clean
Because it is a word with a single syllable, clean is not hyphenated. The words that have a single syllable are called monosyllabic words.
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Definitions ofclean
- Removal of dirt.
Example: "This place needs a clean."
- The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
- To remove dirt from a place or object.
Example: "Can you clean the windows today?"
- To tidy up, make a place neat.
Example: "Clean your room right now!"
- To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To make things clean in general.
Example: "She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."
- To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
- To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
- To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
- To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
- (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
- (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
- Smooth, exact, and performed well
Example: "I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence"
- Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
- Cool or neat.
Example: "Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!"
- (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
Example: "I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married."
- That does not damage the environment.
Example: "clean energy; clean coal"
- Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
Example: "clean land; clean timber"
- Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
- Well-proportioned; shapely.
Example: "clean limbs"
- (of a route) Ascended without falling.
- Fully and completely.
Example: "He was stabbed clean through."
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