Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), a. [Compar. Cleaner (kl[=e]n"[~e]r);
superl. Cleanest.] [OE. clene, AS. cl[=ae]ne; akin to OHG.
chleini pure, neat, graceful, small, G. klein small, and
perh. to W. glan clean, pure, bright; all perh. from a
primitive, meaning bright, shining. Cf. Glair.]
1. Free from dirt or filth; as, clean clothes.
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2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
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3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
as, a clean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
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4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
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5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
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When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
--Lev. xxiii.
22.
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6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
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Create in me a clean heart, O God. --Ps. li. 10
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That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
--Tennyson.
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7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
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8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
tone; healthy. "Lothair is clean." --F. Harrison.
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9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
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A clean bill of health, a certificate from the proper
authority that a ship is free from infection.
Clean breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
To make a clean breast. See under Breast.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Clean \Clean\, adv.
1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly;
entirely. "Domestic broils clean overblown." --Shak.
"Clean contrary." --Milton.
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All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
--Josh. iii.
17.
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2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.]
"Pope came off clean with Homer." --Henley.
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Clean \Clean\ (kl[=e]n), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleaned
(kl[=e]nd); p. pr. & vb. n. Cleaning.] [See Clean, a.,
and cf. Cleanse.]
To render clean; to free from whatever is foul, offensive, or
extraneous; to purify; to cleanse.
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To clean out, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one)
all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.
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clean
adj 1: free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits;
"children with clean shining faces"; "clean white
shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house";
"cats are clean animals" [ant: dirty]
2: free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of
health"; "a clear winner" [syn: clear]
3: (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims;
"efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings";
"clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues";
"a light lilting voice like a silver bell" [syn: clear,
light, unclouded]
4: free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air" [syn: fresh]
5: without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"
6: ritually clean or pure [ant: unclean]
7: not spreading pollution or contamination; especially
radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and
more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably
clean" [syn: uncontaminating] [ant: dirty]
8: (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable
elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a
clean joke" [syn: unobjectionable] [ant: dirty]
9: free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected)
wound" [syn: uninfected]
10: morally pure; "led a clean life" [syn: clean-living]
11: (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections;
"fair copy"; "a clean manuscript" [syn: fair]
12: of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages";
"fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white
margins" [syn: blank, white]
13: marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a
clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement";
"sportsmanlike conduct" [syn: sporting, sportsmanlike]
14: thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a
clean sweep"; "a clean break"
15: (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a
clean voting recor"; "a clean driver's license"
16: not carrying concealed weapons
17: free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he
landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean
throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife" [syn:
neat]
18: free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has
been clean for 4 years"
n : a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder
height and then jerked overhead [syn: clean and jerk]
adv 1: completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the
appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out" [syn:
plumb, plum]
2: in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or
cheating; "they played fairly" [syn: fairly, fair]
[ant: unfairly]
v 1: make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances
from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
[syn: make clean] [ant: dirty]
2: remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits;
"Clean the turkey" [syn: pick]
3: clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week"
[syn: houseclean, clean house]
4: clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up
before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails
before dinner" [syn: cleanse]
5: be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily"
6: deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.;
"The other players cleaned him completely"
7: remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely;
"The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were
cleaned of apples by the storm" [syn: strip]
8: remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug"
9: remove unwanted substances from [syn: scavenge]
10: remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"
WordNet (r) 2.0
317 Moby Thesaurus words for "clean":
Christian, Daedalian, absolute, absolutely, acknowledge, adept,
admit, adroit, all-embracing, all-encompassing, all-out,
all-pervading, altogether, antiseptic, apt, artistic,
authoritative, bath, bathe, blameless, bleach, bleached, blotless,
born, bowdlerize, bravura, bright, brighten, brilliant,
broad-based, chaste, clarify, clean, clean out, clean up,
clean-cut, cleanly, cleanse, cleansed, clear, clear out, clever,
come clean, comely, completely, comprehensive, confess, congenital,
consummate, coordinated, crack, crackerjack, creditable, cunning,
cute, daedal, dainty, decent, decontaminate, decontaminated,
deep-dyed, definite, deft, delouse, deplete, depurate, deterge,
dexterous, dextrous, diplomatic, dirt-free, disinfect, disinfected,
do, do up, downright, dry-clean, dust, dust off, dyed-in-the-wool,
egregious, empty, entirely, erect, estimable, ethical, evacuate,
even, excellent, exhaust, exhaustive, expert, expurgate, fair,
fancy, fastidious, faultless, fresh, freshen, full of integrity,
fully, furbish, good, goodish, graceful, guiltless, gut, handy,
high-minded, high-principled, highly respectable, honest,
honorable, immaculate, immaculately, impeccable, inculpable,
ingenious, innocent, inoffensive, intensive, inviolate,
irreproachable, irretrievably, irrevocably, just, kosher, launder,
lave, law-abiding, law-loving, law-revering, lustrate, magisterial,
manly, masterful, masterly, modest, mop, moral, neat, neaten,
no mean, noble, nonpolluted, of cleanly habits, omnibus,
omnipresent, order, out-and-out, outright, own up, perfect,
perfectly, pervasive, plain, plumb, police, polish, politic,
principled, professional, proficient, pure, pure in heart,
purehearted, purely, purge, purified, purify, quick, quite,
quite some, radical, ready, recondition, reform, regular, renew,
renovate, reputable, resourceful, respectable, reveal, right,
right-minded, righteous, ritually pure, sanitary, sanitize,
scavenge, scour, scrub, scrubbed, sexually innocent, shapely,
sheer, shining, shiny, simple, sing, skillful, slick, smooth,
smut-free, smutless, snowy, some, sparkling, spill the beans,
sponge, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly, spotless, spotlessly, spruce,
stainless, stark, statesmanlike, steam-clean, sterile, sterling,
straight, straighten out, straighten up, stylish, sweep, sweep out,
sweeping, sweet, sweeten, tactful, tahar, taintless, the compleat,
the complete, thorough, thoroughgoing, thoroughly,
through-and-through, tidy, total, totally, trim, true-dealing,
true-devoted, true-disposing, true-souled, true-spirited,
truehearted, tubbed, ubiquitous, unadulterated, unarmed,
unbesmirched, unblemished, unblotted, unclutter, uncomplicated,
unconditional, uncontaminated, uncorrupt, uncorrupted, undefiled,
unimpeachable, uninfected, universal, unmitigated, unmixed,
unmuddied, unpolluted, unqualified, unrelievedly, unreserved,
unrestricted, unsmirched, unsmudged, unsoiled, unspoiled,
unspotted, unstained, unsullied, untainted, untarnished, upright,
uprighteous, upstanding, utter, utterly, vacuum, veritable,
virtuoso, virtuous, wash, wash up, weaponless, well-done,
well-favored, well-formed, well-made, well-proportioned,
well-scrubbed, well-shaped, well-washed, white, whiten, whitened,
wholesale, wholesome, wholly, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up,
workmanlike, worthy, yeomanly
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
clean 1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance
in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any
surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and
relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is `grungy'
or crufty. 2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to
reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage
and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)
Clean
A lazy higher-order purely functional
language from the University of Nijmegen. Clean was
originally a subset of Lean, designed to be an experimental
intermediate language and used to study the graph
rewriting model. To help focus on the essential
implementation issues it deliberately lacked all syntactic
sugar, even infix expressions or complex lists,
As it was used more and more to construct all kinds of
applications it was eventually turned into a general purpose
functional programming language, first released in May 1995.
The new language is strongly typed (Milner/Mycroft type
system), provides modules and functional I/O (including a
WIMP interface), and supports parallel processing and
distributed processing on loosely coupled parallel
architectures. Parallel execution was originally based on the
PABC abstract machine.
It is one of the fastest implementations of functional
languages available, partly aided by programmer annotations
to influence evaluation order.
Although the two variants of Clean are rather different, the
name Clean can be used to denote either of them. To
distinguish, the old version can be referred to as Clean 0.8,
and the new as Clean 1.0 or Concurrent Clean.
The current release of Clean (1.0) includes a compiler,
producing code for the ABC abstract machine, a code
generator, compiling the ABC code into either object-code
or assembly language (depending on the platform), I/O
libraries, a development environment (not all platforms),
and documentation. It is supported (or will soon be
supported) under Mac OS, Linux, OS/2, Windows 95,
SunOS, and Solaris.
Home (http://www.cs.kun.nl/~clean/). E-mail:
. Mailing list: .
["Clean - A Language for Functional Graph Rewriting", T. Brus
et al, IR 95, U Nijmegen, Feb 1987].
["Concurrent Clean", M.C. van Eekelen et al, TR 89-18, U
Nijmegen, Netherlands, 1989].
[{Jargon File]
(1995-11-08)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
clean
1. Used of hardware or software designs, implies "elegance in
the small", that is, a design or implementation that may not
hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably
intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside.
The antonym is "grungy" or crufty.
2. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce
clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the
garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition."
[{Jargon File]
(1994-12-12)
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)
Clean
The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are
enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into
clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of
sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The
regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Lev. 11 and
Deut. 14:1-21.
The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal
substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the
intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines,
called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the
fat tail of certain sheep (Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:19;
17:10; 19:26).
The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to
establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews
from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition
of these regulations the reader will find all the details in
Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb. 9:9-14.
Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary
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