Quiz

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  • transitive verb. To question (someone), especially closely or repeatedly.
  • transitive verb. To test the knowledge of by posing questions: synonym: ask.
  • transitive verb. To poke fun at; mock.
  • noun. A questioning or inquiry.
  • noun. A short oral or written test.
  • noun. A practical joke.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To puzzle; banter; make sport of by means of puzzling questions, hints, and the like; chaff.
  • To look at through or as through a quizzing-glass; peer at; scrutinize suspiciously.
  • In medicine, to examine (a student) orally or informally, as in a quiz-or question-class.
  • To practise bantering or chaffing; be addicted to teasing.
  • In medicine, to attend oral or informal examinations, as in a quiz-class.
  • noun. A puzzling question; something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
  • noun. One who quizzes.
  • noun. One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
  • noun. An oral questioning of a student or class by a teacher, conducted with the object of communicating instruction and preparing for some examination: as, the surgery quiz; the practice quiz. [Colloq.]
  • noun. A collection of notes made by a student from a professor's lectures, especially when printed for the use of other students. [Colloq.]
  • noun. A monocular eye-glass, with or without a handle; a quizzing-glass.
  • noun. A toy, formerly popular, consisting of a small cylinder or wheel grooved to receive a string, by which the wheel is made to wind and unwind itself. Also called bandalore.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • intransitive verb. To conduct a quiz. See quiz, n., 4.
  • noun. A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
  • noun. One who quizzes others.
  • noun. An odd or absurd fellow.
  • noun. An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
  • transitive verb. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
  • transitive verb. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
  • transitive verb. To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
  • transitive verb. a small eyeglass.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
  • noun. One who or that which quizzes.
  • noun. One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
  • noun. A competition in the answering of questions.
  • noun. A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
  • verb. To hoax.
  • verb. To question closely, to interrogate.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. examine someone's knowledge of something
  • noun. an examination consisting of a few short questions
  • Word Usage
    "He said, It is believed by many that the word quiz was made up in 1791 by a Dublin theater manager named Daly."
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