What is the meaning of clean?

noun

• A weightlift in which the barbell is lifted to shoulder height and then jerked overhead.
  • synonyms: clean and jerk

verb

• Make clean by removing dirt, filth, or unwanted substances from.
  • usage: "Clean the stove"; "The dentist cleaned my teeth"
  • synonyms: make clean
• Remove unwanted substances from, such as feathers or pits.
  • usage: "Clean the turkey"
  • synonyms: pick
• Clean and tidy up the house.
  • usage: "She housecleans every week"
  • synonyms: houseclean, clean house
• Clean one's body or parts thereof, as by washing.
  • usage: "clean up before you see your grandparents"; "clean your fingernails before dinner"
  • synonyms: cleanse
• Be cleanable.
  • usage: "This stove cleans easily"
• Deprive wholly of money in a gambling game, robbery, etc..
  • usage: "The other players cleaned him completely"
• Remove all contents or possession from, or empty completely.
  • usage: "The boys cleaned the sandwich platters"; "The trees were cleaned of apples by the storm"
  • synonyms: strip
• Remove while making clean.
  • usage: "Clean the spots off the rug"
• Remove unwanted substances from.
  • synonyms: scavenge
• Remove shells or husks from.
  • usage: "clean grain before milling it"

adjective

• Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits.
  • usage: "children with clean shining faces"; "clean white shirts"; "clean dishes"; "a spotlessly clean house"; "cats are clean animals"
• Free of restrictions or qualifications.
  • usage: "a clean bill of health"; "a clear winner"
  • synonyms: clear
• Of sound or color. ( free from anything that dulls or dims)
  • usage: "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"
  • synonyms: clear, light, unclouded
• Free from impurities.
  • usage: "clean water"; "fresh air"
  • synonyms: fresh
• Of a record. ( having no marks of discredit or offense)
  • usage: "a clean voting record"; "a clean driver's license"
• Ritually clean or pure.
• Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.
  • usage: "a clean fuel"; "cleaner and more efficient engines"; "the tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
  • synonyms: uncontaminating
• Of behavior or especially language. ( free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers)
  • usage: "good clean fun"; "a clean joke"
  • synonyms: unobjectionable
• Free from sepsis or infection.
  • usage: "a clean (or uninfected) wound"
  • synonyms: uninfected
• Morally pure.
  • usage: "led a clean life"
  • synonyms: clean-living
• Of a manuscript. ( having few alterations or corrections)
  • usage: "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
  • synonyms: fair
• Of a surface. ( not written or printed on)
  • usage: "blank pages"; "fill in the blank spaces"; "a clean page"; "wide white margins"
  • synonyms: blank, white
• Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.
  • usage: "a clean fight"; "a sporting solution of the disagreement"; "sportsmanlike conduct"
  • synonyms: sporting, sporty, sportsmanlike
• Without difficulties or problems.
  • usage: "a clean test flight"
• Thorough and without qualification.
  • usage: "a clean getaway"; "a clean sweep"; "a clean break"
• Not carrying concealed weapons.
• Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.
  • usage: "he landed a clean left on his opponent's cheek"; "a clean throw"; "the neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
  • synonyms: neat
• Free of drugs.
  • usage: "after a long dependency on heroin she has been clean for 4 years"

adverb

• Completely; used as intensifiers.
  • usage: "clean forgot the appointment"; "I'm plumb (or plum) tuckered out"
  • synonyms: plumb, plum
• In conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating.
  • usage: "they played fairly"
  • synonyms: fairly, fair