Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Based on or being a test of reading comprehension in which the test taker is asked to supply words that have been systematically deleted from a text.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- A simplified spelling of close.
Wiktionary
- n. education A form of written examination technique in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure
Etymologies
- From closure ("completion"), with s changed to the phonetically identical z. (Wiktionary)
- Alteration of closure. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Next they complete a "cloze" (or fill-in-the-blank) activity with sentences about the picture which are then put into categories of their own.”
“Other mangling word games include the school fad of ‘cloze’, cutting out words in text.”
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“Try ‘cloze’ with Shakespeare or a scientific journal or anything you dont know much about.”
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“Instead, a priority is made to have teachers regularly give “performance-based assessments” where students have to construct their own responses by writing essays or taking a “cloze test” where participants are asked to replace missing words and demonstrate understanding of context and vocabulary.”
“May 19, 2010 at 9:02 am seben ate – cloze da gate!”
how did - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Mai Timmy nummer 3 lernd haow 2 opin teh dore – nebber manijd 2 cloze it agane tho!”
Census kitteh knows you’re in there. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Mii brane froze and I could nawt type … sigh — oh wwellz I wuz cloze to nawt seccond … sorta, kinda”
roadblock - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Ai lubs it wen mai kittehs lai on my dirtee cloze becus dey smehl so gud.”
i noes das mi baskit. - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“Nawt bery eggsitin but nawt bahd an cloze tew hoam”
Sheesh! You fall for this little - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
“We be luzin many lubed wunz befur ar own libez cloze.”
I Googled “fix” - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger?
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cloze’.
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[Open] Correctly-spelled words that l...
Thanks to everyone who added to this list. (I moved it to a new URL, so all the words added on the first day are credited to me—sorry about that.)
(Here’s the original list with a slo...orignal, refect, collum, lightening, manakin, neumatic, mutch, miosis, radicle, tryptic, kyack, apatite and 119 more...
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scrabble j q x z 4 and 5 letter words
revising for a competition 30 games
in 24 hours
5-Letter words with J, X, Q or Z
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ADDAX ADMIX AFFIX ANNEX ATAXY AUXIN AXELS AXIAL AXILE AXILS A...azan, azon, boxy, brux, buzz, calx, chez, coax, coxa, cozy, crux, czar and 152 more...
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Wordlist_WordOperation_Test
Testing WordOperation Test
test, assay, trial balloon, crucible, double-blind, stanford-binet, chi-square, binet-simon scale, test drive, tau coefficient o..., screen-test, dry run and 56 more...
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GCI
spinster, maiden, happy-go-lucky, homonym, ill-at-ease, saw red, out of sorts, hot under the collar, taken aback, pen-names, alias, shoelaces and 378 more...
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Allographic Homophones
Words that can be pronounced identically but are spelled differently. I've started with unusual or extensive sets. In some of these sets, no one speaker would pronounce them all the same. I've trie...
air, are, ayr, ayre, e'er, ere, err, eyre, heir, apatite, appetite, picnic and 226 more...
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fitting words
a list of words from the indo european root ar- and variations : to fit together
ambry, rede, coarctate, anarthrous, artiodactyl, exordium, harmony, army, armoire, arm, armada, armadillo and 349 more...
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Vocabulary
My ever expanding vocabulary...
feuterer, abattoir, kibosh, sequin, shiftless, scrimshanker, sic, moniker, dogsbody, contranym, autoantonym, exhortation and 306 more...
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denni's list
comfortable, odd, delightful, even obscure, words
to use and rejoice in.grockle, pinguid, pother, virga, tiddy oggy, booksy, boondoggle, wayzgoose, apologue, clough, cloze, marrowfat and 5 more...
Tweets
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denni (n.) exercise of supplying a word that has been omitted from a passage as a test of readability or comprehension. (Reader's Digest Oxford) Jul 25, 2008