Word: clean
Phonetic:
/kleːn/Listen:
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.
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.
(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.
Fully and completely. Example: He was stabbed clean through.
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