clean meaning
EN
[kliːn] [-iːn] 
US UK WClean
- Clean may refer to:
- NounPLcleansSUF-ean
- VerbSGcleansPRcleaningPT, PPcleaned
- VT To remove dirt from a place or object.
- Can you clean the windows today?
- VT To tidy up, make a place neat.
- Clean your room right now!
- VT (climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- VI To make things clean in general.
- She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- VT (computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- VI (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.
- (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- VT To remove dirt from a place or object.
- AdjectiveCOMcleanerSUPcleanest
- (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean!
- Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
- The cargo hold is clean. Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.
- clean steel
- (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
- I've been clean this time for eight months.
- Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
- I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well.
- I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence
- OBS Total; utter.
- INF Cool or neat.
- Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
- (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
- I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- That does not damage the environment.
- clean energy; clean coal
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
- clean land; clean timber
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
- clean limbs
- (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.
- (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- AdverbCOMcleanerSUPcleanest
- Fully and completely.
- 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.
- Fully and completely.
- More Examples
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
- ‘[...]No, gentlemen; he'll always show ’em a clean pair of heels very early in the scuffle, and sneak away.’
- All Bill caught were two smallish sunperch, barely worth the effort to clean and cook.
- The boy’s father yelled at him for lying to him about cleaning up the mess.
- Used in the Beginning of Sentence
- Clean the kitchen, your grandma's coming in a minute.
- Clean out your purse and at least get rid of all the trash you're hauling around.
- Clean the chicks' waterer each time you refill it.
- Used in the Ending of Sentence
- Watch the mother gorilla nitpick the baby’s fur clean.
- Another, smaller cum wad shot into my mouth. I sucked the last drop from his handsome cock, and licked his cockhead clean.
- My washing machine has gone on the fritz, and I have a load of muddy clothes to clean.
- Used in the Middle of Sentence
Definition of clean in English Dictionary
- Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
- Adjectives
- Adverbs
- Nouns
- Countable nouns
- Countable nouns
- Verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Transitive verbs
- Intransitive verbs
- Adjectives
- en cleaning
- en cleanliness
- en cleanse
- en cleansing
- en cleanly
Source: Wiktionary
Grammatically, this word "clean" is an adjective. It's also an adverb. It's also a noun, more specifically, a countable noun. It's also a verb, more specifically, an intransitive verb and a transitive verb.