clean
part of speech
adjective (clean, cleaner, cleanest); verb (clean, cleans, cleaned, cleaning); adverb (clean)
meaning for a pupil
1) Clean means not dirty. tree →
2) To clean means to take the dirt away, by washing, wiping or sweeping. tree →
3) Clean also means fresh and unused: a clean sheet of paper. tree →
4) Clean can mean fair and following the rules: a clean game. tree →
5) As an adverb, clean means completely: I clean forgot. tree →
sense in the lessons
In maths: a job done at a rate (rooms cleaned per hour), or clean and dirty things counted apart: clean + dirty = all. In health and safety: wash your hands clean to remove germs; clean water is safe to drink. At home: clean your room, clean up after yourself. Phrases: clean up, clean your teeth, clean water, a clean copy, come clean (tell the truth), clean energy.
examples
- Of all clean birds ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.11, JPS 1917) tree →
- Of all clean winged things ye may eat. (Torah DEU.14.20, JPS 1917) tree →
- And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat thereof. (Torah LEV.7.19, JPS 1917) tree →
- Is His mercy clean gone for ever? (Writings PSA.77.9, JPS 1917) tree →
- What is man, that he should be clean? (Writings JOB.15.14, JPS 1917) tree →
- Woe unto thee, O Jerusalem! thou wilt not be made clean! (Prophets JER.13.27, JPS 1917) tree →
- She cleans 3 rooms in an hour. tree →
- 8 of the 20 cups are clean. tree →
- It takes 2 hours to clean the house. tree →
- How many dirty plates are left if 12 are clean? tree →
- Clean your teeth twice a day. tree →
- Please clean up your toys before dinner. tree →
- Start again on a clean page. tree →
- Wash your hands clean before eating. tree →
- He came clean and said he broke the vase. tree →
- "Somebody cleaned it," says the giant. tree →
note
Opposite: dirty. «Cleaner» is both «more clean» and a person or product that cleans. A job with a rate; clean + dirty = all. No clue by itself.
In the corpora
- And as for the flesh, every one that is clean may eat thereof.
- And that ye may put difference between the holy and the common, and between the unclean and the clean;
- And if aught of their carcass fall upon any sowing seed which is to be sown, it is clean.
- And if a man's hair be fallen off his head, he is bald; yet is he clean.
- to teach when it is unclean, and when it is clean; this is the law of leprosy.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «clean» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.