questとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /kwɛst/, enPR: kwĕst
• Rhymes: -ɛst

名詞

quest (複数形 quests)

1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, または fervent); a mission.
   • c. 1603–1606, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of King Lear”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene i]:

     Cease your quest of love.

   • 2013 January, Katie L. Burke, “Ecological Dependency”, in American Scientist‎^[1], volume 101, number 1, archived from the original on 9 February 2017, page 64:

     In his first book since the 2008 essay collection Natural Acts: A Sidelong View of Science and Nature, David Quammen looks at the natural world from yet another angle: the search for the next human pandemic, what epidemiologists call “the next big one.” His quest leads him around the world to study a variety of suspect zoonoses—animal-hosted pathogens that infect humans.

2. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

   to rove in quest of game, of a lost child, of property, etc.

3. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
   • [1633], George Herbert, edited by [Nicholas Ferrar], The Temple: Sacred Poems, and Private Ejaculations, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: […] Thomas Buck and Roger Daniel and and are to be sold by Francis Green, […], →OCLC; reprinted London: Elliot Stock, […], 1885, →OCLC:

     Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.

4. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.

5. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 46”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:

     To 'cide this title is impanneled
     A quest of thoughts, all tenants to the heart,
     And by their verdict is determined
     The clear eye's moiety and the dear heart's part […]

派生語

動詞

quest (三人称単数 現在形 quests, 現在分詞 questing, 過去形および過去分詞形 quested)

1. (intransitive) To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2. (transitive) To search for something; to seek.
   • 1634, Thomas Herbert, Description of the Persian Monarchy now beinge the Orientall Indyes, Iles and other ports of the Greater Asia and Africk

     Next day we quested in search of our caravan, and after some pains recovered it.

3. (entomology, of a tick) To locate and attach to a host animal.

語源 2

Blend of quiz +‎ test, to avoid using the word test.

名詞

quest (複数形 quests)

1. (education) A short test.
   • 1998 March 20, bill kao, “3rd per”, in alt.music.ash‎^[2] (Usenet):

     I had a calculus quest (not a quiz または a test, but somewhere in between...) it was on limits, and l'hopital's rule...

   • 2004 September 24, Kathy, “Weekly Diary Third Semester #4”, in alt.coffee.clutch‎^[3] (Usenet):

     However took a quest, quiz/test combination that this math progrm^[sic] uses, and got ten out of ten on it!

   • 2015, Kathleen Gibson-Dee, “Learning Through Questing, Not Testing”, in College Teaching‎^[4], volume 63, number 3, Taylor & Francis, →ISSN, page 133:

     Quests, bigger than quizzes and smaller than tests, consist of around 10 questions worth 2 points each, designed to take about 30–40 minutes.

   • 2017, Joshua Ring, “ConfChem conference on select 2016 BCCE presentations”, in Journal of Chemical Education‎^[5], volume 94, number 12, ACS Publications, →ISSN, pages 2005–2006:

     Most outcomes were assessed with 10 min, single-page, five-question quizzes/tests (“quests”) given at the beginning of class, followed immediately with a brief discussion of the correct answers; mastery could be demonstrated by the student with four of five complete, correct answers (with no partial credit). […] Students were given a finite number of “quest” retakes. Three class periods during the semester were used as quest makeup periods, during which students would be able to take new versions of EO and GO quests.

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