clean

/kleːn/

noun

Meaning

Removal of dirt.
"This place needs a clean."
The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

verb

Meaning

To remove dirt from a place or object.
"Can you clean the windows today?"
To tidy up, make a place neat.
"Clean your room right now!"
To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
To make things clean in general.
"She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."
To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
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.
To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

adjective

Meaning

(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
Smooth, exact, and performed well
"I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence"
Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
Cool or neat.
"Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!"
(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
"I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married."
That does not damage the environment.
"clean energy; clean coal"
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
"clean land; clean timber"
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
Well-proportioned; shapely.
"clean limbs"
(of a route) Ascended without falling.

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