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Clean House

Definition: Clean House

Clean House

Verb

1. Clean and tidy up the house; "She housecleans every week".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 


Synonyms: Clean House

Synonyms: clean (v), houseclean (v). (additional references)

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Crosswords: Clean House

English words defined with "clean house": cleanextremelyhousecleanspring-clean, super. (references)
Specialty definitions using "clean house": boiler mechanic, BOILERHOUSE MECHANICCABLE TELEVISION INSTALLERheating-equipment repairermaintenance engineer, MANAGER, APARTMENT HOUSE, MELTER OPERATORodd-job workerstation mechanic, superintendent, building. (references)

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Modern Usage: Clean House

DomainUsage

Screenplays

A clean house is not the most important thing in the world. (Everybody Loves Raymond; writing credit: Joe Bolster)

Movie/TV Titles

How to Clean House (1948)

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

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Commercial Usage: Clean House

DomainTitle

Books

  • How the Queen Cleans Everything: Handy Advice for a Clean House, Cleaner Laundry, and a Year of Timely Tips (reference)

  • Clean House, Clean Planet: Clean Your House for Pennies a Day, the Safe, Nontoxic Way (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Theater & Movies

  • Top Secret Missions of the CIA - Cloak & Dagger Diplomat/ Clean House (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

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

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Speeches: Clean House

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989It's time to clean house.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clean House

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
per Day

clean house keep

12

air clean house

8

keeping a clean house

6

air clean house plant

4

clean house tip

4

clean house house strong

3

clean clean house planet

3

organize clean house

2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Anagrams: Clean House

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: houseclean.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-n-o-s-u"

-1 letter: eulachons.

-2 letters: alehouse, chalones, echelons, elenchus, enhaloes, eulachon, lacunose, launches, nuclease, shoelace.

-3 letters: achenes, aeneous, censual, chalone, cleanse, cohunes, coulees, counsel, echelon, enchase, enclose, enhalos, enlaces, enolase, euclase, lacunes, launces, leaches, loaches, lochans, lunches, nuchals, scalene, unclose, unlaces, unleash.

-4 letters: achene, aeneus, aneles, anoles, canoes, caules, chelae, chelas, chosen, chouse, clause, cleans, clones, clonus.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-h-l-n-o-s-u"
 

+1 letter: housecleans.

 

+2 letters: housecleaned.

 

+3 letters: clearinghouse, housecleaning.

 

+4 letters: clearinghouses, housecleanings, neurochemicals.

 

+5 letters: reproachfulness.

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

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Alternative Orthography: Clean House


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

43 6C 65 61 6E      48 6F 75 73 65

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

    

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01000011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01101110 00100000 01001000 01101111 01110101 01110011 01100101

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#67 &#108 &#101 &#97 &#110 &#32 &#72 &#111 &#117 &#115 &#101

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0043 006C 0065 0061 006E      0048 006F 0075 0073 0065

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

377871678024281878571

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Quotations: Speeches
7. Expressions: Internet
8. Anagrams
9. Orthography
10. Bibliography


  

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