Clear vs Easy - What's the difference?
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Transparent in colour.
Bright, not dark or obscured.
Free of obstacles.
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(lb) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
Free of ambiguity or doubt.
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, title= Distinct, sharp, well-marked.
(lb) Free of guilt, or suspicion.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
(lb) Without a thickening ingredient.
Possessing little or no perceptible stimulus.
(lb) Free from the influence of engrams; see .
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
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Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
* (William Shakespeare) (c.1564–1616)
Easily or distinctly heard; audible.
* (Alexander Pope) (1688-1744)
Unmixed; entirely pure.
Without defects or blemishes, such as freckles or knots.
Without diminution; in full; net.
* (Jonathan Swift) (1667–1745)
All the way; entirely.
Not near something or touching it.
free (or separate) from others
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(obsolete) In a clear manner; plainly.
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(lb) To remove obstructions or impediments from.
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*:Faith, Dick, I mu?t confe?s, ?tis true // (But this is only Entre Nous ) // That many knotty Points there are, // Which All di?cu?s, but Few can clear .
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter.
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, title= (lb) To become freed from obstructions.
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*:“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action. ¶ Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,.
(lb) To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
(lb) To remove from suspicion, especially of having committed a crime.
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*(John Dryden) (1631-1700)
*:Iam sure he will clear me from partiality.
*(Joseph Addison) (1672–1719)
*:Wouldst thou clear rebellion?
(lb) To pass without interference; to miss.
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(lb) To become clear.
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(lb) Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
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To earn a profit of; to net.
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(lb) To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
To disengage oneself from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free.
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*:Be?ides, he that cleares' at once will relap?e: for finding him?elfe out of ?traights, he will reuert to his cu?tomes. But hee that ' cleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his E?tate.
To obtain a clearance.
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(lb) To defend by hitting (or kicking, throwing, heading etc.) the ball (or puck) from the defending goal.
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To reset or unset; to return to an empty state or to zero.
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(carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
Comfortable; at ease.
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, title= Causing ease; giving comfort, or freedom from care or labour.
Free from constraint, harshness, or formality; unconstrained; smooth.
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(informal, pejorative, of a person) Consenting readily to sex.
Not making resistance or showing unwillingness; tractable; yielding; compliant.
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Not straitened as to money matters; opposed to tight.
In a relaxed or casual manner
In a manner without strictness or harshness.
Used an intensifier for large magnitudes.
Not difficult, not hard. (rfex)
Something that is easy
to easy-oar (stop rowing)
As nouns the difference between clear and easy
is that clear is (scientology) an idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences while easy is something that is easy.As an adjective easy is
comfortable; at ease.As an adverb easy is
in a relaxed or casual manner.As a verb easy is
to easy-oar (stop rowing).clear
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Alternative forms
* (contraction used in electronics)Adjective
(er)Mr. Pratt's Patients, chapter=1 , passage=Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path
- Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. The clear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
The new masters and commanders, passage=From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.
- Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, / In action faithful, and in honour clear .
- Mother of science! now I feel thy power / Within me clear , not only to discern / Things in their causes, but to trace the ways / Of highest agents.
- With a countenance as clear / As friendship wears at feasts.
- Hark! the numbers soft and clear / Gently steal upon the ear.
- I often wished that I had clear , / For life, six hundred pounds a year.
Antonyms
* obscure * (of a soup) thickDerived terms
* as clear as a bell * as clear as day * as clear as mud * clarity * clearly * clearness * crystal clear * free and clear * in the clear * keep a clear head * keep clearAdverb
(-)- I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
- Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
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- Now clear I understand.
Verb
(en verb)p.297:
citation, passage=‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never been cleared .
Unspontaneous combustion, passage=Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began to clear' its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way to ' clear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.}}
- the profit which she cleared on the cargo
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citation, passage=Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba then cleared the resulting corner off the line.}}
Synonyms
* (clear a forest) stubDerived terms
* clear away * clear off * clear out * clear up * clearance * clearingNoun
(en noun)- a room ten feet square in the clear
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Adjective
(er)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] She takes the whole thing with desperate seriousness. But the others are all easy and jovial—thinking about the good fare that is soon to be eaten, about the hired fly, about anything.”}}
A new prescription, passage=As the world's drug habit shows, governments are failing in their quest to monitor every London window-box and Andean hillside for banned plants. But even that Sisyphean task looks easy next to the fight against synthetic drugs. No sooner has a drug been blacklisted than chemists adjust their recipe and start churning out a subtly different one.}}
- Rich people live in easy circumstances.
- an easy chair
- easy''' manners; an '''easy style
- the easy vigour of a line
- He gained their easy hearts.
- He is too tyrannical to be an easy monarch.
- The market is easy .