Exercise vs Quiz - What's the difference?

As nouns the difference between exercise and quiz

is that exercise is any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability while quiz is something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.

As verbs the difference between exercise and quiz

is that exercise is to exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop while quiz is to hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

exercise

English

Noun

(en noun)

Any activity designed to develop or hone a skill or ability.

*(Edmund Spenser) (c.1552–1599)

*:desire of knightly exercise

*(John Locke) (1632-1705)

*:an exercise of the eyes and memory

Physical activity intended to improve strength and fitness.

*:This new-comer was a man who in any company would have seemed striking.He was smooth-faced, and his fresh skin and well-developed figure bespoke the man in good physical condition through active exercise , yet well content with the world's apportionment.

A setting in action or practicing; employment in the proper mode of activity; exertion; application; use.

*(Thomas Jefferson) (1743-1826)

*:exercise of the important function confided by the constitution to the legislature

* (1809-1892)

*:O we will walk this world, / Yoked in all exercise of noble end.

The performance of an office, ceremony, or duty.

*(Joseph Addison) (1672-1719)

*:Lewis refused even those of the church of Englandthe public exercise of their religion.

*(William Shakespeare) (1564-1616)

*:to draw him from his holy exercise

(lb) That which gives practice; a trial; a test.

*(John Milton) (1608-1674)

*:Patience is more oft the exercise / Of saints, the trial of their fortitude.

Alternative forms

* exercice * excercise

Derived terms

* exercise book * exercise machine * five-finger exercise * floor exercise * military exercise

Verb

(exercis)

To exert for the sake of training or improvement; to practice in order to develop.

To perform physical activity for health or training.

To use (a right, an option, etc.); to put into practice.

*Bible, (w) xxii. 29

*:The people of the land have used oppression and exercised robbery.

To occupy the attention and effort of; to task; to tax, especially in a painful or vexatious manner; harass; to vex; to worry or make anxious.

*(and other bibliographic particulars for citation) (John Milton)

*:Where pain of unextinguishable fire / Must exercise us without hope of end.

(lb) To set in action; to cause to act, move, or make exertion; to give employment to.

*Bible, (w) xxiv. 16

*:Herein do I exercise myself, to have always a conscience void of offence.

*:Little disappointed, then, she turned attention to "Chat of the Social World," gossip which exercised potent fascination upon the girl's intelligence.

External links

* * 1000 English basic words

quiz

English

(wikipedia quiz)

Noun

(quizzes)

Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.

One who or that which quizzes.

(dated) An odd or absurd person or thing.

(Smart)

(Thackeray)

* 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]

Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.

A competition in the answering of questions.

We came second in the pub quiz .

A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

Derived terms

* quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzy

Verb

(en-verb)

(archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.

* Thackeray

He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.

(archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.

To question closely, to interrogate.

To instruct by means of a quiz.