Clean-up

Definition

clean /kli:n/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) စင္ၾကယ္ေသာ။ သန္႔ရွင္းေသာ။ clean hands ❍ clean air (ie free from smoke, etc) ❍ a clean wound (ie one that is not infected) ❍ wash/wipe/scrub/brush sth clean ❍ I want this whole house squeaky clean (ie very clean). (ခ) သန္႔ေသာ။ clean air/water. (ဂ) ေလွ်ာ္ဖြပ္ၿပီးေသာ။ ေဆးၿပီးေသာ။ a clean dress/towel/knife ❍ He wears clean socks every day. ❍ put clean sheets on a bed. (ဃ) (အေနအထိုင္) သန္႔ေသာ။ Cats are clean animals. ၂။ အသစ္သန္႔သန္႔။ a clean sheet of paper. ၃။ (က) ဖ႐ုသဝါစာမပါေသာ။ မညစ္ပတ္ေသာ။ Keep it clean (ie Do not tell dirty jokes)! (ခ) အျပစ္ကင္းေသာ။ သန္႔ေသာ။ good clean fun. ၄။ (က) ျပစ္ခ်က္ကင္းေသာ။ a clean driving-licence ❍ a clean police record. (ခ) ( sl ) မလြတ္ မကင္း ပစၥည္းမ်ား မရိွေသာ။ The police raided her flat but she/it was clean. ၅။ သန္႔သန္႔ရွင္းရွင္း ကစားေသာ၊ လုပ္ေသာ။ a hard-fought but clean match ❍ a clean tackle (eg in a game of football). ၆။ တိတိရိရိျဖစ္ေသာ။ A sharp knife makes a clean cut. ❍ a clean break (eg the breaking of a bone in one place). ၇။ (အားကစား) ပညာသားပါပါႏွင့္ ကြက္တိျဖစ္ေသာ။ a clean hit/stroke/blow. ၈။ ႐ိုး႐ိုးႏွင့္လွေသာ။ a car with clean lines. ၉။ ( infml ) အဏုျမဴဓာတ္ေရာင္ျခည္ ပ်ံ႕ႏွံ႔မႈနည္းေသာ။ adv ရွင္းရွင္းေလး။ The bullet went clean through his shoulder. ❍ The thief got clean away. ❍ I clean forgot about it. ငါ အဲဒါကို လံုးလံုးေမ့သြားတယ္။ ❍ The batsman was clean bowled (ie without the ball hitting the bat or the pads first). v ၁။ (က) ေဆးေၾကာသုတ္သင္ တိုက္ခြၽတ္သည္။ Spend all day cooking and cleaning. ❍ clean the windows/one's shoes/one's teeth ❍ The cat sat cleaning itself. (ခ) သန္႔ရွင္းစင္ၾကယ္သြားသည္။ This floor cleans easily (ie is easy to clean). ၂။ သားငါးကိုင္သည္။ cleaning poultry. n [sing] သန္႔ရွင္းေရး။ The house needs a good clean. ❏ (as) clean as a whistle [ IDM ] ( infml ) ၁။ အလြန္သန္႔ ေသာ။ ၂။ လြတ္လြတ္ကြၽတ္ကြၽတ္။ The dog jumped through the hoop as clean as a whistle (ie without touching it). ❏ a clean bill of health [ IDM ] ေရာဂါေပ်ာက္ကင္းေၾကာင္း ဆရာဝန္ေဆးစာ။ အဖြဲ႕အစည္း အေျခအေန ေကာင္းမြန္ေၾကာင္း အစီရင္ခံစာ။ The doctor gave him a clean bill of health. ❏ clean-cut adj (က) ျပတ္သားေသာ။ တိတိရိရိရိွေသာ။ clean-cut features. (ခ) ( approv ) သပ္သပ္ရပ္ရပ္ရိွေသာ။ a clean-cut student. ❏ clean sth down [ PHRV ] ဂ႐ုတစိုက္ သန္႔ရွင္းစင္ၾကယ္ ေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ clean down the walls. ❏ clean sth from/off sth [ PHRV ] ေၾကး၊ ေညႇာ္ စသည္ ခြၽတ္သည္။ She cleaned the dirt from her fingernails. ❏ clean sth out [ PHRV ] သန္႔ရွင္းေရးလုပ္သည္။ clean out the stables. ❏ clean sb/sth out (of sth) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ၁။ တစ္ ျပားမွ်မက်န္ေအာင္ သံုးလိုက္သည္။ I haven't a penny left—buying drinks for everyone has cleaned me out completely. ၂။ တက္တက္ေျပာင္ေအာင္ မသြားသည္၊ ခိုးသြားသည္။ The burglars cleaned her out of all her jewellery. ❏ clean-shaven adj က်င္စြယ္၊ မုတ္ဆိတ္ အေျပာင္ရိတ္ထား ေသာ။ Beards and moustaches are out of fashion—men prefer the clean-shaven look. ❏ a clean sheet/slate [ IDM ] ဘဝသစ္။ က႑သစ္။ He came out of prison hoping to start (life) again with a clean sheet (ie with his previous offences forgotten). ❏ clean (oneself) up [ PHRV ] ( infml ) ကိုယ္လက္ေဆး ေၾကာသည္။ ေရခ်ဳိးသည္။ My hands are filthy—I'd better go and clean (myself) up. ❏ clean (sth) up [ PHRV ] ၁။ သန္႔ရွင္းေရးလုပ္သည္။ The workmen cleaned up (the mess) before they left. ❍ I seem to spend all my time cleaning up after my family! ❍ clean up beaches after an oil spillage. ၂။ ( infml ) ေငြအေျမာက္အျမားရသည္။ ပြေပါက္တိုးသည္။ He cleaned up (a small fortune) when he sold the business. ❍ clean up at cards. ❏ clean sth up [ PHRV ] ဒုစ႐ိုက္ စသည္ ရွင္းလင္းေရး လုပ္ သည္။ The new mayor is determined to clean up the city. ❍ a campaign to clean up television (ie reduce the amount of sex and violence shown). ❏ clean-up n (က) သန္႔ရွင္းစင္ၾကယ္ေအာင္ လုပ္ျခင္း။ (ခ) ဒုစ႐ိုက္စသည္ ရွင္းလင္းဖယ္ရွားျခင္း။ ❏ come clean (with sb) (about sth) [ IDM ] ( infml ) ဖြင့္ ေျပာသည္။ ဝန္ခံသည္။ I've got to come clean (with you)—I was the one who broke the kitchen window. ❏ make a clean break (with sth) [ IDM ] (ယခင္ကႏွင့္ လားလားမွ်မတူေအာင္) အခ်ဳိးေျပာင္းလိုက္သည္။ He's made a clean break with the past. ❏ make a clean breast of sth [ IDM ] ဖြင့္ေျပာသည္။ ဝန္ ခံသည္။ He made a clean breast of it and told the police everything. ❏ make a clean sweep (of sth) [ IDM ] ၁။ သန္႔စင္လိုက္ သည္။ ရွင္းလိုက္သည္။ The new manager made a clean sweep of the department. ၂။ ဆုအားလံုးကို သိမ္းက်ံဳးယူ သြားသည္။ The Chinese made a clean sweep of (the medals in) the gymnastics events.

Examples

1. Go and put on a clean shirt.
2. Nice clean towels
3. [clean and tidy] : I like to keep the place clean and tidy.
4. [spotlessly clean] : Everything in the house was spotlessly clean (=extremely clean).
5. [brush/scrub/sweep/wash/wipe etc something clean] : Tom had scrubbed the floor clean.
6. Pigs are actually very clean animals.
7. Many refugees are living in appalling conditions
8. without clean water and proper sanitation.
9. The clean country air
10. Clean technologies
11. We already have the cleanest diesel fuel in the world.
12. An attempt by the government to project a clean image
13. Why couldn’t the president send somebody with a totally clean record?
14. I’ve got a clean driving licence (=I have not committed any driving offences).
15. It was all good clean fun.
16. [keep it clean] : Keep it clean – there are children listening.
17. It was a good clean fight.
18. The police stopped him
19. but he was clean.
20. Carter’s been clean for six months.
21. The clean lines of a good design
22. The wine is clean and fresh
23. though with a robust flavour.
24. Feed yourself good clean food
25. not too much
26. and be active every single day.
27. For clean eating it’s best to use oils from nuts and plants.