Dictionary Definition
clean adj
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" [syn: clear]
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" [syn: clear, light, unclouded]
4 free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh
air" [syn: fresh]
5 without difficulties or problems; "a clean test
flight"
6 ritually clean or pure [ant: unclean]
7 not spreading pollution or contamination;
especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and
more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
[syn: uncontaminating] [ant:
dirty]
8 (of behavior or especially language) free from
objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a
clean joke" [syn: unobjectionable] [ant:
dirty]
9 free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or
uninfected) wound" [syn: uninfected]
10 morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn:
clean-living]
11 (of a manuscript) having few alterations or
corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" [syn: fair]
12 of a surface; not written or printed on;
"blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide
white margins" [syn: blank, white]
13 marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair
play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement";
"sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: sporting, sportsmanlike]
14 thorough and without qualification; "a clean
getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
15 (of a record) having no marks of discredit or
offense; "a clean voting recor"; "a clean driver's license"
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" [syn:
neat]
18 free of drugs; "after a long dependency on
heroin she has been clean for 4 years" n : a weightlift in which
the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
[syn: clean and
jerk] adv
1 completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot
the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn: plumb, plum]
2 in conformity with the rules or laws and
without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly, fair] [ant: unfairly]
Verb
1 make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted
substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
[syn: make
clean] [ant: dirty]
2 remove unwanted substances from, such as
feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey" [syn: pick]
3 clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans
every week" [syn: houseclean, clean
house]
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" [syn: strip]
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"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- , /kliːn/, /kli:n/
- Rhymes: -iːn
Adjective
en-adj er- Not dirty.
- Are these dishes clean?
- In a condition of having been cleaned.
- Your room is finally clean!
- In an unmarked
condition.
- Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
- Pure,
especially morally or
religiously.
- Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
- Drug- and
alcohol-free.
- I've been clean this time for eight months.
- Smooth,
exact, and performed well.
- I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
- Said of (criminal, driving..) records without restrictions or penalties, or someone having
such a record.
- Unlike you, I’ve never been caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
- Cool or
neat.
- Damn, Shorty, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
- In the context of "aerodynamics": Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- In the context of "health": Being free of
sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
- I’m clean officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
Derived terms
- clean as a hound's tooth
- clean as a whistle
- clean sheet
- clean sweep
- cleanliness
- cleanly
- come clean
- unclean
Translations
not dirty
- Arabic:
- Chinese:
- (gānjìng)
- Czech: čistý
- Dutch: proper, schoon
- Finnish: puhdas
- French: propre
- German: sauber, rein
- Hungarian: tiszta
- Irish: glan
- Italian: pulito
- Japanese: 綺麗な (きれいな, kirei na)
- Korean: 깨끗한 (kkaeggeuthan)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: پاک, خاوێن
- Portuguese: limpo
- Russian: чистый
- Slovene: čist , čista , čisto
- Spanish: limpio
- Swedish: ren
in a condition of having been cleaned
in an unmarked condition
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: (zhěngqí de)
- Finnish: puhdas, tyhjä
- Russian: чистый
pure, especially morally or religiously
smooth, exact, and performed well
slang: cool or neat
without restrictions or penalties
allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces
- Finnish: sileä
not having sexually transmitted diseases
- Finnish: puhdas
not in possession of weapons or contraband such
as drugs
- Italian: pulito
- Russian: чистый
- ttbc Albanian: pastër
- ttbc Breton: naet, prop, kempenn
- ttbc Catalan: net, pur
- ttbc Croatian: čist
- ttbc Esperanto: pura
- ttbc French: propre
- ttbc Hebrew: נקי (naqy) , נקייה (neqi'a)
- ttbc Ido: neta
- ttbc Indonesian: bersih
- ttbc Japanese: きれい (kirei)
- ttbc Korean: 맑다 (makda), 깨끗하다 (kkaekkeut-hada)
- ttbc Polish: czysty , czysta , czyste
- ttbc Romanian: curat
- ttbc Spanish: limpio
- ttbc Telugu: శుభ్రం (Subhram)
- ttbc Yiddish: ריין (rein)
- ttbc Welsh: glân
Noun
- The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
Translations
first part of "clean and jerk" weightlifting
- Finnish: veto
Verb
- Remove dirt from a place or object.
- Can you clean the windows today?
- Tidy up, make a place
neat.
- Clean your room right now!
- In the context of "transitive|climbing": Remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- Make things clean in general.
- She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- In the context of "intransitive|curling": Brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
(transitive) to remove dirt from a place or
object
- trreq Albanian
- Arabic:
- trreq Armenian
- Chinese:
- trreq Croatian
- Czech: čistit, vyčistit
- trreq Danish
- Dutch: schoonmaken, kuisen, poetsen, reinigen
- trreq Esperanto
- trreq Estonian
- Finnish: puhdistaa, siivota, siistiä, putsata
- Georgian: წმენდა (ts‘menda), გასუფთავება (gasup‘t‘aveba)
- German: reinigen, säubern, putzen
- trreq Greek
- Hindi: साफ करना (sāf karnā)
- Hungarian: tisztít
- trreq Icelandic
- Irish: glan
- Khmer: (somāt), (jŭmrēah), (dohlīəng)
- Kurdish:
- Sorani: پاک کردن
- Latin: purgo
- trreq Latvian
- trreq Lithuanian
- trreq Maltese
- trreq Maori
- trreq Mongolian
- trreq Norwegian
- trreq Old English
- trreq Persian
- Portuguese: limpar
- trreq Romanian
- Russian: чистить (čístit’)
- trreq Slovak
- Slovene: čistiti
- Spanish: limpiar
- trreq Swahili
- Thai: (láang), (chét)
- trreq Turkish
- trreq Vietnamese
- Yiddish: פּוצטן (putsn)
(transitive) to tidy up
(transitive) to remove equipment from climbing
route
(intransitive) to make things clean
- Dutch: poetsen
- Finnish: puhdistaa, siivota
- German: reinigen, säubern, putzen
- Irish: glan
(intransitive) to brush lightly in front of a
curling rock
Adverb
en-adv er- Fully and completely.
- He was stabbed clean through.
Translations
fully and completely
- Finnish: täysin
Extensive Definition
It may also refer to:
- Clean Language is a questioning technique that is used especially in psychotherapy and coaching.
- Clean and jerk or Clean and press, techniques in weightlifting
- Clean AJAX, a simple Ajax framework
- Clean (programming language), a purely functional programming language
- Clean (film) (2004), a French drama film directed by Olivier Assayas
- The Clean, an influential first-wave punk band
- Clean (album), an industrial album by Deitiphobia
- "Clean", a song by Depeche Mode from their 1990 album Violator
- Clean, an amplifier sound in guitar terminology
See also
clean in Danish: Clean
clean in French: Clean
clean in Malay (macrolanguage): Bersih
clean in Dutch: Clean
Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
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chaste, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up,
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disinfect, disinfected, do, do up, downright, dry-clean, dust, dust off, dyed-in-the-wool,
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fully, furbish, good, goodish, graceful, guiltless, gut, handy, high-minded,
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law-revering, lustrate,
magisterial,
manly, masterful, masterly, modest, mop, moral, neat, neaten, no mean, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly
habits, omnibus,
omnipresent,
order, out-and-out,
outright, own up,
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sponge, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, spotless, spotlessly, spruce, stainless, stark, statesmanlike,
steam-clean, sterile,
sterling, straight, straighten out,
straighten up, stylish,
sweep, sweep out, sweeping, sweet, sweeten, tactful, tahar, taintless, the compleat, the
complete, thorough,
thoroughgoing,
thoroughly,
through-and-through, tidy,
total, totally, trim, true-dealing, true-devoted,
true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited, truehearted, tubbed, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unarmed, unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, unclutter, uncomplicated, unconditional, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled, unimpeachable, uninfected, universal, unmitigated, unmixed, unmuddied, unpolluted, unqualified, unrelievedly, unreserved, unrestricted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright, uprighteous, upstanding, utter, utterly, vacuum, veritable, virtuoso, virtuous, wash, wash up, weaponless, well-done,
well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned,
well-scrubbed, well-shaped, well-washed, white, whiten, whitened, wholesale, wholesome, wholly, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up,
workmanlike,
worthy, yeomanly