noun
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Removal of dirt.
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This place needs a clean.
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The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
verb
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To remove dirt from a place or object.
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Can you clean the windows today?
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To tidy up, make a place neat.
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Clean your room right now!
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To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
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To make things clean in general.
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She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
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To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
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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.
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To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
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To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
adjective
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(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
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(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
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Smooth, exact, and performed well
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I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence
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Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
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Cool or neat.
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Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
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(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
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That does not damage the environment.
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clean energy; clean coal
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Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
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clean land; clean timber
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Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
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Well-proportioned; shapely.
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clean limbs
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(of a route) Ascended without falling.
adverb
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Fully and completely.
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He was stabbed clean through.
Examples of clean in a Sentence
I have to clean the barn.
You always look neat and clean - even if you are a little out of style.
It was all just good clean fun.
You still coming to help me clean up?
Now son, the house won't clean itself.
The city can clean it up.
The top was clean except for accessories and a few letters standing upright in a sorter.
I've been clean as long as Jonny.
The train was clean and comfortable.
After examining a rock for ants or other insects, she leaned against it, drawing in the clean smell of the forest.
The help will clean that mess when she sobers up in the morning.
Hither the clean wild ducks come.
The floor was as clean as the counters.
Berg and Boris, having rested after yesterday's march, were sitting, clean and neatly dressed, at a round table in the clean quarters allotted to them, playing chess.
From now on it would be crawl out of bed and cook, clean and then maybe rest a little.
The woman was hooked to a ventilator and IVs, her battered face clean and pale.
They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on.
The upright white hewn studs and freshly planed door and window casings gave it a clean and airy look, especially in the morning, when its timbers were saturated with dew, so that I fancied that by noon some sweet gum would exude from them.
I was out there yesterday when I came back from riding and noticed that the barn was almost as clean as this house.
She worked tirelessly all night to clean the blood off of Jule.
She wondered how many other men had been killed by the clean, neatly aligned weapons in the armory.
You must clean house, Jonny, or you'll never be able to go on the offensive.
If you want me to cook them, you'd better clean them up so they don't look like snakes.
I didn't sleep well but the carpet was clean in the morning.
There are also a clean race of frogs and tortoises, and a few mussels in it; muskrats and minks leave their traces about it, and occasionally a travelling mud-turtle visits it.
When Prince Andrew reached the room prepared for him and lay down in a clean shirt on the feather bed with its warmed and fragrant pillows, he felt that the battle of which he had brought tidings was far, far away from him.
She cut a piece of the pie and served it to him on a clean saucer.
That car didn't look like much even when it was clean, but it was reliable.
His plate seemed to him not quite clean, and pointing to a spot he flung it away.
The restaurant is clean and the atmosphere is casual.
His face was clean shaven, but his dark curly hair was thick and unruly.
The place is clean.
She leaned on the banister and breathed deeply of the clean air.
The Buick with its stolen plates turned up in the San Diego Airport parking lot wiped clean.
Hospitals clean up real well and we weren't exactly Johnnie-on-the-spot getting there.
Even the bathroom was too clean, she noticed.
This can only be effected if the surface of the metal on which the deposit is to be made is chemically clean.
The knife is then carefully examined, and if there be the slightest flaw in its blade the meat cannot be eaten, as the cut would not have been clean, the uneven blade causing a thrill to pass through the beast and thus driving the blood again through the arteries.
The basin, made scrupulously clean, is heated to beyond the fusing point of tin.
If the vertical tube, measuring from the point where the branch comes in, is a few inches greater than the height of the barometer, and the glass and mercury are perfectly clean, the apparatus slowly but surely produces an almost absolute vacuum.
Another 20,000 are being drip fed mutagenic and carcinogenic chemicals from their tube wells, whilst Dow refuses to clean up.
Villanueva is a clean and thriving place, with good modern public buildings - town hall, churches, convents and schools.
The officers of the Church during the first few centuries of its existence were content to officiate in the dress of civil life, though their garments were expected to be scrupulously clean and of decent quality.
But a pestilence broke out in the autumn of 212, which swept them clean away, and thinned the Roman ranks.
Yet tons of caustic soda are fused daily in chemical works in iron pots without thereby suffering contamination, which seems to show that (clean) iron, like gold and silver, is attacked only by the joint action of fused alkali and air, the influence of the latter being of course minimized in large-scale operations.
In Java and Mauritius, where very clean canes are grown, double-bottomed defecators are generally used, and to them, perhaps as much as to the quality of the canes, may be attributed the very strong, fine sugars made in those islands.
With the juice of some canes considerable difficulty is encountered in keeping the heating surfaces of the evaporators clean and free from incrustations, and cleaning by the use of acid has to be resorted to.
It is obviously easier to brush out and clean vertical tubes open at both ends, and about 6 ft.
The principal improvement made of recent years in this portion of the process has been the construction of pipes through which the carbonic acid gas is injected into the juice in such a manner that they can be easily withdrawn and a clean set substituted.
A curious fact, which may be used for the detection of the minutest quantity of oils and fats, is that camphor crushed between layers of paper without having been touched with the fingers rotates when thrown on clean water, the rotation ceasing immediately when a trace of oil or fat is added, such as introduced by touching the water with a needle which has been passed previously through the hair.