"cloze" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /kləʊz/ [UK], /kloʊz/ [US] Audio: En-us-close-verb.ogg Forms: clozes [plural]
Rhymes: -əʊz Etymology: From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s. Head templates: {{en-noun}} cloze (plural clozes)
  1. (education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text. Wikipedia link: Cloze test Categories (topical): Education Translations (Translations): 完形填空 (wánxíng tiánkòng) (Chinese Mandarin), doplňovací test (Czech), täydennystehtävä (english: question) (Finnish), täydennyskoe (english: examination) (Finnish), texte à trous [masculine] (French), Lückentexttest [masculine] (German), Lückentest [masculine] (German), text cu lacune [neuter] (Romanian)

Inflected forms

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  "etymology_text": "From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clozes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cloze (plural clozes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Entries with translation boxes",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
          "parents": [
            "Terms with redundant transliterations",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Czech translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Finnish translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with French translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with German translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Mandarin translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Terms with Romanian translations",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "topical",
          "langcode": "en",
          "name": "Education",
          "orig": "en:Education",
          "parents": [
            "Society",
            "All topics",
            "Fundamental"
          ],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph Boyle, Peter Falvey, English Language Testing in Hong Kong, page 8:",
          "text": "The clozes, at least those used in the examinations, have the distinct advantage that they expose the students to continuous and reasonably authentic text[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, in German Language Blog, retrieved 2013-03-15:",
          "text": "this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text."
      ],
      "id": "en-cloze-en-noun-hN-m3LyW",
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "examination",
          "examination"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "omit",
          "omit"
        ],
        [
          "comprehension",
          "comprehension"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ],
      "translations": [
        {
          "code": "cmn",
          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "wánxíng tiánkòng",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "完形填空"
        },
        {
          "code": "cs",
          "lang": "Czech",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "doplňovací test"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "question",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "täydennystehtävä"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "english": "examination",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "word": "täydennyskoe"
        },
        {
          "code": "fr",
          "lang": "French",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "texte à trous"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Lückentexttest"
        },
        {
          "code": "de",
          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "Lückentest"
        },
        {
          "code": "ro",
          "lang": "Romanian",
          "sense": "Translations",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "text cu lacune"
        }
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cloze test"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kləʊz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kloʊz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-close-verb.ogg",
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      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-us-close-verb.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "close"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "clothes stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊz"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cloze"
}
{
  "etymology_text": "From closure in Gestalt therapy, 1950s.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "clozes",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "expansion": "cloze (plural clozes)",
      "name": "en-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "English countable nouns",
        "English entries with incorrect language header",
        "English lemmas",
        "English nouns",
        "English terms with homophones",
        "English terms with quotations",
        "Entries with translation boxes",
        "Mandarin terms with redundant transliterations",
        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Quotation templates to be cleaned",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊz",
        "Rhymes:English/əʊz/1 syllable",
        "Terms with Czech translations",
        "Terms with Finnish translations",
        "Terms with French translations",
        "Terms with German translations",
        "Terms with Mandarin translations",
        "Terms with Romanian translations",
        "Translation table header lacks gloss",
        "en:Education"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1994, Joseph Boyle, Peter Falvey, English Language Testing in Hong Kong, page 8:",
          "text": "The clozes, at least those used in the examinations, have the distinct advantage that they expose the students to continuous and reasonably authentic text[…]",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 March 13, “Lückentext - cloze”, in German Language Blog, retrieved 2013-03-15:",
          "text": "this time the cloze is about the declination of adjectives",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text."
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "education",
          "education"
        ],
        [
          "examination",
          "examination"
        ],
        [
          "candidate",
          "candidate"
        ],
        [
          "omit",
          "omit"
        ],
        [
          "comprehension",
          "comprehension"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(education) A form of written examination in which candidates are required to provide words that have been omitted from sentences, thereby demonstrating their knowledge and comprehension of the text."
      ],
      "topics": [
        "education"
      ],
      "wikipedia": [
        "Cloze test"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/kləʊz/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/kloʊz/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "audio": "En-us-close-verb.ogg",
      "mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/a/ab/En-us-close-verb.ogg/En-us-close-verb.ogg.mp3",
      "ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/ab/En-us-close-verb.ogg"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "close"
    },
    {
      "homophone": "clothes stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
    },
    {
      "rhymes": "-əʊz"
    }
  ],
  "translations": [
    {
      "code": "cmn",
      "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
      "roman": "wánxíng tiánkòng",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "完形填空"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "doplňovací test"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "question",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "täydennystehtävä"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "english": "examination",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "word": "täydennyskoe"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "texte à trous"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lückentexttest"
    },
    {
      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lückentest"
    },
    {
      "code": "ro",
      "lang": "Romanian",
      "sense": "Translations",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "text cu lacune"
    }
  ],
  "word": "cloze"
}

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