"short-answer" meaning in English

See short-answer in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: short-answers [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun}} short-answer (plural short-answers)
  1. (education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing. Tags: attributive Categories (topical): Education
    Sense id: en-short-answer-en-noun-ZJb2ENc8 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Topics: education

Inflected forms

Download JSON data for short-answer meaning in English (1.4kB)

{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "short-answers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "short-answer (plural short-answers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Education",
          "orig": "en:Education",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing."
      ],
      "id": "en-short-answer-en-noun-ZJb2ENc8",
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "quiz",
          "quiz"
        ],
        [
          "test",
          "test"
        ],
        [
          "multiple-choice",
          "multiple-choice#English"
        ],
        [
          "fill in the blank",
          "fill in the blank#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short-answer"
}
{
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "short-answers",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "short-answer (plural short-answers)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English multiword terms",
        "English nouns",
        "en:Education"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "quiz",
          "quiz"
        ],
        [
          "test",
          "test"
        ],
        [
          "multiple-choice",
          "multiple-choice#English"
        ],
        [
          "fill in the blank",
          "fill in the blank#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education, chiefly attributive) A type of question or prompt, especially found in school quizzes and tests, which usually requires the student to write in sentences, as opposed to multiple-choice, fill in the blank, or other question types which require less writing."
      ],
      "tags": [
        "attributive"
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "short-answer"
}

This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable English dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2024-05-03 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2024-05-02 using wiktextract (f4fd8c9 and c9440ce). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.