Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of making clean.
- n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
- n. In forestry, a thinning made in a stand which has not reached the small-pole stage. Its main object is to remove trees of undesirable form and species. See thinning.
Wiktionary
- v. present participle of clean.
- n. A situation in which something is cleaned
- n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of making clean.
- n. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
WordNet 3.0
- n. the act of making something clean
Examples
“= Two agents are necessary to the proper cleaning of leather, -- a _cleaning agent_ and an _oiling agent_.”
“Were cleaning the ship out, cleaning the whole blessed ship out; and overboard you go!”
“HPFacebookVoteV2. init (366908, 'Method\'s Dirty, Dirty Video Spoof Against Toxic Household Cleaners', 'Did you know that chemical companies, cough, I mean cleaning products companies don\'t have to say what they put in their toxic laboratory-birthed neon \ "cleaning\" products?”
Waylon Lewis: Method's Dirty, Dirty Video Spoof Against Toxic Household Cleaners
“He spent most of his term cleaning up after Allen and Gilmore, and did a pretty good job of it.”
“And just one final question, I think Mike Mayo had used the term cleaning up Countrywide and I would just ask how far through that process do you feel that you are at this point and when do we get to Countrywide sort of looking like a normal mortgage company?”
“He’s had to spend a big part of his term cleaning up the mess caused by the policies Morrison would bring back.”
“Madelyne drove the servants ragged over what they referred to as her cleaning fits.”
“A pigeon-house soon becomes very dirty, and has a most intolerable smell; it should, therefore, be cleaned out as often as practicable, taking care that the cleaning is always done in the morning before mid-day, as pigeons go to roost very early, and, if disturbed in the afternoon, they will very often take a sulky fit, and sit outside of the pigeon-house all night.”
The Lady's Country Companion: or, How to Enjoy a Country Life Rationally
“Not only do they regularly berate their employees and yell at them, but the actress loves to have what she calls cleaning days.”
“I feel sorry for him he’ll be spending most of his term cleaning out the crap left behind from Bob Taft and the Ohio GOP, but I don’t think he doesn’t know that’ll be part of his job description.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘cleaning’.
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IMCO - EU nomenclature
includes words of the "Prodcom list"
abaca, abdominal, abrasive, absorbent, absorber, accelerator, accessory, account book, accumulator, acebutolol, acetaldehyde, acetamide and 4515 more...
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The things they carried (List 2)
Listening to this as an audio book for the second time. Tim O'Brien uses simple words and phrases to great effect. Very few unfamilar and big words . The writing style reminds me of words from Joh...
The, Things, They, Carried, meant, fond, By necessity,, presented to him, far beyond, against the brick..., reaching, taut and 2940 more...
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Grrrrr
Words I loathe
panties, moist, exercise, dishes, cleaning, running, secretary, orientated, pilates, pupil, badonkadonk, emulsion and 1 more...
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Cloroxyopia
For nonporous surfaces.
trademark, registered, comments, questions, trash, discard, available, recycling, empty, reuse, flush, disposal and 76 more...
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I Can't Live w/o Wordiehol
Things I could/should be doing instead of listing words. Suggestions?
reading, socializing, writing, cleaning, editing, emailing, sleeping, protesting, exercising, journaling, volunteering, ripping tassels o... and 1 more...
Tweets
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