Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- 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.
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
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- noun education A form of written
examination technique in whichcandidates are required to provide words that have beenomitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge andcomprehension of the text.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective based on or being a test of reading skill using the cloze procedure
Etymologies
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Examples
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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.
NYT > Home Page 2010
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Try ‘cloze’ with Shakespeare or a scientific journal or anything you dont know much about.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Are Chinese people forgetting how to write? 2010
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Try ‘cloze’ with Shakespeare or a scientific journal or anything you dont know much about.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Are Chinese people forgetting how to write? 2010
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Other mangling word games include the school fad of ‘cloze’, cutting out words in text.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Are Chinese people forgetting how to write? 2010
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Other mangling word games include the school fad of ‘cloze’, cutting out words in text.
Web Translations » Blog Archive » Are Chinese people forgetting how to write? 2010
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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? 2010
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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.
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May 19, 2010 at 9:02 am seben ate – cloze da gate!
how did - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2010
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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? 2009
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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? 2009
denni commented on the word cloze
(n.) exercise of supplying a word that has been omitted from a passage as a test of readability or comprehension. (Reader's Digest Oxford)
July 26, 2008