cleanly
part of speech
adverb (cleanly)
meaning for a pupil
1) Cleanly means in a neat, smooth way, with one quick even cut or break and no mess. tree →
2) Cleanly means in a clean way, without making things dirty. tree →
3) In sport, cleanly means fairly and well, without a foul or a fumble. tree →
sense in the lessons
In craft lessons a sharp knife or scissors cut cleanly; in science a bone or stick can break cleanly. In sport a goalkeeper catches the ball cleanly, and a fair tackle is made cleanly. Phrases: cut cleanly, break cleanly, burn cleanly, catch cleanly.
examples
- The sharp scissors cut the paper cleanly. tree →
- The branch snapped cleanly in two. tree →
- The keeper caught the ball cleanly. tree →
- Gas burns more cleanly than coal. tree →
- He won the race cleanly, without pushing anyone. tree →
- The vet said the bone had broken cleanly and would heal well. tree →
- Wipe the knife so it slices the cake cleanly. tree →
- Karen herself was dressed very neatly and cleanly; she was taught to read and to sew, and people said that she was pretty. tree →
note
An adverb: it tells how something is done (cut cleanly). The adjective is «clean». Pronounced KLEEN-lee. Do not confuse with the rare adjective «cleanly» (KLEN-lee), which means keeping oneself clean.
Trees and pragmatics
Every meaning and example of «cleanly» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.