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  • 21clean — klēn adj 1 a) free from dirt or pollution b) free from disease or infectious agents <a pullorum clean flock> <keep installations clean of TB infection> 2) free from smudges or anything that tends to obscure <a clean set of… …

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  • 22clean — CLEAN, cleni, s.m. Peşte răpitor de apă dulce din familia ciprinidelor, cu botul rotunjit, cu corpul gros, aproape cilindric, acoperit cu solzi mari, tiviţi cu negru (Leuciscus cephalus). – Din bg. kljan. Trimis de ibogdank, 19.11.2003. Sursa:… …

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  • 23clean — clean, cleanly Clean has been an adverb meaning ‘completely, outright’ since Old English and is still used as one, as in The bullet went clean through his shoulder blade. Cleanly is an adverb of manner, and is often used figuratively: • Cut… …

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  • 24CLEAN — may refer to: * Component Validator for Environmentally Friendly Aero Engine * CLEAN Energy Act * CLEAN (algorithm), a computational algorithm used in astronomy to perform a deconvolution on dirty images …

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  • 25clean-up — also clean|up [ˈkli:nʌp] n [C usually singular] a process by which you get rid of dirt or waste from a place ▪ The cleanup of the oil spill took months. ▪ millions of dollars in clean up costs …

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  • 26clean — (adj.) O.E. clæne clean, pure, from W.Gmc. *klainoz clear, pure (Cf. O.S. kleni dainty, delicate, O.Fris. klene small, O.H.G. kleini delicate, fine, small, Ger. klein small; English preserves the original Germanic sense), from PIE root *gel to… …

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  • 27clean-up — clean ups N COUNT A clean up is the removing of dirt, pollution, crime, or corruption from somewhere. ...the need for a clean up of Italian institutions... The Governor has now called in the National Guard to assist the cleanup operation. (in AM …

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  • 28clean-up — cleanˈ up noun 1. An act of thorough cleaning 2. The stamping out of an evil or illegal activity (see also ↑clean up below) • • • Main Entry: ↑clean …

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  • 29clean — [kliːn] Adj; gespr; meist in clean sein keine Drogen mehr nehmen …

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  • 30clean — [kli:n] <aus gleichbed. engl. clean, eigtl. »rein, sauber«> (ugs.) von Drogen nicht mehr abhängig …

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