different between quiz vs investigation

English

Etymology

Attested since the 1780s, of unknown origin.

• The Century Dictionary suggests it was originally applied to a popular toy, from a dialectal variant of whiz.
• The Random House Dictionary suggests the original sense was "odd person" (circa 1780).
• Others suggest the meaning "hoax" was original (1796), shifting to the meaning "interrogate" (1847) under the influence of question and inquisitive.
• Some say without evidence it was invented by a late-18th-century Dublin theatre proprietor who bet he could add a new nonsense word to the English language; he had the word painted on walls all over the city, and the morning after, everyone was talking about it.
• Others suggest it was originally quies (1847), Latin qui es? (who are you?), traditionally the first question in oral Latin exams. They suggest that it was first used as a noun from 1867, and the spelling quiz first recorded in 1886, but this is demonstrably incorrect.
• A further derivation, assuming that the original sense is "good, ingenuous, harmless man, overly conventional, pedantic, rule-bound man, square; nerd; oddball, eccentric", is based on a column from 1785 which claims that the origin is a jocular translation of the Horace quotation vir bonus est quis as "the good man is a quiz" at Cambridge.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kw?z/, [k?w??z]
• Rhymes: -?z

Noun

quiz (plural quizzes)

1. (dated) An odd, puzzling or absurd person or thing.
   • 1833, Maria Edgeworth, Moral Tales, volume 1, page 204:

     I tell you I am going to the music shop. I trust to your honour. Lord Rawson, I know, will call me a fool for trusting to the honour of a quiz.
2. (dated) One who questions or interrogates; a prying person.
3. A competition in the answering of questions.
4. (education) A school examination of less importance, or of greater brevity, than others given in the same course.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

quiz (third-person singular simple present quizzes, present participle quizzing, simple past and past participle quizzed)

1. (transitive, archaic) To hoax; to chaff or mock with pretended seriousness of discourse; to make sport of, as by obscure questions.
2. (transitive, archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
3. (transitive) To question (someone) closely, to interrogate.
4. (transitive) To instruct (someone) by means of a quiz.
5. (transitive, obsolete, rare) To play with a quiz. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Translations

References

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kvis/, [k?vis]
• Homophone: quiz'

Noun

quiz c (singular definite quizzen, plural indefinite quizzer)

1. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

Inflection

Related terms

• quizze ("to quiz")

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -?s

Noun

quiz m (plural quizzen, diminutive quizje n)

1. quiz

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwiz/

Noun

quiz m (uncountable)

1. quiz

Italian

Noun

quiz m (invariable)

1. quiz

Derived terms

• telequiz

Norman

Etymology

Borrowed from English quiz.

Noun

quiz m (plural quizs)

1. (Jersey) quiz

Polish

Alternative forms

• kwiz

Etymology

From English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kwis/

Noun

quiz m inan

1. quiz (competition in the answering of questions)

Declension

Derived terms

• (adjective) quizowy

Further reading

• quiz in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• quiz in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Portuguese

Noun

quiz m (plural quizes)

1. quiz (question-answering competition)

Verb

quiz

1. Obsolete spelling of quis

Spanish

Etymology

From English quiz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /?kwi?/, [?kwi?]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America) /?kwis/, [?kwis]

Noun

quiz m (plural quiz)

1. (television) quiz show

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.Morphologically investigate +? -ion

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?n?v?st???e???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

investigation (countable and uncountable, plural investigations)

1. The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research, especially patient or thorough inquiry or examination

   The investigation into the crime has led to various leads as well as plenty of dead ends.

   Despite thorough investigation, the perpetrator of the attacks remains unknown.

Related terms

• investigate

Translations

French

Etymology

From Old French investigacion, from Latin investigatio.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?s.ti.?a.sj??/

Noun

investigation f (plural investigations)

1. investigation, examination

Further reading

• “investigation” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Interlingua

Noun

investigation (plural investigationes)

1. investigation