cloze

American  

[klohz] / kloʊz /

adjective

1. 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.

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noun

1. a cloze procedure or test.

Etymology

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

Example Sentences

You wants go’n get some cloze on, then you c’n go’n put ’im in that old cage what’s in shed.

From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams

Here; not them cloze; these here homespun things.

From Dr. Sevier by Cable, George Washington

Pap, do you reckon I'm fool enough to traipse down to Gullettsville an' mix with them people, wearin' cloze like these?

From Mingo And Other Sketches in Black and White by Harris, Joel Chandler

Cyoffins cost a heap; an’ then thar’s the shroud, an’ I ain’t got no reg’lar fun’al cloze, an’ ’pears ’s ef ’t ’ud be a conserlation t’ have a kerridge or two.

From Stories by American Authors, Volume 7 by Various

“She has brought the cloze pins in a bag:” say, clothes’ pins.

From Five Hundred Mistakes of Daily Occurrence in Speaking, Pronouncing, and Writing the English Language, Corrected by Anonymous