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CLEARING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The act of removing solid particles from a liquid
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("clearing" is a kind of...):
improvement (the act of improving something)
Derivation:
clear (make clear, bright, light, or translucent)
clear (clear from impurities, blemishes, pollution, etc.)
Sense 2
Meaning:
The act of freeing from suspicion
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("clearing" is a kind of...):
freeing; liberation; release (the act of liberating someone or something)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "clearing"):
purgation; purge; purging (the act of clearing yourself (or another) from some stigma or charge)
exoneration; vindication (the act of vindicating or defending against criticism or censure etc.)
whitewash (a specious or deceptive clearing that attempts to gloss over failings and defects)
Derivation:
clear (pronounce not guilty of criminal charges)
Sense 3
Meaning:
A tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a wooded area
Synonyms:
clearing; glade
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Hypernyms ("clearing" is a kind of...):
parcel; parcel of land; piece of ground; piece of land; tract (an extended area of land)
Derivation:
clear (remove)
clear (make a way or path by removing objects)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb clear
Context examples:
I therefore went into the house with the intention of clearing up this point.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A class of professional or vocational positions of employment that involve building and grounds clearing or maintenance.
(Building and Grounds Clearing and Maintenance Occupations, NCI Thesaurus)
But rather than being a good thing, the brain goes overboard with the clearing, and starts to harm itself instead.
(Lack of Sleep Makes Brain to Literally Eat Itself, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
Within the first day of injury, immune cells from the blood called inflammatory monocytes entered the core of the injured meningeal tissue and started clearing away dead cells.
(Scientists watch the brain’s lining heal after a head injury, National Institutes of Health)
Here, in a clearing upon the green slope of a hill, stood a long, low, stone house, approached by a curving drive running through the fields.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Evaluating a device's ability to activate the process of clearing pathogens from a organism.
(Device Complement Activation Testing Evaluation Method, Food and Drug Administration)
It is characterized by itching, inflammation, redness of the skin, small papular vesicles, central clearing, fissures, scaling, and/or hair loss in the affected area.
(Dermatophytosis, NCI Thesaurus)
The ship was clearing fast of strangers.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
As soon as the sun had climbed above our girdle of trees, it fell with all its force upon the clearing and drank up the vapours at a draught.
(Treasure Island, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
We shifted our position from among the tick-laden bushes until we came to a small clearing thickly surrounded by trees upon all sides.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
