different between kill vs quest

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??l/
• Rhymes: -?l

Etymology 1

From Middle English killen, kyllen, cüllen (“to strike, beat, cut”), of obscure origin.

• Perhaps from Old English *cyllan, from Proto-West Germanic *kwulljan, from Proto-Germanic *kwuljan?, from Proto-Indo-European *g?elH- (“to throw, hit, hurt by throwing”).
• Or, possibly a variant of Old English cwellan (“to kill, murder, execute”) (see quell)
• Or, from Old Norse kolla (“to hit on the head, harm”), related to Norwegian kylla (“to poll”), Middle Dutch kollen (“to knock down”), Icelandic kollur (“top, head”); see also coll, cole).

Compare also Middle Dutch killen, kellen (“to kill”), Middle Low German killen (“to ache strongly, cause one great pain”), Middle High German kellen (“to torment; torture”).

Verb

kill (third-person singular simple present kills, present participle killing, simple past and past participle killed)

1. (transitive) To put to death; to extinguish the life of.
2. (transitive) To render inoperative.
   • 1978, John Farris, The Fury

     Peter: Ask Childers if it was worth his arm.

     Policeman: What did you do to his arm, Peter?

     Peter: I killed it, with a machine gun.

3. (transitive, figuratively) To stop, cease, or render void; to terminate.

4. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To amaze, exceed, stun, or otherwise incapacitate.

5. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To cause great pain, discomfort, or distress to.
6. (transitive, figuratively) To produce feelings of dissatisfaction or revulsion in.

7. (transitive) To use up or to waste.

8. (transitive, figuratively, informal) To exert an overwhelming effect on.

9. (transitive, figuratively, hyperbolic) To overpower, overwhelm, or defeat.

10. (transitive) To force a company out of business.
11. (intransitive, informal, hyperbolic) To produce intense pain.

12. (figuratively, informal, hyperbolic, transitive) To punish severely.
13. (transitive, sports) To strike (a ball, etc.) with such force and placement as to make a shot that is impossible to defend against, usually winning a point.
14. (transitive, sports) To cause (a ball, etc.) to be out of play, resulting in a stoppage of gameplay.
15. To succeed with an audience, especially in comedy.
16. (mathematics, transitive, informal) To cause to assume the value zero.
17. (computing, Internet, IRC, transitive) To disconnect (a user) involuntarily from the network.
18. (metallurgy) To deadmelt.

Synonyms

• (to put to death): assassinate, bump off, dispatch, ice, knock off, liquidate, murder, rub out, slaughter, slay, top, whack
• (to use up or waste): fritter away, while away
• (to render inoperative): break, deactivate, disable, turn off
• (to exert an overwhelming effect on): annihilate (informal)
• See also Thesaurus:kill

Hyponyms

• instakill
• instant kill

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. The act of killing.

2. Specifically, the death blow.

3. The result of killing; that which has been killed.

   • If ye plunder his kill' from a weaker, devour not all in thy pride.

4. (volleyball) The grounding of the ball on the opponent's court, winning the rally.
   • 2011, the 34th Catawba College Sports Hall of Fame, in Catawba College's Campus Magazine, Spring/Summer 2011, page 21:

     As a senior in 1993, Turner had a kill percentage of 40.8, which was a school record at the time and the best in the SAC. Turner concluded her volleyball career with 1,349 kills, ranking fifth all-time at Catawba.

Derived terms

• in for the kill
• thrill kill

Translations

Etymology 2

Borrowing from Dutch kil, from Middle Dutch kille.

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. (north-east US) A creek; a body of water; a channel or arm of the sea.

Translations

Etymology 3

Noun

kill (plural kills)

1. A kiln.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Fuller to this entry?)

Cahuilla

Adverb

kíll

1. Not

German

Pronunciation

Verb

kill

1. singular imperative of killen
2. (colloquial) first-person singular present of killen

Livonian

Etymology 1

Related to Finnish kylvää.

Alternative forms

• (Courland) killõ

Verb

kill

1. sow

Etymology 2

Related to Estonian kõlama.

Alternative forms

• (Courland) ki'llõ

Verb

kill

1. ring
2. make noise

Luxembourgish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kil/
• Rhymes: -il

Etymology 1

From Old High German kuoli, from Proto-West Germanic *k?l(?), from Proto-Germanic *k?laz. Cognate with German kühl, English cool, Dutch koel, Low German kool.

Adjective

kill (masculine killen, neuter killt, comparative méi kill, superlative am killsten)

1. cool

Declension

Related terms

• kal

Etymology 2

Verb

kill

1. second-person singular imperative of killen

Ter Sami

Etymology

From Proto-Samic *kielë.

Noun

kill

1. language

Derived terms

• samekill

Further reading

• Koponen, Eino; Ruppel, Klaas; Aapala, Kirsti, editors (2002-2008) Álgu database: Etymological database of the Saami languages?^[6], Helsinki: Research Institute for the Languages of Finland

Westrobothnian

Etymology

From Old Norse kið

Noun

kill f

1. female kid (young goat)

English

Etymology

From Middle English quest, queste; partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste (“acquisition, search, hunt”), and partly from their source, Latin quaesta (“tribute, tax, inquiry, search”), noun use of quaesita, the feminine past participle of quaerere (“to ask, seek”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?st/, enPR: kw?st
• Rhymes: -?st

Noun

quest (plural quests)

1. A journey or effort in pursuit of a goal (often lengthy, ambitious, or fervent); a mission.
2. The act of seeking, or looking after anything; attempt to find or obtain; search; pursuit.

3. (obsolete) Request; desire; solicitation.

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

4. (obsolete) A group of people making search or inquiry.
5. (obsolete) Inquest; jury of inquest.
   • 1609, William Shakespeare, "Sonnet 46"

     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 […]

Derived terms

• sidequest

Translations

Verb

quest (third-person singular simple present quests, present participle questing, simple past and past participle quested)

1. To seek or pursue a goal; to undertake a mission or job.
2. To search for; to examine.
   • 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.

Middle English

Alternative forms

• queste, qwest, qwhest

Etymology

Partly from Anglo-Norman queste, Old French queste, and partly from their source, Latin quaesta.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kw?st(?)/

Noun

quest (plural questes)

1. (Late Middle English) A legal inquest or investigation; a session of court.
2. (Late Middle English) A group or body of jurors
3. (rare) A body of judges or other individuals commissioned to make a decision or verdict
4. (rare) The decision or verdict reached by such a body of judges.
5. (rare) A quest, mission, or search.
   1. (rare) The finding of prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
   2. (rare, Late Middle English) The howling upon finding prey by hunting dogs during a hunt.
6. (rare, Late Middle English) A petition or asking.

Related terms

• conquest
• enquest
• questen
• questioun
• questor
• request

Descendants

• English: quest
• Scots: quest

References

• “quest(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-06-2.

Romagnol

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.

Pronoun

quest (feminine singular questa)

1. this one, this

   Quest l'è un mond zneno, e nost mond.

   This is a small world, our world.

   Questa l'è una cittadina bela.

   This is a beautiful city.

Romansch

Etymology

From Vulgar Latin *eccu istu, from Latin eccum istum. Compare Italian questo.

Pronoun

quest

1. this