CLEARER

Definition: CLEARER

CLEARER

Noun

1. A tool of which the hemp for lines and twines, used by sailmakers, is finished.

2. One who, or that which, clears.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Date "CLEARER" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1321. (references)

Industry

Mining

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Crosswords: CLEARER

Its been three days and my mind is clearer, my sperm count is up and I'm able to recognise simple shapes and patterns (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge)

Message keeps getting clearer, radio's on and I'm moving round the place (DANCING IN THE DARK; performing artist: Bruce Springsteen)

Been Any Clearer (Man In The Mirror; performing artist: Michael Jackson; writing credit: Siedah Garrett and Glen Ballard)

Now the sky is clearer (After All Is Said And Done; performing artist: Nelson)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Clearer Role for Marketing: The Importance of Brand Recognition in Canadian IT Training in 2002 [DOWNLOAD: PDF] (reference)

• A Clearer View: New Insights into the Sudbury School Model (reference)

• Clearer Light (reference)

• Clearer, Cleaner, Safer, Greener: A Blueprint for Detoxifying Your Environment (reference)

• Doctor Zizmor's Guide to Clearer Skin (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Newer Clearer (reference)

• The Vision Becomes Clearer (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

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Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

To make this a little clearer, let us but trace some of the ordinary provisions of life, through their several progresses, before they come to our use, and see how much they receive of their value from human industry. (Second Treatise of Government)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

All these details, blurred by the twilight, were becoming clearer and clearer in the growing light

The word now shone in his brain, clearer and brighter than any ivory sawn from the mottled tusks of elephants

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Health

Better statistical reporting of surgical results is urgently needed for clearer assessments of outcomes. (references)

Because MRI can "see" through bone, it can provide clearer pictures of tumor located near bone, especially brain tumors. (references)

Another example is FM systems that make sounds clearer, with or without a hearing aid, by delivering sound waves like a radio. (references)

Business

It will promote systematic registration of leasing companies, together with defining clearer duties for all parties involved. (references)

Clearer regulations also need to be implemented to ensure that policy holders are fully aware of the conditions of their policies. (references)

Others include the creation of better performance incentives and the provision of a clearer focus of the responsibilities of both the private and public sector. (references)

Civil Liberties

Japan

In an effort to make procedures clearer to applicants, the Government distributes a pamphlet in English, Chinese, and eight other languages to those interested in the asylum process. (references)

Economic History

Tunisia

Many critics have called for clearer, effective distinctions between executive, legislative, and judicial powers. (references)

Peru

USAID has provided important assistance to the Peruvian Government to improve the legal, regulatory, and policy framework that established clearer rules on environmentally sustainable natural resource use. (references)

Human Rights

Iceland

He concluded that the Ministry of Justice needed to adopt clearer guidelines to prevent the arbitrary use of solitary confinement by prison authorities. (references)

Political Economy

EGYPT

Most people waited, anticipating a clearer policy and further depreciation/devaluation. (references)

Indonesia

A constitutional amendment process underway since 1999 has provided for a clearer separation of powers between the executive and legislative branches. (references)

Trade

Croatia

Firmer guidelines and clearer definitions related to exposure towards related parties have also been set forth. (references)

Travel

Argentina

Saying you are from the United States (Los Estados Unidos) is clearer. (references)

China

U.S. exhibitors should contact the exhibition organizers to determine their liabilities regarding sample entries for such events before registering to participate, to obtain a clearer understanding of exhibition-related expenses. (references)

Worker Rights

China

The amended law gives the ACFTU clearer responsibility than previously to represent workers' interests first and foremost. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "CLEARER": clearer tooth ♦ customs clearer ♦ Limber clearer. Additional references.

Beginning with "CLEARER": clearer-case.

Ending with "CLEARER": mess-clearer, non-clearer, snow-clearer, table-clearer.

Chinese 

比较清楚. (various references)

Danish

vendevalse (stripper, stripping roll), omskiftervalse (stripper, stripping roll), hoevletand (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth). (various references)

Dutch

schaaftand (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth), beiteltand (clearer tooth, knife tooth, knife-like blade, raker, raker tooth, ripper tooth). (various references)

Finnish

höylähammas (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth). (various references)

French

cylindre débourreur, cylindre balayeur, sou, dent-rabot (clearer tooth), dépouilleur de la drousse, débourreur. (various references)

German

heller (brighter, heller, mite), anschaulichere. (various references)

Greek 

κύλινδρος καθαρισμού λαναριού (stripper, stripping roll). (various references)

Italian

cilindro spogliatore (stripper, stripping roll), centesimo (brighter, cent, centesimal, centime, groat, hundredth, penny), dente piallante (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth). (various references)

Korean 

더 명확한. (various references)

Pig Latin

earerclay.(various references)

Portuguese

cilindro limpador (stripper, stripping roll), cilindro descarregador (stripper, stripper roller, stripping roll), dente de fiel (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth). (various references)

Russian 

более ясный. (various references)

Spanish

limpiador (cleaner, cleanser, detergent, dustman, eraser), diente limpiador (clearer tooth, raker, raker tooth), despojador (stripper, stripping roll), descargador (shipper, unloader). (various references)

Swedish

klarare. (various references)

manifesta, manifestabat, manifestabatur, manifestabitur, manifestabo, manifestantur, manifestare, manifestarent, manifestaretur, manifestari, manifestasti, manifestat, manifestata, manifestati, manifestatio, manifestatione, manifestatum, manifestatur, manifestaturus, manifestatus, manifestavi, manifestavit, manifestem, manifestes, manifestetur, manifesto. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Derivations

Words beginning with "CLEARER": clearers. (additional references)

Words ending with "CLEARER": unclearer. (additional references)

Misspellings

"CLEARER" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: celare, Claerwen, cleari, Clearie, clearup, Cleere, clere, colourer, Eclaireur, kleiger, Scleater. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: career, carrel, cereal, realer, relace.

-2 letters: carer, carle, clear, creel, lacer, laree, racer.

-3 letters: acre, alec, alee, care, carl, carr, cere, earl, lace, lear, leer, race, rale, rare, real, rear, reel.

-4 letters: ace, ale, arc, are, car, cee, cel, ear, eel, era, ere, err, lac, lar, lea, lee, rec, ree.

-5 letters: ae, al, ar, el.

+1 letter: cellarer, cerebral, clearers, declarer, larcener, preclear, recaller, replacer.

+2 letters: cellarers, centraler, cerebrals, clamberer, clatterer, correlate, craterlet, declarers, lacquerer, larceners, overclear, preclears, recallers, relacquer, replacers, unclearer.

+3 letters: calenderer, carefuller, celebrator, cerebellar, cerebrally, clamberers, clatterers, correlated, correlates, craterlets, craterlike, creaturely, freelancer, lacquerers, overclears, precleared, racewalker, recordable, refractile, relacquers, retractile.

+4 letters: accelerator, calenderers, calorimeter, candleberry, cartwheeler, celebrators, celebratory, centralizer, cheerleader, conferrable, correctable, correlative, crackleware, decelerator, descrambler, electrogram, freelancers, gracefuller, irrecusable, irrelevance, irrelevancy, irrevocable, lacquerware, mercenarily, overcareful, overcleared, perchlorate, preclearing, prefectural, racewalkers, recalibrate, recirculate, recoverable, rectilinear, relacquered, relubricate, retractable, scleroderma, secretarial, secularizer, ultrasecret, watercooler.