QUIZ (quizzed, quizzes, quizzes, quizzing)

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IPA (US):

Irregular inflected forms: quizzed    , quizzes    , quizzes    , quizzing   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does quiz mean? 

• QUIZ (noun)
  The noun QUIZ has 1 sense:

1. an examination consisting of a few short questions

  Familiarity information: QUIZ used as a noun is very rare.

• QUIZ (verb)
  The verb QUIZ has 1 sense:

1. examine someone's knowledge of something

  Familiarity information: QUIZ used as a verb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUIZ (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An examination consisting of a few short questions

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Hypernyms ("quiz" is a kind of...):

exam; examination; test (a set of questions or exercises evaluating skill or knowledge)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "quiz"):

pop quiz (a quiz given without prior warning)

Derivation:

quiz (examine someone's knowledge of something)

• QUIZ (verb)

Present simple: I / you / we / they quiz    ... he / she / it quizzes   
Past simple: quizzed   
Past participle: quizzed   
-ing form: quizzing   

Sense 1

Meaning:

Examine someone's knowledge of something

Classified under:

Verbs of telling, asking, ordering, singing

Synonyms:

quiz; test

Context example:

We got quizzed on French irregular verbs

Hypernyms (to "quiz" is one way to...):

examine (question closely)

Verb group:

test (undergo a test)

Sentence frames:

Somebody ----s somebody
Somebody ----s somebody PP

Derivation:

quiz (an examination consisting of a few short questions)

quizzer (someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications)

 Context examples 

The younger men quiz him, it seems, call him Old Fritz, Lager Beer, Ursa Major, and make all manner of jokes on his name.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

There are quizzes, games and lots of cool web sites for you to explore.

(Children's Page, NIH)

Then let us walk about and quiz people.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

But I will quiz you with a great deal of pleasure, if you will tell me what about.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Young ladies have a remarkable way of letting you know that they think you a "quiz" without actually saying the words.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

When at last, about midday, he did descend, he was so fine with his curled hair, his shining teeth, his quizzing glass, his snow-white ruffles, and his laughing eyes, that I could not take my gaze from him.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I’m afraid some one else has fed me most of my life, she laughed, trying bravely to enter into the spirit of his quizzing, though I could see a terror dawning and growing in her eyes as she watched Wolf Larsen.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Their conversation turned upon those subjects, of which the free discussion has generally much to do in perfecting a sudden intimacy between two young ladies: such as dress, balls, flirtations, and quizzes.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

You are quizzing me and Miss Anderson.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

That night he looked as if he would like the fun of quizzing her figures and pretending to be horrified at her extravagance, as he often did, being particularly proud of his prudent wife.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)