designating or of a test of comprehension in which blank spaces at regular intervals in a text must be filled in with appropriate words
Origin of cloze
shortened and altered from closurecloze
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cloze
adjective
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.
Origin of cloze
Alteration of closureTHE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural clozes)
- (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.
- 2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, German Language Blog, accessed on 2013-03-15:
- this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives
- 2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, German Language Blog, accessed on 2013-03-15:
Origin
From closure (“completion”), with s changed to the phonetically identical z.
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