Pretty soon I struck into a sort of path[…]. It twisted and turned,[…]and opened out into a bigclear space like a lawn. And, back of the lawn, was a big, old-fashioned house, with piazzas stretching in front of it, and all blazing with lights. 'Twas the house I'd seen the roof of from the beach.
2023 November 15, Prof. Jim Wild, “This train was delayed because of bad weather in space”, inRAIL, number996, page30:
"[…] On the 18th of October, 1841, a very intense magnetic disturbance was recorded, and amongst other curious facts mentioned is that of the detention of the 10:05pm express train at Exeter for 16 minutes, as from the magnetic disturbance affecting the needles so powerfully, it was impossible to ascertain if the line wasclear at Starcross. The superintendent at Exeter reported the next morning that someone was playing tricks with the instruments, and would not let them work."
Serene, smiling, enigmatic, she faced him with no fear whatever showing in her dark eyes. Theclear light of the bright autumn morning had no terrors for youth and health like hers.
(meteorology) Of the sky, such that less than one eighth of its area is obscured by clouds.
From the ground, Colombo’s port does not look like much.[…] But viewed from high up in one of the growing number of skyscrapers in Sri Lanka’s capital, it isclear that something extraordinary is happening: China is creating a shipping hub just 200 miles from India’s southern tip.
2021 February 23, Jeanne Sahadi, “So you got a PPP loan? Here’s what that means for your state taxes”, inCNN Business[1]:
In several months you’re likely to have aclearer picture on how your state intends to treat your forgiven PPP loan and the deductibility of your business expenses not just for tax year 2020 but also tax year 2021.
2021 June 30, Anthony Lambert, “A railway station fit for the 21st century”, inRAIL, number934, page42:
NR Chairman Sir Peter Hendy had made itclear that he didn't want anything that smacked of the bus shelters seen at many small, usually unstaffed stations.
2025 January 28, David Goldman and Elisabeth Buchwald, “Trump just gave his clearest picture yet of what new tariffs could look like”, inCNN Business[2]:
But Trump laid out hisclearest message yet on tariffs during an address to House Republicans on Monday, spelling out what imports his administration plan to tax first.
1754,Alexander Pope, “Verses occasioned by Mr. Addison's treatise of medals”, inJoseph Addison,Dialogues Upon the Usefulness of Ancient Medals, page 5:
Statesman, yet friend to truth! in soul sincere, In action faithful, and in honourclear
Yes, and Jane came by with a lock of your hair. She said that you gave it to her that night that you planned to goclear. Did you ever goclear?
Able to perceive straightforwardly; keen; acute; penetrating; discriminating.
aclear intellect; aclear head
1667,John Milton, “Book IX”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Mother of Science, Now I feel thy Power Within mecleere, not onely to diſcerne Things in thir Cauſes, but to trace the wayes Of higheſt Agents
Finnish:clear-tila(no adjective, cases of this noun used to produce adjectival expressions)
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2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1 - 0 Bolton”, inBBC[3]:
Much soul-searching is going on at the west London club who, just seven weeks ago, were five pointsclear at the top of the table and playing with the verve with which they won the title last season.
1667,John Milton, “Book XII”, inParadise Lost.[…], London:[…] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker[…];[a]nd by Robert Boulter[…];[a]nd Matthias Walker,[…],→OCLC; republished asParadise Lost in Ten Books:[…], London: Basil Montagu Pickering[…],1873,→OCLC:
Nowclear I understand What oft my steadiest thoughts have searched in vain
“A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yachtcleared for action. Near her wandered her husband, orientally bland, invariably affable,[…].
1715–8,Matthew Prior, “Alma: or, The Progreſs of the Mind” inPoems on Several Occaſions (1741), canto III,p.297:
Faith,Dick, I muſt confeſs, ’tis true (But this is onlyEntre Nous) That many knotty Points there are, Which All diſcuſs, but Few canclear.
‘Children crawled over each other like little grey worms in the gutters,’ he said. ‘The only red things about them were their buttocks and they were raw. Their faces looked as if snails had slimed on them and their mothers were like great sick beasts whose byres had never beencleared.[…]’
Since the mid-1980s, when Indonesia first began toclear its bountiful forests on an industrial scale in favour of lucrative palm-oil plantations, “haze” has become an almost annual occurrence in South-East Asia. The cheapest way toclear logged woodland is to burn it, producing an acrid cloud of foul white smoke that, carried by the wind, can cover hundreds, or even thousands, of square miles.
(transitive) To remove (items or material) so as to leave something unobstructed or open.
Pleaseclear all this stuff off the table.
The loggers came andcleared the trees.
1711 November 6,Joseph Addison,The Spectator, number215:
[…] Aristotle has brought to explain his Doctrine of Substantial Forms, when he tells us that a Statue lies hid in a Block of Marble; and that the Art of the statuary onlyclears away the superfluous Matter, and removes the Rubbish.
Then the whole populationcleared into the forest, expecting all kinds of calamities to happen, while, on the other hand, the steamer Fresleven commanded left also in a bad panic, in charge of the engineer, I believe.
(intransitive) To become free from obstruction or obscurement; to become transparent.
When the roadcleared we continued our journey.
After a heavy rain, the skycleared nicely for the evening.
Shake the test tube well, and the liquid should slowlyclear.
Beſides, he thatcleares at once will relapſe: for finding himſelfe out of ſtraights, he will reuert to his cuſtomes. But hee thatcleareth by degrees, induceth an habite of frugality, and gaineth as well vpon his minde, as vpon his Eſtate.
2010 December 29, Chris Whyatt, “Chelsea 1-0 Bolton”, inBBC[10]:
Bolton then went even closer when Elmander's cross was met by a bullet header from Holden, which forced a wonderful tip over from Cech before Drogba thencleared the resulting corner off the line.
2010, Andy Harris,HTML, XHTML and CSS All-In-One For Dummies, page290:
To get the footer acting right, you need to float it andclear it on both margins.
(transitive,firearms) Tounload a firearm, or undergo an unloading procedure, in order to preventnegligent discharge; for safety reasons, to check whether one's firearm is loaded or unloaded.
To prevent any shooting accidents, remember toclear your pistol and stay aware of your surroundings.
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(carpentry) Full extent; distance between extreme limits; especially; the distance between the nearest surfaces of two bodies, or the space between walls.
Neither of them had heard of Kelly or Kalki, but then neither of them had heard ofHorace,Alexander Pope,[Blaise] Pascal,[Denis] Diderot,[Werner] Heisenberg’s law or entropy. Their lives were spent, successfully, repelling information. They were perfect “clears,” to use Scientologist jargon.
1985, Rodney Stark, William Sims Bainbridge,The Future of Religion, page269:
Today, clear status can be conferred only by high ranking ministers of the church, andclears are not presented for examination by outsiders.
