cloze

[ klohz ]

/ kloʊz /

adjective

pertaining to or being a procedure used to measure comprehension or text difficulty, in which a person is called upon to supply elements that have been systematically deleted from a text.

noun

a cloze procedure or test.

Nearby words

Origin of cloze

1953; back formation from closure (in the sense “the tendency to fill in missing elements based on past experience”), respelling to make it distinct from close

Can be confusedclose clothes cloze

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Examples from the Web for cloze

See 'im uv er Sunday, wid his 'go-ter-meetin'' cloze on, an' dar wan't no bird could totch 'im fur looks.
Diddie, Dumps & Tot|Louise-Clarke Pyrnelle
I done had my fun, en now I'm a-settin' out yer lettin' my cloze dry.
Nights With Uncle Remus|Joel Chandler Harris
You give her her vittles an' cloze—sech as they was—but do plain vittles an' plain cloze make anybody happy?
The Bishop and the Boogerman|Joel Chandler Harris
And then he changes their sootes of cloze across, and out he walks for change of air.
When Ghost Meets Ghost|William Frend De Morgan

A man with that kind o' cloze has no business carrying weapons around in this country.
The Red Acorn|John McElroy

Word Origin and History for cloze

cloze

1953, in psychological writing, evidently abstracted from the pronunciation of closure.