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[kleen] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, adverb, -er, -est, verb
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[kleen] Pronunciation Key adjective, -er, -est, adverb, -er, -est, verb –adjective
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–verb (used with object)
–verb (used without object)
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—Idioms
| 1. | free from dirt; unsoiled; unstained: She bathed and put on a clean dress. |
| 2. | free from foreign or extraneous matter: clean sand. |
| 3. | free from pollution; unadulterated; pure: clean air; clean water. |
| 4. | habitually free of dirt: Cats are considered clean animals. |
| 5. | characterized by a fresh, wholesome quality: the clean smell of pine. |
| 6. | free from all writing or marking: a clean sheet of paper. |
| 7. | having few or no corrections; easily readable: The publisher demanded clean proofs from the printer. |
| 8. | free from roughness or irregularity: He made a clean cut with a razor. |
| 9. | not ornate; gracefully spare; forceful and simple; trim; streamlined: a clean literary style; the clean lines of a ship. |
| 10. | complete; unqualified: a clean break with tradition. |
| 11. | morally pure; innocent; upright; honorable: to lead a clean life. |
| 12. | showing good sportsmanship; fair: a clean fighter. |
| 13. | inoffensive in language or content; without obscenity. |
| 14. | (of a document, record, etc.) bearing no marks of discreditable or unlawful conduct; listing no offenses: a clean driver's license. |
| 15. | Slang.
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| 16. | (of a nuclear weapon) producing little or no radioactive fallout. |
| 17. | not radioactive. |
| 18. | (of a document or financial instrument) free from qualifications or restrictions: a clean bill of lading. |
| 19. | free from defects or flaws: a clean diamond. |
| 20. | free from encumbrances or obstructions. |
| 21. | neatly or evenly made or proportioned; shapely; trim: a clean profile. |
| 22. | made without any unanticipated difficulty or interference: The bank robbers made a clean getaway. |
| 23. | Chiefly Biblical. having no physical or moral blemish or carrying no taboo so as to make impure according to the laws, esp. the dietary or ceremonial laws: a clean animal; clean persons. |
| 24. | dexterously performed; adroit: a clean serve in tennis. |
| 25. | (of a jump over an obstacle) made without touching the obstacle. |
| 26. | Slang. having no direct associations, business interests, etc., that could prejudice one's official acts or decisions: The new governor is clean because he's sold his construction business and doesn't owe political favors to anyone. |
| 27. | Slang. without money or funds. |
| 28. | (of wine) having a taste that is unusually refreshing and smooth. |
| 29. | Nautical. (of an anchorage, harbor, etc.) free of obstructions or hazards (opposed to foul). |
| 30. | (of the legs of a horse) free from injury or blemish, as capped hocks, splints, or scars. |
| 31. | Foreign Exchange. (of currency floats) not influenced by exchange-rate manipulation (opposed to dirty). |
| 32. | in a clean manner; cleanly: Nobody wants to box with him because he doesn't fight clean. |
| 33. | so as to be clean: This shirt will never wash clean. |
| 34. | Informal. wholly; completely; quite: The sharp carving knife sliced clean through the roast. In a year, he had gone clean through his inheritance. |
| 35. | to make clean: Clean those dirty shoes. |
| 36. | to remove or consume the contents of; empty; clear: She sat down to dinner ravenous and within five minutes had cleaned her plate. |
| 37. | to dry-clean. |
| 38. | to remove the entrails and other inedible parts from (poultry, fish, etc.); dress. |
| 39. | Slang. to take away or win all or almost all the money or possessions of (often fol. by out): The cards were marked and I got cleaned. |
| 40. | Metallurgy. to remove the seams from (a casting) by filing or grinding. |
| 41. | Philately. to delete intentionally the cancellation from (a postage or revenue stamp). |
| 42. | to perform or undergo a process of cleaning: This kind of fabric cleans easily. Detergents clean better than most soaps. |
| 43. | to get rid of dirt, soil, etc. (often fol. by up): to spend the morning cleaning. |
| 44. | clean out,
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| 45. | clean up,
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| 46. | clean full, Nautical.
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| 47. | clean house, to wipe out corruption, inefficiency, etc., as in an organization: It's time for the city government to clean house. |
| 48. | clean up one's act. act (def. 27). |
| 49. | come clean, Slang. to tell the truth, esp. to admit one's guilt. |
[Origin: bef. 900; ME clene, OE clǣne pure, clear, c. OHG kleini (G klein small)]
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cleanness, noun
—Synonyms 1. neat, immaculate. Clean, clear, pure refer to freedom from soiling, flaw, stain, or mixture. Clean refers esp. to freedom from soiling: a clean shirt. Clear refers particularly to freedom from flaw or blemish: a clear pane of glass. Pure refers esp. to freedom from mixture or stain: a pure metal; not diluted but pure and full strength. 7. legible. 11. unsullied, chaste, virtuous. 19. unblemished, flawless. 34. entirely, thoroughly. 35. scour, scrub, sweep, brush, wipe, mop, dust, wash, rinse, lave, deterge, purify, clear; decontaminate. Clean, cleanse refer to removing dirt or impurities. To clean is the general word with no implication of method or means: to clean windows, a kitchen, streets. Cleanse is esp. used of thorough cleaning by chemical or other technical process; figuratively it applies to moral or spiritual purification: to cleanse parts of machinery; to cleanse one's soul of guilt.
—Antonyms 1. dirty. 17. contaminated, radioactive. 35. soil.
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American Heritage Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
| clean
(klēn) Pronunciation Key
adj. clean·er, clean·est
adv. cleaner, cleanest
v. cleaned, clean·ing, cleans v. tr.
v. intr. To undergo or perform an act of cleaning. Phrasal Verbs: clean out
Phrasal Verb(s): clean out
Idiom(s): clean house Slang To eliminate or discard what is undesirable: The scandal forced the company to clean house. [Middle English clene, from Old English clǣne.] clean'a·ble adj., clean'ness n. Synonyms: These adjectives mean free from dirt: clean clothing; antiseptic surgical instruments; a cleanly pet; an immaculate tablecloth; a spotless kitchen. |
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Online Etymology Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
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clean
O.E. clæne "clean, pure," from W.Gmc. *klainoz "clear, pure," from PIE base *gel- "to gleam" (cf. Gk. glene "eyeball," O.Ir. gel "bright"). As an adj., replaced in higher senses by clear, pure, but as a verb (c.1450) it has largely usurped what once belonged to cleanse (from O.E. clænsian), which, despite its modern spelling (16c.) retains its M.E. pronunciation. Clean in the sense of "innocent" is from c.1300; that of "not lewd" is from 1867; that of "free of drug addiction" is 1950s. Clean up "make a large profit" is from 1929. To take (someone) to the cleaners "get all of (someone's) money" is from 1932.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
WordNet - Cite This Source - Share This
| clean | |
adjective | |
| 1. | free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals" [ant: dirty] |
| 2. | free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner" |
| 3. | (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell" |
| 4. | free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" |
| 5. | (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license" |
| 6. | ritually clean or pure [ant: impure] |
| 7. | not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean" [ant: contaminating] |
| 8. | (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke" [ant: dirty] |
| 9. | free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound" [syn: uninfected] |
| 10. | morally pure; "led a clean life" |
| 11. | (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" |
| 12. | (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins" [syn: blank] |
| 13. | exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct" |
| 14. | without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight" |
| 15. | thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break" |
| 16. | not carrying concealed weapons |
| 17. | free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" |
| 18. | free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years" |
adverb | |
| 1. | completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" |
| 2. | in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly] [ant: below the belt] |
noun | |
| 1. | a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead [syn: clean and jerk] |
verb | |
| 1. | make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth" [ant: begrime] |
| 2. | remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" |
| 3. | clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week" [syn: houseclean] |
| 4. | clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner" [syn: cleanse] |
| 5. | be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily" |
| 6. | deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely" |
| 7. | remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm" |
| 8. | remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug" |
| 9. | remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge] |
| 10. | remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it" |
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American Heritage Dictionary of Idioms - Cite This Source - Share This
clean
In addition to the idioms beginning with clean, also see come clean; have a clear (clean) conscience; keep one's nose clean; make a clean breast of; make a clean sweep; new broom sweeps clean; take to the cleaners; wipe the slate clean.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law - Cite This Source - Share This
Main Entry: clean
Function: adjective
: free of amendments or annotations
Main Entry: clean
Function: adjective
: free of amendments or annotations
Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of Law, © 1996 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
Free On-line Dictionary of Computing - Cite This Source - Share This
Clean language
A lazy higher-order purely functional language from the University of Nijmegen. Clean was originally a subset of Lean, designed to be an experimental intermediate language and used to study the graph rewriting model. To help focus on the essential implementation issues it deliberately lacked all syntactic sugar, even infix expressions or complex lists,
As it was used more and more to construct all kinds of applications it was eventually turned into a general purpose functional programming language, first released in May 1995. The new language is strongly typed (Milner/Mycroft type system), provides modules and functional I/O (including a WIMP interface), and supports parallel processing and distributed processing on loosely coupled parallel architectures. Parallel execution was originally based on the PABC abstract machine.
It is one of the fastest implementations of functional languages available, partly aided by programmer annotations to influence evaluation order.
Although the two variants of Clean are rather different, the name Clean can be used to denote either of them. To distinguish, the old version can be referred to as Clean 0.8, and the new as Clean 1.0 or Concurrent Clean.
The current release of Clean (1.0) includes a compiler, producing code for the ABC abstract machine, a code generator, compiling the ABC code into either object-code or assembly language (depending on the platform), I/O libraries, a development environment (not all platforms), and documentation. It is supported (or will soon be supported) under Mac OS, Linux, OS/2, Windows 95, SunOS, and Solaris.
(http://cs.kun.nl/~clean/). E-mail:
["Clean - A Language for Functional Graph Rewriting", T. Brus et al, IR 95, U Nijmegen, Feb 1987].
["Concurrent Clean", M.C. van Eekelen et al, TR 89-18, U Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1989].
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(1995-11-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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clean jargon
1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is "grungy" or crufty.
2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
[The Jargon File]
(1994-12-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is `grungy' or crufty.
2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
clean
1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is `grungy' or crufty.
2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Clean
Clean\, a. [Compar. Cleaner; superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. cl?ne; akin to OHG. chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. Glair.]1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes. 2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects; as, clean land; clean timber. 3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous; as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence. 4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style. 5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire. When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field. --Lev. xxiii. 22. 6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure. Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10 That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven --Tennyson. 7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement. 8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." --F. Harrison. 9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs. A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper authority that a ship is free from infection. Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4. To make a clean breast. See under Breast.
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Clean
Clean\, adv. 1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly; entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." --Shak. "Clean contrary." --Milton. All the people were passed clean over Jordan. --Josh. iii. 17. 2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.] "Pope came off clean with Homer." --Henley.
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Clean
Clean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned; p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a., and cf. Cleanse.] To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or extraneous; to purify; to cleanse. To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one) all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.
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Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary - Cite This Source - Share This
Clean
The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14:1-21. The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the fat tail of certain sheep (Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:19; 17:10; 19:26). The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb. 9:9-14.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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