Quiz vs Pump - What's the difference?
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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.
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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.
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(archaic) To peer at; to eye suspiciously or mockingly.
To question closely, to interrogate.
To instruct by means of a quiz.
A device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas.
An instance of the action of a pump; one stroke of a pump; any action similar to pumping
A device for dispensing liquid or gas to be sold, particularly fuel.
(bodybuilding) A swelling of the muscles caused by increased blood flow following high intensity weightlifting.
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(colloquial) A ride on a bicycle given to a passenger, usually on the handlebars or fender.
(US, obsolete, slang) The heart.
To use a pump to move (liquid or gas).
To fill with air.
To move rhythmically, as the motion of a pump.
To shake (a person's hand) vigorously.
To gain information from (a person) by persistent questioning.
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To use a pump to move liquid or gas.
(slang) To be going very well.
(sports) To kick, throw or hit the ball far and high.
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(Scotland, slang) To pass gas; to fart.
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(computing) To pass (messages) into a program so that it can obey them.
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(British) A type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.
(chiefly, North America) A type of very high-heeled shoe; stilettoes.
A shoe.
A type of shoe without a heel (source: Dictionarium Britannicum - 1736)
Quiz is a related term of pump.
As nouns the difference between quiz and pump
is that quiz is quiz, trivia while pump is a device for moving or compressing a liquid or gas or pump can be (british) a type of shoe, a trainer or sneaker.As a verb pump is
to use a pump to move (liquid or gas).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.
pump
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) pumpe, possibly from (etyl) . Compare Dutch pompen, German pumpen, and (etyl) pompe.Noun
(en noun)- Want a skin-stretching pump ? Up the volume by using high-rep sets.
- A great pump is better than coming. (Arnold Schwarzenegger)
Verb
(en verb)- But pump not me for politics.
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- People never pumped , just never never, but sometimes ye got smells.
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