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Trek vs Quest - What's the difference?

trek | quest |

As a proper noun trek

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As an adjective trek

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As an abbreviation quest is

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trek

English

(wikipedia trek)

Noun

(en noun)
  • A slow or difficult journey.
  • We're planning on going on a trek up Kilimanjaro.
  • (South Africa) A journey by ox wagon.
  • (South Africa) The of 1835-1837.
  • Verb

    (trekk)
  • To make a slow or arduous journey.
  • To journey on foot, especially to hike through mountainous areas.
  • (South Africa) To travel by ox wagon.
  • quest

    English

    (wikipedia quest)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • Cease your quest of love.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-01
  • , author=Katie L. Burke , title=Ecological Dependency , volume=101, issue=1, page=64 , magazine= 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.}}
  • The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.
  • (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.
  • * Herbert
  • Gad not abroad at every quest and call / Of an untrained hope or passion.
  • (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • The senate hath sent about three several quests to search you out.
  • (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
  • * (William Shakespeare)
  • What lawful quest have given their verdict?

    Derived terms

    * sidequest

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
  • To search for; to examine.
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