quest
IPA: kwˈɛst
noun
- A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
- The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
- (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
- (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
- (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
- (education) A short test.
- A surname from German.
- Abbreviation of quantized electronic structure. [(physics) Any material that confines electrons in such a small space that their wavelike behaviour becomes important and their properties are strongly modified by quantum mechanical effects; examples include atoms and layered semiconductor devices.]
verb
- (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
- (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
- (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.
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