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  5  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quest  \Quest\,  v.  t.  [Cf.  OF  quester,  F.  qu[^e]ter.  See 
  {Quest},  n.] 
  To  search  for  to  examine.  [R.]  --Sir  T.  Herbert. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Quest  \Quest\,  v.  i. 
  To  go  on  a  quest;  to  make  a  search;  to  go  in  pursuit;  to  beg. 
  [R.] 
 
  If  his  questing  had  been  unsuccessful,  he  appeased  the 
  rage  of  hunger  with  some  scraps  of  broken  meat. 
  --Macaulay. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  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 
 
  Upon  an  hard  adventure  yet  in  quest.  --Spenser. 
 
  Cease  your  quest  of  love.  --Shak. 
 
  There  ended  was  his  quest,  there  ceased  his  care 
  --Milton. 
 
  2.  Request;  desire;  solicitation. 
 
  Gad  not  abroad  at  every  quest  and  call  Of  an 
  untrained  hope  or  passion.  --Herbert. 
 
  3.  Those  who  make  search  or  inquiry,  taken  collectively. 
 
  The  senate  hath  sent  about  three  several  quests  to 
  search  you  out  --Shak. 
 
  4.  Inquest;  jury  of  inquest. 
 
  What  lawful  quest  have  given  their  verdict  ?  --Shak. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  quest 
  n  1:  a  search  for  an  alternative  that  meets  cognitive  criteria 
  [syn:  {hunt},  {pursuit}] 
  2:  the  act  of  searching  for  something  "a  quest  for  diamonds" 
  [syn:  {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  as  of  game:  "The  dog  went  of  and 
  quested" 
  3:  bark  with  prolonged  noises,  of  dogs  [syn:  {bay}] 
  4:  seek  alms,  as  for  religious  purposes 
  5:  express  the  need  or  desire  for  ask  for  "She  requested  an 
  extra  bed  in  her  room"  [syn:  {request},  {bespeak},  {call 
  for}] 
 
  From  The  Free  On-line  Dictionary  of  Computing  (13  Mar  01)  [foldoc]: 
 
  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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