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

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cloze

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

Ah, veree well I rimember that; how the Quakerezz she came cre-eepingg in, out of that fog, an' like the fog so still an' white, cloze aggains' the Conqueror.

From Gideon's Band A Tale of the Mississippi by Cable, George Washington

Dey flung his cloze in de fire, an' dey make a blaze dat come plum out'n de top er de chimbley stack.

From International Short Stories American by Various

Good-bye, Brer Fox, take keer yo' cloze, For dis is de way de worril goes; Some goes up en some goes down.

From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 102, June 11, 1892 by Various

Yo'uns' common soldiers 've better cloze than our officers.

From Si Klegg, Book 2 (of 6) Thru The Stone River Campaign And In Winter Quarters At Murfreesboro by McElroy, John