clean

Meanings

Adjective

• Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
• Free of immorality or criminality.
• smooth, exact, and performed well
• Total; utter.
• Cool or neat.
• Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
• That does not damage the environment.
• Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
• Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
• Well-proportioned; shapely.
• Ascended without falling.

Noun

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

Verb

• To remove dirt from a place or object.
• To tidy up, make a place neat.
• To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
• To make things clean in general.
• 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.

Adverb

• Fully and completely.

Related

Opposite words

• dirty
• unclean

Origin

• From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne, from Proto-Germanic *klainiz, from Proto-Indo-European *glēy-, from Proto-Indo-European *gel-. Cognate with Scots clean and clene, clane, North Frisian klien, Dutch klein, Low German kleen, German klein, Swedish klen, Icelandic klénn.