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Definition: Cleaned |
CleanedAdjective1. Made clean. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cleaned" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1550. (references) |
Synonym: CleanedSynonym: cleansed (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Cleanness | Neat, spruce, tidy, trim, gimp, clean as a new penny, like a cat in pattens; cleaned; Verb: kempt. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Cleaned |
| English words defined with "cleaned": Augean stables ♦ clean, clean out, clean up, cleanable, clear out, compulsively, Curried ♦ do, dry-cleaned ♦ execute ♦ flush toilet, fresh, freshly ♦ galvanized iron ♦ Knifeboard ♦ laundry, lavatory ♦ make clean ♦ new, newly ♦ obsessionally, obsessively ♦ perform ♦ recently ♦ scullery, strip ♦ Uncleansable, unwashed ♦ wash, washables, washing. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cleaned": Cleaned Out. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | But I cleaned them with my napkin (The Simpsons; writing credit: Artur Brauner; Paul Hengge) Oh, we cleaned it up (The Big Chill; writing credit: Barbara Benedek; Lawrence Kasdan) Although one of them is going to go very evil on us if we don't get this room cleaned up in a hurry (Charmed; writing credit: Colman deKay) I haven't cleaned since Bounty dropped me as their spokesman (Family Guy; writing credit: Dolores Payás) Well, as soon as we get ourselves cleaned up and we get a little smellum in our hair, why, we're gonna feel 100% better about ourselves and about life in general (O Brother, Where Art Thou?; writing credit: Ethan Coen) | |
Lyrics | Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis, (PROUD MARY; performing artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival) I've cleaned the floor (Would I Lie To You?; performing artist: Eurythmics) | |
Clever | A husband is someone who after taking the trash out, gives the impression he just cleaned the whole house. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Dry Cleaned (1920) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | Tailings area by Richmond portal. This area has been cleaned up and the tailings removed. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Inside a portal that was cleaned early in the process. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | The third in a series of images that shows inside of a portal that was cleaned early in the process. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. | ![]() | Agricultural engineer Stanley Anthony inspects trash removed from cotton during the ginning process. About 100 pounds of foreign matter is cleaned from cotton for every 500 pounds of lint ginned. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |
![]() | Once a week the roads are thoroughly cleaned by the local population ... / WHO p. Credit: National Library of Medicine; photo by N. Gratz.. | ![]() | [Army Nurses get cleaned up]. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | World's largest flag cleaned. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | The Whole wheat cleaned and ready for use, Natural Food Conservatory, Niagara, N.Y. Credit: Library of Congress. |
![]() | Carrying dry cleaned articles to store from boat, Burrwood. Articles to be cleaned must be sent to New Orleans. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | A year ago a fine stand of spruce and fir covered this hillside. A gypo logging outfit cleaned it off, leaving only charred stumps and debris. Near Siltcoos, Oregon. Credit: Library of Congress. |
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| "Baby face" by Turgut Tepe Commentary: "Cleaned unneceserily detail from the photo." | "Sail Boat" by Luke Wertz Commentary: "I was at the beach yesterday -- my friend's dad had his boat up on the beach. The hull is a little dirty -- could be cleaned up digitally if need be. I had to do a few 'touch ups' on the photo to get rid of a pontoon boat (on the beach) and a boat out in" |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Author | Quotation |
Henry Ward Beecher | Laws and institutions, like clocks, must occasionally be cleaned, wound up, and set to true time. |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | It was always so much cleaned. |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The young woman had dragged a mattress out and put the baby on it while she cleaned up the dishes |
Gulliver's Travels | Swift, Jonathan | I got it cleaned, and put it into my cabinet |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The tooth is cleaned. (references) | |
With CAPD, your blood is always being cleaned. (references) | ||
No, as long as your pool is properly cleaned and chlorinated. (references) | ||
Economic History | Australia | AQIS has strict regulations that are rigidly enforced on all consignments, including a cleanliness certificate to verify that the machinery has been fully cleaned. (references) |
Political Economy | Ecuador | This year, the U.S. Coast Guard cleaned up an extensive oil spill that damaged and threatened the delicate and unique ecosystem of the Galapagos Islands. (references) |
Travel | Ghana | All minor cuts should be thoroughly cleaned with antiseptic. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cleaned" is generally used as a lexical verb (past participle) -- approximately 57.41% of the time. "Cleaned" is used about 910 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 57.41% | 522 | 11,682 |
| Lexical Verb (past tense) | 39.41% | 359 | 15,003 |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 2.96% | 27 | 66,962 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.22% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 910 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cleaned": be cleaned ♦ be cleaned out ♦ cleaned coal ♦ cleaned gas ♦ dry cleaned coal ♦ heat cleaned ♦ washed and cleaned coffee. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cleaned": cleaned-up. | |
Ending with "cleaned": pre-cleaned. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
cleaned fiberglass heat | 23 |
cleaned every having printer | 22 |
hat cleaned | 5 |
body called cleaned endarterectomy in narrow part procedure | 2 |
cleaned inspected tested | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "cleaned"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Bulgarian | почистен (clean). (various references) | |
Chinese | 清洗 (Purged, Purging). (various references) | |
Danish | varme renset (heat cleaned), udløb for renset produkt (outlet of cleaned product), tørrenset kul (dry cleaned coal), renset raagas (cleaned gas), renset gas (cleaned gas), nogle steder maa tankene ofte renses for at faa fjernet paraffin og bundsedimenter,som ikke kan ledes vaek gennem afloebet;derfor bliver tankene forsynet med plader,der kan fjernes ved rensning (in some areas tanks must be cleaned frequently due to collection of paraffin and basic sediment, tanks are equipped with cleanout plates, which cannot be removed through the drain outlet;therefore), laboratorieglasvarer,som mindst maa vaere af pyrex,om ikke kvarts,skal renses ved skylning med varm,blyfri salpetersyre (has to be cleaned by hot scouring using lead-free nitric acid, laboratory glassware, which must at least be pyrex if not quartz), godt renset,dårligt renset (badly cleaned, well cleaned), en magnetskive anbragt ved en baandtransportoers afgang muliggoer en udmaerket rensning af uafskallede jordnoedder (unshelled groundnuts can be cleaned excellently by a magnetic pulley at the top of a belt conveyor). (various references) | |
Dutch | uitloop van gereinigde produkten (outlet of cleaned product), thermisch gezuiverd (heat cleaned), met zuur gereinigde replica (replica cleaned with acid), laboratoriumglas, dat zoniet van kwarts dan toch van pyrex dient te zijn, moet met loodvrij warm salpeterzuur worden afgebeten (has to be cleaned by hot scouring using lead-free nitric acid, laboratory glassware, which must at least be pyrex if not quartz), in sommige gebieden moeten tanks regelmatig worden schoongemaakt wegens opeenhoping van paraffine en drab,die niet door de uitlaat kunnen worden afgevoerd;daarom zijn tanks van schoonmaakplaten voorzien (in some areas tanks must be cleaned frequently due to collection of paraffin and basic sediment, tanks are equipped with cleanout plates, which cannot be removed through the drain outlet;therefore), goed bewerkt,slecht bewerkt (badly cleaned, well cleaned), gewassen en geschoonde koffie (washed and cleaned coffee), gereinigd gas (cleaned gas), een magnetische riemschijf aan het kopeinde van de transportband geeft een uitstekende reiniging van ongepelde aardnoten (unshelled groundnuts can be cleaned excellently by a magnetic pulley at the top of a belt conveyor). (various references) | |
Finnish | puhdistetun tuotteen ulostulo (outlet of cleaned product), puhdistettu kaasu (cleaned gas), pesettää (have cleaned, have washed), hyvin puhdistettu (badly cleaned, well cleaned), huonosti puhdistettu (badly cleaned, well cleaned). (various references) | |
French | raffiné, nettoyées, nettoyée, nettoyé, nettoyâmes. (various references) | |
German | machte sauber, gesäubert, gereinigt (purged, scoured). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαρός άνθρακας (cleaned coal, sorted coal), καθαρισμένο καυσαέριο (cleaned gas), έξοδος καθαρισμένου προϊόντος (outlet of cleaned product), σε ορισμένες περιοχές,οι δεξαμενές πρέπει να καθαρίζονται συχνά εξ αιτίας συγκεντρώσεων παραφίνης και ιζημάτων,που δεν μπορούν να απομακρ (in some areas tanks must be cleaned frequently due to collection of paraffin and basic sediment, tanks are equipped with cleanout plates), μιά μαγνητική τροχαλία στην κεφαλή μεταφορικής ταινίας δίνει έναν εξαίρετο καθαρισμό των μη αποφλοιωμένων αραχίδων (unshelled groundnuts can be cleaned excellently by a magnetic pulley at the top of a belt conveyor), άνθρακας διαλογής (cleaned coal, sorted coal), οι γυάλινες εργαστηριακές συσκευές που θα πρέπει να είναι τουλά-χιστον από γυαλί πυρέξ αν όχι χαλαζία,πρέπει να πλένονται με ζεστό νιτρικό (has to be cleaned by hot scouring using lead-free nitric acid), θερμικά καθαρισμένο (heat cleaned). (various references) | |
Hebrew | משופשף (polished, rubbed), מקונח, מנוקה, מנוגב (wiped). (various references) | |
Indonesian | ceria (cheerful, clean, clodless, pure). (various references) | |
Italian | pulito (clean, cleanly, clear, honest, housebroken, neat, pure, tidy, undefiled), mondo (a world of, earth, society, universe, world). (various references) | |
Korean | 청소하는 (Dusted). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eanedclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | carvão seleccionado (cleaned coal, sorted coal), carvão purificado (cleaned coal, sorted coal), carvão limpo seco (dry cleaned coal), café semi-lavado (washed and cleaned coffee), café já sem película e lavado (washed and cleaned coffee), um tambor magnético no início de um tapete rolante consegue uma excelente depuração de amendoins não descascados (unshelled groundnuts can be cleaned excellently by a magnetic pulley at the top of a belt conveyor), saída do produto limpo (outlet of cleaned product), o material de vidro de laboratório que deve ser em quartzo ou,pelo menos,em pyrex,deve ser limpo por decapagem a quente com ácido nítrico isento de chumbo (has to be cleaned by hot scouring using lead-free nitric acid, laboratory glassware, which must at least be pyrex if not quartz), limpeza em mufla (heat cleaned), gás depurado (cleaned gas). (various references) | |
Romanian | fi lefter (be cleaned out, be down on one's uppers, bean). (various references) | |
Spanish | carbón paro (cleaned coal, sorted coal), carbón limpiado en seco (dry cleaned coal), carbón escogido (cleaned coal, sorted coal), salida del producto limpiado (outlet of cleaned product), réplica limpiada con ácido (replica cleaned with acid), limpieza en caliente (heat cleaned), gas depurado (cleaned gas), en algunas zonas los tanques deben limpiarse con frecuencia debido a la acumulacion de parafinas y de sedimientos que no pueden eliminarse a traves del orificio de salida o salida de drenaje;por ello los depositos van equipados con placas de limpieza (in some areas tanks must be cleaned frequently due to collection of paraffin and basic sediment, tanks are equipped with cleanout plates, which cannot be removed through the drain outlet;therefore), el material de vidrio de laboratorio que debe ser, si no de cuarzo, por lo menos de pyrex, se debe limpiar por decapado en caliente con ácido nítrico exento de plomo (has to be cleaned by hot scouring using lead-free nitric acid, laboratory glassware, which must at least be pyrex if not quartz), bien limpio, mal limpio (badly cleaned, well cleaned). (various references) | |
Swedish | rengjorde. (various references) | |
Turkish | temizlenmek (be cleaned, clarify, purge), meteliksiz kalmak (be cleaned out). (various references) | |
Turkmen | saplanmak (be cleaned, purified). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | colatis, colatum. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words ending with "cleaned": housecleaned, overcleaned, precleaned, recleaned, uncleaned. (additional references) | |
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"Cleaned" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: calanoid, Calende, celane, Celinet, clande, cleane, cleani, cleantex, Clelands, cleneth. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cleaned" (pronounced klē"nd) |
| 4 | -l ē" n d | leaned, gleaned. |
| 3 | -ē" n d | careened, convened, demeaned, intervened, machined, fiend, greened, preened, reconvened, screened, weaned. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: enlaced. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n" | |
-1 letter: aneled, candle, decane, enlace, lanced, leaden, leaned. | |
-2 letters: acned, anele, caned, clade, clean, dance, decal, eland, laced, laden, lance, naled. | |
-3 letters: aced, acne, alec, alee, cade, cane, cede, clad, clan, dace, dale, deal, dean, dele, dene, elan, lace, lade, land, lane, lead, lean, lend, need. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, and, ane, cad, can, cee, cel. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-e-l-n" | |
+1 letter: calender, canceled, cleansed, lanceted. | |
+2 letters: blackened, calenders, cancelled, celandine, chandelle, channeled, concealed, congealed, danceable, decennial, enclasped, euclidean, nucleated, recleaned, slackened, spanceled, tentacled, uncleaned. | |
+3 letters: adolescent, ascendable, ascendible, calendared, calendered, calenderer, celandines, challenged, chandelier, chandelled, chandelles, channelled, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, decadently, decennials, declinable, encapsuled, enucleated, freelanced, indelicate, ineducable, interlaced, precleaned, rebalanced, relaunched, screenland, spancelled, unbleached, uncanceled, undeclared, uneducable. | |
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