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cleanly — Everyday, meaning 1: Cleanly means in a neat, smooth way, with one quick even cut or break and no mess.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cleanly means in a clean way, without making things dirty.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: In sport, cleanly means fairly and well, without a foul or a fumble.↗ Example: The sharp scissors cut the paper cleanly.↗ · The branch snapped cleanly in two.↗ · The keeper caught the ball cleanly.↗ · Gas burns more cleanly than coal.↗ · He won the race cleanly, without pushing anyone.↗ · The vet said the bone had broken cleanly and would heal well.↗ · Wipe the knife so it slices the cake cleanly.↗ · Karen herself was dressed very neatly and cleanly; she was taught to read and to sew, and people said that she was pretty.↗

cleanness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: The state of being clean, pure or free from guilt.↗ Example: Therefore hath the LORD recompensed me according to my righteousness, according to my cleanness in His eyes.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.25, JPS 1917)↗ · He delivereth him that is innocent, yea, thou shalt be delivered through the cleanness of thy hands.↗ (Writings JOB.22.30, JPS 1917)↗ · The LORD rewarded me according to my righteousness; according to the cleanness of my hands hath He recompensed me.↗ (Prophets 2SA.22.21, JPS 1917)↗

cleanse — Everyday, meaning 1: To clean something thoroughly, especially skin or a wound: «Cleanse the cut with water.».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To make someone or something pure, free from sin or guilt (church, Bible): «Cleanse me from my sin.».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: To remove harmful or unwanted things: «cleanse the air».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (history) «Ethnic cleansing» means driving out or killing a whole group of people because of who they are — a terrible crime.↗ Example: Cleanse the scratch with clean water before putting on a plaster.↗ · Mum uses a face cleanser every night.↗ · «Wash me and cleanse me from my sin,» says the psalm.↗ · The rain seemed to cleanse the dusty city.↗ · The nurse cleansed the wound carefully.↗ · Christians believe that God's forgiveness cleanses the heart.↗ · Then the hall was cleansed and the banquet recommenced.↗ · 'Take the Levites from among the children of Israel, and cleanse them.↗ (Torah NUM.8.6, JPS 1917)↗ · And he shall take to cleanse the house two birds, and cedar-wood, and scarlet, and hyssop.↗ (Torah LEV.14.49, JPS 1917)↗ · But if she be cleansed of her issue, then she shall number to herself seven days, and after that she shall be clean.↗ (Torah LEV.15.28, JPS 1917)↗ · Thus shall they cleanse the land.↗ (Prophets EZK.39.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin.↗ (Writings PSA.51.4, JPS 1917)↗ · And after he is cleansed, they shall reckon unto him seven days.↗ (Prophets EZK.44.26, JPS 1917)↗

cleansing — Everyday, meaning 1: Making something very clean, especially skin or a wound: cleansing a cut.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) Used for cleaning: cleansing wipes, cleansing lotion.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (formal) Getting rid of something bad or unwanted, including feelings: a cleansing cry.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (euphemism) Ethnic cleansing: a horrible crime where people are forced out or killed because of their group.↗ Example: Start by cleansing the cut with clean water.↗ · Mum uses a cleansing lotion on her face.↗ · The nurse was cleansing the wound before putting on a plaster.↗ · Fresh air felt cleansing after the stuffy classroom.↗ · (euphemism) Ethnic cleansing is a crime against humanity, though the words sound clean.↗ · Cleansing wipes are handy on a camping trip.↗ · But cleansing his feathers as often as he would, he could not change their color, while through want of food he perished.↗ · But if the scall spread abroad in the skin after his cleansing, (Torah LEV.13.35, JPS 1917)↗ · This shall be the law of the leper in the day of his cleansing: he shall be brought unto the priest.↗ (Torah LEV.14.2, JPS 1917)↗ · This is the law of him in whom is the plague of leprosy, whose means suffice not for that which pertaineth to his cleansing.↗ (Torah LEV.14.32, JPS 1917)↗ · And as for thy nativity, in the day thou wast born thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water for cleansing; thou was not salted at all, nor swaddled at all.↗ (Prophets EZK.16.4, JPS 1917)↗

clear — Everyday, meaning 1: Easy to understand, see or hear: clear instructions, a clear voice.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: See-through, like clean water or glass: transparent.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Without clouds or rain: a clear sky.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: Without anything in the way: a clear road.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: Certain, with no doubt: «It's clear that he's tired».↗ Everyday, meaning 6: Verb: to remove things from a place: clear the table.↗ Everyday, meaning 7: Verb: of weather: to become bright: «It cleared up».↗ Example: The water in the lake was so clear we could see fish.↗ · Is that clear?↗ · The sky is clear tonight, so we can see the stars.↗ · Please clear the table after dinner.↗ · Keep clear of the train doors.↗ · Look both ways and cross when the road is clear.↗ · It cleared up in the afternoon.↗ · Glass is a clear material — light goes through it.↗ · Little by little the sky cleared.↗ · And the man shall be clear from iniquity, and that woman shall bear her iniquity.↗ (Torah NUM.5.31, JPS 1917)↗ · And if the woman be not defiled, but be clean; then she shall be cleared, and shall conceive seed.↗ (Torah NUM.5.28, JPS 1917)↗ · And Judah said: 'What shall we say unto my lord? what shall we speak? or how shall we clear ourselves?↗ (Torah GEN.44.16, JPS 1917)↗ · Clear Thou me from hidden faults.↗ (Writings PSA.19.13, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst clear a place before it, and it took deep root, and filled the land.↗ (Writings PSA.80.10, JPS 1917)↗ · And thy life shall be clearer than the noonday; though there be darkness, it shall be as the morning.↗ (Writings JOB.11.17, JPS 1917)↗

clearance — Everyday, meaning 1: The act of clearing something away, like clearing land or rubbish.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Official permission to do something, such as security clearance or clearance for a plane to land.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: The amount of space between two things, like the height under a bridge.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: A clearance sale: a sale with low prices to sell old stock.↗ Everyday, meaning 5: (football, rugby) Kicking or heading the ball away from your goal.↗ Example: The bridge has a clearance of 3.5 metres, so the lorry can't fit.↗ · I bought shoes in the clearance sale.↗ · The pilot waited for clearance to land.↗ · The defender made a great clearance off the line.↗ · The Highland Clearances forced families from their homes.↗ · The council did a clearance of the old rubbish.↗

clearing — Everyday, meaning 1: A clearing is an open space in a wood or forest where there are no trees.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clearing is the -ing form of the verb «clear»: taking things away so a place is empty, tidy or open (clearing the table, clearing snow).↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Clearing also describes weather getting brighter as clouds go away.↗ Example: The deer stood in a clearing in the forest.↗ · We put up our tent in a small clearing.↗ · Sunlight shone into the clearing.↗ · I am clearing the table after dinner.↗ · The workers are clearing snow from the road.↗ · The sky is clearing, so we can go outside.↗ · The children were clearing away the paints.↗ · Now they reached a clearing in the forest and there stood a statue.↗

clearly — Everyday, meaning 1: Clearly means in a way that is easy to see, hear or understand: «Speak clearly».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Clearly means obviously, without doubt: «She was clearly upset».↗ Example: Please speak clearly so we can hear you.↗ · Write your name clearly at the top.↗ · The path is clearly marked with signs.↗ · Clearly, it was going to rain.↗ · With glasses she can see clearly.↗ · Explain your answer clearly.↗ · He was clearly tired after the trip.↗ · Say your address clearly when you call for help.↗ · Clearly her husband must be bewitched.↗ · And when thou preparest a bullock for a burnt-offering, or for a sacrifice, in fulfilment of a vow clearly uttered, or for peace-offerings unto the LORD; (Torah NUM.15.8, JPS 1917)↗ · Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When a man shall clearly utter a vow of persons unto the LORD, according to thy valuation, (Torah LEV.27.2, JPS 1917)↗ · Speak unto the children of Israel, and say unto them: When either man or woman shall clearly utter a vow, the vow of a Nazirite, to consecrate himself unto the LORD, (Torah NUM.6.2, JPS 1917)↗

clearness — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: the quality of being clear or see-through.↗ Example: and they saw the God of Israel; and there was under His feet the like of a paved work of sapphire stone, and the like of the very heaven for clearness.↗ (Torah EXO.24.10, JPS 1917)↗

cleat — Everyday, meaning 1: A cleat is one of the hard studs on the bottom of sports shoes that stop you slipping on grass.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Cleats (US, Canada) are sports shoes with these studs, such as football or soccer boots.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A cleat is a T-shaped piece of metal or wood on a boat or dock that you tie a rope around.↗ Example: Put on your cleats before soccer practice.↗ · My cleats are covered in mud.↗ · The cleats help me run on wet grass.↗ · Take your cleats off before you come inside.↗ · Baseball cleats have metal or plastic studs.↗ · The sailor tied the rope to a cleat on the dock.↗ · My new cleats are a size bigger.↗ · You can't wear cleats on the gym floor.↗

cleave — Everyday, meaning 1: (old use) To split or cut right through something with a heavy blow: cleave the wood with an axe.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To stick firmly to something: cleave to the truth.↗ Example: The knight cried, «Cleave him to the brisket!»↗ · The axe cleaved the log in two.↗ · In old tales the hero could cleave a rock with one blow.↗ · But ye that did cleave unto the LORD your God are alive every one of you this day.↗ (Torah DEU.4.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Therefore shall a man leave his father and his mother, and shall cleave unto his wife, and they shall be one flesh.↗ (Torah GEN.2.24, JPS 1917)↗ · And his soul did cleave unto Dinah the daughter of Jacob, and he loved the damsel, and spoke comfortingly unto the damsel.↗ (Torah GEN.34.3, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou dost cleave the earth with rivers.↗ (Prophets HAB.3.9, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou didst cleave fountain and brook; Thou driedst up ever-flowing rivers.↗ (Writings PSA.74.15, JPS 1917)↗ · I cleave unto Thy testimonies; O LORD, put me not to shame.↗ (Writings PSA.119.31, JPS 1917)↗

clef — Everyday, meaning 1: A sign at the start of a line of written music that shows how high or low the notes are: the treble clef for higher notes and the bass clef for lower ones.↗ Example: Draw a treble clef at the start of the stave.↗ · The bass clef is used for the cello and the tuba.↗ · Piano music has a treble clef on top and a bass clef underneath.↗ · The treble clef curls round the line for G.↗ · In the bass clef, the notes have different names on the same lines.↗

cleft — Everyday, meaning 1: A cleft is a narrow crack or split in rock or ground, often deep.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (old use) Split open, as in a cleft stick.↗ Example: The goat jumped across the cleft in the rock.↗ · Snow lay in the mountain clefts.↗ · We hid in a cleft in the cliff.↗ · And it shall come to pass, while My glory passeth by, that I will put thee in a cleft of the rock, and will cover thee with My hand until I have passed by.↗ (Torah EXO.33.22, JPS 1917)↗ · Who hath cleft a channel for the waterflood, or a way for the lightning of the thunder; (Writings JOB.38.25, JPS 1917)↗ · In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.↗ (Writings JOB.30.6, JPS 1917)↗ · Thou hast made the land to shake, Thou hast cleft it; heal the breaches thereof; for it tottereth.↗ (Writings PSA.60.4, JPS 1917)↗

clemency — Everyday, meaning 1: Mercy: a kind willingness to pardon or spare someone who could be punished.↗ Example: The king showed clemency and let the thief go.↗ · The gods were known for their clemency.↗ · We asked the judge for clemency.↗

clementine — Everyday, meaning 1: A small, sweet orange fruit that is easy to peel and usually has no seeds.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (a name) Clementine is a girl's name, as in the old song "Oh My Darling, Clementine".↗ Example: I put a clementine in my lunchbox.↗ · Clementines are easy to peel.↗ · We got clementines in our Christmas stockings.↗ · A bag has 12 clementines; share them between 4 people, that's 3 each.↗ · "Oh My Darling, Clementine" is an old American song.↗ · The clementine segments were sweet and juicy.↗

clench — Everyday, meaning 1: To clench your fists or teeth means to press them tightly together.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To clench something means to hold it very tightly.↗ Example: He clenched his fists in anger.↗ · She clenched her teeth and kept going.↗ · «I am fine,» he said through clenched teeth.↗ · Try not to clench your jaw when you are worried.↗ · The baby clenched my finger in her tiny hand.↗ · Unclench your hands and take a deep breath.↗ · Tom clenched the rope as he climbed.↗ · My stomach clenched with fear.↗ · Ugly monkeys sat high in the branches and clenched their teeth.↗

clepsydra — Everyday, meaning 1: A water clock: an ancient device that measures time by how much water drips into or out of a container.↗ Example: A clepsydra measures time with dripping water.↗ · Ancient Egyptians used a clepsydra at night when sundials didn't work.↗ · We built a clepsydra from a plastic cup with a hole.↗ · In Athens, a clepsydra timed each speaker in court.↗ · Marks on the clepsydra showed how many hours had passed.↗