Quiz vs Essay - What's the difference?
quiz | essay |
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.
* 1803' (published '''1816 ), (Jane Austen), ''(Northanger Abbey) , [http://www.gutenberg.org/files/121/121-h/121-h.htm Chapter 7]
A competition in the answering of questions.
A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
(archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
* Thackeray
(archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
To question closely, to interrogate.
To instruct by means of a quiz.
A written composition of moderate length exploring a particular issue or subject.
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(obsolete) A test, experiment; an assay.
An attempt.
* 1988 , James McPherson, Battle Cry of Freedom , Oxford 2003, p. 455:
(dated) To try.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter II,
To move forth, as into battle.
As nouns the difference between quiz and essay
is that quiz is quiz, trivia while essay is essay, usually on scientific, cultural or sociological subjects for publication in a newspaper or magazine.quiz
English
(wikipedia quiz)Noun
(quizzes)- (Smart)
- (Thackeray)
- Where did you get that quiz of a hat? It makes you look like an old witch.
- We came second in the pub quiz .
Derived terms
* quiz kid * quizzer * quizzery * quizzical * quizzify * quizzyVerb
(en-verb)- He quizzed unmercifully all the men in the room.
essay
English
(wikipedia essay)Noun
(en noun)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.”}}
- This was Lee's first essay in the kind of offensive-defensive strategy that was to become his hallmark.
Derived terms
* photo essayVerb
(en verb)- He retraced his steps to the front gate, which he essayed to open.