cleaningn.

/ˈkliːnɪŋ/

Etymology: < clean v. + -ing suffix¹.

a. The action of clean v.; freeing from dirt or filth, purifying, cleansing.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun]

cleansingc1000

rinsinga1400

abstersion?a1425

mundification?a1425

detersion1607

mundifying1610

mundation1633

fowing1636

cleaning1662

detergency1710

society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > cleaning and recoating bottom

graving1627

cleaning1662

boot-topping1769

1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building To Lords sig. A5^v The Cleaning of the Streets.

1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 363 These Worms breed..in the Sea..which was the reason of our Cleaning so often while we were there.

1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 195 This house gets no periodic cleanings like other people's.

1889 N.E.D. at Cleaning Mod. It was their Spring cleaning, that complete overhauling which every well-ordered house gets once a year.

b. with adv., as cleaning up.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] > to certain standard

cleaning up18..

18.. J. Lawrence Silverland 176 The cleaning up..consists in removing the pavement and blocks from the bed of the sluice, gathering the precious compost, and replacing or renewing the blocks or stones of the pavement.

1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. ii. 32 The pasture would bear a little further cleaning up.

c. Forestry. The cutting of trees or undergrowth which have a deleterious effect upon the principal trees in a stand.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > clearing young or small trees

cleaning1891

severance felling1895

severance cutting1905

sucker-bashing1945

1891 W. Schlich Man. Forestry II. iii. 196 The cleaning of a young wood has for its object to remove in good time all growth which interferes with the proper development of the principal species or individuals.

1891 W. Schlich Man. Forestry II. iii. 197 It is often desirable to make several cleanings.

1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xii. 179 One main objective in cleaning is the removal of ‘tree weeds’, shrubs or bushes that threaten the welfare of the desired crop.

2. concrete in plural. Cf. sweeping n. 2a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning

washingsc1330

purginga1398

scouring1588

purgament1597

cleansing1608

fullage1611

sordes1640

scuda1642

offscouring1655

offage1727

outscourings1828

cleaning1855

1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 354 Just keep in our wake, and we'll give you the cleanings for wages.

3. = cleansing n. 2b.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > discharges before or after childbirth > [noun]

purgationa1398

lochia1612

cleansing1655

cleaning1661

show1734

the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > afterbirth

cleansing1655

cleaning1661

heam1681

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives birth > afterbirth

glean1601

cleaning1661

cleansing1810

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 37 The cleaning applied helps ulcers in the face.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 71 The cleaning is eaten by them presently after bringing forth.

a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (E.D.S.) (1880) Cleaning, the placenta of a cow.

1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby

1879 in Shropshire Word-bk.

Compounds

attributive and in other combinations, as cleaning-machine, cleaning-mill, cleaning-shed, cleaning-sieve.

ΚΠ

?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 808 Hoc colatorium, a clenyngsefe.

1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cleaning-machine, a machine in which silk thread is..drawn through a brush in order to detach any particles of dust or dirt therefrom.

1884 Daily News 4 Sept. 3/2 A serious accident..at the cleaning sheds on the Carr.

Draft additions 1997

Weightlifting. The action or technique of lifting a bar-bell from the floor to shoulder height.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > weight-lifting > types of lift

dead lift1828

jerk1894

press1906

clean1913

snatch1928

cleaning1949

1949 Brit. Amateur Weight-Lifter Apr. 18/1 Improving ‘Cleaning’ ability.

1950 J. Halliday Olympic Weight-Lifting i. 22 Most lifters using this method of cleaning..are comparatively poor jerkers.

1986 Weight Lifting (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (ed. 2) 27/3 These are exercises..for the development of power and technique such as all pulling movements, power cleaning and power snatch, [etc.].

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

cleaningadj.

That cleans, in various senses of the verb; cleaning crop, a crop serving to clear land in cultivation from weeds.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops

fleece1513

white crop1743

green crop1744

root crop1772

row crop1776

robber1777

mix-grass1778

breaking-crop1808

industrial crop1818

foliage crop1831

kharifa1836

scourge-crop1842

overcrop1858

by-crop1880

coppice-with-standards1882

sewage grass1888

trap-crop1899

cleaning crop1900

nurse crop1907

cover crop1909

smother crop1920

stoop crop1928

snatch crop1937

break crop1967

wholecrop1968

1900 T. Shaw Soiling Crops iii. 38 Sorghum..may be placed..between two grain crops, as then it can be grown as a cleaning crop.

1921 Discovery Feb. 48/2 The farmer..tries periodically and systematically to rid his fields of [weeds], and takes what he calls a cleaning crop.

1948 T. Wilder Ides of March ii. xxxvi. 105 At last a cleaning woman came in to wash the floor.

1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxiv. 209 Harold went betimes to his office, because he wanted to be there before his cleaning woman or his secretary.

1960 Encounter 14 iii. 80 Half-senile cleaning-ladies.

1969 Times 20 Feb. 17/5 Some 100,000 gallons of the cleaning fluid..were buried in a gold mine.

1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 21 Mar. 63/1 I met no blacks on a personal basis, other than our cleaning lady.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018).

单词	cleaning
释义	cleaningn. /ˈkliːnɪŋ/ Etymology: < clean v. + -ing suffix¹. 1. a. The action of clean v.; freeing from dirt or filth, purifying, cleansing. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] cleansingc1000 rinsinga1400 abstersion?a1425 mundification?a1425 detersion1607 mundifying1610 mundation1633 fowing1636 cleaning1662 detergency1710 society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > [noun] > fitting out or equipping ships > cleaning and recoating bottom graving1627 cleaning1662 boot-topping1769 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building To Lords sig. A5^v The Cleaning of the Streets. 1697 W. Dampier New Voy. around World xiii. 363 These Worms breed..in the Sea..which was the reason of our Cleaning so often while we were there. 1843 J. W. Carlyle Lett. I. 195 This house gets no periodic cleanings like other people's. 1889 N.E.D. at Cleaning Mod. It was their Spring cleaning, that complete overhauling which every well-ordered house gets once a year. b. with adv., as cleaning up. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > cleaning > [noun] > to certain standard cleaning up18.. 18.. J. Lawrence Silverland 176 The cleaning up..consists in removing the pavement and blocks from the bed of the sluice, gathering the precious compost, and replacing or renewing the blocks or stones of the pavement. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters i. ii. 32 The pasture would bear a little further cleaning up. c. Forestry. The cutting of trees or undergrowth which have a deleterious effect upon the principal trees in a stand. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > clearing young or small trees cleaning1891 severance felling1895 severance cutting1905 sucker-bashing1945 1891 W. Schlich Man. Forestry II. iii. 196 The cleaning of a young wood has for its object to remove in good time all growth which interferes with the proper development of the principal species or individuals. 1891 W. Schlich Man. Forestry II. iii. 197 It is often desirable to make several cleanings. 1953 H. L. Edlin Forester's Handbk. xii. 179 One main objective in cleaning is the removal of ‘tree weeds’, shrubs or bushes that threaten the welfare of the desired crop. 2. concrete in plural. Cf. sweeping n. 2a. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > [noun] > dirt removed in cleaning washingsc1330 purginga1398 scouring1588 purgament1597 cleansing1608 fullage1611 sordes1640 scuda1642 offscouring1655 offage1727 outscourings1828 cleaning1855 1855 C. Kingsley Westward Ho! (1861) 354 Just keep in our wake, and we'll give you the cleanings for wages. 3. = cleansing n. 2b. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > organs of excretion > excretions > discharges before or after childbirth > [noun] purgationa1398 lochia1612 cleansing1655 cleaning1661 show1734 the world > animals > animal body > general parts > sexual organs and reproduction > [noun] > afterbirth cleansing1655 cleaning1661 heam1681 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > cow > [noun] > that gives birth > afterbirth glean1601 cleaning1661 cleansing1810 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 37 The cleaning applied helps ulcers in the face. 1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 71 The cleaning is eaten by them presently after bringing forth. a1722 E. Lisle Observ. Husb. (E.D.S.) (1880) Cleaning, the placenta of a cow. 1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby 1879 in Shropshire Word-bk. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as cleaning-machine, cleaning-mill, cleaning-shed, cleaning-sieve. ΚΠ ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 808 Hoc colatorium, a clenyngsefe. 1874 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Cleaning-machine, a machine in which silk thread is..drawn through a brush in order to detach any particles of dust or dirt therefrom. 1884 Daily News 4 Sept. 3/2 A serious accident..at the cleaning sheds on the Carr. Draft additions 1997 Weightlifting. The action or technique of lifting a bar-bell from the floor to shoulder height. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > weight-lifting > types of lift dead lift1828 jerk1894 press1906 clean1913 snatch1928 cleaning1949 1949 Brit. Amateur Weight-Lifter Apr. 18/1 Improving ‘Cleaning’ ability. 1950 J. Halliday Olympic Weight-Lifting i. 22 Most lifters using this method of cleaning..are comparatively poor jerkers. 1986 Weight Lifting (‘Know the Game’ Ser.) (ed. 2) 27/3 These are exercises..for the development of power and technique such as all pulling movements, power cleaning and power snatch, [etc.]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). cleaningadj. That cleans, in various senses of the verb; cleaning crop, a crop serving to clear land in cultivation from weeds. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > crop or crops > [noun] > other crops fleece1513 white crop1743 green crop1744 root crop1772 row crop1776 robber1777 mix-grass1778 breaking-crop1808 industrial crop1818 foliage crop1831 kharifa1836 scourge-crop1842 overcrop1858 by-crop1880 coppice-with-standards1882 sewage grass1888 trap-crop1899 cleaning crop1900 nurse crop1907 cover crop1909 smother crop1920 stoop crop1928 snatch crop1937 break crop1967 wholecrop1968 1900 T. Shaw Soiling Crops iii. 38 Sorghum..may be placed..between two grain crops, as then it can be grown as a cleaning crop. 1921 Discovery Feb. 48/2 The farmer..tries periodically and systematically to rid his fields of [weeds], and takes what he calls a cleaning crop. 1948 T. Wilder Ides of March ii. xxxvi. 105 At last a cleaning woman came in to wash the floor. 1955 L. P. Hartley Perfect Woman xxiv. 209 Harold went betimes to his office, because he wanted to be there before his cleaning woman or his secretary. 1960 Encounter 14 iii. 80 Half-senile cleaning-ladies. 1969 Times 20 Feb. 17/5 Some 100,000 gallons of the cleaning fluid..were buried in a gold mine. 1970 Sat. Rev. (U.S.) 21 Mar. 63/1 I met no blacks on a personal basis, other than our cleaning lady. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.?a1500adj.1900
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