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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



... this was the best plan under the circumstances, and a little later they were led by two or three Indians to a collection of huts that seemed larger and cleaner than the others. A supply of food was also brought for the prisoners, and, as it consisted largely of canned stuff, that was ...
— The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch - Or, Great Days Among the Cowboys • Laura Lee Hope
... have been mentioned. Rad was an ancient colored man who once owned a mule named Boomerang. Sampson was the colored servant's last name, and he declared he had chosen the one "Eradicate" because in his younger days he was a great cleaner and whitewasher, "eradicating" the dirt, ...
— Tom Swift and his Undersea Search - or, The Treasure on the Floor of the Atlantic • Victor Appleton
... night sounds of the veld where water happens to be near—the soft, subdued quacking of drowsy waterfowl, the occasional "honk" of a belated goose, the stealthy splashing of bucks wading warily into the deeper and cleaner water clear of the rushes before venturing to drink, mysterious rustlings among the reeds, the distant call of buck to each other in the bush, the sharp bark of the jackal, the blood-curdling laugh of the prowling hyena, and the occasional roar of the leopard; the whole dominated by the incessant ...
— Through Veld and Forest - An African Story • Harry Collingwood
... Ross, a nephew of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, who had conducted an upholsterer's business in the little shop. For a time after his death she supported herself as a lace cleaner and by continuing the business of ...
— The Colonial Architecture of Philadelphia • Frank Cousins
... the child must suffer pain!" cried Mr Rendell, laughing. "That is what Kitty said, isn't it, when her mother insisted on pinning down the end of her collar? Better confess at once, Mops, and get it over! Tell your mother she can send it to the cleaner's, and I'll ...
— A Houseful of Girls • Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey


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