Clear the decks

Definition

clear /klÇǝ(r)/ adj ( -er , -est ) ၁။ (က) ၾကည္လင္ေသာ။ ျပတ္ သားေသာ။ a clear photograph ❍ a clear reflection in the water ❍ a clear voice/speaker/sound. (ခ) နားလည္လြယ္ ေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ a clear statement/explanation/article/meaning ❍ You'll do as you're told, is that clear? ❍ This behaviour must stop—do I make myself clear (ie express my self clearly)? ❍ I hope I made it clear (to him) that he was no longer welcome here. ၂။ ~ (about/on sth) အေတြးအျမင္ ၾကည္လင္ျပတ္သားေသာ။ a clear thinker ❍ a clear understanding of the problems ❍ My memory is not clear on that point. ❍ Are you quite clear about what the job involves? ၃။ ~ (to sb) (that…) သိသာထင္ရွားေသာ။ a clear case of cheating ❍ have a clear advantage/lead (eg in a contest) ❍ It is quite clear to me that she is not coming. ❍ It is not clear what they want us to do. ၄။ ေသခ်ာေသာ။ ျပတ္သားေသာ။ She made a clear statement of her intentions. ❍ a clear majority. ၅။ (က) ၾကည္ေသာ။ က်ဲေသာ။ clear glass ❍ the clear water of a mountain lake ❍ clear soup (ie without solid ingredients). (ခ) ျမဴတိမ္ကင္းစင္ေသာ။ ၾကည္လင္ေသာ။ a clear sky/day ❍ clear weather. (ဂ) (အသားအေရ) ၾကည္စင္ ေသာ။ clear skin ❍ a clear complexion. (ဃ) (မ်က္လံုး) ေတာက္ပေသာ။ ၆။ ~ (of sth) (က) အခက္အခဲ အတားအဆီး မရိွေသာ။ ရွင္းေသာ။ a clear view of the stage ❍ Wait until the road is clear (of traffic) before crossing. (ခ) အခ်ိန္အား၊ ရက္ အားရေသာ။ I want to keep next weekend clear so that I can do some gardening. (ဂ) စိတ္၊ လိပ္ျပာ သန္႔ ေသာ။ have a clear conscience. (ဃ) စိတ္ဆင္းရဲစရာတို႔မွ ကင္းေသာ။ clear of debt ❍ You are now clear of all suspicion. ၇။ ~ (of sb/sth) လြတ္ေသာ။ ကြာေသာ။ The plane climbed until it was clear of the clouds. ❍ Park (your car) about nine inches clear of the kerb. ၈။ တိတိ။ လံုးလံုး။ Allow three clear days for the letter to arrive. ၉။ အသားတင္။ a clear profit. adv ၁။ ၾကည္လင္ျပတ္သားစြာ။ I can hear you loud and clear. ၂။ ~ (of sth) လြတ္လြတ္ကင္းကင္း။ Stand clear of the doors. ❍ She managed to leap clear of (ie out of) the burning car. ❍ He jumped three inches clear of (ie above) the bar. ၃။ လံုးဝ လြတ္လြတ္ကြၽတ္ကြၽတ္။ The prisoner got clear away. ၄။ ~ to sth ( espUS ) ေတာက္ ေလွ်ာက္။ He climbed clear up to the top of the tree. v ၁။ (က) (အရည္)ၾကည္လာသည္။ The muddy water slowly cleared. (ခ) (ေကာင္းကင္၊ ရာသီဥတု) ၾကည္လာသည္။ The sky cleared after the storm. (ဂ) ~ (away) (ဆီးႏွင္း၊ ျမဴတိမ္၊ မီးခိုး စသည္) လြင့္ျပယ္သြားသည္။ It was a fine day once the mist had cleared (away). ၂။ (က) ~ A (of B)/~ B (from/off A) သိမ္းသည္။ ရွင္းသည္။ ဖယ္သည္။ clear the table (eg take away dirty plates, etc after a meal) ❍ The land was cleared of snow. ❍ clear papers off a desk. (ခ) (အဟန္႔အတားကို)ဖယ္ရွားသည္။ clear one's throat လည္ေခ်ာင္းရွင္းသည္။ ေခ်ာင္းဟန္႔သည္။ ❍ The cars blocking the motorway have now been cleared out of the way and traffic is flowing again. ❍ clear the streets of snow/clear snow from the streets ❍ ( fig ) clear one's mind of doubt. (ဂ) ကြန္ပ်ဴတာမွ မလိုေသာအခ်က္မ်ားကို ထုတ္ပစ္သည္။ ၃။ ~ sb (of sth) (အျပစ္မွ)ကင္းရွင္းသည္။ Throughout his imprisonment, he fought to clear his name. ❍ She was cleared of all charges. ၄။ (လြတ္ေအာင္) ခုန္သည္၊ ေက်ာ္သည္၊ ေရွာင္သည္။ The horse cleared the fence easily. ❍ The car only just cleared (ie avoided hitting) the gatepost. ၅။ (က) (ေလယာဥ္၊ သေဘၤာစသည္) ဝင္ခြင့္ထြက္ခြင့္ရသည္။ clear goods through customs ❍ clear a plane for take-off. (ခ) စစ္ေဆးၾကည့္႐ႈၿပီး၍ ျဖတ္သြား ခြင့္ျပဳသည္။ Our baggage has cleared customs. ၆။ (က) ~ sth (with sb/sth) တရားဝင္ ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ရသည္။ clear an article for publication ❍ I'll have to clear it with the manager before I can return your money. (ခ) (လံုၿခံဳေရး အရ စိစစ္ၿပီး၍) ခြင့္ျပဳခ်က္ရသည္။ She's been cleared by security. ၇။ (ဘဏ္) ခ်က္လက္မွတ္ကို လိုအပ္သလို ေဆာင္ရြက္ ႏိုင္ရန္ စိစစ္သည္။ Cheques take 3 working days to clear. ၈။ အသားတင္က်န္သည္၊ ျမတ္သည္။ clear £1000 on a deal ❍ How much do you clear a month in that job? ၉။ အေႂကြးေက်သည္။ clear one's debts. ၁၀။ (ေဘာလံုး၊ ေဟာ္ ကီစသည္) ဂိုးမွ ေဝးေဝးသို႔ ကန္သည္၊ ႐ိုက္သည္။ ❏ clear the air [ IDM ] ရင္းႏီွးပြင့္လင္းစြာ ေဆြးေႏြးျခင္းျဖင့္ ေျပလည္မႈရရိွေအာင္ လုပ္သည္။ A frank discussion can help to clear the air. ❏ (as) clear as a bell [ IDM ] (အသံ)ၾကည္ၾကည္လင္လင္ႀကီး။ ❏ (as) clear as day [ IDM ] ရွင္းရွင္းႀကီး။ ❏ clear (sth) away [ PHRV ] (ပစၥည္းပစၥယ) ရွင္းသည္၊ ဖယ္သည္။ clear away the dishes. ❏ clear-cut adj တိက်ရွင္းလင္း ျပတ္သားေသာ။ clear-cut plans/proposals/distinctions. ❏ clear the decks [ IDM ] ( infml ) တစ္စံုတစ္ခုလုပ္ရန္ ေနရာရွင္းသည္။ ❏ clear-headed adj အေတြးအျမင္ရွင္းေသာ။ သေဘာေပါက္ လြယ္ေသာ။ clear-headedly adv clear-headedness n [U] ❏ clearing bank n ( Brit ) ဘဏ္အခ်င္းခ်င္း စာရင္းရွင္း ေပးသည့္ ဗဟို႐ံုးႏွင့္ဆက္သြယ္ထားသည့္ ဘဏ္။ ❏ clearing-house n ဘဏ္အခ်င္းခ်င္း ေငြအေပးအယူ စာရင္း ရွင္းေပးသည့္ ဗဟို႐ံုး။ ❏ clearly adv ၁။ ၾကည္ၾကည္လင္လင္။ speak clearly ❍ It is too dark to see clearly. ၂။ သိသာထင္ရွားစြာ။ Clearly, that cannot be true. ❏ clearness n [U] ၾကည္လင္ရွင္းလင္းျပတ္သားမႈ။ the clearness of the atmosphere ❍ clearness of vision. ❏ clear off [ PHRV ] ( infml ) (esp imperative) ျမန္ျမန္ဖယ္။ ျမန္ျမန္လစ္(သည္)။ You've no right to be here. Clear off! ❍ He cleared off as soon as he saw the policeman coming. ❏ clear out (of…) [ PHRV ] ( infml ) လစ္သြားသည္။ He cleared out before the police arrived. ❍ Clear out! ဖယ္ဖယ္။ ❏ clear sth out [ PHRV ] ၁။ ရွင္းထုတ္သည္။ clear out a cupboard/the attic. ၂။ မလိုသည္မ်ားကို လႊင့္ပစ္သည္။ clear out old clothes. ❏ clear-sighted adj အျမင္မွန္ေသာ။ ခ်င့္ခ်ိန္ဆံုးျဖတ္ႏိုင္ စြမ္းေသာ။ ❏ clear up [ PHRV ] ၁။ ရာသီဥတု သာယာလာသည္။ ေနသာ လာသည္။ I hope it clears up this afternoon. ၂။ ေပ်ာက္ ကင္းသည္။ Has your rash cleared up yet? ❏ clear (sth) up [ PHRV ] သန္႔ရွင္းေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ သပ္ရပ္ ေအာင္လုပ္သည္။ Please clear up (the mess in here). ❏ clear sth up [ PHRV ] ေျဖရွင္းသည္။ clear up a mystery/difficulty/misunderstanding. ❏ clear the way [ IDM ] လမ္းရွင္းသည္။ လမ္းဖယ္သည္။ talks to clear the way for a wage agreement ❍ Could you clear the way, please? ❍ People are trying to get througt. ❏ in the clear [ IDM ] ( infml ) အႏၲရာယ္မွ လြတ္သြားၿပီ။ She was very ill for a few days but the doctors say she's now in the clear. ❏ keep/stay/steer clear (of sb/sth) [ IDM ] လြတ္လြတ္ ကင္းကင္းေနသည္။ ေရွာင္သည္။ We all keep clear of the boss when she's in a bad mood. ❍ Try to steer clear of trouble. ❍ I prefer to stay clear of town during the rush-hour. ❍ His doctor advised him to steer clear of alcohol.

Examples

1. [clear evidence] : There was clear evidence putting him at the scene of the crime.
2. [a clear indication] : His secretary could give no clear indication of when he was expected back.
3. [a clear case] : It appears to be a clear case of discrimination.
4. [a clear favourite] : They have always been the clear favourites to win the championship.
5. [clear (that)] : It was very clear that something was worrying him.
6. [it is not clear whether] : It is not clear whether Johnson’s brother shares these views.
7. Clear instructions are provided.
8. [make something clear] : He’s made his intentions quite clear.
9. [abundantly/perfectly clear] : Anthony had made it abundantly clear that he did not want to see her.
10. [get something clear] : Let’s get something absolutely clear: you’re not going to get any help from me this time.
11. ‘I did it
12. ’ she said in a clear voice.
13. A clear glass bottle
14. Though the picture was small
15. it was clear and sharp.
16. He defines logic as ‘the art of clear thinking’.
17. Jane had no clear idea where she would go.
18. [be clear about/on something] : You need to be clear about the purpose of the meeting.
19. I’m not very clear on what this last sentence means.
20. [be clear in your mind (about something)] : I’m completely clear in my mind about what happened that day.
21. As a party
22. we are clear that the rich need to make a bigger contribution to our tax revenues.
23. From the window there was a clear view of the mountains.
24. [clear of] : All the main roads are now clear of snow.
25. Clear blue skies
26. [bright and clear] : The following Sunday was bright and clear.
27. [someone’s conscience is clear] : She had done her duty
28. and her conscience was clear.
29. [have a clear conscience] : I have a clear conscience. We didn’t do anything wrong.
30. [clear of] : Make sure your hands are completely clear of the blades.
31. [clear of] : They are now four points clear of their nearest rivals.
32. [a clear £50/£100/£1
33. 000 etc] : That should leave us with a clear £300.
34. I made a clear £50 profit.
35. All the tests came back clear.
36. I’ll keep Thursday afternoon clear in case we need to meet.
37. [a clear fifteen minutes/two hours etc] : There was still a clear fifteen minutes before the others arrived.