clean

A1
Pronunciation
/kleːn/
/kliːn/
/klin/
Noun
2 definition(s)
1 Definition

Removal of dirt.

Example Sentences
  • This place needs a clean.
2 Definition

The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Verb
8 definition(s)
1 Definition

To remove dirt from a place or object.

Example Sentences
  • Can you clean the windows today?
2 Definition

To tidy up, make a place neat.

Example Sentences
  • Clean your room right now!
3 Definition

To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.

4 Definition

To make things clean in general.

Example Sentences
  • She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
5 Definition

To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).

6 Definition

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.

7 Definition

To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.

8 Definition

To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

Adjective
11 definition(s)
1 Definition

(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.

2 Definition

(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.

3 Definition

Smooth, exact, and performed well

Example Sentences
  • I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.  a clean leap over a fence
4 Definition

Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")

5 Definition

Cool or neat.

Example Sentences
  • Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
6 Definition

(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

Example Sentences
  • I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
7 Definition

That does not damage the environment.

Example Sentences
  • clean energy;  clean coal
8 Definition

Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

Example Sentences
  • clean land;  clean timber
9 Definition

Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

10 Definition

Well-proportioned; shapely.

Example Sentences
  • clean limbs
11 Definition

(of a route) Ascended without falling.

Adverb
1 definition(s)
1 Definition

Fully and completely.

Example Sentences
  • He was stabbed clean through.