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English Dictionary: Clean by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
clean
adv
  1. completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
    Synonym(s): clean, plumb, plum
  2. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
    Synonym(s): fairly, fair, clean
    Antonym(s): below the belt, unfairly
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"
    Antonym(s): dirty, soiled, unclean
  2. free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"
    Synonym(s): clean, 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"
    Synonym(s): clean, clear, light, unclouded
  4. free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air"
    Synonym(s): clean, fresh
  5. (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license"
  6. ritually clean or pure
    Antonym(s): impure, unclean
  7. not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
    Synonym(s): clean, uncontaminating
    Antonym(s): contaminating, dirty
  8. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"
    Synonym(s): clean, unobjectionable
    Antonym(s): dirty
  9. free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound"
    Synonym(s): uninfected, clean
  10. morally pure; "led a clean life"
    Synonym(s): clean, clean- living
  11. (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
    Synonym(s): clean, fair
  12. (of a surface) not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
    Synonym(s): blank, clean, white
  13. exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
    Synonym(s): clean, sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike
  14. without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight"
  15. thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
  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"
    Synonym(s): clean, neat
  18. free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"
n
  1. a weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead
    Synonym(s): clean and jerk, clean
v
  1. make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
    Synonym(s): clean, make clean
    Antonym(s): begrime, bemire, colly, dirty, grime, soil
  2. remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits; "Clean the turkey"
    Synonym(s): clean, pick
  3. clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week"
    Synonym(s): houseclean, clean house, clean
  4. clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"
    Synonym(s): cleanse, clean
  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"
    Synonym(s): clean, strip
  8. remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug"
  9. remove unwanted substances from
    Synonym(s): scavenge, clean
  10. remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clean \Clean\, a. [Compar. {Cleaner}; superl. {Cleanest}.] [OE.
      clene, AS. cl[?]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.
  
      2. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without
            defects; as, clean land; clean timber.
  
      3. Free from awkwardness; not bungling; adroit; dexterous;
            as, aclean trick; a clean leap over a fence.
  
      4. Free from errors and vulgarisms; as, a clean style.
  
      5. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
  
                     When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt
                     not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.
                                                                              --Lev. xxiii.
                                                                              22.
  
      6. Free from moral defilement; sinless; pure.
  
                     Create in me a clean heart, O God.      --Ps. li. 10
  
                     That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven
                                                                              --Tennyson.
  
      7. (Script.) Free from ceremonial defilement.
  
      8. Free from that which is corrupting to the morals; pure in
            tone; healthy. [bd]Lothair is clean.[b8] --F. Harrison.
  
      9. Well-proportioned; shapely; as, clean limbs.
  
      {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}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clean \Clean\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cleaned}; 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.
  
      {To clean out}, to exhaust; to empty; to get away from (one)
            all his money. [Colloq.] --De Quincey.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Clean \Clean\, adv.
      1. Without limitation or remainder; quite; perfectly; wholly;
            entirely. [bd]Domestic broils clean overblown.[b8] --Shak.
            [bd]Clean contrary.[b8] --Milton.
  
                     All the people were passed clean over Jordan.
                                                                              --Josh. iii.
                                                                              17.
  
      2. Without miscarriage; not bunglingly; dexterously. [Obs.]
            [bd]Pope came off clean with Homer.[b8] --Henley.

From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
   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."
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   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)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   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)
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
   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.
     
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