Clean vs Clearance - What's the difference?
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Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
#Not dirty.
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#*:Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean . ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.
#In an unmarked condition.
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#(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
#Empty.
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#(lb) Having relatively few impurities.
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Free of immorality or criminality.
#Pure, especially morally or religiously.
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#*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:
#*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.
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#*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.
#Not having used drugs or alcohol.
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# Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
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#(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
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Smooth, exact, and performed well.
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(lb) Cool or neat.
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(lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
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Which doesn’t .
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Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
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Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
*(Bible), (w) xxiii.22:
*:When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
Well-proportioned; shapely.
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Ascended without falling.
Removal of dirt.
(weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
To remove dirt from a place or object.
To tidy up, make a place neat.
(climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
To make things clean in general.
(curling) 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.
Fully and completely.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 The act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared
The distance between two moving objects, especially between parts of a machine
The height or width of a tunnel, bridge or other passage, or the distance between a vehicle and the walls or roof of such passage; a gap, headroom.
A permission for a vehicle to proceed, or for a person to travel.
A permission to have access to sensitive or secret documents or other information
A sale of merchandise at a reduced price.
(banking, finance) The settlement of transactions involving securities or means of payment such as checks by means of a clearing house.
(medicine) The removal of harmful substances from the blood; renal clearance.
(sports, billiards, snooker, pool) The act of potting all the remaining balls on a table at one visit.
(soccer) The act of kicking a ball away from the goal one is defending.
* {{quote-news
, year=2010
, date=December 29
, author=Chris Whyatt
, title=Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton
, work=BBC
(chess) Removal of pieces from a rank, file or diagonal so that a bishop, rook or queen is free to move along it.
Clear or net profit.
As nouns the difference between clean and clearance
is that clean is removal of dirt while clearance is the act of clearing or something (such as a space) cleared.As an adjective clean
is free of dirt or impurities or protruberances .As a verb clean
is to remove dirt from a place or object.As an adverb clean
is fully and completely.clean
English
(wikipedia clean)Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* (not dirty) * (empty)Antonyms
* dirty * uncleanDerived terms
* clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * uncleanNoun
(en noun)- This place needs a clean .
Verb
(en verb)- Can you clean the windows today?
- Clean your room right now!
- She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.
Synonyms
* See alsoDerived terms
* clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * housecleanAdverb
(er)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, when modish taste was just due to go clean out of fashion for the best part of the next hundred years.}}
clearance
English
Noun
- The plane got clearance from air traffic control, and we were off.
- He got clearance to travel to America, even though he had previous links to terrorists
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