Clear vs Expect - 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.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful.
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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.
To look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).
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To consider reasonably due.
To be pregnant, to consider a baby due.
(obsolete) To wait for; to await.
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(obsolete) To wait; to stay.
As a noun clear
is (scientology) an idea state of beingness free of unwanted influences.As a verb expect is
to look for (mentally); to look forward to, as to something that is believed to be about to happen or come; to have a previous apprehension of, whether of good or evil; to look for with some confidence; to anticipate; -- often followed by an infinitive, sometimes by a clause (with, or without, that).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
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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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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
Statistics
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(Webster 1913)Verb
(en verb)The Mirror and the Lamp, passage=“[…] They talk of you as if you were Croesus—and I expect the beggars sponge on you unconscionably.” And Vickers launched forth into a tirade very different from his platform utterances. He spoke with extreme contempt of the dense stupidity exhibited on all occasions by the working classes.}}
- Let's in, and there expect their coming.
- The knight fixed his eyes on the opening with breathless anxiety, and continuing to kneel in the attitude of devotion which the place and scene required, expected the consequence of these preparations.
- (Sandys)