Quest vs Scavenge - What's the difference?
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A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
* (William Shakespeare)
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The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
(obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
* Herbert
(obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
* (William Shakespeare)
(obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
* (William Shakespeare)
To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
To search for; to examine.
to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material
to remove unwanted material from something, especially to purify molten metal by removing impurities
to expel the exhaust gases from the cylinder of an internal combustion engine, and draw in air for the next cycle
to feed on carrion or refuse
As an abbreviation quest
is quantized electronic structure.As a verb scavenge is
to collect and remove refuse, or to search through refuse, carrion, or abandoned items for useful material.quest
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(wikipedia quest)Noun
(en noun)- Cease your quest of love.
citation, passage=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.}}
- Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
- The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
- What lawful quest have given their verdict?