Word Finder - clearing

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To remove obstructions, impediments or other unwanted items from.

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If you clear the table, I'll wash up.

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To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.

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Please clear all this stuff off the table.

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To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.

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After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening.

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To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from (a matter); to clarify or resolve; to clear up.

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We need to clear this issue once and for all.

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To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.

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The court cleared the man of murder.

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To pass without interference; to miss.

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The door just barely clears the table as it closes.

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(activities such as jumping or throwing) To exceed a stated mark.

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She was the first female high jumper to clear two metres.

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To finish or complete (a stage, challenge, or game).

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I cleared the first level in 36 seconds.

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Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.

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The check might not clear for a couple of days.

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To earn a profit of; to net.

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He's been clearing seven thousand a week.

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To approve or authorise for a particular purpose or action; to give clearance to.

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Air traffic control cleared the plane to land.

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To obtain approval or authorisation in respect of.

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I've cleared the press release with the marketing department, so go ahead and publish it.

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To obtain a clearance.

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The steamer cleared for Liverpool today.

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To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.

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To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.

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To hit, kick, head, punch etc. (a ball, puck) away in order to defend one's goal.

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A low cross came in, and Smith cleared.

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To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.

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to clear an array;  to clear a single bit (binary digit) in a value

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To style (an element within a document) so that it is not permitted to float at a given position.

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The act or process of making or becoming clear.

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An area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees.

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An open space in the fog etc.

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A process of exchanging transaction information and authorisation through a central institution or system to complete and settle those transactions.

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A sequence of events used to disconnect a call, and return to the ready state.

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The period in which remaining university places are allocated to remaining students.

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The act of removing the ball from one's own goal area by kicking it.

We were clearing dishes, before he spoke.

There's a spring in that clearing ahead.

They were clearing the hut for the colonel and carried them out.

After a long time they came into a clearing on the edge of the mountain.

This was one of the great days; though the sky had from my clearing only the same everlastingly great look that it wears daily, and I saw no difference in it.

He appeared to be alone, and she took a deep breath to still her hammering heart before emerging into the small clearing lit by the moon.

The cost of clearing forest land and planting with rubber in Ceylon is estimated at about 100 Rs.

Clearing up some old cases, are you?

Formerly, when floods resulted from this obstruction, the townsfolk of Helston acquired the right of clearing a passage through it by presenting leathern purses containing three halfpence to the lord of the manor.

Here is a hogshead of molasses or of brandy directed to John Smith, Cuttingsville, Vermont, some trader among the Green Mountains, who imports for the farmers near his clearing, and now perchance stands over his bulkhead and thinks of the last arrivals on the coast, how they may affect the price for him, telling his customers this moment, as he has told them twenty times before this morning, that he expects some by the next train of prime quality.

It was growing light, the sky was clearing, only a single cloud lay in the east.

Aaron glanced around the clearing and examined the forest beyond.

He paused again, clearing his throat and wiping tears from his cheeks.

It was clearing, and over the tops of the trees clouds were swiftly sailing as if unveiling the stars.

Fred returned just as they were clearing the dishes, wearing a perplexed look on his face.

The result is, on the one hand, a clearing away of much fantastic phylogeny, on the other, an enormous reduction of the supposed gaps between groups.

Put comprehensively, it involves the control of the subsoil and surface waters by drainage, the regulation of rivers and floods, suitable agriculture, the clearing of forests or jungles, which tend to increase the rainfall and keep the ground swampy.

We chipped in clearing the table and cleaning the dishes.

Her thoughts clearing, she realized she needed to call the police about the body she found.

He should view their actions as clearing the way for him.

Rhyn finished his task of clearing Kris.s floor of dead bodies.

The trail dead-ended at a faded white house at the edge of a clearing that commanded a view of the val­ley below.

He finally broke into a clearing and began searching for tracks.

On the 28th Sir Harry Smith, with a view to clearing the left or British bank, attacked him, and after a desperate struggle thrice pierced the Sikh troops with his cavalry, and pushed them into the river, where large numbers perished, leaving 67 guns to the victors.

Amongst Orthoptera we find many noxious insects, notably the locusts, which travel in vast cloud-like armies, clearing the whole country before them of all vegetable life.

There was a small clearing where the trail opened up to a spectacular view of winter time Mount Abrams.

Coming through the clearing to where the park benches were, he realized there was only one person.

When the trail stopped at the edge of a rock strewn clearing, Carmen continued.

Soon a green river winked at them playfully between rocks and bushes, and roared impressively as they entered the clearing at the mill site.

Suddenly, Hannah stopped.  Kris barreled towards her.  He glimpsed movement before he burst into the small clearing.  It wasn't until he leapt over the final hurdle – a massive fallen tree – did he see what stopped her.  One moment she stood with her back to him.  The next, she was on the ground, Rhyn's dagger dripping with blood.

The deer paused only a second when it saw her, and then bounded across the clearing, its white tail held erect.

This, of course, means that a new station, where clearing, digging, and building are in progress, is often unhealthy for a time, and to this must be attributed the evil reputation which the peninsula formerly enjoyed.

In Great Britain the mineral trucks can ordinarily hold from 8 to io tons (long tons, 2240 lb), and the goods trucks rather less, though there are wagons in use holding 12 or 15 tons, and the specifications agreed to by the railway companies associated in the Railway Clearing House permit private wagon owners (who own about 45% of the wagon stock run on the railways of the United Kingdom) to build also wagons holding 20, 30, 40 and 56 tons.

There are in Italy six clearing houses, namely, the ancient one at Leghorn, and those of Genoa, Milan, Rome, Florence and Turin, founded since 1882.

The explicit adoption of this point of view has had the effect of clearing up and rendering definite the older morphological doctrines, which for the most part had no fixed criterion by which they could be tested.

At Kiang the expenditure has been £3100, with an annual expenditure of £270, devoted to clearing and draining 332 acres.

As soon as the clearing house was set up it became evident that " futures " were an impossibility away from it.

Now from the clearing house importers were rigorously excluded, and on invoking the aid of " futures," therefore, they were penalized to the extent of double broker's commission, one commission being charged on the sale of the " futures " and one on their purchase back.

He experienced considerable difficulty in founding this second colony, from the strenuous opposition of a neighbouring tribe, the Petiguares; at length he succeeded in clearing his lands of them, but not long afterwards he perished by shipwreck.

The thick wood is not just at our door, nor the pond, but somewhat is always clearing, familiar and worn by us, appropriated and fenced in some way, and reclaimed from Nature.

Hussars, ladies, witches, clowns, and bears, after clearing their throats and wiping the hoarfrost from their faces in the vestibule, came into the ballroom where candles were hurriedly lighted.

Pushing through some sumac that she thought bordered the clearing where the building stood, she squinted up at the sun.

When they reached the clearing of the lawn, Yancey waited until she came up beside him.

Dean emerged from behind the cluster of boulders and jogged to the edge of a clearing where he had a better view down the valley.

She was able to breathe easier when she stood outside the massive fortress that sat on a clearing the size of two football fields.

It towered twenty stories tall and sat in a clearing the size of two football fields.

Adrenaline started through her system again, clearing some of the fog in her mind.

Cynthia ambled out as Dean was clearing away the dishes.

Dean had hardly begun clearing the walk of the deep snow before Jake Weller drove up.

They walked a path for a while then came to a clearing.