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Definition: Cleaners |
CleanersNoun1. Shop where dry cleaning is done. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "cleaners" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1904. (references) |
Synonym: CleanersSynonym: dry cleaners (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Cleaners |
| English words defined with "cleaners": dry cleaners ♦ Hoover ♦ William Henry Hoover, William Hoover. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "cleaners": ASSEMBLER, PRODUCT, ASSEMBLY SUPERVISOR, AUTOMOBILE DETAILER ♦ carbonating-stone cleaner, CARCINOGENS, cleaner, carpet and upholstery, CLEANER, HOME RESTORATION SERVICE ♦ drying shed ♦ ELECTROGALVANIZING-MACHINE OPERATOR, EPITAXIAL REACTOR OPERATOR ♦ fabric-type dust collector ♦ JOSEPH ♦ NONDESTRUCTIVE TESTER ♦ OVERHEAD CLEANER MAINTAINER ♦ PRESSURE SEALER-AND-TESTER ♦ sealer, aircraft, Special naphtha, STONE CLEANER, SUPERVISOR, BOTTLE-HOUSE CLEANERS ♦ track cleaners, traveling cleaner, maintenance ♦ VACUUM CLEANER REPAIRER ♦ WASTE-DISPOSAL ATTENDANT. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hell, you might be takin' me to the cleaners. (Sweet Home Alabama; writing credit: C. Jay Cox) Well, I guess it goes from God, to Jerry to you to the cleaners. Right, Kent? (Real Genius; writing credit: Neal Israel; Pat Proft) Did the dry cleaners have your car? (Sabrina; writing credit: Samuel A. Taylor; Billy Wilder) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Window Cleaners (1940) Clock Cleaners (1937) The Window Cleaners (1930) Tub Cleaners (1926) The Window Cleaners (1919) | |
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 | Soybeans have found their way into an eye-opening array of foods. And thanks to ARS research, soybeans have been incorporated into a host of nonfood products. These range from your morning newspaper printed with so oil-based ink to lipstick, plastics. flooring, paints, and stain-removing cleaners. P. Credit: USDA ARS News; photo by Scott Bauer.. |  | View of the ship from amidships to the stern, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 8 March 1945. The city of Vallejo is in the background, with Pacific Gas & Electric Company fuel storage tanks at right. The ship has had her port aircraft catapult and starboard crane removed. Circles mark recent alterations to the ship. Note: men lined up in the hangar and well deck, probably for a meal; provisions stacked in crates on the after deck; "Classic Cleaners" delivery van and human activity on the pier. Credit: NAVY. |
 | Plan view of the after part of the ship, taken at the Mare Island Navy Yard, California, 15 July 1942. Note the ship's 5"/38 gun mounts, life rafts and depth charges; Navy pickup truck (serial # 13125) and "Classic Cleaners" delivery van on the pier; and USS Chester (CA-27) in the background. Credit: NAVY. |  | Bus trip from Knoxville, Tennessee to Washington, D.C. Cleaners at the Tennessee Coach Company garage in Knoxville. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | National Association of Dyers and Cleaners. Cleaning plant of National Association of Dyers and Cleaners beside lab on Georgia Ave. Credit: Library of Congress. |  | Electric Institute of Washington, Potomac Electric Power Co. building. Cleaners and vacuums stage. Credit: Library of Congress. |
 | Amateur championship game, Telling's Strollers vs. Hanna's Cleaners, Brookside Stadium, Sept. 20, 1914, attendance 100,000. Credit: Library of Congress. | ||
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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Health | Harmful noises at home may come from vacuum cleaners, garbage disposals, lawn mowers, leaf blowers and shop tools. (references) | |
Persons with allergies should be wary of exaggerated claims for appliances that cannot really clean the air. Very small air cleaners cannot remove dust and pollen--and no air purifier can prevent viral or bacterial diseases such as influenza, pneumonia, or tuberculosis. (references) | ||
Business | When other garden innovations are considered, it is arguable whether shredders and leaf vacuum cleaners are tools or not, but certainly demand for these products is growing. (references) | |
In 1988, the Singapore Department of Statistics did not consider appliances such as laser/video/CD players, microwave ovens, and vacuum cleaners to be sufficiently important, but in 1997 the figures were 47.4%, 38.6% and 65.7%, respectively. (references) | ||
Economic History | Bulgaria | Vacuum cleaners and cosmetics are being sold fairly successfully door-to-door. (references) |
Egypt | A few foreign firms use free zones or bonded warehouses to store goods and hire their own employees to sell door-to-door consumer goods, such as vacuum cleaners. (references) | |
Guatemala | These companies are operating mainly in the fields of fast food restaurants, physical fitness centers, car rentals, hotel operations, dry cleaners, lawn and garden services, professional painters, learning centers, shoe repair, pest control, discount stores/pharmacies, auto repair and others. (references) | |
Trade | Singapore | Under the Consumer Protection (Safety Requirements) Regulations of 1991, 17 products (LPG systems, cooking ranges, electric irons, gas cookers, hair dryers, microwave ovens, televisions, video display units, video cassette recorders, table fans, high-fidelity equipment, immersion water heaters, kettles, refrigerators, rice cookers, room air-conditioners, vacuum cleaners and washing machines) which are potentially hazardous to consumers must be registered and declared safe before they can be sold in Singapore. (references) |
Worker Rights | Sweden | The women typically are recruited in their own countries to come and work as cleaners, babysitters, or similar employment. (references) |
Zambia | The minimum wage covers nonunionized workers in categories such as general workers, cleaners, office orderlies, and watchmen. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Cleaners" is generally used as a noun (plural) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Cleaners" is used about 446 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 (plural) | 100% | 446 | 12,998 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "cleaners": dry cleaners ♦ take smb. to the cleaners. Additional references. | |
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Ending with "cleaners": window-cleaners. | |
| 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. |
| Language | Translations for "cleaners"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | ателие за хим. чистене. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | "净剂 (Cleaner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | èistírna (dry-cleaners). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | rengoeringspersonale. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | schoonmaakpersoneel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | pesulaitos (launderette, laundry, the cleaners), pesula (launderette, laundry, the cleaners). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | personnel de nettoyage. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Reinigungspersonal. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | servizio di pulizia. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 세탁기 자 (Cleaner). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eanersclay tinturaria (dyeing). (various references) химчистка (also cleaner, dry cleaning, dry-cleaner's). (various references) hemijsko čišćenje (dry cleaner, dry cleaning, dry-cleaners). (various references) limpiadores (riffler, sandtable). (various references) kuru temizleyici (dry cleaner, dry cleaner's). (various references) хімчистка. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Cleaners" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cleanacres, cleaness, Cleyndert, cloaners, cloners, Cluaness, Colmenares, Culinaires, leaners. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "cleaners" (pronounced klē"nerz) |
| 5 | -l ē" n er z | leaners. |
| 4 | -ē" n er z | intervenors, misdemeanors, screeners, wieners. |
| 3 | -n er z | afterburners, airliners, banners, bargainers, beginners, breadwinners, burners, campaigners, commissioners, commoners, complainers, conditioners, confectioners, Conners, containers, copartners, corners, coroners, decliners, designers, dinars, diners, dinners, donors, downers, drainers, earners, easterners, entertainers, examiners, executioners, falconers, fasteners, foreigners, forerunners, fresheners, frontrunners, gainers, gardeners, garners, governors, gunners, homeowners, honeymooners, honors, jetliners, kindergartners, landowners, lanners, learners, liners, listeners, loners, manners, manors, mariners, miners, minors, mourners, northerners, openers, owners, parishioners, partners, pensioners, petitioners, planers, planners, practitioners, prisoners, probationers, questioners, refiners, retainers, runners, scanners, schooners, shipowners, signers, sinners, sooners, southerners, spinners, stationers, sweeteners, tenors, trainers, vacationers, vintners, Warners, westerners, whiners, winners. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: cleanser, recleans. | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-s" | |
-1 letter: careens, caserne, cereals, cleaner, cleanse, crenels, enlaces, lancers, leaners, recanes, reclean, relaces, rescale, scalene, sclerae. | |
-2 letters: aneles, caners, careen, carles, casern, censer, cereal, cleans, clears, cranes, crease, creels, crenel, encase, enlace, lacers, lancer, lances, larees, leaner, learns, leaser, nacres, rances, ranees, reales, recane, relace, resale, reseal, scaler, sclera, screen, sealer, seance, secern. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-l-n-r-s" | |
+1 letter: calenders, cancelers, ceruleans, clarences, cleansers, clearness, larceners, larcenies, precleans, reliances, vernacles. | |
+2 letters: arecolines, blackeners, calentures, cancellers, celebrants, censurable, centralest, centralise, channelers, clearances, concealers, freelances, interlaces, linecaster, overcleans, percalines, precancels, rebalances, rechannels, rectangles, relaunches, relevances, screenable, screenland, screenplay, superclean, tolerances, unclearest. | |
+3 letters: accelerants, calenderers, camerlengos, cantilevers, carefulness, centralised, centralises, centralizes, ceremonials, challengers, chandeliers, chandleries, clearnesses, conversable, credentials, crestfallen, curableness, discernable, freelancers, glabrescent, gracileness, increasable, intercensal, leprechauns, linebackers, linecasters, necessarily, pearlescent, prevalences, recanalizes, recessional, relandscape, relevancies, reluctances, resemblance, screenlands, screenplays, tabernacles. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)43 6C 65 61 6E 65 72 73 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)-.-. .-.. . .- -. . .-. ... |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000011 01101100 01100101 01100001 01101110 01100101 01110010 01110011 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)C l e a n e r s |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0043 006C 0065 0061 006E 0065 0072 0073 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)3778716780718485 |
| Language | Coverage | Language Translations |
Bulgarian | речник, яснота, сила, очертания, дефиниция, транслация, превеждане, предаване, поддаване, тълкуване, огъване, превод | български, български език, българин, 保 利亚, bulharský, bulgarer, bulgarialainen, bulgare, bulgaro, 불가리아, болгарский, болгарин, bugarski jezik, bugarski, bugarka, bugarin, búlgaro, bulgaristan ile ilgili, болгарський |
Chinese | 字典 , 定義 , 定义, 翻译 | китайски, 汉语, 中 , 漢 , 中國 , èínský, èínština, èíòan, kineser, kiinalainen, Chinois, Chinesisch, cinese, 중국, chinês, китайский, китаец, kineski jezik, kineski, chino, çinli, çince, çin ile ilgili, çin, китаянка, китайська мова, китайський, кита"ць |
Czech | slovník, definice, překlad | чешки, 捷克語 , 捷克语, 捷克 , èesky, èeské, èech, èeština, èeský, èeška, tjekker, tjekke, Tsjech, Tsjechisch, t?ekkiläinen, tchèque, Tscheche, tschechisch, Tschechin, ceco, 체", чешский, češki jezik, čeh, češki, checo, Çek, çekoslovakyalı kimse, çekoslovakyalı, çek dili, чех, чеська мова, чеський, чешка |
Danish | ordbog, deskriptordefinition, oversættelse | датски език, датски, 丹麦语, dánský, dánština, tanskalainen, danois, dänisch, danese, 덴마크, dinamarquês, датский, danski, danski jezik, danés, danimarkalı, danimarka dili, датський, датська мова |
Dutch | woordenboek, definitie, translatie | холандски, немски език, холандски език, холандците, немски, 菏蘭語 , 荷兰语, holandský, nizozemský, hollandsk, hollantilainen, néerlandais, holländisch, olandese, 네덜란", holandês, голландский, holanđanin, u škripcu, holandski, holandés, alman, eş, flemenkçe, holandaca, hollanda, karı, hollandalı, hollandalılara özgü olan, Hollandali, hollanda'ya ait, голландська мова, голландський |
Finnish | määritelmä, translaatio, taajuusmuutos | фински език, фински, 芬蘭語 , 芬兰语, finský, suomi, suomalainen, finnois, Finlandaise, finlandais, finnisch, finlandese, 핀란", finlandês, finês, финский, finski jezik, finski, finlandés, finés, fince, finlandiya'ya özgü, фінська мова, фінський |
French | dictionnaire, définition, traduction | френски език, френски, 法國 , 法文 , 法語 , 法语, francouzský, francouzština, ranskalainen, français, französisch, francese, "랑스, francês, французский, francuski jezik, francuski, francuzi, francés, fransızca, fransız, Fransiz, fransızca ile ilgili, fransa ile ilgili, французька мова, французький |
German | Übersetzung, Wörterbuch, Definition | германски, немски език, немски, немец, роден, готически, германец, 德语, 德國 , 德文 , 德語 , nìmec, nìmecký, tysker, Duitse, saksalainen, allemand, tedesco, 독일, alemão, немецкий, germanski, alemán, alman, німкеня, німецький, німець |
Italian | dizionario, definizione, traduzione | италиански език, италиански, италианец, 意大利 , 意大利語 , 意大利语, italský, italština, ital, italiener, italialainen, italien, italienisch, italiano, 이탈리아, итальянский язык, итальянец, итальянский, italijan, italijanski jezik, italijanski, italyanca, italyan, італі"ць, італійська мова, італійський, італійка |
Korean | 사 , 의, 번역 | корейски език, корейски, 韩国语, "國 , 朝鮮語 , korejec, korejština, korejský, Koreaans, coréen, koreanisch, Koreaner, 한국, coréia, a língua coreana, кореец, корейский, korejski, korejski jezik, koreanac, coreano, kore'li, кореянка, коре"ць, корейська мова, корейський |
Portuguese | dicionário, definição, tradução | португалски, португалски език, португалец, 葡萄牙語 , 葡萄牙人 , 葡萄牙语, portugalský, portugiser, portugalilainen, portugais, portugiesisch, portoghese, 포르투갈, português, португальский, portugalski jezik, portugalac, portugalski, portugués, portekizce, portekiz, Portekízlí, portekizli, португальський, португальська мова, португалець |
Russian | словарь, определение, трансляция, сдвиг, перевод, перемещение | руски език, руски, руснак, 俄語 , 俄文 , 俄语, ruština, ruský, russer, venäläinen, Russe, russisch, russo, 러시아, русский, ruski jezik, ruski, ruso, Rusça, росіянка, росіянин, російська мова, російський |
Serbo-Croatian | leksikon, rečnik, definicija, tumačenje | 塞"维亚-克罗地亚语, 塞爾維亞克羅地亞語 , serbokroatisch, 세르보크로아티아, servo-croata, srpsko-hrvatski jezik, srpsko-hrvatski |
Spanish | diccionario, definición, traducción | испански език, испански, 西班牙語 , 西班牙文 , 西班牙语, španìlský, španìlština, Spaans, espanjalainen, espagnol, spanisch, spagnolo, 스페인, espanhol, испанский, španski, španski jezik, español, ispanyollar, ispanyol, ispanyolca, іспанський, іспанська мова |
Turkish | sözlük, ansiklopedik sözlük, açıklama, belirleme, belirtme, kesinleştirme, tanım, tarif, seçiklik, tanımlama, tercüme | турски език, турски, 土耳其語 , 土耳其, turecký, tureètina, turkkilainen, turque, türkisch, турецкий, turski jezik, turski, turco, türkçe, türk, турецький, турецька мова |
Ukrainian | словник, довідник, чіткість, тлумачення, виразність, визначення, дефініція, ясність, чітка чутність, процес перекладу, переклад, пояснення, переміщення | украинец, украински език, 乌克兰, ukrajinec, ukrajinština, ukrajinský, ukrajinka, Oekraïens, ukrainalainen, ukrainien, ukrainisch, ukrainerin, Ukrainer, ucraino, ucraniano, украинский язык, украинский, украинец украинский, ukrajinski, ukrajina, ucranio, ukraynalı, ukrayna, ukraynaca, український, українець |
English | Dictionary, Definition, Translation | английски език, английски, англичаните, 英语, 英國 , 英文 , 英 , 英語 , anglicky, englantia, englantilainen, anglais, englisch, inglese, 영국, inglês, английский, engleski, englez, engleski jezik, inglés, ingiltere, ingiliz, Íngílízce, ingilizce, Íngílíz, ýngilizce, англійський, англійці, англійська мова |
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