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hygiene

English

Etymology

From French hygiène, from Ancient Greek ??????? (?????) (hugiein? (tékhn?), literally “art of health”), from ???????? (hugieinós, “of health, good for the health, wholesome, sound, healthy”), from ????? (hugi?s, “healthy, sound”).

Pronunciation

  • enPR: h?'j?n, IPA(key): /?ha??d?i?n/

Noun

hygiene (countable and uncountable, plural hygienes)

  1. The science of health, its promotion and preservation.
  2. Those conditions and practices that promote and preserve health.
  3. Cleanliness.
  4. (computing, slang, of a macro) The property of having an expansion that is guaranteed not to cause the accidental capture of identifiers.

Derived terms

Translations

Further reading

  • hygiene in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • hygiene in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

References

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

  1. hygiene

Derived terms

  • munnhygiene

Related terms

  • hygienisk

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hygiene m (definite singular hygienen) (uncountable)

  1. hygiene

Derived terms

  • munnhygiene

Related terms

  • hygienisk

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cleaning

English

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /?kli?n??/
  • Rhymes: -i?n??

Verb

cleaning

  1. present participle of clean

Noun

cleaning (countable and uncountable, plural cleanings)

  1. (gerund of clean) The process of making something clean.
  2. The afterbirth of cows, ewes, etc.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Gardner to this entry?)

Derived terms

  • spring cleaning

Translations

Anagrams

  • elancing, enlacing

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