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Definition: Cleaner |
CleanerNoun1. A preparation used in cleaning something. 2. The operator of dry-cleaning establishment. 3. Someone whose occupation is cleaning. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cleaner" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Chemistry | A compound or mixture used in degreasing. Source: European Union. (references) |
Industry | A cyclone in which small particles of foreign matter(sand, flakes of rust, bark fragments etc. )are separated by centrifugal and shearing forces from fibre suspensions flowing rapidly in a spiral motion. Source: European Union. (references) |
| One of the older -- is the Creighton or vertical opener. Source: European Union. (references) | |
Mining | A scraper for cleaning out a shothole. Source: European Union. (references) |
| Scot. A scraper for cleaning out a shothole. (references) | |
Occupations | Works in underground or surface mine, pit, or quarry, or at tipple, mill, or preparation plant, performing any combination of following tasks: Cleans working areas and haulage tracks; digs and maintains drainage ditches; or shovels muck, ore, coal, or rock aside, into cars, or onto conveyors. Pushes loaded mine cars from working face to haulage road and couples cars together for transportation to surface. Positions and adjusts bits on drill shaft and places cables, jacks, roof bolts, and related equipment in specified locations. Trims protrusions from walls and roofs of underground passageways and rooms. Strips (cleans) residue of rock and dirt from exposed coal, ore, or rock formations. Loads, separates, or sorts materials at working face, using shovel or wheelbarrow. Throws calcium or salt around interiors of railroad cars to prevent coal or ore from freezing to cars during winter. May be known according to specific work performed as Car Cleaner (mine & quarry); Car Salter (mine & quarry); Loader (mine & quarry); Mucker (mine & quarry); Shoveler (mine & quarry); Stripper (mine & quarry); Trimmer (mine & quarry). (references) |
| Performs one or more of following duties to deblock and clean precision ophthalmic or optical elements, such as lenses, flats, prisms: Chills blocked element to crystallize pitch or other block adhesive and strikes block with mallet to separate element from block, or heats block to soften adhesive and removes element with fingers. Places lenses and elements in basket and immerses basket in degreasing tank or automatic cleaning machine. Places elements in tray of solvent. Cleans finished surfaces of element with pad and brush and rubs unfinished surfaces on board dusted with abrasive to remove foreign substances. Inspects lens to ensure cleanliness and freedom from defects. Sprays or brushes protective coating on element, allows coating to dry, and places in element tray or wraps in tissue. Replenishes solvents in trays and tanks. Drains molten metal block adhesive from machine or tank for reuse. May clean pitch from surface of block, using hammer, knife, and wire wheel. (references) | |
| Tends equipment that chemically cleans grease, scale, dirt, and other foreign matter from metal objects to prepare them for processes, such as electroplating and galvanizing: Removes shavings, dirt, and rust spots from objects, using airhose, file, or sandpaper. Loads objects on conveyor which carries them through series of chemical and rinsing baths, or places objects on racks or in containers and immerses objects in chemical and rinsing solutions, manually or using hoist. Moves controls to start conveyor and to regulate temperature of solution or conveyor speed. Maintains consistency of cleaning solutions by adding specified amount of chemical to solutions. Drains, cleans, and refills tanks with chemicals. May dry objects, using dryer. May examine cleaned objects to ensure conformance to standards. May be known as Degreaser (any industry); or may be designated according to type of cleaning equipment as Ultrasonic Cleaner (any industry). (references) | |
| Cleans and prepares subassemblies of pistols, rifles, shotguns, and revolvers for bluing: Disassembles components, such as barrel and ratchet, trigger and hammer, trigger guard, and back strap. Blows out particles remaining after sand blasting, using airhose. Places parts in rack or wire basket and immerses parts in degreasing tank to remove oil and dirt. Mixes alcohol and whitening powder and rubs resultant paste onto gun parts to facilitate bluing. Wires parts together and attaches them to immersing rod. Blows excess solution from blued parts with airhose. Inspects parts for nicks, scratches, clearness of trademark, and cleanness. Reassembles subassemblies, using screwdriver. May pour specified amount of chemical solution (acid) into degreasing tanks. (references) | |
| Cleans interiors of manufactured buildings and makes minor repairs to correct defects, following oral instructions: Cleans interior of manufactured buildings, using broom, mop, dust cloth, and vacuum cleaner. Fills nail holes in woodwork, using putty and knife. Repairs minor defects, such as loose wall panels, missing trim, and defective door catches, using pneumatic stapler and screwdriver. Paints woodwork and soiled sections of ceiling, using paint and brush. Loads manufactured buildings components for shipment to construction site [LOADER (mfd. bldgs.)]. May hang curtains, using tape measure, curtain rods, screws and power screwdriver. (references) | |
| Washes metal, glass, rubber, or plastic objects: Sprays objects with sprayer nozzle or immerses objects in washing and rinsing solutions to remove debris, manually or using baskets or conveyor. Dries objects, using cloth, airhose, or drying oven. May manually dislodge debris from objects, using brush or hand held power scrubber. May fill vats with water to specified level. May pour specified quantity of soap or chemicals into water or other solutions. May be designated according to object washed as Brush Washer (textile); Tub Washer (textile); Ware Washer (pottery & porc.). (references) | |
| Removes excess paint from metal stampings to bring out etched or embossed pattern or lettering, by rubbing surface of pattern with cloth and solvent: Separates stampings that are scratched or marred, or that have been imperfectly finished. May apply paint to unpainted areas of stampings overlooked during painting process, using brush. May remove masking compound from specified areas of metal parts to be chemically etched, using template outline and knife. (references) | |
| Wipes smoking pipes with cloth to remove dust, putty, and other foreign matter: Places pipes in box or bin according to style. May clean inside of bit, using pipe cleaner. (references) | |
Personal Care & Hotels | A preparation for removing stains, grease, or other dirt. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: CleanerSynonyms: cleanser (n), cleansing agent (n), dry cleaner (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cleaner |
| English words defined with "cleaner": dust bag ♦ Hoover ♦ surface ♦ vacuum, vacuum bag, vacuum-clean. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cleaner": chimney cleaner, cleaner assistant, cleaner helper, cleaner operator, CLEANER, HOSPITAL, CLEANER, WINDOW ♦ dry cleaner, furniture, hand ♦ FREIGHT-CAR CLEANER, DELTA SYSTEM, FURNACE CLEANER, FURNITURE CLEANER ♦ OVERHEAD CLEANER MAINTAINER ♦ reed cleaner, road cleaner ♦ track cleaner, traveling cleaner, maintenance ♦ UPHOLSTERY CLEANER ♦ VACUUM CLEANER REPAIRER. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Where's that vacuum cleaner I brought over here (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry) The Cleaner fixed you once, but he can fix you again (Toy Story 2; writing credit: John Lasseter; Peter Docter) Shucks, and I sent my autograph book to the cleaner. (All About Eve; writing credit: Joseph L. Mankiewicz) I wanna be a cleaner. (Léon; writing credit: Luc Besson) I'm with Island fortress cleaner service sir. (Undercover Brother; writing credit: Eran Merav) | |
Movie/TV Titles | The Vacuum Cleaner (1921) What the Window Cleaner Saw (1912) The Vacuum Cleaner Nightmare (1906) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | ||
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![]() | An expert fish cleaner awaits the days' catch at Dolphin Docks. Credit: Fisheries. | ![]() | Cleaner shrimp are distinguished from other shrimp by their long antennae. Credit: National Undersea Research Program (NURP). |
![]() | A spotted cleaner shrimp on pink-tipped anemones. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. | ![]() | Stenopus hispidus - banded cleaner shrimp. This type of shrimp is common throughout the tropics. Credit: The Coral Kingdom. |
![]() | Buffer strips in the foreground and grassed waterway in the distance protect the natural resources on this farm northwest of Peoria, Illinois. The buffer strip reduces soil erosion and keeps the nearby Illinois River flowing with cleaner water. Credit: Bob Nichols. | ![]() | A Union County farmer adjusts a nose pump. The pump, operated by cattle which nudge the control to pump them a drink of water, allows the manager to keep cattle a distance from the water supply, which makes for cleaner water. Credit: Laura Greiner. |
![]() | Caption: Man Using Vacuum Cleaner Mechanism to Polish Silver in the T.B. Wells House, a Country House Powered by Edison Storage Batteries; West Orange, NJ; 1913; {06.100/68} (jpg). | ![]() | You should use IPANA for cleaner teeth for healthier gums. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
![]() | Vacuum cleaner. Credit: Library of Congress. | ![]() | Street cleaner, Havana. Credit: Library of Congress. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Window Cleaner" by Brian Dimarucot Commentary: "Tough job.." | "High Rise Window Cleaner" by Matthew Maaskant Commentary: "A window cleaner suspended from a rope on a high rise building. Visit http://www.qr5.com ." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. | |
| Play | Caption |
| Vacuum cleaner powering down. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | If you vacuum, use a dust mask (from a hardware store), a double-layered or microfilter vacuum cleaner bag, or a vacuum cleaner with a HEPA filter. (references) | |
Business | If these laws were strictly followed, the country would be a much cleaner, safer place. (references) | |
With that come signs of greater willingness to pay for the means to a cleaner environment. (references) | ||
In addition to efficiency, the government sees nuclear energy as cleaner and better for the environment. (references) | ||
Economic History | Thailand | Along with cleaner balance sheets, completing these measures would go a long way to strengthening the sector. (references) |
Chile | Chile has many different environmental problems and it is moving ahead with its plan to achieve a cleaner environment. (references) | |
India | Clean and renewable energy equipment: Pollution control measures and cleaner technologies have given rise to the need for cleaner energy options. (references) | |
Human Rights | India | On July 9, Bihar police registered a case against then-Bihar Minister of State for Cooperatives Lalit Yadav, his cousin, and four others for alleged illegal detention and torture of a truck driver and cleaner at the minister's residence. (references) |
Political Rights | Egypt | Due to court-ordered supervision by the judiciary of the voting and vote-counting, the process was significantly cleaner and more transparent than previous elections; however, there were a number of problems. (references) |
Trade | Philippines | The bank expects to extend a further $9.3 million in technical assistance grants in 2001 for rural microfinance, development of upland communities, irrigation, rural electrification, natural gas regulation, urban services, formal and non-formal education, municipal governance, cleaner production technologies, and judicial reform among others. (references) |
Women | Kuwait | In August the criminal court postponed hearing the case of an Indonesian domestic worker who was beaten to death with a vacuum cleaner by her female employer. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Nancy Grace | Well, as you know, I'm clearly not a New Yorker. But long story short, I don't care what the man's driving. I care about the girl's blood on the clothes that he was taking to the cleaner the weekend of her disappearance. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Speaker | Term | Phrase(s) |
Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Our air and water are cleaner. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| "Cleaner" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 67.18% of the time. "Cleaner" is used about 1,044 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 |
| Noun (singular) | 67.18% | 701 | 9,531 |
| Adjective (comparative) | 32.82% | 343 | 15,445 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,044 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cleaner": air cleaner ♦ bathroom cleaner ♦ carpet cleaner ♦ cleaner stone ♦ dry cleaner ♦ glass cleaner ♦ gutter cleaner ♦ hand cleaner ♦ heavy duty cleaner ♦ pipe cleaner ♦ street cleaner ♦ suction cleaner ♦ vacuum cleaner ♦ vortex cleaner ♦ window cleaner. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "cleaner": cleaner-breathing, cleaner-cut, cleaner-out, cleaner-up. | |
Ending with "cleaner": dry-cleaner, vacuum-cleaner, window-cleaner. | |
| 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 | Expression | Frequency per Day |
vacuum cleaner | 2,900 | ultrasonic cleaner | 151 |
cleaner | 1,303 | hard drive cleaner | 150 |
registry cleaner | 1,181 | electronic air cleaner | 146 |
pool cleaner | 784 | vacuum cleaner rating | 139 |
air cleaner | 744 | best vacuum cleaner | 131 |
reg cleaner | 706 | vacuum cleaner part | 120 |
jewelry cleaner | 538 | hoover vacuum cleaner | 107 |
steam cleaner | 473 | ram cleaner | 105 |
automatic pool cleaner | 446 | steam vapor cleaner | 105 |
carpet cleaner | 390 | trojan cleaner | 94 |
internet cleaner | 319 | polaris pool cleaner | 94 |
window cleaner | 293 | glass cleaner | 91 |
disk cleaner | 282 | kirby vacuum cleaner | 84 |
vacuum cleaner bag | 224 | x cleaner | 82 |
system cleaner | 182 | dolphin pool cleaner | 81 |
leather cleaner | 168 | pc cleaner | 78 |
miele vacuum cleaner | 162 | copper cleaner | 77 |
vacuum cleaner review | 158 | grout cleaner | 77 |
easy cleaner | 157 | cookie cleaner | 77 |
rainbow vacuum cleaner | 154 | gutter cleaner | 76 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "cleaner"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | punëtor pastrimi (laundryman, mudlark), pastruese (charwoman, cleaning woman), pajisje pastruese. (various references) | |
Arabic | منظف (detergent, detersive, purifier, strainer), مطهر (abluent, abstergent, antiseptic, circumcised, decontaminator, detergent, disinfectant, disinfected, purifier, sterilizer), العاملة في المنزل, العاملة في المدرسة. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | уред за изчистване, чистачка (cleaning woman, scrubwoman, woman), чистач (duster, scourer, scrubber). (various references) | |
Chinese | 擦净剂 (cleaners), 清潔器 . (various references) | |
Czech | vysavaè (Hoover, vacuum cleaner, vacuum flask), uklízeè, èisticí prostředek (abstergent, detergent), èistiè. (various references) | |
Danish | virvelsorterer (hydrocyclone, vortex cleaner), sandhage (gagger, hanger, lifter), rensetang (scraper), rensemiddel (detergent, pickle, remover, stripping compound), rengoeringsassistent, rørenser, polerskind (cleaner rubber, rubbing apron), glattejern, flordeler (cleaner rubber, condenser, rubbing apron), facaderenser. (various references) | |
Dutch | centrifugaalreiniger (hydrocyclone, vortex cleaner), zandhaak (lifter), schrapper (scraper), schrapijzer (scraper), schoonmaker, rijenpoetser, poetsjongen, poetser (dresser), ontvetter, gladijzer, gietstukkenschoonmaker, gevelreiniger, blokhaak, bietenpoetser. (various references) | |
Esperanto | polvosuĉilo (vacuum cleaner, vacuum-cleaner). (various references) | |
Finnish | siivooja (chambermaid, charwoman, stewardess), pyörrepuhdistin (hydrocyclone, vortex cleaner), puhdistusaine (detergent), hiekkakoukku (gagger, hanger, lifter). (various references) | |
French | nettoyeur (cleaning). (various references) | |
German | sauberer (cleanlier), putzer (purging). (various references) | |
Greek | καθαριστής (blower, blowing machine, swingling machine). (various references) | |
Hebrew | מנקה, חומר נקוי (detergent). (various references) | |
Hungarian | tisztító (dry cleaner's, purgatorial, purificatory, purifier, refiner). (various references) | |
Indonesian | pembersih (janitor). (various references) | |
Italian | curetta (scraper), cavasabbia (lifter), sgrassanti, sbavatrice, pulitrice (malt polisher, polisher), pulitore di facciate, pulitore (burnisher, disc scraper, scraper), levigatoio, inserviente (attendant, orderly, servant), idrociclone (hydrocyclone, vortex cleaner), frottatore (cleaner rubber, rubbing apron), epuratore centrifugo (hydrocyclone, vortex cleaner), depuratore (depurator), battisabbia, addetto alle pulizie. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 掃除人 (janitor), クラフト紙 (clan, cleaning, cleek, club, club face, club head, club sandwich, clubhouse, crab, craft paper, cranberry, crank, cream, cream sauce, cream sundae, cream-filled roll, Creap, creek, creeping inflation, diseased persons, dry cleaning, finish shooting, icecream soda, Kleene, laundry service, startfilming). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | そうじにん (janitor), クリーナー . (various references) | |
Korean | 세탁기술자 (cleaners). (various references) | |
Manx | glenneyder (cleanser, gutter, purificator, purifier, scavenger), glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, clean, clearance; glass, discharge, draw, draw as fowl, dust, expurgate, freshen, grub, pay off, purge, purification, purify, rid, satisfaction, scale, scavenge, settlement, sink, try out, try out as metal, weed, wipe). (various references) | |
Maya | haapab (vacuum cleaner). (various references) | |
Papiamen | stòfzùiger (vacuum cleaner, vacuum-cleaner). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | eanerclay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | limpador. (various references) | |
Romanian | curãţitor (cleaning, detergent). (various references) | |
Romansch | lavandaria chemica (dry cleaner). (various references) | |
Russian | уборщик (cleaning people, janitor, swabber), чистильщик, мойщик окон, 1. амер. уборщица; редк. уборщик . (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | mašina za čišćenje, čistač (scourer, sweeper). (various references) | |
Sicilian | aspirapulviri (vacuum cleaner). (various references) | |
Spanish | limpiador (cleanser, detergent, dustman, eraser). (various references) | |
Swedish | städerska (chambermaid, chamber-maid, char, charlady, charwoman, cleaning woman, maid, servant), rengöringsmedel (cleanser, detergent). (various references) | |
Thai | น้ำยาทำความสะอาด, ผู้ทำความสะอาด. (various references) | |
Turkish | temizlikçi (cleanser), temizlik maddesi (detergent), temizleyici (cleansing, detergent, detersive, purgative, purificatory, purifier, swabber), silgi (duster, eraser, india rubber, rubber). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | чистильник (cleanser), власник хімічної чистки, мийник вікон, прибиральник (janitor, porter, swabber). (various references) | |
Vietnamese | thoạ đánh giày, thợ tẩy quần áo, người rửa ráy, người quét tước, người lau chùi (scrubber), máy hút bụi (dust-collector, vacuum cleaner). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Date | Source | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Greek (transliterated) | 250 BC | Septuagint | Kai ta imatia autou egeneto stilbonta leuka lian wV ciwn oia gnafeuV epi thV ghV ou dunatai leukanai |
| Latin | 405 | Vulgate | Et apparuit illis Helias cum Mose et erant loquentes cum Iesu |
| Old English | 990 | West Saxon | & his reaf wurðen glitiniende swa hwiteswa snaw. swa nan fullere ofer eorðen nemaig swa hwite don. |
| Middle English | 1395 | Wyclif | And Helie with Moises apperide to hem, and thei spaken with Jhesu. |
| Renaissance English | 1526 | Tyndale | And his rayment dyd shyne and was made very whyte even as snowe: so whyte as noo fuller can make apon the erth. |
| Jacobean English | 1611 | King James | And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can white them. |
| Victorian English | 1833 | Webster | And his raiment became shining, exceeding white as snow; so as no fuller on earth can whiten them. |
| Basic English | 1964 | Ogden | And his clothing became shining, very white, as no cleaner on earth would make it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Mark Chapter 9, Verse 3 |
| Cebuano | ug ang iyang mga sapot migilak sa hilabihang kaputi nga labaw pa sa kaputi gumikan sa bisan unsa nga pagladlad nga himoon dinhi sa yuta. |
| Croatian | I haljine mu postadoše sjajne, bijele veoma - nijedan ih bjelilac na zemlji ne bi mogao tako izbijeliti. |
| Danish | Og hans Klæder bleve skinnende, meget hvide, så at ingen Blegemand på Jorden kan gøre Klæder så hvide. |
| Dutch | En Zijn klederen werden blinkende, zeer wit als sneeuw, hoedanige geen voller op aarde zo wit maken kan. |
| Finnish | ja hänen vaatteensa tulivat hohtaviksi, niin ylen valkoisiksi, ettei kukaan vaatteenvalkaisija maan päällä taida semmoiseksi valkaista. |
| French | ses vêtements devinrent resplendissants, et d`une telle blancheur qu`il n`est pas de foulon sur la terre qui puisse blanchir ainsi. |
| Gaelic | Agus dh` fhas eideadh dealrach is ro-gheal mar shneachda, geal mar nach urrainn fucadair air talamh a dhianamh. |
| German | Und seine Kleider wurden hell und sehr weiß wie der Schnee, daß sie kein Färber auf Erden kann so weiß machen. |
| Haitian Creole | rad li vin klere tou blan. Pa gen lesivyèz sou latè ki kapab blanchi konsa. |
| Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hari | Pakaian-Nya menjadi putih berkilauan. Tidak ada seorang penatu pun di dunia ini yang dapat mencuci seputih itu. |
| Indonesian-Terjemahan Lama | Maka pakaian-Nya pun bercahaya-cahaya terlalu sangat putihnya, sehingga tiada seorang penatu pun di atas bumi dapat memutihkan yang sedemikian itu. |
| Italian | e le sue vesti divennero splendenti, bianchissime: nessun lavandaio sulla terra potrebbe renderle così bianche. |
| Maori | Na kanapa tonu ona kakahu, ma tonu me te hukarere; e kore e taea e te kaihoroi i runga i te whenua te mea kia pera te ma. |
| Norwegian | og hans klær blev skinnende, aldeles hvite, så ingen bleker på jorden kan gjøre klær så hvite. |
| Portuguese | as suas vestes tornaram-se resplandecentes, extremamente brancas, tais como nenhum lavandeiro sobre a terra as poderia branquear. |
| Rumanian | Hainele Lui s`au fqcut strqlucitoare wi foarte albe, de o albeayq pe care nici un nqlbitor de pe pqmknt n`o poate da. |
| Russian | пДЕЦДЩ еЗП УДЕМБМЙУШ ВМЙУФБАЭЙНЙ, ЧЕУШНБ ВЕМЩНЙ, ЛБЛ УОЕЗ, ЛБЛ ОБ ЪЕНМЕ ВЕМЙМШЭЙЛ ОЕ НПЦЕФ ЧЩВЕМЙФШ. |
| Shuar | Ni pushirisha ti puju Jíitsumir ajattsarmiayi. Nujai métek puju awajsatin ju nunkanam atsawai. |
| Spanish | Sus vestiduras se hicieron resplandecientes, muy blancas, tanto que ningún lavandero en la tierra las puede dejar tan blancas. |
| Swahili | mavazi yake yakang`aa, yakawa meupe sana, jinsi dobi yeyote duniani asingeweza kuyafanya meupe. |
| Swedish | och hans kläder blevo glänsande och mycket vita, så att ingen valkare på jorden kan göra kläder så vita. |
| Uma | Pohea-na hangaa mengea' meringkila', uma ria haduaa hi rala dunia' tohe'i to ma'ala mo'uja' duu' -na mengea' hewa toe. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "cleaner": cleaners. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "cleaner": uncleaner. (additional references) | |
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"Cleaner" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Calenberg, celane, cleane, cleani, cleantex, Cleyndert, clooner, Flehner, flexneri, pleaner, Scleater. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cleaner" (pronounced klē"ner) |
| 4 | -l ē" n er | leaner. |
| 3 | -ē" n er | demeanor, greener, intervenor, keener, meaner, misdemeanor, screener, wiener. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: reclean. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r" | |
-1 letter: careen, cereal, crenel, enlace, lancer, leaner, recane, relace. | |
-2 letters: anele, caner, carle, clean, clear, crane, creel, lacer, lance, laree, learn, nacre, rance, ranee, renal. | |
-3 letters: acne, acre, alec, alee, cane, care, carl, carn, cere, clan, earl, earn, elan, erne, lace, lane, lean, lear, leer, narc, near, race, rale, real, reel. | |
-4 letters: ace, ale, ane. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r" | |
+1 letter: calender, canceler, cerulean, clarence, cleaners, cleanser, larcener, preclean, recleans, reliance, vernacle. | |
+2 letters: arecoline, blackener, calenders, calenture, cancelers, canceller, celebrant, centraler, ceruleans, channeler, clarences, cleanlier, cleansers, clearance, clearness, coeternal, concealer, crenulate, freelance, herculean, interlace, larceners, larcenies, overclean, percaline, precancel, precleans, rebalance, rechannel, recleaned, rectangle, relevance, relevancy, reliances, tolerance, uncleaner, unclearer, vernacles. | |
+3 letters: accelerant, allergenic, arecolines, blackeners, calendared, calendered, calenderer, calentures, camerlengo, cancellers, cantilever, celebrants, censurable, centralest, centralise, centralize, ceremonial, challenger, chandelier, channelers, clearances, coelentera, concealers, confederal, credential, crenelated, crenulated, epicentral, freelanced, freelancer, freelances, interlaced, interlaces, leprechaun, linebacker, linecaster, menarcheal, mercantile, overcleans, percalines, precancels, precleaned, prevalence, rebalanced, rebalances, recanalize, rechannels, recleaning, rectangles, relaunched, relaunches, relevances, reluctance, screenable, screenland, screenplay, superclean, tabernacle, tolerances, trancelike, unclearest, undeclared. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Non-fiction 11. Quotations: Spoken 12. Quotations: Speeches | 13. Usage Frequency 14. Expressions 15. Expressions: Internet 16. Translations: Modern | 17. Bible Trace 18. Derivations 19. Rhymes 20. Anagrams | 21. Bibliography |
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