Gloze vs Cloze - What's the difference?
gloze | cloze |
To extenuate, explain away, gloss over.
*1977 , , Penguin Classics, p. 279:
*:Of what were generative organs made? / And for what profit were those creatures wrought? / [...] / Gloze as you will and plead the explanation / That they were only made for the purgation / Of urine, little things of no avail / Except to know a female from a male / [...].
*1978': On a rock orchid, the roundness and '''gloze / Of a lapith's bum! — Peter Porter, from 'Piero di Cosimo on the Shoalhaven' in ''The Cost of Seriousness , 1978
*William Shakespeare & Anonymous; Pericles, Prince of Tyre :
*:ANTIOCHUS.
Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
To smooth over; to palliate.
* I. Taylor
(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.
* 1994 , Joseph Boyle, ?Peter Falvey, English Language Testing in Hong Kong (page 8)
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As nouns the difference between gloze and cloze
is that gloze is a comment in the margin while cloze is (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.As a verb gloze
is to extenuate, explain away, gloss over.gloze
English
Verb
(gloz)Heaven, that I had thy head! he has found the meaning:
But I will gloze with him. — Young prince of Tyre.
- By glozing the evil that is in the world.
Synonyms
* See alsocloze
English
Noun
(en noun)- The clozes , at least those used in the examinations, have the distinct advantage that they expose the students to continuous and reasonably authentic text
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