different between clean vs both

English

Etymology

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English cl?ne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-Germanic *klainiz (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), from Proto-Indo-European *gl?y- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /kli?n/, [k?l?i?n]
• (General American) enPR: kl?n, IPA^(key): /klin/, [k?l??n]
• ((Ireland), dated), enPR: kl?n, IPA^(key): /kle?n/, [k?l?e?n]
• Rhymes: -i?n

Adjective

clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)

1. (heading, physical) Free of dirt or impurities or protruberances.
   1. Not dirty.

      • Then his sallow face brightened, for the hall had been carefully furnished, and was very clean. ¶ There was a neat hat-and-umbrella stand, and the stranger's weary feet fell soft on a good, serviceable dark-red drugget, which matched in colour the flock-paper on the walls.

   2. In an unmarked condition.

   3. (aerodynamics) Allowing an uninterrupted flow over surfaces, without protrusions such as racks or landing gear.
   4. Empty.

   5. (of metal) Having relatively few impurities.

2. (heading, behavioural) Free of immorality or criminality.
   1. Pure, especially morally or religiously.
      • ?, Alfred Tennyson, St. Simeon Stylites

        That I am whole, and clean, and meet for Heaven.

      • 1914, New Zealand Parliamentary Debates (volume 168, page 195)

        I do not think there is any member in this House who will not agree that that is the clean thing to do. Any member sitting on the Government benches will admit in private that that is the proper course for members who break faith.

   2. Not having used drugs or alcohol.

   3. (of criminal, driving, etc. records) Without restrictions or penalties, or someone having such a record.

   4. (informal) Not in possession of weapons or contraband such as drugs.

   5. (informal) Devoid of profanity.
3. smooth, exact, and performed well

4. (obsolete) Total; utter. (still in "clean sweep")
   • a. 1655, James Howell, "To the Right Honourable the Earl of Clare" in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ

     Moreover, I find there are some Words now in French which are turned to a Countersense […] Cocu is taken for one whose Wife is light, and hath made him a passive Cuckold; whereas clean contrary, Cocu, which is the Cuckow, doth use to lay her Eggs in another Bird's Nest.

5. (informal) Cool or neat.

6. (health) Being free of sexually transmitted diseases (STDs).

7. That does not damage the environment.

8. Free from that which is useless or injurious; without defects.

9. Free from restraint or neglect; complete; entire.

   • When ye reap the harvest of your land, thou shalt not make clean riddance of corners of thy field.

10. Well-proportioned; shapely.

11. (climbing, of a route) Ascended without falling.

Synonyms

• (not dirty): Thesaurus:clean

Antonyms

• dirty
• unclean

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

clean (plural cleans)

1. Removal of dirt.

2. (weightlifting) The first part of the event clean and jerk in which the weight is brought from the ground to the shoulders.

Derived terms

• power clean

Translations

Verb

clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)

1. (transitive) To remove dirt from a place or object.

2. (transitive) To tidy up, make a place neat.

3. (transitive, climbing) To remove equipment from a climbing route after it was previously lead climbed.
4. (intransitive) To make things clean in general.

5. (transitive, computing) To remove unnecessary files, etc. from (a directory, etc.).
6. (intransitive, curling) To brush the ice lightly in front of a moving rock to remove any debris and ensure a correct line; less vigorous than a sweep.
7. (manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.
8. To remove guts and/or scales of a butchered animal.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:make clean

Derived terms

Translations

Adverb

clean (comparative cleaner, superlative cleanest)

1. Fully and completely.

Translations

Anagrams

• Calne, Lance, Lenca, ancle, clane, lance

Danish

Etymology

Borrowed from English clean.

Adjective

clean (neuter clean, plural and definite singular attributive clean)

1. drugfree, not having used recreational drugs

German

Etymology

From English clean. Doublet of klein.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [kli?n]

Adjective

clean (comparative cleaner, superlative am cleansten)

1. (colloquial) clean, drugfree

Declension

Further reading

• “clean” in Duden online

Manx

Etymology

From Old Irish clíabán.

Noun

clean m (genitive singular clean, plural cleanyn)

1. cradle (oscillating bed for a baby)

2. cot
3. cage (of birds)
4. pannier

Mutation

Romanian

Etymology

From Bulgarian ????? (kljan), from Proto-Slavic *klen?.

Noun

clean m (plural cleni)

1. chub (Squalius cephalus)

Declension

English

Alternative forms

• bothe (archaic)

Etymology

From Middle English bothe, boþe, from Old English b? þ? (“both the; both those”) and Old Norse báðir, from Proto-Germanic *bai. Cognate with Saterland Frisian bee (“both”), West Frisian beide (“both”), Dutch beide (“both”), German beide (“both”), Swedish både, båda, Danish både, Norwegian både, Icelandic báðir. Replaced Middle English b? from a form of Old English b??en.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /b???/
• (General American) enPR: b?th, IPA^(key): /bo??/
• (nonstandard US) enPR: b?lth, IPA^(key): /bo?l?/
• (Philadelphia), IPA^(key): [b????]
• Rhymes: -???

Determiner

both

1. Each of the two; one and the other; referring to two individuals or items.
   • 1717, Viscount Bolingbroke, Reflexions upon Exile

     He will not bear the loss of his rank, because he can bear the loss of his estate; but he will bear both, because he is prepared for both.

Usage notes

This word does not come between a possessive and its head noun. Say both of my hands or both my hands, not *my both hands. Say, both the king's horses, not *the king's both horses.

Derived terms

Translations

Pronoun

both

1. Each of the two, or of the two kinds.

Conjunction

both

1. Including both of (used with and).

   Both you and I are students.

   • Mind you, clothes were clothes in those days. There was a great deal of them, lavish both in material and in workmanship.

2. (obsolete) Including all of (used with and).

   • Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound.

   • 1798, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

     He prayeth well who loveth well both man and bird and beast.

   • 1892, Richard Congreve, Essays Political, Social, and Religious (volume 2, page 615)

     […] as he appreciates its beauty and its rich gifts, as he regards it with venerant love, fed by both his intellectual powers, his contemplation, and his meditation.

Translations

Quotations

• For quotations using this term, see Citations:both.

See also

Anagrams

• OTH-B

Irish

Etymology

From Old Irish both (“hut, bothy, cot; cabin”), from Proto-Celtic *but? (compare Middle Welsh bot (“dwelling”)), from Proto-Indo-European *b?uH- (“to be”). Related to English booth.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??h/, /b??/

Noun

both f (genitive singular botha, nominative plural bothanna or botha)

1. Booth, hut.

Declension

Alternative declension

Derived terms

Mutation

Further reading

• "both" in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.
• Entries containing “both” in New English-Irish Dictionary by Foras na Gaeilge.
• Gregory Toner, Maire Ní Mhaonaigh, Sharon Arbuthnot, Dagmar Wodtko, Maire-Luise Theuerkauf, editors (2019) , “2 both”, in eDIL: Electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language

Middle English

Etymology 1

From Old Norse búð.

Noun

both (plural boths)

1. Alternative form of bothe (“booth”)

Etymology 2

Old English b? þ?; influenced by Old Norse báðir.

Determiner

both

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Conjunction

both

1. Alternative form of bothe (“both”)

Old Irish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /bo?/

Noun

both f (genitive buithe)

1. Alternative form of buid

Inflection

Verb

·both

1. preterite passive conjunct of at·tá