quiz

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. v. To question closely or repeatedly; interrogate.
2. v. To test the knowledge of by posing questions. See Synonyms at ask.
3. v. Chiefly British To poke fun at; mock.
4. n. A questioning or an inquiry.
5. n. A short oral or written test.
6. n. A practical joke.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A puzzling question; something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
2. n. One who quizzes.
3. n. One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
4. n. 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.]
5. n. A collection of notes made by a student from a professor's lectures, especially when printed for the use of other students. [Colloq.]
6. n. A monocular eye-glass, with or without a handle; a quizzing-glass.
7. To puzzle; banter; make sport of by means of puzzling questions, hints, and the like; chaff.
8. To look at through or as through a quizzing-glass; peer at; scrutinize suspiciously.
9. In medicine, to examine (a student) orally or informally, as in a quiz-or question-class.
10. To practise bantering or chaffing; be addicted to teasing.
11. In medicine, to attend oral or informal examinations, as in a quiz-class.
12. n. 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.

Wiktionary

1. n. Something designed to puzzle one or make one ridiculous; banter; raillery.
2. n. One who or that which quizzes.
3. n. One who or that which is obnoxious to ridicule or quizzing; a queer or ridiculous person or thing.
4. n. A competition in the answering of questions.
5. n. A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.
6. v. transitive, archaic To hoax.
7. v. transitive To question closely, to interrogate.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. A riddle or obscure question; an enigma; a ridiculous hoax.
2. n. One who quizzes others.
3. n. An odd or absurd fellow.
4. n. Cant, U.S. An exercise, or a course of exercises, conducted as a coaching or as an examination.
5. v. To puzzle; to banter; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
6. v. To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
7. v. U.S. To instruct in or by a quiz. See Quiz, n., 4.
8. v. U.S. To conduct a quiz. See quiz, n., 4.

WordNet 3.0

1. v. examine someone's knowledge of something
2. n. an examination consisting of a few short questions