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Clean

Definition: Clean

Clean

Adjective

1. Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits; "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals".

2. Free of restrictions or qualifications; "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner".

3. (of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims; "efforts to obtain a clean bass in orchestral recordings"; "clear laughter like a waterfall"; "clear reds and blues"; "a light lilting voice like a silver bell".

4. Free from impurities; "clean water"; "fresh air".

5. Without difficulties or problems; "a clean test flight".

6. (religion) ritually clean or pure.

7. Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination; "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean".

8. (of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers; "good clean fun"; "a clean joke".

9. Free from sepsis or infection; "a clean (or uninfected) wound".

10. : morally pure; "led a clean life".

11. : (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript".

12. : of a surface; not written or printed on; "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins".

13. : marked by or calling for sportsmanship or fair play; "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct".

14. : thorough and without qualification; "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break".

15. : (of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense; "a clean voting recor"; "a clean driver's license".

16. : not carrying concealed weapons.

17. : free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed; "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife".

18. : free of drugs; "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years".

Adverb

1. (slang) completely; used as intensifiers; "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out".

2. In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly".

Noun

1. A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead.

Verb

1. Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from; "Clean the stove!"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth".

2. Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits, as of chickens or fruit; "Clean the turkey".

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

4. Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing; "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner".

5. Be cleanable; "This stove cleans easily".

6. Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely; "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"; deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc.; "The other players cleaned him completely".

7. Remove while making clean; "Clean the spots off the rug".

8. Remove unwanted substances from, as in chemistry.

9. Remove shells or husks from; "clean grain before milling it".

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

Date "clean" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references)

 

Specialty Definition: Clean

DomainDefinition

Computing

Clean 1. adj. Used of hardware or software designs, implies `elegance in the small', that is, a design or implementation that may not hold any surprises but does things in a way that is reasonably intuitive and relatively easy to comprehend from the outside. The antonym is `grungy' or crufty. 2. v. To remove unneeded or undesired files in a effort to reduce clutter: "I'm cleaning up my account." "I cleaned up the garbage and now have 100 Meg free on that partition.". Source: Jargon File.

Bible

Clean The various forms of uncleanness according to the Mosaic law are enumerated in Lev. 11-15; Num. 19. The division of animals into clean and unclean was probably founded on the practice of sacrifice. It existed before the Flood (Gen. 7:2). The regulations regarding such animals are recorded in Lev. 11 and Deut. 14:1-21. The Hebrews were prohibited from using as food certain animal substances, such as (1) blood; (2) the fat covering the intestines, termed the caul; (3) the fat on the intestines, called the mesentery; (4) the fat of the kidneys; and (5) the fat tail of certain sheep (Ex. 29:13, 22; Lev. 3:4-9; 9:19; 17:10; 19:26). The chief design of these regulations seems to have been to establish a system of regimen which would distinguish the Jews from all other nations. Regarding the design and the abolition of these regulations the reader will find all the details in Lev. 20:24-26; Acts 10:9-16; 11:1-10; Heb. 9:9-14. Source: Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary.

Finance

Refers to a money market operation without underlying documentary security. In the U. K. clean means "exclusive of accrued interest" Source: European Union. (references)

Food & Agriculture

Quality of a wine which leaves an agreeable and clean sensation after tasting. Source: European Union. (references)
 The part of a bole or stem which is free of branches. Source: European Union. (references)
 Of timber free from any defect not acceptable in the appropriate grade or for the particular end use. Source: European Union. (references)

Literature

Clean Free from blame or fault.
"Ye are clean, but not all."- John xiii. 10.
BILL. To show a clean bill of health. (See page 135, col. 1, Bill Of Health.)
BREAST. To make a clean breast or Make a clean breast of it. To make a full and unreserved confession.
HANDS. To have clean hands. To be quite clear of some stated evil. Hence "clean-handed."
To keep the hands clean. Not to be involved in wrong-doing.
HEART. To have a clean heart. A righteous spirit.
"Create in me a clean heart, and renew a right spirit within me."- Psalm li. 10.
HEELS. To show a clean pair of heels. To make one's escape, to run away. Here "clean" means free from obstruction.
"The Maroons were runaway slaves who had ... shown their tyrants a clean pair of heels"- Sala.
LIFE. To live a clean life. Blameless and undefiled.
TONGUE. A clean tongue. Not abusive, not profane, not foul.
Clean (To).
Clean away! Scrub on, go on cleaning, etc.
To clean down. To sweep down, to swill down.
To clean out. To purify, to make tidy. Also, to win another's money till his pocket is quite empty.
To clean up. To wash up, to put in order.
Clean, used adverbially, means entirely, wholly; as, "you have grown clean out of knowledge," i.e. wholly beyond recognition. Source: Brewer's Dictionary.

Metallurgy

To remove the sand that may still adhere to a shaken-out casting. Source: European Union. (references)

Mining

A. Free from combustible gases or other noxious gases. b. A coal seam free from dirt partings. c. A diamond or other gem stone free from interior flaws d. A borehole free of cave or other obstructing material e. A mineral virtually free of undesirable nonore or waste rock material f. Free of foreign material. In reference to sand or gravel, it means lackof binde. (references)

Multilingual Slang

Bielorussian (pidaras ). (references)

Nuclear Energy & Physics

Having no induced radioactivity and no fission products. In some countries "clean" also implies the absence of control members. Source: European Union. (references)

Slang in 1811

CLEAN. Expert; clever. Amongst the knuckling coves he is reckoned very clean; he is considered very expert as a pickpocket. Source: 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue.

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

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Specialty Definition: Clean

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Clean can refer to:

Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Clean."

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Clean programming language

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

Clean is a purely functional programming language that, in some respects, is similar to Haskell programming language.

Clean has several advantages as a programming language. It features a uniqueness type system, which allows a purely functional way of dealing with resources such as I/O that cannot be duplicated. Clean also has a list comprehension system which can create queries at least as complex as SQL can handle. Clean also uses a more compact format for conditionals. Clean has a very simple and easy-to-use IDE that writes only the project files, not the actual programs. Clean programs are extremely portable; in almost all cases, porting to a different platform simply means a recompile.

The hello world program for Clean is shown below:

module hello

Start :: String
Start = "Hello, world!"
The first line, module hello, tells the compiler that that this module, or part of a project, is called "hello". It has to be stored in a file called hello.icl unless you want to change that line of code. The next line, Start :: String, says that the variable Start, which is the first thing the compiler evaluates, is of the String type. The last line sets the variable Start to "Hello, world!". Since no other output method, such as a GUI, is declared, the words "Hello, world!" just appear in a console box.

Clean is based on the mathematical principle of graph rewriting. Arrays and other constants are graphs, and functions are graph rewriting formulas. Clean programs are evaluated using the well-understood technique of reduction, which essentially reduces everything to a very simple form. Reduction makes programs implemented in Clean relatively fast, even with the high abstraction of the language.

Clean has a very unique compiling system. First, source files (.icl) and project files (.dcl) are converted into Clean's own bytecode (.abc files). This is implemented in C and Clean . The bytecode is completely platform-independent, but it cannot be run. Next, this bytecode is converted to object code (.obj) using C. After that, the object code is linked with other files in the module and the runtime system and converted into a normal executable (done in Clean). Although it seems like there would be bootstrapping issues with this, they are resolved because earlier versions of the Clean system were written completely in C.

Clean was produced and is mantained by the University of Nijmegen. The IDE was written by the Dutch-based company Hilt. It is available for the platforms Windows, Macintosh, Solaris, and Linux, but input-output capabilities are limited on Linux. It is licensed under the GNU LGPL, but it can be used without the LGPL if it is bought for €495. Clean is not developed with an open source development model, though.

Although Clean isn't used much commercially, it is used extensively in research.

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Kashrut

(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)

The laws of Kashrut ("keeping kosher") are the Jewish dietary laws. Food in accord with Jewish law is termed kosher, from the Hebrew term kasher, meaning "fit" (in this context, fit for human consumption). Food not in accord with Jewish law is termed treif or treifah, i.e. torn , meaning ritually unclean. (Also spelled trayf or treyf)

The basic laws of kashrut are in the Torah and their details are explicated in the oral law, contained in the Mishnah and the Talmud. According to the Biblical book of Leviticus, the purpose of the laws is related to ritual purity and holiness.

Theories on the origin of the Biblical dietary laws

The hygiene hypothesis

The laws of kashrut were once though to have been based on hygiene. It was believed by some that kosher animals were healthier to eat than non-kosher animals. It was also noted that the laws of purity (Leviticus 11-15) not only describe the difference between clean and unclean animals, but also describe other phenomena related to health. Thus, it was natural for many to assume that all the laws of kashrut were merely hygienic in intent and origin. However, this idea has fallen out of favor among biblical scholars for a number of reasons.

Such a rationale seems reasonable when considering the laws prohibiting the consumption of scavenger birds, which may carry disease from the carrion they; shellfish, which can contain parasites which can harm people, and pork, which can harbor trichinosis if not properly cooked. However, this hypothesis does not seem to make sense when one looks at the other laws of kashrut: They also forbid the consumption of birds of prey, which do not carry such diseases, and all fish without true scales, such as sharks. They even permit animals such as cows and sheep which also can harbor diseases which are dangerous to humans. In addition, this hypothesis does not explain the following parts of the Jewish dietary laws: Fruit from trees may not be eaten before the tree turns four years old; one must remove all blood from the meat; fruits and vegetables may be eaten without prohibition (even though there are many poisonous herbs, seeds, berries and fruits).

This is not to say that there could be no connection between the priestly laws of kashrut and hygiene. As in the dietary codes of many societies, it only makes sense that, over time, hygiene would likely play some role in the development of the dietary laws of Leviticus.

The symbolic laws hypothesis

During the first few centuries of the common era some philosophers held that the laws of kashrut were symbolic in character. In this view, kosher animals represent virtues, while non-kosher animals represent vices. The first indication of this view can be found in the 1st century BCE Letter of Aristeas (par. 145-148, 153). This view later reappears in the writings of Philo of Alexandria, and in the writings of some of the early Church fathers. This hypothesis has long since been rejected by both Jewish and Christian scholars. Modern biblical criticism also has found nothing to support this hypothesis.

The laws as statutes without explanation or reason

"Some Jewish scholars have held that these dietary laws should simply be categorized with a group of laws that are considered irrational in that there is no particular explanation for their existence. The reason for this is that there are some of God's regulations for mankind that the human mind is not necessarily capable of understanding. Related to this is the idea that the dietary laws were given as a demonstration of God's authority and that man should obey without asking for a reason." (Source: William H. Shea, Clean and Unclean Meats, Biblical Research Institute, December 1988)

This view has been rejected by the majority of classical and modern Jewish rabbis, and by modern biblical scholars. For example, Maimonides holds that all the laws given by God have a reason, that we are permitted to seek out what these reasons may be, and that we should feel comfortable in knowing that rational reasons exist for all of God's laws in the Torah, even if we are not sure of what some of these reasons are. For Maimonides, the idea that God gave laws without any reason is anathema.

Laws serve as a religious and social distinction

One theory widely accepted today is that the laws serve as a distinction between the Israelites and the non-Israelite nations of the world. Gordon Wenham writes "The laws reminded Israel what sort of behaviour was expected of her, that she had been chosen to be holy in an unclean world." These laws had the added effect of preventing socialization and intermarriage with non-Jews, helping the Jewish community maintain its identity. Wenham writes that "circumcision was a private matter, but the food laws made one's Jewish faith a public affair. Observance of the food laws was one of the outward marks of a practising Jew, and this in turn enhanced Jewish attachment to them as a reminder of their special status." (Source: Gordon J. Wenham, "The Theology of Unclean Food," The Evangelical Quarterly 53, January March 1981, p.6-15.)

The Biblical explanation: Distinctions lead to holiness

According to the Biblical book of Leviticus, the purpose of the laws is related to ritual purity and holiness. Indeed, the Hebrew word for "holiness" is etymologically related to the Hebrew word for "distinction" or "separation". This idea is generally accepted by most Jews today, and by many modern biblical scholars. Cultural anthropologist Mary Douglas has written an important work on just how the Israelites may have used the idea of distinction as a way to create holiness. Her seminal work, Purity and Danger (1966), is still studied today.

Ethical and moral reasons

(To be added soon.)

How kashrut is viewed by Judaism today

Orthodox Judaism and Conservative Judaism hold that Jews should follow the laws of Kashrut. Reform Judaism and Reconstructionist Judaism hold that these laws are no longer binding. Most Jews in Reform Judaism have considered these laws a hindrance, rather than a facilitator, of piety; this is still the mainstream Reform position. Some parts of the Reform community have begun to move towards a more traditional position. This tradition-leaning faction agrees with mainstream Reform that the rules concerning kashrut are no longer binding, but holds that keeping kosher is an imporant way for people to bring holiness into their lives. Thus Jews are encouraged to consider adopting some or all of the rules of kashrut on a voluntary basis. The Reconstructionist movement advocates that its members accept some of the rules of kashrut, but does so in a non-binding fashion; their stance on kashrut is the same as the tradition-leaning wing of Reform.

Linguistic useage

In English, the term kosher is frequently used in a metaphorical sense to mean "acceptable" or "approved", which is its conventional meaning in Hebrew. It is also part of some common product names. For example, "kosher salt", which is a form of salt in large crystals that makes it particularly suitable for preparing meat in accordance with Kashrut law, and is not meant to imply that the salt itself is kosher in the original sense (although it is, as is normal table salt, sea salt, and just about any other form of salt).

Types of foods

Meat

Kosher mammals must both have cloven hooves and chew their cud. All kosher mammals are artiodactyl herbivores that can be domesticated, such as cows, goats, deer and sheep. The Torah specifies certain birds that are not kosher; in general, scavengers are considered non-kosher. The modern Halakha on kashrut classifies the flesh of both mammals and birds as "meat".

Jewish law states that kosher animals must be slaughtered according to a strict set of guidelines, the slaughter (shechita) being designed to minimize the pain inflicted. A professional slaughterer, or (shochet), uses a large razor-sharp knife with absolutely no irregularities, nicks or dents. A single cut is made across the throat, severing both carotid arteries, both jugular veins, both Vagus nerves, the trachea and the esophagus, usually causing death in 3-4 seconds. (If done improperly the death could take minutes; this is true for any method of slaughtering.) If the knife catches even for a split second, or is found afterward to have developed any irregularities, the animal is not kosher and is sold as regular meat.

Once killed, the animal is opened to determine whether there are any irregularities or growths (i.e. cancer), on its internal organs, some of which can render the animal non-kosher. The term "Glatt" kosher means strictly kosher where the glatt (lungs) are carefully examined for adhesions (i.e. cancer). The word treif -- derived from the Hebrew treifah, meaning "torn" -- originally referred to animals which had been killed by wild beasts therefore were not fit for human consumption.

Large blood vessels must be removed, and all blood must be removed from the meat, as Jewish law prohibits the consumption of the blood of any animal. This is most commonly done by soaking and salting, but also can be done by broiling. An interesting fact, little-known outside of Jewish communities, is that the hindquarters of a mammal are not kosher unless the sciatic nerve and the fat surrounding it are removed (Gen. 32:33). This is a very time-consuming process demanding a great deal of special training, and is rarely done outside Israel, where there is a greater demand for kosher meat, since all meat sold in Jewish towns is required to be kosher by law. When it is not done, the hindquarters of the animal are sold for non-kosher meat.

Dairy

Milk and milk-derived products derived from kosher animals are always kosher. All milk from cows is kosher. In practice, many Orthodox Jews use only "Cholov Yisroel" milk and dairy products; this label means that the milk has been under constant rabbinical supervision from milking to bottling, to make sure that it is not adulterated with the milk of a non-kosher animal. In the past this was a serious issue; today this is not a practical concern in the USA or in most western countries. As such, most Modern Orthodox rabbis and all Conservative rabbis hold that FDA supervision is sufficient for milk and dairy products to be considered automatically kosher.

No mixing of meat and dairy

Milk products and meat products may not be eaten together in the same meal, much less cooked together. Jewish law thus mandates a set of fence laws that prevent this from happening. Jewish homes have two sets of silverware, cookware, cups, and dishes. One is for milk (Yiddish milchig, Hebrew halavi) dishes, and one is for meat (Yiddish fleishig, Hebrew bsari) dishes. This prevents any trace of meat or dairy from being accidentally mixed. (Foods that contain neither milk nor meat are considered "neutral" -- Yiddish parev, Hebrew parve.)

Jewish law considers glass (and some say Pyrex) to be non-absorbent; thus, one could use just a single set of glass plates and dishes. In practice, this is rarely done not only because of the cost, but also because it is held that it would weaken the traditional system of kashrut observance. However, it is common even within the most religiously observant households to allow drinking glasses to be used for both dairy and meat meals, as long as they are thoroughly washed.

Various customs are observed for how long it is necessary to wait after eating meat before eating dairy foods again, and vice versa. Waits of three hours and six hours are the most common practices, though some communities wait only one hour.

Produce

All fresh fruits and vegetables are kosher. Jewish law requires that they be carefully checked and cleaned to make sure that there are no insects on them, as insects are not kosher (except Orthoptera, see below). In the last century the laws of kashrut have become much stricter in the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish community; they refuse to eat many vegetables, such as broccoli, because they hold that such vegetables are too difficult to remove tiny insects from.

Canned and frozen foods

Most such goods are usually permissible since manufacturers add only water and spices during the packaging process. Sometimes, however, fruits or vegetables are prepared with milk products or with non-kosher ingredients such as non-kosher meat broth. Orthodox Judaism thus holds that canned and frozen goods should generally not be consumed unless there is a heksher (mark of rabbinical certification of kashrut) on the product. Conservative Judaism often is more lenient, and holds that a careful reading of the ingredients is sufficient.

Grains and cereals

Unprocessed grains and cereals are kosher. Processed items (e.g. dry cereals, baked goods) often contain small quantities of non-kosher ingredients. As such Orthodox Judaism holds that these goods should generally not be consumed unless there is a heksher (mark of rabbinical certification of kashrut) on the product. Conservative Judaism often is more lenient, and holds that a careful reading of the ingredients is sufficient.

Grains and cereals during Passover

During the 8 days of Passover there are additional restrictions on what foods may be eaten. Jewish law forbids Jews from eating any leavened or possibly leavened product made from wheat, rye, barley, spelt, or oats.

An Orthodox discussion of the kitniot controversy

An Israeli Conservative discussion of the kitniot controversy

Rabbinical Assembly Passover guide

Eggs

Eggs from kosher birds are kosher; they are also considered pareve (neutral; neither milk nor meat.) Eggs that contain blood may not be used. A partially-formed egg which is found inside of a slaughtered bird may be eaten, but it must undergo the same process of blood removal as the animal, and it is considered to be fleishig.

Birds

Kosher birds include: capon, duck (domestic), goose (domestic), chicken, turkey, guinea fowl and many others. As a general principle, scavenging birds such as eagles and vultures are not considered kosher, and others (generally) are.

Insects

With one exception, all bugs and insects are forbidden as treif (un-kosher). The exception is a type of locust from the Arabian peninsula; this type of locust encompasses four distinct species of locust. The tradition for identifying which species of locust were and were not kosher has been lost among all Jews except the Jews of Yemen.

Cheese

Cheese made from milk and non-animal enzymes is kosher. But much cheese is made from milk and rennet, and the kashrut of such cheeses is a matter of debate in the religious Jewish community.

Rennet is the enzyme used to turn milk into curds and whey; most forms of rennet derive from the lining of the stomach of an animal, and thus are classified by most religious Jews as meat products. A vegetable substitute for rennet can be used, in which case none of these restrictions apply. Other Jewish authorities maintain another long standing Jewish legal tradition: rennet is held to be a secretion of the stomach wall, and thus does not have the status of meat. Further, in its normal processing, rennet undergoes a chemical change and becomes inedible, thus halakhically becoming a non-food. All foods in this category automatically lose any kashrut restrictions. They are considered to have changed so much from their original state that they are a d'var chadash, "a new substance" with properties significantly different from those of their original form. All such substances are considered pareve (neutral and kosher).

Fish and Seafood

To be kosher, a fish must have both fins and scales. The lack of either characteristic renders that species of fish unclean. Examples of unkosher fish include shark and catfish. All shellfish, such as crabs, lobster, and shrimp are not kosher. All sea mammals, such as dolphins, whales and seals are not kosher. All other sea animals, such as octopus, squid, jellyfish and eels are also not kosher.

Seaweed and other sea plant life are all kosher.

There are two fish that are controversial: Swordfish and sturgeon. Both of these have scales as young fish, but lose them later in life. Most Orthodox rabbis rule that these fish are not kosher; many Conservative rabbis rule that they are kosher.

Gelatin

A controversial topic is the status of gelatin. This substance comes from the processed bones of animals. If the source of gelatin is a kosher animal that was properly slaughtered according to Jewish law, then such gelatin is considered kosher by all Jews. All other gelatin is usually considered treif (non-kosher). However, a number of prominent rabbinic authorities have noted that gelatin undergoes such extensive processing and chemical changes that it no longer has the status of meat, and as such may be considered pareve and kosher. Most Conservative Jews, and a significant minority of Israeli Orthodox Jews, accept that all gelatin is kosher.

Vegetarianism

Genesis 1:29 states "And God said: Behold, I have given you every herb yielding seed which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree that has seed-yielding fruit - to you it shall be for food." According to many classical Jewish Bible commentators, this means that God's original plan was for mankind to be vegetarian. According to many rabbis, God later gave permission for man to eat meat because of man's weak nature, but the ideal would be for man to be vegetarian. Some prominent rabbis were vegetarian, such as the first Chief Rabbi of pre-state Israel, Abraham Isaac Kook. However, others argue that people may eat animals because God gave Eve and Adam dominion over them. (The Torah and vegetarianism)

In addition, some Jews follow a more or less vegetarian diet for pragmatic reasons, if kosher meat is expensive or hard to come by in their area.

Kashrut and animal welfare

The method of slaughtering used in strict adherence to Jewish law has been criticized as being cruel by many animal rights organizations, in particular because animals are killed without the use of anesthesia. This has resulted in several restrictions or even an outright ban on kosher meat in a number of countries, though other countries grant ritualistic slaughter such as kashrut special exemption from the relevant regulations. However, some bans were in place before animal rights had become a general public concern.

Animal rights groups claim it can still take several minutes for the animal to die and thus would cause immense suffering. Jewish groups point to studies showing that the technique is no more painful than conventional techniques, and in most cases quicker and less painful; the conclusions of these studies are rejected by animal rights advocates. In addition, there are campaigns to have the practice of ritualistic slaughter globally banned [1].

Many Jewish organizations suspect that anti-semitism may also be an influence behind the efforts to ban kosher meat, partly because of a distinct anti-semitic element among the opponents of ritualistic slaughter, partly because of the age of some bans.

See also: Judaism

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Abbreviations & Acronyms: Clean

The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted.
EntrySourceExpressionField

CLEAN

EnglishComprehensive Lake Ecosystem AnalyzerEnvironment
CLANEnglishClean Air Society in the NetherlandsN/A

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Synonyms: Clean

Synonyms: blank (adj), clean-living (adj), clear (adj), fair (adj), fresh (adj), light (adj), neat (adj), sporting (adj), sportsmanlike (adj), unclouded (adj), uncontaminating (adj), uninfected (adj), unobjectionable (adj), white (adj), fairly (adv), plum (adv), plumb (adv), clean and jerk (n), clean house (v), cleanse (v), houseclean (v), make clean (v), pick (v), scavenge (v), strip (v). (additional references)
Antonyms: unclean (adj), unfairly (adv), dirty (v). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Clean

ContextSynonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).

Completeness

Adverb: completely; Adjective: altogether, outright, wholly, totally, in toto, quite; all out; over head and ears; effectually, for good and all, nicely, fully, through thick and thin, head and shoulders; neck and heel, neck and crop; in all respects, in every respect; at all points, out and out, to all intents and purposes; toto coelo; utterly; clean, clean as a whistle; to the full, to the utmost, to the backbone; hollow, stark; heart and soul, root and branch, down to the ground.

Perfection

AdVerb: to perfection; perfectly; Adjective: ad unguem; clean, - as a whistle.

Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

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Crosswords: Clean

English words defined with "clean": Clean hands, clean house ♦ dry clean ♦ laminar flow clean room ♦ make clean ♦ steam clean. (references)
Specialty definitions using "clean": 8-bit clean ♦ Clean Air Act, Clean and Unclean Animals, clean area, Clean Coal Technology, clean conditions area, CLEAN FUEL VEHICLE, Clean Water Act, Concurrent Clean ♦ eight-bit clean. (references)
Etymologies containing "clean": Natty. (references)
Non-English Usage: "Clean" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses.

Manx (bird cage, cot, cradle, pannier, potato creel, twig basket), Romanian (chub, dace).

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Modern Usage: Clean

DomainUsage

Screenplays

Fineyou clean and I'll go down and run your office (Driving Miss Daisy; writing credit: Alfred Uhry)

We're willing to wipe the slate clean, give you a fresh start (The Matrix; writing credit: Andy Wachowski and Larry Wachowski.)

The royal penis is clean, Your Highness (Coming to America; writing credit: Barry W. Blaustein, David Sheffield)

What are you talking about, I'm as clean as a preacher's sheets (True Lies; writing credit: Claude Zidi; Simon Michaël)

'Cause he keeps himself so clean! (Dave; writing credit: Gary Ross.)

Lyrics

Don't you think I'm so sexy I'm just so fresh so clean (So Fresh, So Clean; performing artist: Outkast)

She kept her motor clean (YOU SHOOK ME ALL NIGHT LONG; performing artist: AC/DC)

I'm so clean, too bad I can't get all the dirt off of me. (Falling For The First Time; performing artist: Barenaked Ladies)

Gotcha car clean gems on shine, said tell ma ta get (Still Fly; performing artist: Big Tymers)

Love the kind you clean up with a mop and bucket (The Bad Touch; performing artist: Bloodhound Gang)

Clever

A clean tie attracts the soup of the day. (references; author: unknown)

My house was clean last week. Sorry you missed it. (references; author: unknown)

Be ye fishers of men. You catch them - He'll clean them. (references; author: unknown)

Precious is the parrot who is trained by a clean tongue. (references; author: unknown)

Before you point your fingers, be sure your hands are clean. (references; author: unknown)

Tongue Twisters

Clean clams crammed in clean cans. (references; author: unknown)

Movie/TV Titles

Clean Sweep (1967)

Keep It Clean (1956)

Keeping Clean and Neat (1956)

How Billy Keeps Clean (1951)

Clean Milk (1944)

Song Titles

Clean Machine (performing artist: Tom Chapin)

So Fresh So Clean (performing artist: Outkast)

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

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Commercial Usage: Clean

DomainTitle

References

  • Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Clean Harbors, Inc.: International Competitive Benchmarks and Financial Gap Analysis (reference)

  • Clean Coal Technology for Power Generation in France: A Strategic Entry Report, 1996 (reference)

    (more reference examples)

  

Books

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

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  

Music

  

High Tech

  

Consumer Goods

  • Braun Syncro Shaver System with Clean & Charge Storage Stand and LCD Panel, 7570 (reference)

  • DeLonghi ST100P Steam It Clean Steam Cleaner (reference)

  • Annovi Reverberi Mr Clean 1400PSI 1.65 GPM Electric Pressure Washer (reference)

  • GS 2240-6 Easy Clean Handshower on Sliding Bar in Satin Nickel Finish (reference)

    (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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

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Image Slideshow: Clean

Photos:
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Photo Album: Clean

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Workers are shown wearing protective clothing to clean up chemical wastes abandoned in dumps. This is a serious environmental problem. Credit: Linda Bartlett (photographer).

HAV is usually spread from person to person by putting something in the mouth (even though it may look clean) that has been contaminated with the stool of a person with hepatitis A. Adults will have signs and symptoms more often than children. Credit: CDC.

Lunar Prospector in Clean Room. Credit: NASA.

Volunteers helping clean up the wetlands and waterfront area around Fort McHenry in Baltimore Harbor. Credit: America's Coastlines.

A last look at the Clean Air Facility before leaving the pole on C-130. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

The geodesic dome and skylab as seen from the old Clean Air Facility at South Pole Station. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Miss Pearl Oyster dressed up for Anthony's Oyster Olympics. The Oyster Olympics helps celebrate clean Pacific waters. Credit: Fisheries.

An ornate oyster-shell vest modeled at Anthony's Oyster Olympics. The Oyster Olympics helps celebrate clean Pacific waters. Credit: Fisheries.

Scott Gudes prepares to bury a dead pelican. Pelicans are one of the bird species that become entangled in discarded monofilament fishing line. The birds are trapped by the line when it wraps around their legs and can not fly to hunt for food or reach water. Death is prolonged and painful. The monofilament clean up removes line from the roosting sites to protect birds from entanglement. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

An image showing the healthy riparian habitat. Restoration goals include undercut banks, woody debris in the water, and clean stream bottom. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center.

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

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Digital Photo Gallery: Clean
 

"Clean Wheel" by Sencer Sarp
Commentary: "----."		"Clean sheets" by Jessica Poli
Commentary: "Black and white of sheets."

Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers.

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Sounds Captioned with "Clean".

PlayCaptionPlayCaption
Broom; sweep; clean up; push a broom; shattered; scraping; .Wipe; clean; swoosh; rain; downpour; swab.
Wash dishes; pots; pans; plates; clanking; banging; clean.Clean; clean off; clear; dry; dust; erase; mop; obliterate; remove; rub; sponge; swab; take away; towel; wash; squeak.
Vacuum; clean; suck; suction; carpet; .Clean; clean off; clear; dry; dust; erase; mop; obliterate; remove; rub; sponge; swab; take away; towel; wash; squeak.
Broom; brooming; brushing; brush; sweep; swept; sweeping; cleaning; clean.Water; splash; wring; slosh; wash; clean.
Broom; sweep; clean up; push a broom.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Clean

AuthorQuotation

(Decimus Junius Juvenalis) Juvenal

The smell of profit is clean and sweet, whatever the source.

Author Unknown

Keep yourself clean and bright. You are the windows through which you must view the world.

Benjamin Franklin

Clean your finger before you point at my spots.

Charles Dickens

Bring in the bottled lightning, a clean tumbler, and a corkscrew.

Dwight L. Moody

God doesn't seek for golden vessels, and does not ask for silver ones, but He must have clean ones.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Let everyone sweep in front of his own door, and the whole world will be clean.

John Lyly

Your eyes are so sharp that you cannot only look through a millstone, but clean through the mind.

Lord Chesterfield

Character must be kept bright as well as clean.

The Koran

God loveth the clean.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Use in Literature: Clean

TitleAuthorQuote

Emma

Austen, Jane

It will be as clean as Randalls by candlelight

So Long, and Thanks For All the Fish

Douglas Adams

His hair was cropped and washed, his chin clean shaven

Les Miserables

Hugo, Victor

The bishop left his guest in the alcove, before a clean white bed.

Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Joyce, James

He had a quiet toneless voice and urbane manners and on a finger of his plump clean hand he displayed at moments a signet ring

Grapes of Wrath

Steinbeck, John

In the dust there were drop craters where the rain had fallen, and there were clean splashes on the corn, and that was all.

Gulliver's Travels

Swift, Jonathan

I only desired he would lend me two clean shirts, which having been washed since he wore them, I believed would not so much defile me.

Walden

Thoreau, Henry David

They are no better than wooden horses to hang the clean clothes on.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Clean

SubjectTopicQuote

Health

Put on clean clothes. (references)

Dry off with a clean towel. (references)

The glomeruli clean the blood. (references)

Business

They also call for unspecified incentives for clean and renewable energy. (references)

The Hong Kong market for clean technology has gained much public attention in recent years. (references)

Clean coal, hydroelectric power, and nuclear energy do not provide strong sales opportunities. (references)

Children

Indonesia

Another approach to the problem of street children is the National Program for Discipline and Clean Cities Decree. (references)

Economic History

Netherlands

With seafood in specifically, consumers want a clean, dry package. (references)

Indonesia

Clean water and sanitation is another major challenge for Indonesia. (references)

Human Rights

Korea

Families must display pictures of the two Kims in their homes, and must keep them clean. (references)

Russia

Under the "Operation Clean Hands" program, MVD officials continued to combat police crime. (references)

Belize

The facility is clean, and inmates have access to limited educational classes and vocational classes in cosmetology. (references)

Political Economy

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES

As a result of these efforts, the UAE is largely clean of pirated sound recordings and films. (references)

EL SALVADOR

El Salvador's 1998 environmental law is providing new opportunities for the sales of U.S. clean technology products. (references)

POLAND

Poland suffers from high rates of piracy, in large part due to weak control of its eastern border and reluctance to clean up or shutdown large outdoor markets. (references)

Political Rights

Malaysia

Opposition representatives charged that the Government did nothing to clean the electoral rolls of phantom voters following the judge's ruling and before the by-election was held. (references)

Trade

Senegal

IX. Presentation of a clean report of findings issued by the PSI firm is obligatory. (references)

Argentina

Only clean and complete original copies will be accepted; corrections, manual markings, edits or additions will result in non-acceptance. (references)

Travel

Ghana

Very clean and bright atmosphere. (references)

Singapore

In addition, an exceptionally clean, efficient, subway system links the major business/shopping areas. (references)

Indonesia

Note: New, very clean and well-operated private hospital in North Jakarta (near Pluit) with 24 hour emergency services. (references)

Worker Rights

Armenia

The Constitution provides citizens with the right to clean and safe workplaces. (references)

Kiribati

For example, employers must provide an adequate supply of clean water for workers and ensure the existence of sanitary toilet facilities. (references)

China

Female prisoners clean toilets and also are involved in tailoring, cleaning, or spinning and sorting wool to be used in the manufacture of carpets and sweaters. (references)

Lexicography

Devil's Dictionary

END, n. The position farthest removed on either hand from the Interlocutor. The man was perishing apace Who played the tambourine; The seal of death was on his face -- 'Twas pallid, for 'twas clean. "This is the end," the sick man said In faint and failing tones. A moment later he was dead, And Tambourine was Bones. Tinley Roquot

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

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Spoken Usage: Clean

SpeakerPhrase(s)

Martha Stewart

I cook. I still clean. I iron. But I iron because I want to know what it really takes to iron now. I just got myself one of those big new hotel ironing machines that can iron, you know, five napkins at the same time in one big sheet.

Rush Limbaugh

Take your complaints to the former eastern bloc of the Soviet Union or to Africa, or Third World nations, wherever you want, and tell them to clean up.

Sarah Ferguson

The biggest misconception, from my point of view, although I'd hate to be a spokesperson, is that they are regular human beings that get up out of bed and clean their teeth like we all do.

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

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Speeches: Clean

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Lyndon B. Johnson

1963-1969I recommend that you attack the wasteful and degrading poisoning of our rivers, and, as the cornerstone of this effort, clean completely entire large river basins.

Jimmy Carter

1977-1981In the environmental areas, I have been especially concerned about the importance of balancing the need for resource development with preserving a clean environment, and have taken numerous actions to foster this goal.

Ronald Reagan

1981-1989It's time to clean house.

George Bush

1989-1993Where we reconcile the needs of a clean environment and a strong economy.

Bill Clinton

1993-2001We can have fairness and still clean up toxic dumps, and we ought to do it.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Clean

"Clean" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 69.74% of the time. "Clean" is used about 5,783 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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words		Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)69.74%4,0332,446
Lexical Verb (infinitive)19.04%1,1016,867
Lexical Verb (base form)10%57810,939
Adverb (general)1.17%6840,606
Noun (singular)0.03%2245,945
Unclassified Items0.02%1339,140
                    Total100.00%5,783N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Derived & Related Names: Clean

The following table summarizes names derived from the word "clean".
 
NameGenderLanguageMeaning
ZaccheusN/ABiblical

Clean

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

 

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Usage in Company Names: Clean

CountryName
USA

Clean Diesel Technologies, Inc.

 (more examples...)

Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.

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Expressions: Clean

Expressions using "clean": A clean bill of health ♦ A clean breach ♦ a clean sheet ♦ a clean slate ♦ a new broom sweeps clean ♦ be clean ♦ be sparkling clean ♦ clean again ♦ clean air ♦ clean air act ♦ Clean Air for Europe Programme ♦ clean and jerk ♦ clean and truss ♦ clean area ♦ clean as a whistle ♦ clean background ♦ clean bill of health ♦ clean bill of lading ♦ clean BL ♦ Clean breach ♦ clean cities program ♦ clean cities programme ♦ clean conditions area ♦ clean configuration ♦ clean copy ♦ clean down ♦ clean dry air ♦ clean fees ♦ clean from top to bottom ♦ clean gone ♦ Clean hands ♦ clean house ♦ clean living! ♦ clean off ♦ clean oneself ♦ clean oneself up ♦ clean out ♦ clean out trap ♦ clean record ♦ clean room ♦ clean shaven ♦ clean sheet ♦ clean slate ♦ clean smb. out ♦ clean smth. off smth. ♦ clean sweep ♦ clean the outside of the platter ♦ clean the shoes ♦ clean the slate ♦ clean timber ♦ clean up ♦ clean vacuum ♦ clean wood ♦ come clean ♦ come out of smth. with clean hands ♦ concurrent Clean ♦ dry clean ♦ Evans clean flow tunnel ♦ give a clean bill of health ♦ give smth. a good clean ♦ have a clean bill of health ♦ have a clean sheet ♦ have a clean slate ♦ i clean forgot ♦ keep one's nose clean ♦ keep one's record clean ♦ laminar flow clean room ♦ lick clean ♦ make a clean breast ♦ make a clean breast of ♦ make a clean breast of it ♦ make a clean copy ♦ make a clean sweep of ♦ make a clean sweep of smth. ♦ make clean ♦ mr clean ♦ pick clean ♦ rub clean ♦ scrape clean ♦ scrape one's plate clean ♦ show a clean pair of heels ♦ spotlessly clean ♦ spring clean ♦ steam clean ♦ sweep clean ♦ swept clean ♦ To clean out ♦ To make a clean breast ♦ vacuum clean ♦ very clean ♦ wipe clean ♦ with clean hands. Additional references.

Hyphenated Usage

Beginning with "clean": clean-again, clean-air, clean-boned, clean-bowled, clean-break, clean-bred, clean-burn, clean-burning, clean-catch, clean-consciousness, clean-cut, clean-cut features, clean-down, clean-edged, clean-fingered, clean-fluid, clean-fuel, clean-gas, clean-gleaming, clean-government, clean-handed, clean-handedness, clean-healing, clean-in-place, clean-it, Clean-limbed, clean-lined, clean-living, clean-looking, Clean-Me-Out, clean-mouthed, clean-nailed, Clean-off-zone, clean-out, clean-picked, clean-room, clean-scrubbed, clean-shaved, clean-shaven, clean-sheet, clean-sheeted, clean-sheets, clean-surface, clean-sweep, clean-swept, clean-tasting, Clean-timbered, clean-up, clean-up, clean-ups, clean-up-the-mess, clean-water, clean-xxxx.

Ending with "clean": easy-clean, easy-to-clean, self-clean, squeaky-clean, ultra-clean, wipe-clean.

Containing "clean": dry-clean-only.

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

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Clean

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		ExpressionFrequency
per Day

registry clean

2,685

clean room

138

clean

2,063

clean funny joke

135

clean joke

1,344

clean up my credit

129

clean water

513

clean humor

115

clean sweep

494

mr clean

113

clean credit free letter report sample up

402

clean blonde joke

112

queen of clean

367

registry clean xp

106

clean disk

356

oxi clean

106

oxy clean

241

50 cent clean club da in lyrics

105

clean hard drive

217

clean your computer

103

clean air

208

clean a house

102

clean credit

205

clean out system

97

clean up

193

orange clean

97

simple clean

188

clean imesh

96

clean air act

182

carpet clean

92

clean water act

180

power clean

87

clean harbor

177

clean window

86

norton clean sweep

173

clean fish how

82

clean clear

159

clean lyrics simple

76

anger clean edit lyrics metallica st

149

clean silver

75
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translation: Clean

Language Translations for "clean"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.

Afrikaans

  

skoonmaak (cleanse, make, make clean, purge), skoon (pure), suiwer (pure). (various references)

   

Albanian

  

krejt (absolutely, altogether, at all, complete, diametrically, fast, flat, out and out, plenty, quite, thorough-paced, up, very), dëlirë (pure), i dëlirë (candid, chaste, fair, Frank, innocent, pure), i ndershëm (clean-living, disinterested, fair, fair and square, fair dealing, guileless, honest, honorable, honourable, incorrupt, on the level, scrupulous, sportsmanlike, stainless, straightforward, whole-souled), i pandotur (unsoiled), i panjollë (immaculate, lily white, spotless, stainless, unblemished, unimpeachable, unspotted, unstained, unsullied), i papërdorur (unused, unutilized, waste), i papërlyer (chaste, immaculate), i paqmë (hearty, hefty), besnik (devout, faithful, loyal, true, true blue, true born), isentik, qëroj (blanch, clear, cut out, decorticate, dress, finger, Hull, mulct, pare, Peel, pick, pick off, pinch, poach, rind, scale, shell, waste, whip, zap), lëmoj (burnish, civilize, dub, even, finish, grind, pet, polish, smooth), larë (discharged, fleck), lustroj (buff, furbish, gloss, gloss over, levigate, polish, rub up, varnish, whitewash), pa banalitete, pastër (cleanly, pure, purely), pastërtor, pastrim (abrasion, abstersion, clarification, cleaning, cleanup, clearance, defecation, depuration, lustration, mopping, purge, purification, rectification, refinement, refining, scour, scouring, scrub, scrub up, sweep), pastrohem (depurate), pastroj (abrade, char, clarify, cleanse, clear up, defecate, depurate, deterge, eliminate, grub, gut, lustrate, pick, purge, rarefy, rectify, refine, scavenge, scour, scrub, sweep, try), i pastër (absolute, chaste, childlike, clean-handed, cleanly, clear, dapper, fair, innocent, neat, net, new, orderly, potty-trained, pure, refined, simon-pure, snug, spotless, sterling, tidy, trig, unadulterated, unblended, unimpeachable, unwritten, virgin, virginal, well groomed, white). (various references)

   

Arabic 

  

‏محب للنظافة, ‏مسح (extinguish, mop, mop up, mopping, polish, rub, scanning, scrub, sponge, survey, swab, sweep, wipe, wiping), ‏نظيف (cleanly, fair, immaculate, neat, sanitary, spotless, spruce, stainless, taut, tidy), ‏نظف كليا, ‏نظف (char, clean out, clear, clear away, do, mop, pan, purge, purify, rub, sanitize, scavenge, scour, scrub, swab, wash out), ‏قشيب (burnished, cute, polished), ‏سلبه ماله (clip, hustle, swindle, wrong), ‏على نحو نظيف (cleanly), ‏طاهر من وجهة النظر الدينية, ‏طاهر (chaste, clear, immaculate, innocent, inviolate, pure, saintly, spotless, unstained, virgin, virtuous, white), ‏خال من العوائق, ‏خال من الأوساخ, ‏إستهلك (clean out, consume, expend, go), ‏إستنفد (clean out, consume, deplete, exhaust), ‏رتب (arrange, collocate, construct, corral, dispose, do, form, hierarchy, lash up, line, marshal, ordain, order, pack, pigeonhole, plume, put in order, put things straight, range, rate, set, shape, sort, spruce up, stow, straighten, tidy, trim). (various references)

   

Asturian

  

llimpiar la casa (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Aymara

  

q'omachaña (to clean). (various references)

   

Basque

  

garbi (pure). (various references)

   

Bemba

  

ukuwamya inganda (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Blackfoot

  

ikkaahkaanistoto (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Bulgarian 

  

окончателен (categorical, definitive, determinate, eventual, final, irrevocable, last, net, peremptory), изтърквам (abrade, erase, fray, outwear, rub down, scrub, wear away), изцяло (all, altogether, en bloc, entirely, in full, neck and crop, outright, over, right, sheer, through, through and through, totally, tread and thrum, whole-hog, wholly), почистен (cleaned), почиствам (clean out, clean up, overcast, rake, refurbish, rumble, whip, wipe clean), почтен (hoary, honest, honorable, honorary, honourable, law abiding, loyal, orderly, reputable, respectable, right, savoury, upright, upstanding, worthy), право (authorization, claim, directly, due, fair, flush, jurisprudence, jus, law, perquisite, place, pretension, right, slap, smack, spang, straight, straightway, upright), без примес (fine, pure, self, unalloyed), добре сложен (clean-limbed, fine, shapely, upstanding, well knit, well-built, well-made, well-proportioned, well-set), напълно (absolutely, all, altogether, amply, completely, dead, entirely, every bit, fairly, fully, hollow, intimately, largely, out and out, outright, perfectly, quite, richly, sheer, spang, stark, stiff, thoroughly, through, throughly, to the full, to the letter, to the wide, totally, utterly, well, whole-hog, wholly, wide, without reserve), съвсем (all, altogether, clear, completely, directly, dooms, fairly, just, largely, most, plain, precious, quite, real, regularly, simply, sopping, spang, thoroughly, to the core, to the wide, totally, up, well, wholly, wide), очиствам (break, chastise, cleanse, clear, depurate, deterge, do in, flick, polish off, pop off, purge, purify, push off, remove, rid, rub out, wipe out), гладък (even, facile, flat, fluent, fluid, glace, level, lubricous, round, satiny, sleek, slick, smooth, unctuous, unruffled), точно (according to cocker, correctly, directly, exactly, expressly, just, justly, narrowly, nicely, on schedule, precise, prompt, right, sharp, spang, strictly, textually, true, truly, whang), чист (absolute, chaste, cleanly, clear, crisp, crystal, downright, fair, fine, fresh, heavenly, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, lucid, mere, native, natty, neat, net, orderly, oriental, pellucid, pristine, pure, rank, sanitary, self, sheer, simon-pure, soilless, solid, stainless, sterling, straight, sublime, sweet, taintless, trim, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblemished, unmixed, unpolluted, unsophisticated, unspotted, unstained, virgin, virginal, virtuous, white, white-handed), чистя (discard, dress, mop, pick, Slough, stone, unload), чистя се, разтребвам (clear up, do, pick up, put away, tidy), мия (bathe, do, lave, lick, mop, scour, wash, wash up). (various references)

   

Cebuano

  

maglimpyo sa balay (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Chamorro

  

para mana gasgas i gima (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Chinese 

  

絜 (marking line, pure, regulate), 潔 , 扢 (sprightful, to rub), 淨 (completely, only), 擦拭 (cleanse), 清潔 (purity), 干净, 乾淨 (neat), 凈 . (various references)

   

Cornish

  

glan (to clean). (various references)

   

Czech

  

prázdný (bare, blank, disused, empty, hollow, inane, light, meaningless, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, vapid, void, windy), èistit (cleanse, depurate, fine down, groom, scour, sweep), èistotný (house trained, neat), čistit, fér (fair), kartáèovat, mýt (wash), nadobro (for good), èistý (absolute, blank, clear, fine, neat, net, new, perfect, pure, stainless, straight, taintless, tidy, true, unalloyed, untainted, white), neproštípnutý, zcela (absolutely, all, completely, entirely, fully, quite, utterly, wholly), slušný (becoming, civilized, decent, equitable, fair, good, polite, presentable, proper, reasonable, respectable, seemly, white), uklidit (clean up, clear up, do, straighten, tidy), umytý, utřít (brush away, dry, mop up, rub clean, rub off, rub out, sponge, wipe dry), vyèistit (brush, clean out, do, scrub), vykuchat (cannibalize, disembowel, eviscerate, Gib), vypraný, nepopsaný (blank). (various references)

   

Danish

  

ren (pure), rense (cleanse, make clean, purge). (various references)

   

Dutch

  

schoon (beautiful, fair, fine, handsome, lovely, pure), rein (chaste, pure), puur (absolute, pure). (various references)

   

Ecuadorian Quechua

  

p'ichana (broom, to clean). (various references)

   

Esperanto

  

purigi (cleanse, make clean, purge), pura (pure). (various references)

   

Faeroese

  

reinur (cleanly cut, neat, net, precize, pure, serene, untroubled, virgin, virginal), reinsa (cleanse, make clean, purge, refine), gera reint (cleanse, make clean, purge). (various references)

   

Farsi 

  

پاکیزه (Brisk, Natty, Neat, Spruce, Sprucy, Tidy, Trim), پاک کردن (Absolve, Cleanse, Efface, Erase, Mop, Obliterate, Purge, Purify, Rub, Sancify, Scour, Scrape, Sublimate, Ventilate, Wash, Winnow, Wipe), پاک (Good, Kosher, Pure, Sheer, Stark), نظیف , تمیزکردن (Cleanse, Scavenge, Scrub, Wisp), تمیز (Dapper, Dinky, Neat, Prim, Pure, Scrubby), زدودن (Efface, Obliterate, Purge, Remove, Scour, Scrape, Shuck, Swab, Sweep, Wipe), عفیف (Chaste, Honest, Virgin, Virtuous), طاهر, درست کردن (Adapt, Address, Agree, Build, Compose, Concoct, Devise, Emend, Fix, Gully, Integrate, Make, Mend, Organize, Redd, Regulate, Right, Straighten, Trim, Weave). (various references)

   

Finnish

  

puhdas (pure). (various references)

   

French

  

pur (clear), propre (cleanliness, cleanly), ramoner (cleanse, clear, climb), purifier (cleanse, make clean), net (cleanly cut, clear). (various references)

   

Frisian

  

suwer (pure), suverje (cleanse, make clean, purge), skjin (pure). (various references)

   

German

  

sauber (accurate, choice, clean-cut, cleanly, crisp, fair, fresh, honest, housebroken, neat, neatly, nice, pretty, pure, ready, tidy, trig, trim, unpolluted, unsoiled, upstanding), rein (absolutely, chaste, chastely, cleanly, clear, genuine, honest, immaculate, immaculately, mere, outright, perfect, plain, pure, purely, rank, raw, refined, sheer, sheerly, stark, straight, sweet, true, unadulterated, unalloyed, uncorrupt, undefiled, undiluted, unvarnished, virgin, virginal). (various references)

   

Greek 

  

καθαρός (aboveboard, clear, sheer, utter), καθαρίζω (absterge, clarify, cleanse, clear, clear out, clear up, defecate, finish up, flux, furbish, net, peel, purge, purify, rarefy, scavenge, scour, wash away). (various references)

   

Hawaiian

  

pastër (pure), dëlirë (pure). (various references)

   

Hebrew 

  

מרוחץ (washed), לגמרי (altogether, completely, downright, entirely, fully, neck and crop, out and out, over, quite, right, thoroughly, to the wide, totally, up to the hilt, utterly, wholly), לנקות (acquit, cleanse, exculpate, exonerate), נקי (clear, free, innocent, pure). (various references)

   

Hungarian

  

tisztít (beautify, clarify, cleanse, launder, make clean, purge, purify, to brighten, to clarify, to clean, to cleanse, to defecate, to elutriate, to fine down, to flush, to groom, to hull, to launder, to polish, to prick, to refine, to scrub, to shine, to top and tail), tiszta (blank, by the merest chance, chaste, clear, distinct, fine, franchised, hygienic, legible, light, limpid, neat, net, open and shut, pellucid, perspicuous, platonic, proof spirit, pure, saintly, sheer, sinless, sky clear, tabula rasa, transparent). (various references)

   

Icelandic

  

hreinsa (cleanse, make clean, purge), hreinn (pure). (various references)

   

Indonesian

  

ceria (cheerful, cleaned, clodless, pure), mensucikan (disinfect, purify, sanctify), bersih, beres (finished, in order, settled, tidy). (various references)

   

Inuktitut

  

salummaqsailuni (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Irish

  

glan (pure). (various references)

   

Italian

  

puro (absolute, chaste, clear, dignified, maiden, maidenly, mere, neat, pristine, pure, sheer, sinless, sterling), pulire (bream, cleanse, make, make clean, mop, pick, purge, scavenge, scrub, sweep, wash, wipe), smacchiare (remove spots, remove stains), pulito (cleaned, cleanly, clear, honest, housebroken, neat, pure, tidy, undefiled), netto (clear, clear-cut, definite, emphatic, flat, neat, net, sharp, sleek, smooth, unruffled), lindo (neat, spick and span, tidy, trig, unsoiled). (various references)

   

Japanese Kanji 

  

綺麗 (beautiful, fair, nice, pretty, tidy), 清潔　, 清潔 , 清浄　 (pure), 清浄 (pure, purity), 清らか (chaste, pure), させ子 (candid, feeling refreshed, feeling relieved, frank, fresh, have no inkling of, neat, now, quickly, relief, some time ago, suddenly, then, trimmed, well, whore), 奇麗 (beautiful, fair, nice, pretty, tidy), クリーム色 (Christian, Christian Dior, Christian name, Christian Science Monitor, Christiania, Christmas, Christmas cake, Christmas card, Christmas carol, Christmas concert, Christmas Eve, Christmas present, Christmas tree, clean energy, clean float, clean heater, clean hit, clean rice, clean room, clean up, cleanup trio, clear, clear lacquer, clearance, clearance sale, cleaver, click, clinic, clinometer, clip, clipper, clipping, clitoris, cream, create, creation, creative, creative agency, creative group, creativity, creator, creole, cricket, crinoline, critic, critical, criticism, critique, crystal, crystal glass, EDTV, Extended Definition Television, Kripke, Kristiania, vented heater). (various references)

   

Japanese Katakana 

  

きれい (beautiful, fair, nice, pretty, tidy), しょうじょう (condition, heaven and earth, heavy drinker, Hinayana, honorable certificate, letter of invitation, market conditions, orangutan, pure, purity, symptoms), きよらか (chaste, pure), さっぱりした (frank, fresh), せいけつ, せいじょう (characteristics, disposition, nature, normal, normalcy, normality, political affairs, political situation, pure, purity, the emperor), クリーン . (various references)

   

Kongo

  

ku-sukula nzo (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Korean 

  

청결한. (various references)

   

Macedonian

  

da ja ischisti kukata (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Malay

  

membersihkan (cleanse, make clean, purge), bersih (pure). (various references)

   

Manx

  

glenney (act of vindication, chip, clarification, clarification honey, clarify, cleaner, 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), glen (chaste, clear, clearcut, cloudless, downright, emphatic, fair, flat, flat of refusal, fresh-coloured, hygienic, liquidate, nett, peremptory, pure, sheer, to a T, unclouded, unclouded of vision, undefiled), dy bollagh (absolutely, point-blank, quite, thoroughly, wholly). (various references)

   

Norwegian

  

ren (pure). (various references)

   

Occitan

  

netejar, net. (various references)

   

Papago

  

kegchuth (to clean). (various references)

   

Papiamen

  

puru (pure), puro (pure), purifiká (cleanse, make clean, purge), limpia (cleanse, have sex, make clean, purge, screw), limpi (pure). (various references)

   

Pig Latin

  

eanclay.(various references)

   

Polish

  

czysty (pure), czyścić (cleanse, make clean, purge). (various references)

   

Portuguese

  

limpo (clean-handed, cleanly, cleanly cut, cloudless, neat, net, orderly, precise, sanitary, spotless, spruce, straight, tidy, trim, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, well-done), limpar (bream, brush, cleanse, delete, depurate, fettle, furbish, make clean, mop up, purge, purify, rake, rub, rub down, rub out, scavenge, scour, unstop, wash, wipe, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), puro (absolute, chaste, clean-fingered, crisp, fresh, genuine, immaculate, incorrupt, innocent, naked, neat, plumb, pure, self, sheer, sinless, snow, snowy, soilless, spotless, stainless, sweet, taintless, true, unalloyed, unblemished, unblended, unspotted, unstained, unsullied, unworldly, virgin, virtuous), purificar (chasten, clarify, cleanse, defecate, depurate, distil, distill, elutriate, fine, purge, purify, rarefy, reconcile, rectify, refine, scrub, sweeten, wash). (various references)

   

Provencal

  

netejar (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Romanian

  

câştiga (acquire, bear away, bear off, carry, carry off, come by, conciliate, conquer, convert, draw the winner, earn, find, gain, gain smb. over, make, obtain, overcome, purchase, score, steal, sweep, take the cake, win), curat (absolute, bald, blank, cleanly, clear, clearly, fair, faultless, fine, fresh, genuine, honest, immaculate, neat, orderly, Plumb, pristine, pure, raw, sheer, simple, sincere, snowy, snug, stainless, stark, straight, tidy, white), curåţa (cleanse, make clean, purge), curãţi (still), curãţenie (chastity, clarity, cleaning, cleanliness, cleanness, clearness, fairness, immaculacy, modesty, purity), curãţa de bani, clar (apparent, apparently, articulate, banner, bright, broad, clear, clear-cut, clearly, comprehensible, decided, definite, distinct, distinctly, evident, explicit, express, fair, flat, formal, Frank, incisive, legible, level headed, lightsome, limpid, lucid, luminous, manifest, marked, obvious, obviously, palpable, patently, pellucid, perspicuous, plain, plainly, precise, pure, serene, simple, sound, tangible, terse, unequivocal, unmistakable), curãţa (brush, brush up, burnish, cleanse, clear, demolish, do, dredge, dress, dust, furbish, Gill, grub, mop, mop up, pick, purge, purify, refine, rid, rinse, scavenge, scoop, scour, scrub, skin, trim, wash, wipe), fãrã corecturi, bine proporţionat (shapely), îndepãrta (avert, carry off, cast, chase away, clear, cut out, discard, dismiss, drive away, eliminate, estrange, fence off, lay, move away, remove, retire, ward off, withdraw), bine fãcut (bonny, good, handsome, well favored, well-favoured), şterge (abrade, annex, annihilate, annul, blot out, bunk, cancel, cop, crib, decamp, deface, delete, dim, do a bunk, dry, dull, efface, erase, expunge, filch, guy, make away, make off, mop, obliterate, pack off, pack one's traps, pop off, quit, raze, remove, scratch, shrink away, strike out, sweep, vanish, wipe), alb (blank, Hoar, hoary, pale face, unstained, white), abil (adroit, apt, artful, artistic, artistical, astute, clever, competent, crafty, cunning, deep, deft, dexterous, fit, handy, industrious, knowing, natty, qualified, ready, resourceful, sharp, shifty, skilful, skilfully, skilled, skillful, skillfully, sly, smart, subtle, swift-handed, versatile), îngrijit (accurate, accurately, beautiful, careful, correct, groomed, neat, neatly, orderly, prim, tidy, trim, well groomed), inocent (guileless, guiltless, harmless, ingenuous, innocent, sackless, unoffending, virgin), spãla (bathe, fade, flush, irrigate, launder, lave, mop, mop up, pan, slush, stream, sweep, wash, wash up), purifica (chasten, clarify, cleanse, defecate, make clean, purge, purify, rectify, sanctify, still, sublimate), pur (absolute, chaste, clear, fine, genuine, immaculate, mere, modest, pure, sheer, simple, stainless, unmixed, virginal, white), nescris (blank, unwritten), neamestecat (neat, pure, purely, unmixed), lustrui (brighten, brush up, burnish, furbish, glass, glaze, gloss, polish, polish up, rub up, shine, sleek, surface), degresa (degrease, scour), iscusit (able, adroit, apt, argute, clever, cute, daedal, deft, ingenious, learned, ready, sharp-sighted, skilful, skilled, skillful, workmanlike), dereticat, imun (immune), goli (clear, deplenish, deplete, drain, empty, evacuate, exhaust, let out, relax, shoot, void), frumos (artistic, artistical, beautiful, beautifully, bonny, brave, calm, canny, catchy, choice, delicate, enjoyable, fair, fine, flowing, gay, generous, good, good looking, goodly, greatly, handsome, handsomely, lovely, merry, mild, neat, nice, nicely, personable, pretty, proper, settled, shapely, slowly, specious, well favored, well-favoured, well-featured), face curat (cleanse, make clean, purge), fãrã defecte, spãlat (ablution, lavation, tidy, wash, washed, washing), lizibil (legible, plain, readable). (various references)

   

Romansch

  

nettegiar (to clean). (various references)

   

Romany

  

hoozharàv (to clean). (various references)

   

Ruanda

  

guhanagura inzu (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Russian 

  

чистый (bare, clear, crystal, fresh, maiden, native, net, pristine, pure, royal blue, unalloyed, unblended). (various references)

   

Samoan

  

e faamama le fale (to clean the house). (various references)

   

Scottish

  

glan (clean-limbed, cleanse, pure, purify, wipe clean). (various references)

   

Sepedi

  

hlwekiaa (to clean). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

sasvim (all over, all: at all, completely, dead, entirely, fairly, lock up stock and barrel, plunk, quite, sheer, span-new, stark, stinking, throughout, totally, utterly, well, well nigh, whole, wholly, wide), prazan (blank, cored, empty, idle, inane, leer, unoccupied, vacant, vacuous, void), prati (wash), očistiti (clean off, cleanse, clear, do away, expurgate, purge, scavenge, scour, shine, swab), čisto (cleanly), čistiti (police), čist (clear, fine, fresh, limpid, mere, neat, net, plain, pure, sheer, spotless, tidy, unadulterated, unmixed, unspotted). (various references)

   

Shona

  

-chena (to clean, white). (various references)

   

Sicilian

  

puliri (to clean). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

limpio (chaste, cleanly, clear, fair, fairly, Frank, fresh, incautious, net, over the counter, pure, taintless, tidy, transparent, unpolluted), limpiar (black, char, clean down, clean out, clean up, cleanse, clear, clear out, debug, delete, do, dredge, dust, efface, Frank, knock off, live down, make clean, manicure, mop, mop up, police, polish, purge, rub up, scavenge, scour, scrape, shine, swab, swob, tidy, tidy out, tidy up, turn out, wash, wipe, wipe down, wipe off, wipe out, wipe up), mondar (beat, pare, Peel, prune). (various references)

   

Sranan

  

krin (cleanse, make clean, pure, purge). (various references)

   

Swahili

  

safi (pure). (various references)

   

Swazi

  

kú-hlanta (to clean), kú-cubha (to clean one's teeth). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

rensa (cleanse, clear, draw, dress, eviscerate, gut, Hull, make clean, pick, pick over, purge, sanitize, scour, shell, weed), rengöra (brush, cleanse, depurate, deterge, make clean, purge, scavenge), ren (already, bare, blank, border, brim, brink, by now, chaste, classic, clear, ditch-bank, edge, edging, fine, fringe, headland, immaculate, mere, outright, Plumb, pristine, pure, rand, reindeer, riendeer, rim, sanitary, sheer, simple, straight, unadulterated, unalloyed, undiluted, unpolluted, unsullied, verge, very, white, yet), rena (cleanse, defecate, depurate, fine, make clean, purge, purify, refine), putsa (furbish, grout, plaster, preen, shine, trim). (various references)

   

Tagalog

  

wagás (pure), malinis (pure), dalisay (pure). (various references)

   

Thai

  

เตรียม (ปลา) สำหรับทำอาหาร, บริสุทธิ์ (immaculate, lily, pure, purify), สะอาด (cleanly), ทำให้ว่างเปล่า, ทำความสะอาด (muck out, swob), ที่ไม่มีอาวุธ, อย่างสะอาดเอี่ยม, อย่างสมบูรณ์ (pure, thoroughly), ยุติธรรม (equitable, even-handed, fair, honest, impartial, just, rightful). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

saf (absolute, all, artless, candid, clear, country bumpkin, credulous, deceivable, dewy-eyed, distilled, dupe, elemental, elementary, entire, facile, fine, genuine, greenhorn, gudgeon, guileless, gull, gullible, harmless, homespun, honest, immaculate, ingenuous, innocent, juggins, mere, naïve, pigeon, pristine, pure, pure-minded, rank, raw, real, refined, simple, simple minded, simple simon, simple-hearted, sterling, unadulterated, unalloyed, unblended, uncontaminated, undiluted, unmixed, unsophisticated, unsuspicious, untutored, unworldly, witless). (various references)

   

Turkmen 

  

tдmiz (pure), taraюlamak (cleanse, polish), pдkize, pдk (clear, pure), arassalama, arassa. (various references)

   

Ukrainian

  

свіжий (breezy, brisk, caller, crisp, fresh, green, new, new-laid, original, racy, sweet), чистити (brighten, burnish, clean down, cleanse, flay, furbish, scour, scrub, stem), чистий (absolute, austere, blank, bright, chaste, childlike, cleanly, clear, crystal, immaculate, native, neat, net, pristine, pure, silvery, spotless, unadulterated, unalloyed, unsophisticated, virginal, white), цілком (absolutely, all, all in all, all of, all out, altogether, at all, bodily, broad, clear, completely, duly, en bloc, entirely, fairly, full, fully, hollow, nicely, outright, perfectly, pure, purely, quite, richly, soundly, thoroughly, well, wholly), охайний (cleanly, deft, natty, neat, orderly, shipshape, smart, smug, spiffed, tidy), очищати (alcoholize, chasten, clarify, cleanse, clear, defecate, depurate, deterge, fine, outwash, purge, purify, rarefy, rectify, refine, scale, weed), обробляти начисто, начисто, без домішок (net), прямо (above board, avowedly, baldly, bang, barely, broadly, direct, directly, flush, forthright, outright, outspokenly, plainly, plump, point blank, roundly, straight, through, upright), просто (artlessly, bang, merely, simply), промивати (backwash, bathe, douche, scour, sluice, wash), полірувати (buff, burnish, furbish, levigate, polish), доброчесний (celestial, moral, righteous, virtuous, well doing). (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sạch sẽ (tidy, unsoiled), sạch (cleanly, soilless, unsoiled, white), sự rửa sạch, sự quét sạch, sự lau sạch, không có mấu; không nham nhở cân đối, hoàn toàn (all, all right, all-in-all, altogether, backbone, completely, consummate, due, full, fully, heartily, hilt, hollow, inch, out-and-out, outright, perfectly, profound, purely, quite, regular, sheer, stark, thorough, thoroughly, undivided, utter, utterly, wholly), hẳn sạch, đẹp nhanh. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

syber (decent, sober, tidy), glân (pure), gla+n (beautiful, fair, holy). (various references)

   

Yucatec

  

sak (blank, pure, white), hanil (clear, distinct, obvious, plain, pure). (various references)

   

Zulu

  

-hlanzekileyo (pure). (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Clean

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

1. ita, dag, sikil, susbu, za-gin. (various references)

Latin500 BCE-Modern

abluo, absterget, abstersit, castus, extergent, extergere, extergimus, exterserit, extersit, munda, mundaberis, mundabimini, mundabis, mundabisque, mundabit, mundabitur, mundabo, mundabor, mundabunt, mundae, mundam, mundamini, mundandus, mundans, mundantes, mundantur, mundare, mundarentur, mundaret, mundari, mundas, mundata, mundatam, mundate, mundati, mundatio, mundatione, mundatis, mundatum, mundatur, mundatus, mundaveram, mundavero, mundaverunt, mundavi, mundavit, mundavitque, mundemus, mundent, munder, mundi, mundis, mundissima, mundissimae, mundissimis, mundissimo, mundo, mundos, mundum, mundus, permundabit, pura, puram, puras, pure, purgare, purior, purissimam, purissimas, purissimi, purissimo, purissimum, puritatem, puro, purum, purus, putus, sincera, sinceram, sinceriter, tergebat, tergeo tergo tersi tersum, tergo, tersus, thersa. (various references)

Old French900-1400

net. (various references)

French1500-Modern

ters. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Bible Trace: Clean

LanguageDateSourceMatthew Chapter 8, Verse 3
Greek (transliterated)250 BCSeptuagintKai ekteinaV thn ceira hyato autou o ihsouV legwn qelw kaqarisqhti kai euqewV ekaqarisqh autou h lepra
Latin405VulgateEt extendens manum tetigit eum Iesus dicens volo mundare et confestim mundata est lepra eius
Old English990West SaxonÐa astrehte se hælend his hand. & repede hine. & þus cwæð. Ic wille. beo ge-clænsed.& hys hreofla wæs rædlice ge-claensed.
Middle English1395WyclifAnd Jhesus helde forth the hoond, and touchide hym, and seide, Y wole, be thou maad cleene. And anoon the lepre of him was clensid.
Renaissance English1526TyndaleAnd Iesus put forthe hys hond and touched hym sayinge: I wyll be thou clene and immediatly hys leprosie was clensed.
Jacobean English1611King JamesAnd Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Victorian English1833WebsterAnd Jesus put forth his hand, and touched him, saying, I will; be thou clean. And immediately his leprosy was cleansed.
Basic English1964OgdenAnd he put his hand on him, saying, It is my pleasure; be clean. And straight away he was made clean.

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

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Matched Bible Translations: Clean

LanguageMatthew Chapter 8, Verse 3
CebuanoUg mituyhad si Jesus sa kamot, ug siya gitapin-an niya nga nag-ingon, "Buot ako; magmahinlo ka." Ug dihadiha nahinloan siya sa iyang sanla.
CroatianIsus pruži ruku i dotakne ga se govoreæi: "Hoæu, oèisti se!" I odmah se oèisti od gube.
DanishOg han udrakte Hånden, rørte ved ham og sagde: "Jeg vil; bliv ren!" Og straks blev han renset for sin Spedalskhed
DutchEn Jezus, de hand uitstrekkende, heeft hem aangeraakt, zeggende: Ik wil, word gereinigd! En terstond werd hij van zijn melaatsheid gereinigd.
FinnishNiin hän ojensi kätensä, kosketti häntä ja sanoi: "Minä tahdon; puhdistu". Ja kohta hän puhdistui pitalistaan.
FrenchJésus étendit la main, le toucha, et dit: Je le veux, sois pur. Aussitôt il fut purifié de sa lèpre.
GermanUnd Jesus streckte seine Hand aus, rührte ihn an und sprach: Ich will's tun; sei gereinigt! Und alsbald ward er vom Aussatz rein.
Haitian CreoleJezi lonje men l', li manyen nonm lan, li di l': Wi, mwen vle. Se pou ou geri. Menm lè a, lalèp la kite li.
HungarianÉs kinyújtván kezét, megilleté õt Jézus, mondván: Akarom, tisztulj meg. És azonnal eltisztult annak poklossága.
Indonesian-Bahasa Sehari-hariYesus menjamah orang itu sambil berkata, "Aku mau. Sembuhlah!" Saat itu juga penyakitnya hilang.
Indonesian-Terjemahan LamaLalu Yesus mengulurkan tangan-Nya serta menjamah dia, kata-Nya, "Aku kehendaki, tahirlah engkau!" Maka seketika itu juga bala zaraatnya pun lenyaplah.
Manx GaelicAs heeyn Yeesey magh e laue, as venn eh rish, gra, My aigney's eh, bee er dty ghlenney. As chelleeragh va'n louraanys echey er ny ghlenney.
MaoriA ka totoro te ringa o Ihu, ka pa ki a ia, ka mea, E pai ana ahau; kia ma koe. A ma tonu iho tona repera.
NorwegianOg han rakte hånden ut, rørte ved ham og sa: Jeg vil; bli ren! Og straks blev han renset for sin spedalskhet.
PortugueseJesus, pois, estendendo a mão, tocou-o, dizendo: Quero; sê limpo. No mesmo instante ficou purificado da sua lepra.   
RumanianIsus a kntins mkna, S`a atins de el, wi a zis: ,,Da, vreau, fii curqyit!`` Kndatq a fost curqyitq lepra lui.
ShuarTutai Jesus uwejéjai antin "Wakerajai. Pénker ajasta" Tímiayi. Tutai tunamaru ni tunamarmari pénker ajasmiayi.
SwahiliYesu akanyosha mkono wake, akamgusa na kusema, "Nataka! Takasika." Mara huyo mtu akapona ukoma wake.
SwedishDå räckte han ut handen och rörde vid honom och sade: "Jag vill; bliv ren." Och strax blev han ren från sin spetälska.
UmaYesus mpojama-i, pai' na'uli' -ki: "Ma'ala moto. Kupaka'uri' -moko!" Hampinisi mata mo'uri' -imi, uma-pi ria haki' -na.

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

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Derivations & Misspellings: Clean

Derivations

Words beginning with "clean": cleanabilities, cleanability, cleanable, cleaned, cleaner, cleaners, cleanest, cleanhanded, cleaning, cleanlier, cleanliest, cleanliness, cleanlinesses, cleanly, cleanness, cleannesses, cleans, cleanse, cleansed, cleanser, cleansers, cleanses, cleansing, cleanup, cleanups. (additional references)

Words ending with "clean": bioclean, houseclean, overclean, preclean, reclean, superclean, ultraclean, unclean. (additional references)

Words containing "clean": housecleaned, housecleaning, housecleanings, housecleans, overcleaned, overcleaning, overcleans, precleaned, precleaning, precleans, recleaned, recleaning, recleans, uncleaned, uncleaner, uncleanest, uncleanliness, uncleanlinesses, uncleanly, uncleanness, uncleannesses. (additional references)


Misspellings

"Clean" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: blean, Calan, Calea, calen, cean, Ceann, cearn, ceen, celam, Celan, celane, Celena, Celeno, Cellan, Celyn, cena, claeg, claehan, clain, clane, clann, clarn, clea, clead, cleaf, cleak, cleane, cleani, Cleanth, cleen, clei, clen, cleon, clewn, Cleyn, clia, clirn, cloin, clona, Cloran, cluen, clwan, Clwyn, colea, crean, culzean, elcan, flean, Klean, kleen, lan. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Rhyming with "Clean"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "clean" (pronounced klē"n)
4k l ē" nunclean.
3-l ē" nbaleen, colleen, glean, lean, lien, Moline, propylene, saline, spleen, trampoline.

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

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Anagrams: Clean

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

Direct Anagrams: lance.

Words within the letters "a-c-e-l-n"

-1 letter: acne, alec, cane, clan, elan, lace, lane, lean.

-2 letters: ace, ale, ane, can, cel, lac, lea, nae.

-3 letters: ae, al, an, el, en, la, na, ne.

 Words containing the letters "a-c-e-l-n"
 

+1 letter: anlace, cancel, candle, cannel, cantle, cental, cleans, cuneal, enlace, glance, inlace, lacune, lanced, lancer, lances, lancet, launce, unlace.

 

+2 letters: alencon, angelic, anglice, anlaces, balance, blacken, calcine, calends, calzone, canaled, cancels, candela, candled, candler, candles, canella, cannels, cantles, canulae, capelan, capelin, carline, cauline, celadon, cenacle, censual, centals, central, chalone, chancel, channel, charnel, clanged, clanger, clanked, cleaned, cleaner, cleanly, cleanse, cleanup, conceal, congeal, corneal, crankle, decanal, encinal, enclasp, enclave, enlaced, enlaces, galenic, glanced, glancer, glances, inlaced, inlaces, lactean, lactone, lacunae, lacunes, lancers, lancets, larceny, latency, launces, lucarne, lyncean, manacle, melanic, nacelle, nucleal, nuclear, panicle, pelican, planche, reclean, sanicle, scalene, scaleni, slacken, spancel, unclean, unclear, unlaced, unlaces, valance, valence, valency.

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

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INDEX

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: Familiar
11. Quotations: Fiction
12. Quotations: Non-fiction 		13. Quotations: Spoken
14. Quotations: Speeches
15. Usage Frequency
16. Names: Derived from 		17. Names: Company Usage
18. Expressions
19. Expressions: Internet
20. Translations: Modern 		21. Translations: Ancient
22. Bible Trace
23. Abbreviations
24. Acronyms 		25. Derivations
26. Rhymes
27. Anagrams
28. Bibliography


  

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