Word Type
Clean can be an adjective, a noun, a verb or an adverb.
clean used as an adjective:
- Not dirty.
"Are these dishes clean?" - In a condition of having been cleaned.
"Your room is finally clean!" - In an unmarked condition.
"Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer." - Pure, especially morally or religiously.
"Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean." - Drug- and alcohol-free.
"I've been clean this time for eight months." - Smooth, exact, and performed well.
"I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts." - Said of (criminal, driving..) records without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.
"Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!" - Cool or neat.
"Damn, Shorty, those are some clean shoes ya got there!" - Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
- Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).
"I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married." - Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.
"I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want."
Adjectives are are describing words. An adjective is a word that modifies a noun or pronoun (examples: small, scary, silly). Adjectives make the meaning of a noun more precise. Learn more →
clean used as a noun:
- The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.
Nouns are naming words. They are used to represent a person (soldier, Jamie), place (Germany, beach), thing (telephone, mirror), quality (hardness, courage), or an action (a run, a punch). Learn more →
clean used as a verb:
- To Remove dirt from a place or object.
"Can you clean the windows today?" - To Tidy up, make a place neat.
"Clean your room right now!" - To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
- To make things clean in general.
"She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her." - 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.
Verbs are action words and state of being words. Examples of action words are: ran, attacking, dreamed. Examples of "state of being" words are: is, was, be. Learn more →
clean used as an adverb:
- Fully and completely.
"He was stabbed clean through."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
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What type of word is clean?
- Adjective usage: Are these dishes clean?
- Adjective usage: Your room is finally clean!
- Adjective usage: Put a clean sheet of paper into the printer.
- Adjective usage: Our kids can watch this movie because it is clean.
- Adjective usage: I've been clean this time for eight months.
- Adjective usage: I’ll need a sharper knife to make clean cuts.
- Adjective usage: Unlike you, I’ve never caused any accidents — my record is still clean!
- Adjective usage: Damn, Shorty, those are some clean shoes ya got there!
- Adjective usage: I want to make sure my fiancé is clean before we are married.
- Adjective usage: I’m clean, officer. You can go ahead and search me if you want.
- Verb usage: Can you clean the windows today?
- Verb usage: Clean your room right now!
- Verb usage: She just likes to clean. That’s why I married her.
- Adverb usage: He was stabbed clean through.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of clean are used most commonly. I've got ideas about how to fix this but will need to find a source of "sense" frequencies. Hopefully there's enough info above to help you understand the part of speech of clean, and guess at its most common usage.
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For those interested in a little info about this site: it's a side project that I developed while working on Describing Words and Related Words. Both of those projects are based around words, but have much grander goals. I had an idea for a website that simply explains the word types of the words that you search for - just like a dictionary, but focussed on the part of speech of the words. And since I already had a lot of the infrastructure in place from the other two sites, I figured it wouldn't be too much more work to get this up and running.
The dictionary is based on the amazing Wiktionary project by wikimedia. I initially started with WordNet, but then realised that it was missing many types of words/lemma (determiners, pronouns, abbreviations, and many more). This caused me to investigate the 1913 edition of Websters Dictionary - which is now in the public domain. However, after a day's work wrangling it into a database I realised that there were far too many errors (especially with the part-of-speech tagging) for it to be viable for Word Type.
Finally, I went back to Wiktionary - which I already knew about, but had been avoiding because it's not properly structured for parsing. That's when I stumbled across the UBY project - an amazing project which needs more recognition. The researchers have parsed the whole of Wiktionary and other sources, and compiled everything into a single unified resource. I simply extracted the Wiktionary entries and threw them into this interface! So it took a little more work than expected, but I'm happy I kept at it after the first couple of blunders.
Special thanks to the contributors of the open-source code that was used in this project: the UBY project (mentioned above), @mongodb and express.js.
Currently, this is based on a version of wiktionary which is a few years old. I plan to update it to a newer version soon and that update should bring in a bunch of new word senses for many words (or more accurately, lemma).
