clean
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How clean fits the hive
Base Score
5
Before any pangram bonus
Unique Letters
5
A C E L N
Two-Letter Start
CL
Useful for systematic scans
Ending
AN
Useful for cleanup scans
- 5 letters
- 5 unique letters
- CL start
- AN ending
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- clean is worth 5 points before any pangram bonus.
- It uses 5 unique letters, so it can fit boards that include a, c, e, l, n plus any remaining hive letters.
- The AN ending makes this a useful pattern check after you try the CL start.
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Pronunciation
Definitions
noun
Removal of dirt.
"This place needs a clean."
noun
The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
verb
To remove dirt from a place or object.
"Can you clean the windows today?"
verb
To tidy up, make a place neat.
"Clean your room right now!"
verb
To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
verb
To make things clean in general.
"She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her."
verb
To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
verb
To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
verb
To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
verb
To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.
adjective
(heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
adjective
(heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
adjective
Smooth, exact, and performed well
"I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts. a clean leap over a fence"
adjective
Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
adjective
Cool or neat.
"Wow, Dude, those are some clean shoes ya got there!"
adjective
(health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
"I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married."
adjective
That does not damage the environment.
"clean energy; clean coal"
adjective
Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.
"clean land; clean timber"
adjective
Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.
adjective
Well-proportioned; shapely.
"clean limbs"
adjective
(of a route) Ascended without falling.
adverb
Fully and completely.
"He was stabbed clean through."
Related Words
Same Letters
- cenacle
- nacelle
- cancel
- enlace
- lance
Synonyms
- clean
Antonyms
- dirty
- unclean