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Cleaner   /klˈinər/   Listen
Cleaner

noun
1.
A preparation used in cleaning something.  Synonyms: cleanser, cleansing agent.
2.
The operator of dry-cleaning establishment.  Synonym: dry cleaner.
3.
Someone whose occupation is cleaning.


Clean

adjective
(compar. cleaner; superl. cleanest)
1.
Free from dirt or impurities; or having clean habits.  "Clean white shirts" , "Clean dishes" , "A spotlessly clean house" , "Cats are clean animals"
2.
Free of restrictions or qualifications.  Synonym: clear.  "A clear winner"
3.
(of sound or color) free from anything that dulls or dims.  Synonyms: clear, light, unclouded.  "Clear laughter like a waterfall" , "Clear reds and blues" , "A light lilting voice like a silver bell"
4.
Free from impurities.  Synonym: fresh.  "Fresh air"
5.
(of a record) having no marks of discredit or offense.  "A clean driver's license"
6.
Ritually clean or pure.
7.
Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.  Synonym: uncontaminating.  "Cleaner and more efficient engines" , "The tactical bomb is reasonably clean"
8.
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers.  Synonym: unobjectionable.  "A clean joke"
9.
Free from sepsis or infection.  Synonym: uninfected.
10.
Morally pure.  Synonym: clean-living.
11.
(of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections.  Synonym: fair.  "A clean manuscript"
12.
(of a surface) not written or printed on.  Synonyms: blank, white.  "Fill in the blank spaces" , "A clean page" , "Wide white margins"
13.
Exhibiting or calling for sportsmanship or fair play.  Synonyms: sporting, sportsmanlike, sporty.  "A sporting solution of the disagreement" , "Sportsmanlike conduct"
14.
Without difficulties or problems.
15.
Thorough and without qualification.  "A clean sweep" , "A clean break"
16.
Not carrying concealed weapons.
17.
Free from clumsiness; precisely or deftly executed.  Synonym: neat.  "A clean throw" , "The neat exactness of the surgeon's knife"
18.
Free of drugs.



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"Cleaner" Quotes from Famous Books



... second; the girl is pretty and well dowered. I have a liking for the woman, especially if I haven't seen her for a little. There is some bite in her conversation. Mrs. Jowett is a sweet woman, but to me she is like a vacuum cleaner. When I've talked to her for ten minutes my head feels like a cushion that has been cleaned—a sort of empty, yet swollen feeling. I never can understand how Mr. Jowett has gone through life with her and kept his reason. But there's ...
— Penny Plain • Anna Buchan (writing as O. Douglas)
... German descent. These people crowded over here from Europe because they were starving and you have kept them starving. They will come to us because we treat them better; we give them higher wages, cleaner homes, more happiness. They have come to us already; the figures prove it. Not ten percent of the people of New York and New England have moved away since the German occupation, although they were free to go. Why is that? Because they like our form of government, they ...
— The Conquest of America - A Romance of Disaster and Victory • Cleveland Moffett
... Italian, and Pietro fell like a log at his feet. Standish set his teeth, and as gently as possible drew the stiletto from his arm, wiping its blade on the clothes of the prostrate man. He thought it better to soil Pietro's suit than his own, which was newer and cleaner; besides, he held, perhaps with justice, that the Italian being the aggressor should bear any disadvantages arising from the attack. Finally, feeling wet at the elbow, he put the stiletto in his pocket and hurried off ...
— Revenge! • by Robert Barr
... we ought to have about one hundred sixty-watt lamp capacity for the complete farm; that would take care of the small motor of the vacuum cleaner and ...
— Hidden Treasure • John Thomas Simpson
... go around in a circle—a thing apparently inevitable, if one tries to reduce art to philosophy. But personally, we prefer to go around in a circle than around in a parallelepipedon, for it seems cleaner and perhaps freer from mathematics—or for the same reason we prefer Whittier to Baudelaire—a poet to a genius, or a healthy to a rotten apple—probably not so much because it is more nutritious, but because we like its taste better; we like ...
— Essays Before a Sonata • Charles Ives


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