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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Clearing.]
     1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from
        clouds.
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              He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
                                                    --Dryden.
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     2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
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     3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of
        perplexity; to make perspicuous.
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              Many knotty points there are
              Which all discuss, but few can clear. --Prior.
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     4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to
        make perspicacious.
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              Our common prints would clear up their
              understandings.                       --Addison
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     5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement,
        or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to
        clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear
        the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; --
        often used with of, off, away, or out.
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              Clear your mind of cant.              --Dr. Johnson.
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              A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art
              of the statuary only clears away the superfluous
              matter.                               --Addison.
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     6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify,
        vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the
        thing imputed.
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              I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?    --Addison.
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     7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure;
        as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
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     8. To gain without deduction; to net.
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              The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
                                                    --Macaulay.
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     To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the
        documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other
        acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such
        papers as the law requires.
  
     To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action
        (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and
        prepare for an engagement.
  
     To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from
        shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the
        land.
  
     To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when
        twisted.
  
     To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or
        fears.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 : [ gcide ]


  Clearing \Clear"ing\, n.
     1. The act or process of making clear.
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              The better clearing of this point.    --South.
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     2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
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              A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. --J.
                                                    Burroughs.
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     3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an
        exchange of checks held by each against the others, and
        settling differences of accounts.
        [1913 Webster]
  
     Note: In England, a similar method has been adopted by
           railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other.
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     4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing
        house.
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     Clearing house, the establishment where the business of
        clearing is carried on. See above, 3.
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Clear \Clear\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Cleared; p. pr. & vb. n.
     Clearing.]
     1. To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from
        clouds.
  
              He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
     2. To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
  
     3. To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of
        perplexity; to make perspicuous.
  
              Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but
              few can clear.                        --Prior.
  
     4. To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to
        make perspicacious.
  
              Our common prints would clear up their
              understandings.                       --Addison
  
     5. To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement,
        or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to
        clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear
        the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; --
        often used with of, off, away, or out.
  
              Clear your mind of cant.              --Dr. Johnson.
  
              A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art
              of the statuary only clears away the superfluous
              matter.                               --Addison.
  
     6. To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify,
        vindicate, or acquit; -- often used with from before the
        thing imputed.
  
              I . . . am sure he will clear me from partiality.
                                                    --Dryden.
  
              How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?    --Addison.
  
     7. To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure;
        as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
  
     8. To gain without deduction; to net.
  
              The profit which she cleared on the cargo.
                                                    --Macaulay.
  
     To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the
        documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other
        acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such
        papers as the law requires.
  
     To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action
        (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and
        prepare for an engagement.
  
     To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from
        shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the
        land.
  
     To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when
        twisted.
  
     To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or
        fears.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) : [ web1913 ]


  Clearing \Clear"ing\, n.
     1. The act or process of making clear.
  
              The better clearing of this point.    --South.
  
     2. A tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation.
  
              A lonely clearing on the shores of Moxie Lake. --J.
                                                    Burroughs.
  
     3. A method adopted by banks and bankers for making an
        exchange of checks held by each against the others, and
        settling differences of accounts.
  
     Note: In England, a similar method has been adopted by
           railroads for adjusting their accounts with each other.
  
     4. The gross amount of the balances adjusted in the clearing
        house.
  
     Clearing house, the establishment where the business of
        clearing is carried on. See above, 3.

From WordNet (r) 2.0 : [ wn ]


  clearing
       n 1: a tract of land with few or no trees in the middle of a
            wooded area [syn: glade]
       2: the act of freeing from suspicion
       3: the act of removing solid particles from a liquid [syn: clarification]

From Greek Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-el-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     Αγγλικά n.
     1 ξέφωτο
     2 (ετ οικον en) κλίρινγκ

From English Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     1 The act or process of making or becoming clear.
     2 (senseid en treelessness) An area of land within a wood or forest
  devoid of trees.
     3 An open space in the fog etc.
     4 (lb en banking finance) A process of exchanging transaction
  information and authorisation through a central institution or system to
  complete and settle those transactions.
     5 (lb en telecommunication) A sequence of events used to disconnect a
  call, and return to the ready state.
     6 (lb en British education) The period in which remaining university
  places are allocated to remaining students.
     7 (lb en soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal
  area by kicking it.
     vb.
     (present participle of en clear nocat=1)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl banking finance) (alt sp pl kliring)
     Spanish n.
     (lb es finance) (l en clearing)

From English Wiktionary: English language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-en-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     1 The act or process of making or becoming clear.
     2 (senseid en treelessness) An area of land within a wood or forest
  devoid of trees.
     3 An open space in the fog etc.
     4 (lb en banking finance) A process of exchanging transaction
  information and authorisation through a central institution or system to
  complete and settle those transactions.
     5 (lb en telecommunication) A sequence of events used to disconnect a
  call, and return to the ready state.
     6 (lb en British education) The period in which remaining university
  places are allocated to remaining students.
     7 (lb en soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal
  area by kicking it.
     vb.
     (present participle of en clear nocat=1)

From English Wiktionary: Western, Greek, and Slavonic languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western_Greek_Slavonic-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     1 The act or process of making or becoming clear.
     2 (senseid en treelessness) An area of land within a wood or forest
  devoid of trees.
     3 An open space in the fog etc.
     4 (lb en banking finance) A process of exchanging transaction
  information and authorisation through a central institution or system to
  complete and settle those transactions.
     5 (lb en telecommunication) A sequence of events used to disconnect a
  call, and return to the ready state.
     6 (lb en British education) The period in which remaining university
  places are allocated to remaining students.
     7 (lb en soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal
  area by kicking it.
     vb.
     (present participle of en clear nocat=1)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl banking finance) (alt sp pl kliring)
     Spanish n.
     (lb es finance) (l en clearing)

From English Wiktionary: Western languages only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-en-Western-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     1 The act or process of making or becoming clear.
     2 (senseid en treelessness) An area of land within a wood or forest
  devoid of trees.
     3 An open space in the fog etc.
     4 (lb en banking finance) A process of exchanging transaction
  information and authorisation through a central institution or system to
  complete and settle those transactions.
     5 (lb en telecommunication) A sequence of events used to disconnect a
  call, and return to the ready state.
     6 (lb en British education) The period in which remaining university
  places are allocated to remaining students.
     7 (lb en soccer) The act of removing the ball from one's own goal
  area by kicking it.
     vb.
     (present participle of en clear nocat=1)
     Polish n.
     (lb pl banking finance) (alt sp pl kliring)

From Finnish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-fi-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     Englanti n.
     1 aukea, metsäaukio, aukio
     2 (yhteys liiketalous k=en) selvitys (suorituksen)
     Englanti vb.
     (en-v-taivm c lear ing)

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     (tagg: ekonomi) utjämning av balans (överföring av pengar, avräkning)
  mellan banker, klarering

From Swedish Wiktionary: All languages (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-ALL-2023-07-27 ]


  Clearing
     Tyska n.
     (tagg ekonomi språk=de) clearing

From Swedish Wiktionary: Swedish language only (2023-07-27) : [ dictinfo.com:wikt-sv-sv-2023-07-27 ]


  clearing
     n.
     (tagg: ekonomi) utjämning av balans (överföring av pengar, avräkning)
  mellan banker, klarering

From English-Arabic FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.6.3 : [ freedict:eng-ara ]


  Clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/
  التنظيف

From English-български език FreeDict+WikDict dictionary ver. 2023.05.29 : [ freedict:eng-bul ]


  clearing //ˈklɪə.ɹɪŋ// //ˈklɪɚ.ɪŋ// 
  1. проясняване, разчистване
  act or process of making or becoming clear
  2. просека, сечище
  area of land within a wood or forest devoid of trees
  3. клиринг
  process of completing and settling transactions centrally

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  paseka

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  zúčtování

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  mýtina

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  mýcení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  klíring

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  proclení

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/ 
  clearing

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/
  čištění

From English-Czech dicts.info/FreeDict Dictionary ver. 0.1.3 : [ freedict:eng-ces ]


  clearing /klˈiəɹɪŋ/
  objasnění