Meaning of clean | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Free of dirt, filth, or impurities (extraneous matter); not dirty, filthy, or soiled.
2. broke, out of pocket
3. Having relatively few impurities.
4. first-person singular present indicative of limpiar
5. Free of contamination, (unwanted) germs, infection, or disease.
6. Devoid of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
7. Free of imperfections, blemishes, or defects.
   slang
8. Of a victory or performance: without any blemishes such as submission holds, disqualification, interference, etc.
   slang
9. Ascended without falling.
10. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
11. In an unmarked condition; blank.
12. Free of immorality or criminality.
13. Pure, especially morally or religiously.
14. Not using drugs or alcohol.
15. Free from (or showing no signs of) corrupt, unlawful, and/or sinister conduct or connections (and (of criminal, driving, etc. records) therefore without restrictions or penalties).
16. Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
    informal
17. Devoid of profanity.
    informal
18. Free of infiltration by covert listening or recording devices (bugs), enemy spies, etc.
19. Empty.
20. Smooth, exact, and performed well.
21. That does not damage the environment (as much as some alternative).
22. Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
23. Having the undercarriage and flaps in the up position.
24. Well-proportioned; shapely.
25. Cool or neat.
    informal
26. Utter, complete, total; pure; free from restraint.

Equivalents

Examples

“Are these dishes clean? Your room is finally clean! For a baby, happiness is a full bottle and a clean diaper.”

“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.”

“Very fine, well-sorted, clean sand with no shells.”

“Scientists believe they have identified the world’s cleanest air, free from particles caused by human activity, located over the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica.”

“clean steel”

“Insert a clean swab into your nose.”

“"Serious as cognitohazard." Lillihammer danced down the corridor towards them, doing little pirouettes and leaping from toe to toe. "Reuben Wirth no longer exists. Gonna have to get Forsythe to do that brain scan to make sure I'm clean, but otherwise yeah. Poof."”

“I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.”

“Our team won, but it wasn't clean.”

“clean land”

“clean timber”

“Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.”

“Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.”

“Create in me a clean heart, O God.”

“Ah! let me knot be fool'd, sweet saints. I trust / That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.”

“I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.”

“go clean”

“I've been clean this time for eight months.”

“Ten months sober, I must admit Just because you're clean, don't mean you don't miss it Ten months older, I won't give in Now that I'm clean, I'm never gonna risk it”

“It was my dream to be a Soviet spy. The vetting process started, and I was “clean”: no Jews in either my background or my wife's, no relatives abroad, already a member of the Soviet Communist Party, high marks on exams, three foreign languages, no dissident inclinations[…]”

“"If the Tramells hadn't passed away, we still wouldn't know. The background check was clean." "How can it be clean, for fuck's sake?" I knocked back the whiskey in one swallow. "Eva's mother used Monica's name, birthdate, and family history, but she never opened a line of credit, which is how most identity theft is discovered."”

“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.”

“We are currently clean on OPSEC.”

“"[Are you sure the] room is clean?" "As a whistle. It's swept at irregular intervals every week." "That still leaves time to plant a bug[…]"”

“The cargo hold is clean.”

“Mister, I want to see a clean dinner plate or there'll be no dessert for you.”

“I'll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.”

“a clean leap over a fence”

“a clean left-footed shot into the top corner of the goal”

“clean energy”

“clean coal”

“clean tourism”

“In a press release, CARB expanded on their decision. "The LCFS reduces air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions by setting a declining carbon intensity target for transportation fuels used in California; producers that don't meet established benchmarks buy credits from those that do. This system has generated $4 billion in annual private sector investment toward a cleaner transportation sector."”

“clean limbs”

“Wow, dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!”

“a clean sweep”

“When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.”

“The clean thrill of getting the right answer gave me a sense of efficacy and rootedness. Even so, on tests at school I rarely got good grades, because I had a terrible habit of not showing my work.”

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