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Wool vs Clean - What's the difference?

wool | clean |

As a proper noun wool

is a village in dorset, england.

As an adjective clean is

free of dirt or impurities or protruberances .

As a noun clean is

removal of dirt.

As a verb clean is

to remove dirt from a place or object.

As an adverb clean is

fully and completely.

wool

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • The hair of the sheep, llama and some other ruminants.
  • * 2006 , Nigel Guy Wilson, Ancient Greece , page 692
  • The sheep were caught and plucked, because shears had not yet been invented to cut the wool from the sheep's back.
  • A cloth or yarn made from the wool of sheep.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 12, Mireya Navarro, It May Market Organic Alternatives, but Is Your Cleaner Really Greener?, New York Times, url=
  • , passage=Spielvogel said wet cleaning also has limitations; while it is fine for cottons and fabrics worn in warm climates, he said, it can damage heavy wools or structured clothes like suit jackets. }}
  • Anything with a texture like that of wool.
  • * 1975 , Anthony Julian Huxley, Plant and Planet , page 223
  • The groundsels have leaves covered in wool for insulation
  • A fine fiber obtained from the leaves of certain trees, such as firs and pines.
  • (obsolete) Short, thick hair, especially when crisped or curled.
  • * Shakespeare
  • wool of bat and tongue of dog
  • (British, NZ) yarn (including that which is made from synthetic fibers.)
  • Coordinate terms

    * (hair of sheep) goathair, horsehair, qiviut

    Hyponyms

    * (cloth or yarn) felt, tweed, worsted

    Derived terms

    * andalusian wool * breech wool * burry wool * cotton wool * dead pulled wool * dyed in the wool * fleece wool * glass wool * ice wool * mineral wool * much cry and little wool * pull the wool over somebody's eyes * rag wool * scoured wool * seed wool * Shetland wool * shorn wool * steel wool * thibet wool * virgin wool * warm as wool * waste of wool * wire wool * wool grease * wool oil * woolgathering * woollen, woolly * woolly, wooly

    See also

    * (wikipedia "wool")

    clean

    English

    (wikipedia clean)

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
  • #Not dirty.
  • #:
  • #*
  • #*: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.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
  • #Empty.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Having relatively few impurities.
  • #:
  • Free of immorality or criminality.
  • #Pure, especially morally or religiously.
  • #:
  • #*(Bible), (Psalms) li.10:
  • #*:Create in me a clean heart, O God.
  • #* (1809-1892)
  • #*:That I am whole, and clean , and meet for Heaven.
  • #Not having used drugs or alcohol.
  • #:
  • # Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
  • #:
  • #(lb) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
  • #:
  • Smooth, exact, and performed well.
  • :
  • (lb) Cool or neat.
  • :
  • (lb) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
  • :
  • Which doesn’t .
  • :
  • Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
  • :
  • 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.
  • :
  • Ascended without falling.
  • Synonyms

    * (not dirty) * (empty)

    Antonyms

    * dirty * unclean

    Derived terms

    * clean as a hound's tooth * * clean sheet * clean sweep * cleanliness * cleanly * come clean * lick clean * unclean

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Removal of dirt.
  • This place needs a clean .
  • (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
  • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To remove dirt from a place or object.
  • Can you clean the windows today?
  • To tidy up, make a place neat.
  • Clean your room right now!
  • (climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
  • To make things clean in general.
  • She just likes to clean . That’s why I married her.
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * See also

    Derived terms

    * clean someone’s clock * clean out * clean up * cleaner * houseclean

    Adverb

    (er)
  • Fully and completely.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
  • , title=(The China Governess) , chapter=1 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.}}