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Clear can be an adjective, an adverb or a verb.
clear used as an adjective:
- Completely transparent in colour
"as clear as crystal" - Bright, not dark or obscured.
"The windshield was clear and clean." - Free of obstacles.
"The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear." - Without clouds.
"clear weather, a clear day" - Free of ambiguity or doubt.
"He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work." - Free of guilt, or suspicion.
"a clear conscience" - The sky is said to be clear, when less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
- Without a thickening ingredient.
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 →
clear used as an adverb:
- All the way; entirely.
"I threw it clear across the river to the other side." - Not near something or touching it.
"Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming."
An adverb is a word that modifies an adjective (very red), verb (quietly running), or another adverb (very carefully). Learn more →
clear used as a verb:
- To remove obstructions or impediments.
"Clear the way." - To eliminate ambiguity or doubt from a matter; to clarify; especially, to clear up.
- To remove from suspicion; especially of having committed a crime
"The court cleared the man of murder." - To pass without interference; to miss.
"The door just barely clears the table as it closes." - To become clear.
"After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening." - Of a check or financial transaction, to go through as payment; to be processed so that the money is transferred.
"The check might not clear for a couple of days." - To earn a profit of; to net.
"He's been clearing seven thousand a week." - To obtain permission to use (a sample of copyrighted audio) in another track.
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 →
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What type of word is clear?
- Adjective usage: as clear as crystal
- Adjective usage: The windshield was clear and clean.
- Adjective usage: Congress passed the President’s Clear Skies legislation.
- Adjective usage: The driver had mistakenly thought the intersection was clear.
- Adjective usage: The coast is clear.
- Adjective usage: clear weather, a clear day
- Adjective usage: He gave clear instructions not to bother him at work.
- Adjective usage: Do I make myself clear? Crystal clear.
- Adjective usage: a clear conscience
- Adverb usage: I threw it clear across the river to the other side.
- Adverb usage: Stand clear of the rails, a train is coming.
- Verb usage: Clear the way.
- Verb usage: The court cleared the man of murder.
- Verb usage: The door just barely clears the table as it closes.
- Verb usage: After a heavy rain, the sky cleared nicely for the evening.
- Verb usage: The check might not clear for a couple of days.
- Verb usage: He's been clearing seven thousand a week.
Unfortunately, with the current database that runs this site, I don't have data about which senses of clear 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 clear, 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).
