cloze

[ klohz ]

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.

noun

1. a cloze procedure or test.

Word History and Origins

Origin of cloze¹

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

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

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"I'm doing just what these men are doing here in their cloze," answered Rosenbaum.

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"You sartinly do have good cloze, too," said the Sergeant, surveying the stout blue uniforms with admiration.

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

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And then he changes their sootes of cloze across, and out he walks for change of air.

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