Definitions for cloze

cloze cloze

Spelling: [klohz]
IPA: /kloʊz/

Cloze is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 16 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 44 anagrams from letters in cloze (celoz).

Definitions for cloze

noun

  1. a cloze procedure or test.

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.

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 Examples for cloze

"Well, mam an' the gals made Wils's weddin' cloze," said Nate reflectively.

Ive been too busy casting an unfavorable eye on your cloze and on the litther you make with your papers.

I done had my fun, en now I'm a-settin' out yer lettin' my cloze dry.

You give her her vittles an' cloze—sech as they was—but do plain vittles an' plain cloze make anybody happy?

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

A man with that kind o' cloze has no business carrying weapons around in this country.

See 'im uv er Sunday, wid his 'go-ter-meetin'' cloze on, an' dar wan't no bird could totch 'im fur looks.

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

Word Value for cloze
Scrable

16

Words with friends

18

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