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quester

/kwest/US // kwɛst //UK // (kwɛst) //

创业者,创业家,创业人

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a search or pursuit made in order to find or obtain something: a quest for uranium mines; a quest for knowledge.
    • : Medieval Romance. an adventurous expedition undertaken by a knight or knights to secure or achieve something: the quest of the Holy Grail.
    • : those engaged in such an expedition.
    • : British Dialect. inquest.
    • : Obsolete. a jury of inquest.
v.无主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to search; seek: to quest after hidden treasure.
    • : to go on a quest.
    • : Hunting. to search for game.to bay or give tongue in pursuit of game.
v.有主动词 verb
  1. 1
    • : to search or seek for; pursue.

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Examples

  • The long-standing quest for a quantum description of gravity becomes a matter of identifying the qubit entanglement pattern that encodes the particular kind of space-time fabric found in the actual universe.

  • Shortly after, you get a journal that helps you in your quest because it holds a map of the island and dossiers on Bugsnax along with the more human characters you meet.

  • It is the strongest signal yet that the unprecedented quest to develop a vaccine that could help bring the pandemic to an end might succeed, breaking every scientific speed record.

  • Yet both species of scientist are driven by a desire to discover, and a refusal to quit despite the difficulty of a quest that can take decades and promises no sure rewards.

  • There’s more to it, though — the cards can also be used as “deep links” to game features like multiplayer, quests in progress, quick travel locations, even hints.

  • Stanhope was unwilling to submit to the curtailment of his profits, which necessarily followed the appointment of de Quester.

  • There were now three claimants for the place, Frizell, Witherings, and de Quester.

  • De Quester also published a statement of the days of departure of the regular posts with foreign letters.

  • The proceeds from de Quester's rates, which went into effect from this year, may possibly have gone to the Post Office.

  • The nation of scholars pictured the quester as a student, not as a knight.