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clean

/kleːn/

Phonetics

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noun

  • Removal of dirt.

    Example: This place needs a clean.
  • The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.


verb

  • To remove dirt from a place or object.

    Example: Can you clean the windows today?
  • To tidy up, make a place neat.

    Example: Clean your room right now!
  • To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

  • To make things clean in general.

    Example: She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
  • To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).

  • To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.

  • To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.

  • To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.


adjective

  • (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

  • (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

  • Smooth, exact, and performed well

    Example: I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence
  • Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")

  • Cool or neat.

    Example: Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
  • (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

    Example: I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
  • That does not damage the environment.

    Example: clean energy;  clean coal
  • Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

    Example: clean land;  clean timber
  • Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

  • Well-proportioned; shapely.

    Example: clean limbs
  • (of a route) Ascended without falling.


adverb

  • Fully and completely.

    Example: He was stabbed clean through.