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

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Example Sentences

See Examples For:

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

“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

This strictly reliable report will be isshood as often as the undersined gets any new cloze.

From Punchinello, Volume 2, No. 38, December 17, 1870. by Various

"An' her dersarves it, kase her's a big fool," said Edny Ann, "hangin' roun' him, an' patchin' his cloze like her wus morred ter 'im—an' washin' his shut an' britches ev'ry Saddy night."

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science October, 1877. Vol XX - No. 118 by Various

They come here so's they could get a breath of country air and wear out their old cloze.

From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson

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