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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"  Antonym: dirty.
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.  Antonym: unclean.
7.
Not spreading pollution or contamination; especially radioactive contamination.  Synonym: uncontaminating.  "Cleaner and more efficient engines" , "The tactical bomb is reasonably clean"  Antonym: dirty.
8.
(of behavior or especially language) free from objectionable elements; fit for all observers.  Synonym: unobjectionable.  "A clean joke"  Antonym: dirty.
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



... expiated, discomforted at the thought that a feeling so long disregarded could grip him so keenly. And all the while he was torn by the misery of two contending impressions; one, the dim, subliminal foreboding that she was ordained for worthier and cleaner hands than his, the other, that this upheaval of the emotions still had the power to shake and bewilder and leave him so wordlessly unhappy. It was the ever-recurring incongruity, the repeated ...
— Phantom Wires - A Novel • Arthur Stringer
... cast about me for a lunching-place. But it was some time before I encountered the class of restaurant I wanted. When I did it was situated at the corner of two streets, carried a foreign name over the door, and, though considerably the worse for wear, presented a cleaner appearance than any other ...
— A Bid for Fortune - or Dr. Nikola's Vendetta • Guy Boothby
... heard the sailor and the bride chattering suddenly and loudly in the next little room and guessed that they were married. A bent little woman—the chapel cleaner—came along and asked them where their witnesses were. Her dark eyes looked piercingly among grey, unbrushed hair; her hands were encrusted with much immersion ...
— Captivity • M. Leonora Eyles
... five new men. We have room for at least three more. I know sometimes I make a mistake, but I'll bet my hat on this fellow. He's no ordinary kid, I'll tell you that. I saw him in the swimming tank with his uncle, Mr. Williams, yesterday, and a cleaner-cut, better-built fellow you never saw. Swim like a fish, and dive—why, there's nothing to it. If he takes a membership in this Department he'll be in the Leaders' Corps in less than a jiffy, and, what's more, he'll be a leader in everything else, ...
— Buffalo Roost • F. H. Cheley
... his broad back was turned did Helen notice that the hunter looked different. Then she saw he wore a lighter, cleaner suit of buckskin, with no coat, and instead of the high-heeled horseman's boots he wore moccasins and leggings. The change made him appear ...
— The Man of the Forest • Zane Grey


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