, smother, sniff, soul, spirit, stifle, throttle), дирене (research, seeking). (various references)

Chinese 

探索 , 搜寻 (Foraged, foraging, Searched, searching). (various references)

Czech

pátrání (Hunt, inquest, investigation, search), hledání (search). (various references)

Dutch

zoektocht (search), speurwerk (exploration, investigation, research, search), speurtocht (exploration, investigation, research, search). (various references)

Esperanto

serĉado (search). (various references)

Farsi 

تلاش (Effort, Endeavor, Muss, Prowl, Scramble), تحقیق (Inquiry, Probe, Research, Rummage, Scholarship, Scrutiny), طلب (Demand), جویش , جستجوکردن (Attempt, Comb, Fish, Grub, Look, Mouse, Ransack, Scour, Search, Seek, Sick), جستجو (Disquisition, Hunt, Probe, Prowl, Research, Rummage, Search), بازجوءی (Crossquestion, Inquest, Inquiry). (various references)

Finnish

haku (search), etsiminen (search, seeking). (various references)

French

recherche. (various references)

German

Suche (finding, hunt, hunting, scout, scouting, search, searching), Suchen (find, hunt, look, look for, look out for, lookup, probe, quests, search, search about, search around, seek, seek after, sought, strive, to hunt, to look for, to search, try, woo). (various references)

Greek 

αναζήτηση (pursuit, search). (various references)

Hebrew 

לחקור (delve, explore, inquire into, probe, scrutinize, search), לחפש (examine, hunt for, look for, search, seek), חפוש (investigation, search). (various references)

Hungarian

kutatás (disquisition, exploration, investigation, probing, questing, research, scrutiny, search), keresés (hunting, pursuance, pursuit, questing, scan, search), vizsgálattal megbízott közeg, hivatalos vizsgálat, felkutatás. (various references)

Indonesian

penyelidikan (inquiry, polling), pencarian (income, livelihood, search), mencari (go after, hunt for, look for, seek). (various references)

Italian

ricerca (demand, fieldwork, hunting, inquiry, investigation, project, pursuit, research, search, study). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

探求 (pursuit). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

た�"きゅう (enquiry, pursuit, research, search, single-grade). (various references)

Korean 

탐구 (Delving, Exploring, inquisitive). (various references)

Manx

shalee (design, intention, project, purpose, pursuit), ronsaght (investigation, scrutiny, search), ransagh. (various references)

Norwegian

leting. (various references)

Pig Latin

estquay

Portuguese

procurar (browse, come after, court, dub, ensue, find out, fish, fossick, get, hunt up, look after, look for, look up, nose, obtrude, pursue, rake, rake up, search, search after, search for, seek), procura (looking-for, one is looking for, pursuance, pursuit, search), pesquisa (exploration, inquiry, investigation, research, rummage), perseguição (chase, chasing, follow, persecution, pursuit), ir em busca de, investigação (canvass, disquisition, enquiry, exploration, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitorial, investigation, research, rummage, study), indagar (ascertain, enquire, inquire, investigate, query, question, search), indagação (investigation, research, search), farejar (nose, scent, sniff, wind), caça (bird, chase, chasing, chevy, fighter, game animal, hunt, pursuit, wildlife), buscar (collect, court, examine, explore, fetch, find, fish, investigate, look for, nose, pursue, rake, rake up, research, search, seek, strive for, to seek), busca (demand, investigation, looking-for, pursuance, pursuit, search, seek), aquilo que se busca. (various references)

Romanian

porni în cãutare, cercetare (analysis, control, essay, examen, examination, exploration, hearing, inquiry, inquisition, inspection, investigation, probe, research, study, test, trial, view), cãutare (call, care, pursuit, recognition, research, run, search, searching, seeking), cãuta (covet, ferret, forage, fossick, Hunt, look about for, look for, look out, look out for, look up, make a search, nose, search after, search for, seek, seek for, want), ţintã a cãutãrilor. (various references)

Russian 

поиски (looking for, questing, quests, search). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

tragati (hunt up, search, seek after), traganje (enquiry, search), traženje (hunt, hunting, looking for, pursuit, request, requirement, search, solicitation, tracer), istraga (inquest, inquiry, inquisition, investigation, perquisition, probe), istraživati (enquire, explore, prospect, research). (various references)

Spanish

indagación (inquest, inquiry), hacer colecta, colecta (collect, collection, kitty, purse), buscar (ferret, fetch, forage for, get, go after, home in on, Hunt, hunt for, hunt out, hunt up, investigate, lay hold of, look, look for, look out, look out for, look round, look up, pick, pick up, prospect for, pursue, scout for, scrounge around for, search, search after, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, take, to look for, turn up), búsqueda (Hunt, looking for, pursuit, rummage, search, searching). (various references)

Swedish

sökande (applicant, applicants, candidate, fumble, poking, postulant, search, searching, seeking, trawl), sök. (various references)

Turkish

soruşturma (checkback, disquisition, enquiry, examination, hearing, inquest, inquiries, inquiry, inquisition, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, probe, question, questionnaire, verification), bulmaya çalışma, av izini aramak, aramak (be on the look-out for, be spoiling for, call, comb, comb out, gun for, have a look-see, Hunt, hunt after, hunt for, hunt out, look, look for, Miss, poke, prospect, rout, rummage, scout about, scout around, search, search for, seek, seek after, seek for, try to find, woo), arama (exploration, hunting, reconnaissance, research, scouring, search, searching), araştırmak (analyse, analyze, cast about, cast around, check up, dig, dig up, drag up, dredge for, dredge up, explore, ferret, ferret about, fish, fish around, forage, fossick, go into, hunt after, hunt out, hunt up, inquire, inquire into, investigate, make a study of, poke, probe, quarry, rake, research, research into, root, rout, rummage, search, seek, seek after, seek for, shop, shop for, sound, study, sum up, survey), araştırma (ascertainment, checkback, checkover, checkup, discourse, disquisition, exploration, explorative, exploratory, inquiries, inquiry, inquisitional, inquisitorial, investigation, investigative, probe, pursuit, research, review, search, study). (various references)

Turkmen 

agtaryю (search). (various references)

Ukrainian

розшукувати (forage for, hunt out, look about), розшукуваний предмет, розшук (battue), шукати (hunt for, look for, pick, search, seek), шукання. (various references)

Vietnamese 

sự truy tìm, cuộc điều tra, ban điều tra. (various references)

Welsh

ymchwil (research, search). (various references)

questa. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "quest": quested, quester, questers, questing, question, questionable, questionableness, questionablenesses, questionably, questionaries, questionary, questioned, questioner, questioners, questioning, questionless, questionnaire, questionnaires, questions, questor, questors, quests. (additional references)

Words ending with "quest": acquest, bequest, brusquest, conquest, inquest, opaquest, postconquest, preconquest, reconquest, request, uniquest. (additional references)

Words containing "quest": acquests, bequests, conquests, counterquestion, counterquestioned, counterquestioning, counterquestions, equestrian, equestrians, equestrienne, equestriennes, inquests, reconquests, requested, requester, requesters, requesting, requestor, requestors, requests, sequester, sequestered, sequestering, sequesters, sequestra, sequestrate, sequestrated, sequestrates, sequestrating, sequestration, sequestrations, sequestrum, sequestrums, unquestionable, unquestionably, unquestioned, unquestioning, unquestioningly. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Quest" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: eques, equest, iquest, qasem, Qelt, Qes, Qses, quact, Quaestor, quase, quasp, Quass, Quast, quats, quazt, qubet, qudsi, queat, quees, queet, queez, queit, quelt, quemt, quent, quept, quert, ques, quesa, quesat, quese, quesi, queso, quess, queste, questi, questo, quesy, queti, quetz, queyt, quez, queze, quise, quixt, quost, quott, qus, quse, qused, quus, Qwest. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: suet.

-2 letters: set, sue, suq, use, uts.

-3 letters: es, et, us, ut.

+1 letter: quests, quiets, quotes, toques, tuques.

+2 letters: acquest, bequest, bosquet, coquets, equates, equites, inquest, mesquit, piquets, quartes, quatres, querist, quested, quester, questor, quietus, quintes, quoters, request, roquets, sequent, toquets, torques.

+3 letters: acquests, antiques, banquets, bequests, bosquets, bouquets, briquets, conquest, croquets, disquiet, equators, equiseta, equities, inquests, inquiets, liquates, mesquite, mesquits, mezquits, misquote, mystique, opaquest, parquets, picquets, postique, quaestor, quakiest, quarters, quartets, quartzes, queerest, querists, questers, questing, question, questors, quetzals, quickest, quickset, quietens, quieters, quietest, quietism, quietist, quillets, quilters, quintets, quipster, quitches, quitters, quixotes, racquets, requests, requites, sequents, sequitur, squamate, squarest, squatted, squatter, squinted, squinter, squirted, squirter, tequilas, torquers, uniquest, unquiets, unquotes.