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quiz | x |

As a noun quiz

is quiz, trivia.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

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.

    • x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----