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Clear   /klɪr/   Listen
adjective
Clear  adj.  (compar. clearer; superl. clearest)  
1.
Free from opaqueness; transparent; bright; light; luminous; unclouded. "The stream is so transparent, pure, and clear." "Fair as the moon, clear as the sun."
2.
Free from ambiguity or indistinctness; lucid; perspicuous; plain; evident; manifest; indubitable. "One truth is clear; whatever is, is right."
3.
Able to perceive clearly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating; as, a clear intellect; a clear head. "Mother of science! now I feel thy power Within me clear, not only to discern Things in their causes, but to trace the ways Of highest agents."
4.
Not clouded with passion; serene; cheerful. "With a countenance as clear As friendship wears at feasts."
5.
Easily or distinctly heard; audible; canorous. "Hark! the numbers soft and clear Gently steal upon the ear."
6.
Without mixture; entirely pure; as, clear sand.
7.
Without defect or blemish, such as freckles or knots; as, a clear complexion; clear lumber.
8.
Free from guilt or stain; unblemished. "Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honor clear."
9.
Without diminution; in full; net; as, clear profit. "I often wished that I had clear, For life, six hundred pounds a-year.".
10.
Free from impediment or obstruction; unobstructed; as, a clear view; to keep clear of debt. "My companion... left the way clear for him."
11.
Free from embarrassment; detention, etc. "The cruel corporal whispered in my ear, Five pounds, if rightly tipped, would set me clear."
Clear breach. See under Breach, n., 4.
Clear days (Law.), days reckoned from one day to another, excluding both the first and last day; as, from Sunday to Sunday there are six clear days.
Clear stuff, boards, planks, etc., free from knots.
Synonyms: Manifest; pure; unmixed; pellucid; transparent; luminous; obvious; visible; plain; evident; apparent; distinct; perspicuous. See Manifest.


verb
Clear  v. t.  (past & past part. cleared; pres. part. clearing)  
1.
To render bright, transparent, or undimmed; to free from clouds. "He sweeps the skies and clears the cloudy north."
2.
To free from impurities; to clarify; to cleanse.
3.
To free from obscurity or ambiguity; to relive of perplexity; to make perspicuous. "Many knotty points there are Which all discuss, but few can clear."
4.
To render more quick or acute, as the understanding; to make perspicacious. "Our common prints would clear up their understandings."
5.
To free from impediment or incumbrance, from defilement, or from anything injurious, useless, or offensive; as, to clear land of trees or brushwood, or from stones; to clear the sight or the voice; to clear one's self from debt; often used with of, off, away, or out. "Clear your mind of cant." "A statue lies hid in a block of marble; and the art of the statuary only clears away the superfluous matter."
6.
To free from the imputation of guilt; to justify, vindicate, or acquit; often used with from before the thing imputed. "I... am sure he will clear me from partiality." "How! wouldst thou clear rebellion?"
7.
To leap or pass by, or over, without touching or failure; as, to clear a hedge; to clear a reef.
8.
To gain without deduction; to net. "The profit which she cleared on the cargo."
To clear a ship at the customhouse, to exhibit the documents required by law, give bonds, or perform other acts requisite, and procure a permission to sail, and such papers as the law requires.
To clear a ship for action, or To clear for action (Naut.), to remove incumbrances from the decks, and prepare for an engagement.
To clear the land (Naut.), to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.
To clear hawse (Naut.), to disentangle the cables when twisted.
To clear up, to explain; to dispel, as doubts, cares or fears.


Clear  v. i.  
1.
To become free from clouds or fog; to become fair; of the weather; often followed by up, off, or away. "So foul a sky clears not without a storm." "Advise him to stay till the weather clears up."
2.
To become free from turbidity; of solutions or suspensions of liquids; as, the salt has not completely dissolved until the suspension clears up; when refrigerated, the juice may become cloudy, but when warmed to room temperature, it clears up again.
3.
To disengage one's self from incumbrances, distress, or entanglements; to become free. (Obs.) "He that clears at once will relapse; for finding himself out of straits, he will revert to his customs; but he that cleareth by degrees induceth a habit of frugality."
4.
(Banking) To make exchanges of checks and bills, and settle balances, as is done in a clearing house.
5.
To obtain a clearance; as, the steamer cleared for Liverpool to-day.
To clear out, to go or run away; to depart. (Colloq.)


adverb
Clear  adv.  
1.
In a clear manner; plainly. "Now clear I understand What oft... thoughts have searched in vain."
2.
Without limitation; wholly; quite; entirely; as, to cut a piece clear off.


noun
Clear  n.  (Carp.) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls; as, a room ten feet square in the clear.





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... and possessed great intelligence. His utterance was clear, his voice powerful, his exposition of doctrine very thorough. Men listened and the truth entered their ears ...
— Forty Years in South China - The Life of Rev. John Van Nest Talmage, D.D. • Rev. John Gerardus Fagg
... gold were reasonably forbidden (Deut. 7) not as though they were not subject to the power of man, but because, like the idols themselves, all materials out of which idols were made, were anathematized as hateful in God's sight. This is clear from the same chapter, where we read further on (Deut. 7:26): "Neither shalt thou bring anything of the idol into thy house, lest thou become an anathema like it." Another reason was lest, by taking silver and gold, they should be led by avarice into idolatry to which ...
— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas
... to Silvia, although the idea is clear, grammatical consistency is overthrown in the next line when the pronoun la is ...
— A Selection from the Comedies of Marivaux • Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux
... side by side in front of it. The walls were lined with low book-cases of a heavy and severe type, filled principally with documents neatly filed in volumes and marked on the back in San Giacinto's clear handwriting. The only object of beauty in the room was a full-length portrait of Flavia by a great artist, which hung above the fireplace. The rigid symmetry of everything was made imposing by the size of the objects—the table was larger ...
— Don Orsino • F. Marion Crawford
... the summit of the Round Tower is beyond description magnificent, and commands twelve counties—namely, Middlesex, Essex, Hertford, Berks, Bucks, Oxford, Wilts, Hants, Surrey, Sussex, Kent, and Bedford; while on a clear day the dome of Saint Paul's may be distinguished from it. This tower was raised thirty-three feet by Sir Jeffry Wyatville, crowned with a machicolated battlement, and ...
— Windsor Castle • William Harrison Ainsworth


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