different between clearing vs clarifying

English

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?kl????/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?kl?????/
• Rhymes: -??r??
• Hyphenation: clear?ing

Verb

clearing

1. present participle of clear

Noun

clearing (countable and uncountable, plural clearings)

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

Synonyms

• (area devoid of trees): glade

Translations

Anagrams

• clangier, relacing

Finnish

Noun

clearing

1. (banking, finance) clearing

Declension

Spanish

Noun

clearing m (plural clearings)

1. (finance) clearing

English

Verb

clarifying

1. present participle of clarify

Noun

clarifying (plural clarifyings)

1. A clarification.
   • 1931, John de Boer, The Theory of Knowledge of the Cambridge Platonists (page 64)

     Then after that process which Culverwel describes as so many strainings, refinings, and clarifyings, the mind is prepared for a true insight into the real nature of the world by way of intuition.