Real vs Clean - What's the difference?
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True, genuine, not merely nominal or apparent.
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Genuine, unfeigned, sincere.
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, title= Actually being, existing, or occurring; not fictitious or imaginary.
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That has objective, physical existence.
(economics) Having been adjusted to remove the effects of inflation; measured in purchasing power .
(economics) Relating to the result of the actions of rational agents; relating to neoclassical economic models as opposed to Keynesian models.
(mathematics, of a number) Being either a rational number, or the limit of a convergent infinite sequence of rational numbers: being one of a set of numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line.
(legal) Relating to immovable tangible property.
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Absolute, complete, utter.
(slang)
(US, colloquial) Really, very.
A commodity; see reality.
(grammar) One of the three genders that the common gender can be separated into in the Scandinavian languages.
(mathematics) A real number.
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(obsolete) A realist.
Former unit of currency of Spain and Spain's colonies.
A coin worth one real.
A unit of currency used in Portugal and its colonies from 1430 until 1911, and in Brazil from 1790 until 1942
A coin worth one real.
A unit of currency used in Brazil since 1994. Symbol: .
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A coin worth one real.
Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
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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.
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Real is a related term of clean.
As nouns the difference between real and clean
is that real is real (former currency of spain) while clean is removal of dirt.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.real
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) reel, from .Adjective
(en-adj)- [T]he real reason he didn't come was because he was scared of flying[.]
Travels and travails, passage=Even without hovering drones, a lurking assassin, a thumping score and a denouement, the real-life story of Edward Snowden, a rogue spy on the run, could be straight out of the cinema. But, as with Hollywood, the subplots and exotic locations may distract from the real message: America’s discomfort and its foes’ glee.}}
citation, passage=An artificial kidney these days still means a refrigerator-sized dialysis machine. Such devices mimic the way real kidneys cleanse blood and eject impurities and surplus water as urine.}}
- Whose perfection far excelled / Hers in all real dignity.
The tao of tech, passage=The dirty secret of the internet is that all this distraction and interruption is immensely profitable. Web companies like to boast about […], or offering services that let you
- a description of real life
- I waked, and found / Before mine eyes all real , as the dream / Had lively shadowed.
- Many are perfect in men's humours that are not greatly capable of the real part of business.
Synonyms
* true, actual * authentic, genuine, actual * authentic, genuine, heartfelt, true, actual * (that has physical existence) actualAntonyms
* imaginary, unreal * artificial, counterfeit, fake, sham * feigned, sham, staged * (that has physical existence) fictitious, imaginary, made-up, pretend (informal) * (relating to numbers with a one-to-one correspondence to the points on a line) imaginaryDerived terms
* for real * get real * keep it real * real analysis * real asset * real axis * real body * real capital * real deal/the real deal * real estate * real focus * real image * real income * reality * real life * real line * really * real market * real matrix * real McCoy * realness * real number * real option * real part * real presence * real property * real return * real soon now * real storage * real stuff * real tennis * real thing/the real thing * real time * real-valued * real variable * real wages * real world/real-worldAdverb
(-)Noun
(en noun)- There have been several classical constructions of the reals that avoid these prob-
lems, the most famous ones being Dedekind Cuts'' and ''Cauchy Sequences , named
respectively for the mathematicians Richard Dedekind (1831 - 1916) and Augustine
Cauchy (1789 - 1857). We will not discuss these constructions here, but will use a
more modern one developed by Gabriel Stolzenberg, based on "interval arithmetic."
- (Burton)
Etymology 2
From (etyl) .Noun
(reales)Etymology 3
From (etyl) .Noun
Noun
(en-noun)- Within weeks of this bombshell, an aide to the brother of the chairman of the PT, José Genoino, was arrested boarding a flight with 200,000 reais in a suitcase and $100,000 in his underpants.
Synonyms
* (old Portuguese and Brazilian unit of currency)Meronyms
* (current Brazilian unit of currency)Statistics
*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.}}
