Not obscured or darkened; bright: clear daylight; a clear yellow.
Easily seen through; transparent: clear water.
Free from flaw, blemish, or impurity: a clear, perfect diamond; a clear record with the police.
Free from impediment, obstruction, or hindrance; open: a clear view; a clear path to victory.
Plain or evident to the mind; unmistakable: a clear case of cheating.
Easily perceptible to the eye or ear; distinct.
Discerning or perceiving easily; keen: a clear mind.
Free from doubt or confusion; certain.
Free from qualification or limitation; absolute: a clear winner.
Free from guilt; untroubled: a clear conscience.
Having been freed from contact, proximity, or connection: At last we were clear of the danger. The ship was clear of the reef.
Free from charges or deductions; net: a clear profit.
Containing nothing.
adv.
Distinctly; clearly: spoke loud and clear.
Out of the way; completely away: stood clear of the doors.
Informal All the way; completely: slept clear through the night; read the book clear to the end.
v.
cleared, clear·ing, clears
v.
tr.
To make light, clear, or bright.
To rid of impurities, blemishes, muddiness, or foreign matter.
To free from confusion, doubt, or ambiguity; make plain or intelligible: cleared up the question of responsibility.
To rid of objects or obstructions: clear the table; clear the road of debris.
To make (a way or clearing) by removing obstructions: clear a path through the jungle.
To remove (objects or obstructions): clear the dishes; clear snow from the road.
To remove the occupants of: clear the theater.
To remove (people): clear the children from the room.
To move or shoot (a ball or puck) away from the goal or out of the defensive zone.
To clear a puck out of (the defensive zone), as in ice hockey.
To rid (a memory location or buffer, for example) of instructions or data.
To remove (instructions or data) from memory.
To secure the approval of: The bill cleared the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
To remove the occupants of: clear the theater.
To remove (people): clear the children from the room.
To move or shoot (a ball or puck) away from the goal or out of the defensive zone.
To clear a puck out of (the defensive zone), as in ice hockey.
To rid (a memory location or buffer, for example) of instructions or data.
To remove (instructions or data) from memory.
To secure the approval of: The bill cleared the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
Sports
To move or shoot (a ball or puck) away from the goal or out of the defensive zone.
To clear a puck out of (the defensive zone), as in ice hockey.
To rid (a memory location or buffer, for example) of instructions or data.
To remove (instructions or data) from memory.
To secure the approval of: The bill cleared the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
Computer Science
To rid (a memory location or buffer, for example) of instructions or data.
To remove (instructions or data) from memory.
To secure the approval of: The bill cleared the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
To free from a legal charge or imputation of guilt; acquit: cleared the suspect of the murder charge.
To pass by, under, or over without contact: The boat cleared the dock.
To settle (a debt).
To gain (a given amount) as net profit or earnings.
To pass (a bill of exchange, such as a check) through a clearing-house.
To secure the approval of: The bill cleared the Senate.
To authorize or approve: cleared the material for publication.
To free (a ship or cargo) from legal detention at a harbor by fulfilling customs and harbor requirements.
To give clearance or authorization to: cleared the plane to land.
To free (the throat) of phlegm by making a rasping sound.
v.
intr.
To become clear: The sky cleared.
To go away; disappear: The fog cleared.
To exchange checks and bills or settle accounts through a clearing-house.
To pass through the banking system and be debited and credited to the relevant accounts: The check cleared.
To comply with customs and harbor requirements in discharging a cargo or in leaving or entering a port.
n.
A clear or open space.
Phrasal Verb(s): clear out Informal
To leave a place, usually quickly.
Idiom(s):
clear the air
To dispel differences or emotional tensions.
Idiom(s):
in the clear
Free from burdens or dangers.
Not subject to suspicion or accusations of guilt: The evidence showed that the suspect was in the clear.
[Middle English cler, from Old French, from Latin clārus, clear, bright; see kelə-2 in Indo-European roots.]
clear'a·ble adj., clear'er n., clear'ly adv., clear'ness n.
Synonyms: These adjectives mean not opaque or clouded: clear, sediment-free claret; limpid blue eyes; lucid air; a pellucid brook; transparent crystal. See Also Synonyms at apparent.
Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n. Clearing.]1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north. --Dryden. 2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse. 3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior. 4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. Our common prints would clear up their understandings. --Addison 5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; -- often used with of, off, away, or out. Clear your mind of cant. --Dr. Johnson. A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter. --Addison. 6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the thing imputed. I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality. --Dryden. How! wouldst thou clear rebellion? --Addison. 7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef. 8. To gain without deduction; to net. The profit which she cleared on the cargo. --Macaulay. To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires. To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement. To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land. To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted. To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.
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